All the world over, businesses are changing their modes of operation. More specifically in how they handle their customers. This...
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I am an ITIL Expert and extremely passionate about customer service, customer experience, best practices and process improvement. I have led support, service, help desk and IT teams as well as quality and call center teams in Canada and the UK. I know how to motivate my teams to ensure that they are putting the customer first.
In the early days of my career I was responsible for setting up an operation in a different city. It...
Dealing with customers that want to cancel is hard. I know - I'm personally in the midst of trying to...
Customer service is an integral part of our job and should not be seen as an extension of it. A...
1. Be a Leader AND A Manager: Leaders share and communicate a common vision (of some future state); they gain agreement...
As an IT professional, it is incumbent upon you to continue developing your skills and knowledge as that is the...
What is it? In its simplest form, a helpdesk is a group of people assigned to assist customers in solving their problems. ...
A very important point to remember at all times is that you need to have a more aggressive Internal SLA...
Diagram of a matrix organisation (Photo credit: Wikipedia)With large projects having all the required resources to hand is sometimes a...
DMAICThere is a great quote somewhere that goes something like - "If you cannot measure it, you cannot manage it!"...
OK, to start with it's not a desk that helps people! A help desk is a team of individuals (generally...
Jobs, Jobs, JobsI’ve mentioned LinkedIn a couple of times now (Using LinkedIn to Find a Job, Using LinkedIn Effectively) and...
As a manager, it is a key requirement to ensure that your team is appropriately trained on the minutiae of...
Continuing our discussion about ITIL Service Strategy, lets start talking about Sourcing. Sourcing is about analysing how to most effectively...
The Service Portfolio describes the commitments and investments made by a service provider to its customers across all market spaces....
In a similar fashion to interviewing and hiring people - the hardest and most expensive exercise is getting the right...
What is MindMapping?Stated simply, mindmapping is a technique that uses graphics and text tied together in an effort to increase...
Service Provider Types Although most aspects of service management apply for all types, it is important to differentiate between them. The...
Competition is extremely fierce in the world of business, only a handful survive, and some can barely keep up with...
"Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can't measure something, you can't...
Businesses are busy and unfortunately, that means that amongst other things they don't have the time to meet all applicants...
English: A business ideally is continually seeking feedback from customers: are the products helpful? are their needs being met? Constructive...
I think you all know that I'm a big fan of ITIL but sometimes I think it does get overly...
Perhaps somewhat self-explanatory, but Service Strategy is the strategy used by a business to execute its business objectives and meet...
Management of teams in a call center environment is never easy. Depending on your industry and your hours of operation...
Goals are useful tools for channeling behavior and helping to target objectives that businesses' are interested in, however to be effective -...
Quality measurements in manufacturing teams are actually somewhat easy to do – simply determine the number of parts that fail...
Motivating staff for the best performance possible is a matter of finding the right drivers that interest them and reinforcing...
The General Adaptation Syndrome has three key area's:Alarm - is the ‘fight-or-flight response’ that mobilizes the body and mind to defend against physical...
Stress on the job is an unfortunate fact of life and probably something that is here to stay until the...
