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What are some good evening job options?

HR Digest

Many companies need people to attend calls beyond regular office hours. Also call center jobs are 24/7 and you can choose the night shift if it suits you. There are some call centers that require you to attend a certain number of calls and monitor you minutely, but generally, it is an easy-to-handle job.

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10 Elements of an Outstanding Customer Service Culture

Skip Prichard

A commitment to ongoing improvement via customer service training and retraining, from orientation (onboarding) onward. Once employees are properly selected, oriented, and trained, they require empowerment to flourish. A culture of empowering every employee to take the initiative in service of their customers.

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Six Fundamentals Every Entrepreneur Needs to Succeed

Harvard Business Review

Getaroom stands out because it presents a new model for hotel room booking. It features an unpublished rate program which gives consumers typically 10 to 20% (but up to 70%) off standard rates at thousands of partner hotels who want to move room inventory. That sets us apart from our competitors. Find your niche in a sizable market.

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Leading Anywhere

Harvard Business Review

But already a pervasive network also lets firms ship calls to virtual call centers. LiveOps is one company that helps put call center work in the cloud. LiveOps solves this in part with training, in part with contests, to create a sense of community where no actual community exists.

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Experiment with Organizational Change Before Going All In

Harvard Business Review

In one project , the group looked for ways to encourage hotel guests to reuse their towels, an environmentally friendly practice that could also save Disney money. The research team studied employees in their initial weeks of training to serve a particular customer account. Identify a target outcome.

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How Local Governments Are Using Technology to Serve Citizens Better

Harvard Business Review

This experience increasingly clashes with what city residents have been trained to expect from the likes of Zillow, Kayak, and Yelp. Thus we have a world in which citizens find it easier to compare pubs than public schools, to compare hotels than hospitals. Online and offline efforts have to mesh.

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Outsourcing the Old Folks

Harvard Business Review

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , a new film set in India and directed by Shakespeare in Love's John Madden (age 63), hangs its plot on the notion of "outsourcing" the elderly. They find new life instead of old age. She goes from being outsourced, to becoming a resource. Here too, Marigold's Sonny has some wisdom to impart.