3 Tips to Deliver Outstanding Customer Experience
💎 Looking for ways to improve your customer experience? Tune in to catch three top tips to boost your client support skills!
📼 Press PLAY to hear tips from Carolyn VanderMolen, Manager of Customer Support at Relativity. She mastered these customer experience skills during her tenure in customer support.
📼 Tip #1: Practice Clear Communication - The first of Carolyn's top tips to deliver the best customer experience is to practice clear communication. A crucial part of that is active listening. You'll increase the chance of hearing and effectively solving your customers' real problems, resulting in happier customers! Use phrases like "let me make sure I've got this right". Make sure you repeat the problem back in your own words to show you understand. If you're the product expert, you should be able to discuss features and use cases in an insightful way and show your customers how the product can benefit them.
📼 Tip #2: Lead With Empathy - Empathy will improve your customer experience by helping to create solutions that all parties are happy with (and offering a memorable experience!). A certain phrase here and there can make customers feel more at ease. For example: "I know how important this issue is to you", or "Of course! We'll solve it as quickly as possible". Don't miss Carolyn's 3-step method to stay consistent in tone and process.
One Last Key Tip To Boost Your Customer Experience Skills
The third tip is to maintain a positive attitude! What does Carolyn mean by that? In today's world, most customer interactions are not face-to-face. When handling customer requests via telephone, a smile can come through in your tone of voice!
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Get to Know Carolyn
Carolyn is an experienced Information Technology Support Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in Microsoft and Windows Administration platforms, Technical Support Management, VoIP, user-facing IT Support, and Customer Satisfaction, she's a strong information technology professional, with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) focused in Psychology from DePaul University.
More About Relativity
Headquartered in Chicago with offices around the world, Relativity creates intuitive software that helps law firms, government agencies, financial institutions, and other major corporations quickly find the truth in data. The company journey began in the e-discovery space and evolved to develop broader legal and compliance SaaS solutions like RelativityOne and Relativity Trace.
Its 1,200+ employees have worked to grow the organization and the power behind its platform, resulting in more than 300,000 enabled users in 48+ countries. In addition to providing a simply powerful platform for their users, Relativity has been named one of Chicago's Top Workplaces by the Chicago Tribune for 10 consecutive years and continues to scale their team globally. As the company grows, they continue to seek individuals that will bring their whole, authentic self to their team.
Join Relativity in the transformation of the legal industry and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the practice of law and beyond. The company doesn't believe in 'ideal' candidates, so if you see a job that sparks your interest, go for it! Wherever you're from, however you identify, and whatever experience you have, you can belong at Relativity.
Strive To Be the Right Kind of “Extra”
Making Empathy A Top Priority
Below is an article originally written by Mark Mader, President and CEO of Smartsheet, a PowerToFly Partner. Go Smartsheet's page on PowerToFly to see their open positions and learn more.
"Empathy means being concerned about the human being and not just about their output." Simon Sinek
My teenage daughters tell me that being referred to as "extra" is decidedly not a good thing. In their world, it means showing off, or being a little too dramatic, or laughing a little too hard at someone's not-so-funny joke. However - especially in light of the current situation - I'm striving to be a different kind of "extra" in ways I believe will benefit my team and others around me.
Aside from trying to be extra available and extra connected as Smartsheet works to navigate through the challenges that nearly all businesses face today, as a leader of people and teams, I'm focusing much of my energy on being extra empathetic. Do I always get it right? Not by a long shot. But for something this important, I'm in search of progress, not perfection.
It goes without saying that none of us ever really knows what those around us are facing, even under the best of circumstances. But in this new world of at-home schooling, worry for loved ones, economic pressures, and the stream of fear and uncertainty in the media, empathy has risen to the top of my leadership priorities.
Now, I recognize that there's no shortage of academic research and other information available on the importance of empathy in leadership and in the workplace. My goal is not to rehash or summarize that. My goal IS to emphasize that empathy is not some esoteric concept. It is a leadership tool that, like a muscle, can be strengthened and put to use for the benefit of those around you.
Empathy Can be Strengthened
But it takes some work. It means becoming a more active, present listener; it means taking the time to be deeply connected to your team; it means demonstrating an active concern for the lives, feelings, and fears of others. There is no one "right" way to be empathetic, but I've found that taking just a few extra minutes with a person, and showing genuine concern about their situation, can be a great first step.
For leaders trained to manage mostly to bottom-lines, exhibiting true empathetic concern can be daunting. But, aside from simply being the right thing to do, empathetic leadership helps people feel secure in uncertain times; it motivates people to action when they may feel like holding back; and it helps your team acknowledge and address workplace stresses - all of which are critical to leading through a crisis. Your teams, in turn, will likely become more empathetic themselves and be more attuned to your customers' wants, create higher levels of customer satisfaction, and be more innovative.
This is a challenging time. There's no denying that. But I encourage you to find the energy, the focus, and the attention that's required and try to be "extra" empathetic in your own way. Your team, your family, and all those around you need it now, more than ever.
Empathy at Every Level: The Sure Path to Business Success
While we try to remain empathetic in our daily lives, did you know that empathy can also be a powerful business tool? PowerToFly's Senior Enterprise Account Executive Amanda Bender, who has a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology, will help share with you how to be more empathetic and how empathy can help you in business in this easily accessible seminar.
(Register now and watch the training session anytime - Availability Runs through December 31, 2018! You will receive a separate email in your inbox with a link to the seminar after you have completed your purchase. If you would like to access all of our on-demand webinars for free, sign-up for a PowerToFly VIP membership.)
This seminar covers:
- How to use empathy with customers and in business
- How to get better at being empathic
- Loving-kindness meditation
- Becoming an "empathy detective"
- Developing an awareness of empathy in others
About the speaker:
Amanda Bender, PowerToFly's Senior Enterprise Account Executive, has a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology. Before joining the team at PowerToFly, she had her own practice where she worked with high school students and their families. For five years, she worked in neuroscience research at UCLA where she worked on studies focusing on increasing empathy in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
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