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How to Hold onto Your Customers in a Crisis

Leading Blog

To hang onto customers during a crisis, you need to build a forever transaction with the people you serve. Your team has to know what your “ forever promise ” is—the organization’s commit-ment to customers that justifies customer loyalty. If you don’t have a forever promise, you’re sunk.

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Your career will soar if you avoid leaders’ #1 blind spot

Michael Lee Stallard

Your customers clearly see whether your employees are engaged or not. Engagement affects the quality of their work, their productivity and responsiveness, all of which affect your customers’ experience. They respond with enthusiasm and energy when their supervisor shows he or she cares. Employee engagement matters.

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5 Convincing Benefits of Sustainable Business Practices

Strategy Driven

Companies have plenty of opportunities to ‘go green’ such as reducing wastage and pollution, using renewable energy and biodegradable materials, community volunteering, and more. The use of renewable energy alternatives is another prime example of cutting down expenses. Improved operations and lower expenses.

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3 Ways to Tap Into the Power of Community

Michael Lee Stallard

SoulCycle hires friendly, enthusiastic, high-energy employees who reach out and connect with people attending their 45-minute stationary bike workout classes. Envious of SoulCycle’s growth and avid customer loyalty, jealous competitors describe it as a cult. Cutler and Rice are quick to respond that it’s a fitness community.

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What’s The Word and The Force of Your Leadership?

The Practical Leader

” The Star Wars website gives this definition, “The Force is a mysterious energy field created by life that binds the galaxy together.” These are the same managers loudly pronouncing goals of higher employee engagement and increased customer loyalty. Creating leadership energy is an inside job.

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7 Ways To Display Exceptional Customer Service

Eric Jacobson

For example: How much does it cost to express genuine interest in customers or to anticipate their needs? Do you pay your employees more to smile, to make eye contact, or to add energy to their voices? Curtin reminds readers that: Customers don''t establish relationships with businesses.

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Great Leadership isn’t about control. It’s about Empowering people.

Brigette Hyacinth

When employees feel they can’t trust their boss, they feel unsafe, like no one has their back, and then spend more energy on survival than performing at their job. Engaged employees drive higher customer satisfaction and boost the bottom line. She was so inflexible that it was overbearing. I couldn’t trust her.