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Extraordinary customer service occurs often when the employee has to “break the rules” to do the right thing.

Quite often managers try to “program” the language of customer service into staff by having them say “Have a nice day” etc. The test comes when the customer needs something that goes against policy but the employee could make it happen. That is when there is customer advocacy not just service. Example, the nurse at Rex Hospital (Raleigh, NC) who turned off the annoying machine that went BING for 15 minutes so I could fall asleep even though the Doctor’s orders were not written to allow this. Anti customer service example. JC Penney’s Men’s department. A customer is returning a suit. He paid full price. The suits are now on sale and policy says you return it for the current price. The sale ends tomorrow. Do you…
A) return the suit for the sale price only
B) tell the customer to [...]

How to Receive Good Customer Service

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10 Customer Service Quality Statements to Measure Up Against

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