

Service Failure
The Real Reasons Employees Struggle with Customer Service and What You Can Do About It
Author: Jeff Toister
Narrator: Walter Dixon
Unabridged: 5 hr 39 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Ascent Audio
Published: 10/12/2012
Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics
Synopsis
Rather than offering another set of tactics for improving customer service, this audiobook takes a novel approach by rooting out the real reasons employees aren’t delivering the service they should. The results can be both surprising and illuminating, such as:
• Company culture doesn’t always support service excellence
• Over-emphasis on cost reduction often increases the cost of service
• Employees are torn between doing the right thing for the customer and following policy
• Poor products and services can make helping the customer nearly impossible
• Employees’ interests often don’t align with company goals
Once core problems are identified, the audiobook offers corrective solutions, including redirecting coaching efforts, revisiting policies and procedures, clarifying roles and responsibilities, and more. Filled with inside stories from well-known organizations and the latest scientific research, Service Failure helps people overcome the obstacles preventing them from doing their very best.