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The Top Eleven Things Employees Want From Their Leader

Rick Conlow

Think about it, with a little creativity could not this highly educated leader…learn. In a manufacturing company, we helped them set up process improvement teams in all areas of the business. In addition, on-going training is necessary to maintain current job skills, but even more importantly to add to them.

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Why Employee Recognition Matters in Today’s Workplace

Rick Conlow

For example, one of our clients wanted to increase sales results with existing customers. Through planning meetings, training, and coaching we ramped up the initiative. Management set a fifteen percent goal for improvement. You can learn and train yourself through individual initiative. We thought they could do more.

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8 Reasons that May Cause You to Loose Customers

Tom Spencer

The customer service reps must not be trained enough or must be unhappy with their job to behave in this manner. You do not have a consistent policy or do not educate employees well. A good example would be a sales person providing inaccurate information to the customer just to make that sale. Shifting employee attitudes.

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8 Issues that May Cause You to Lose Customers

Tom Spencer

The customer service reps must not be trained enough or must be unhappy with their job to behave in this manner. You do not have a consistent policy or do not educate employees well. A good example would be a sales person providing inaccurate information to the customer just to make that sale. Shifting employee attitudes.

Banking 78
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Gorillas in our Midst

Tom Spencer

While they were focusing on CD sales and law suits, Apple came along and launched the iTunes Music Store, which is now the world’s largest music retailer with revenues exceeding $12 billion per year. Making a concise list and referring to it will help – this will essentially help to “train” your RAS. Management Consulting'

Retail 127
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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. In later stages you’ll want people who think about how to scale through process, training, and systems. What not to do.

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