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Communication Tips: Connecting With Outgoing, Task-Oriented People.

The Recovering Engineer

When you find yourself communicating with a person who is outgoing and task-oriented (primary Dominant behavioral style), remember these key communication tips: Get to the point quickly — offer the results or conclusions and then your data or analysis. Give them options — they want the opportunity to choose. Get updates in an RSS reader.

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Take It, Leave It, or Change It

The Recovering Engineer

The decision was to do a “cost-benefit analysis&# of our new situation. do your “cost-benefit analysis&# and choose one of these options: Take It Accept the change with all of its good and bad components, and realize that it is your choice to stay. Did it offer us more positive or more negative? Here’s the thought.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business Review

Start sending automated alerts to customer success managers when customer behavior indicates churn potential or upsell opportunity, automate your implementation workflow, maybe even build a chatbot to start helping you answer some FAQs. Don’t fall prey to analysis paralysis. What not to do. Don’t delay. It’s rough.

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