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Hrm/531 Face To Face

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Face to Face In customer service, the telephone is the second most important link (Lucus, 2015). Modern business use telephones in their day-to-day operations and to communicate with both internal and external customers (Lucus, 2015). Traveling to meet with customers and vendors face to face can be expensive and time-consuming (Lucus, 2015). With the technology of today, you can dial a telephone number or type a text into a cell phone and connect to a customer or vendor half-way around the world almost instantaneously (Lucus, 2015). With fax machines and computer modems, documents and information can be sent in a matter of minutes to customers and vendors miles away (Lucus, 2015). With all those tools, readily available more companies have set up both inbound and outbound telephone staffs (Lucus, 2015). Companies are expanding their customer contacts and are more likely to reach total customers satisfaction through those types of trained specialist (Lucus, 2015).
Customer Service Skills The same customer service skills that are needed when dealing with customers face to face are needed when dealing with customers on the telephone (Lucas, 2015). Arthur W. Page, the first vice …show more content…

First, Chris could have taken care of the situation before lunch, and this call would have never taken place. Second, when Chris was in the accident, he could have called the office and explained the situation, and asked for someone to please call Aretha back. Third, Chris should have taken a deep breath, put a smile on his face, and calmly answered the phone using the Staff-Temps Internationals protocol. He should have calmly listened to what Aretha was saying and replied with a heartfelt apology explaining that it was his fault, he should have gotten back to her promptly after the first conversation they had that morning. All of this should have occurred with a calm, clear, and properly inflected

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