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10 Elements of an Outstanding Customer Service Culture

Skip Prichard

As someone who has spent their career going inside organizations that do customer service extremely well – from Nordstrom, USAA, Southwest Airlines, Zappos , L.L. Leadership Tip: great service cultures give employees leeway and power. Used by permission of HarperCollins Leadership. A common language.

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Building Trust Develops Team Cohesiveness

Strategy Driven

Army: Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal courage. Army Infantry, and later in my career as a Drill Sergeant. Developing this trust starts with loyalty. This established sense of loyalty builds team harmony because of the trust that it creates. This loyalty I describe is behavioral.

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The Traits of Socially Innovative Companies

Harvard Business Review

While there are some factors that make social innovation more likely than not — such as intrapreneurs who will champion them — Davis and White find that competing for talent, strong brands, and leadership transitions all correlate with stronger social initiatives.

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The Greatest Barriers to Growth, According to Executives

Harvard Business Review

He had started his career in one of those jobs, as a country manager, and worked his way up. No surprise, the data reflected this struggle: Employee loyalty at the front line was the lowest in the company. To find the next wave of growth, they were taking a hard look at their bureaucracy.

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The Curious Downside of an Owner’s Mindset

Harvard Business Review

They pursue what our colleague and loyalty expert Fred Reichheld calls “bad profits” : efforts to extract more money from customers without offering them additional value, making them feel coerced, deceived or misled (think airline baggage fees or excessive banking penalties).