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Ed Sykes & Joy Fisher-Sykes

 
Vol. #3  Issue #19

May  2005

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Featured Article:

Seven Secrets to Being the Leader Everyone Wants to Work For

Quote of the Day

New Article:

Five Secrets to Showing Your Customers You Really Care: Creating Empathy

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Featured Article:

Seven Secrets to Being the Leader Everyone Wants to Work For

 

In this changing, challenging, and competitive workplace we can’t overestimate the importance of good management.  Good managers will consistently motivate you to perform at higher levels of productivity.   Bad managers will drive you crazy and eventually out of the organization.  Managers with poor skills will frequently produce the following results:

 

  1. Decreased productivity

  2. Increased turnover

  3. Increased absences

  4. Increased human resources mediation situations

  5. Increased customer service complaints

 

The following are seven secrets to being the “perfect” leader everyone want to work for:

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Next Month:  Five Secrets to Becoming the Perfect Employee Everyone Wants - Part Two

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Quote of the Day

"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

- Napoleon Hill 

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New Article: Five Secrets to Showing Your Customers You Really Care: Creating Empathy

 

During our recent online poll, we asked the following question:

 

What upsets you the most when receiving poor customer service?

 

Eighty percent of the poll participants said the “I don’t care attitude” of the person serving them upsets them the most.

 

Businesses lose billions of dollars of revenue each year because customers feel the organizations don’t care about their business enough to make an effort to keep them.  It takes five times more effort to win over a new customer than to keep an existing customer. 

 

Then why does this happen?  No training or poor training has a lot to do with it.

 

Here are five secrets to showing your customers you really do care about their situations when interacting with them:  Read more...

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