Getting Service Right
Overcoming the Hidden Obstacles to Outstanding Customer Service
Are you endlessly trying to improve your employees' customer service skills, but getting so-so results? There may be a culprit that you've never considered.
Rather than offering another set of customer service tips, Getting Service Right takes a novel approach by rooting out the real reasons employees don't consistently deliver the service they should.
Named a Top 11 Customer Experience Book You Must Read in 2022 by Nextiva
Rated one of the 11 Best New Customer Service eBooks to Read in 2021 by Book Authority!
About the Book
Getting Service Right is filled with examples from well-known organizations, real stories from frontline employees, and the latest scientific research.
These powerful, sometimes counterintuitive insights can be applied at the organizational, departmental, or individual level to help the entire team deliver outstanding customer service.
Key Takeaways
Discover unexpected challenges to great customer service:
Company cultures that unwittingly discourage excellent customer service.
Employees who are torn between following policy or serving customers.
Cost reduction efforts that actually increase the cost of service.
Poor products and services that make it impossible to satisfy customers.
Bad habits that make it difficult to listen to customers’ needs.
What People Are Saying
"With multimple strategies supported by real-life examples, Jeff Toister teaches how to avoid service failure and provide service success."
Shep Hyken
New York Times bestselling author
"This should be required reading for Customer Experience, Customer Service, and HR professionals."
Bill Schimikowski
Vice President of Customer Experience, Fidelity Investments
"Customer service leaders will appreciate the countless stories and examples they can use to train and educate their staff."
Alyona Medelyan
CEO, Thematic
About the Author
Jeff Toister's first customer service interaction ended in a service failure.
Vowing to learn from that experience, he became obsessed with customer service. Today, he is the bestselling author of four books, including The Service Culture Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Your Employees Obsessed With Customer Service.
More than 5 million people have taken one of his training programs on LinkedIn Learning and he is ranked as one of the top 30 customer experience professionals in the world by Global Gurus.
More Praise for the Book
"A must read for leaders that are seriously interested in cultivating a culture of customer service excellence."
John Tiliacos
Executive Vice President of Airport Operations & Customer Service, Tampa International Airport
"Jeff Toister offers relevant advice with great examples that will help reduce systemic service failures and transform the customer service experience."
Erica Mancuso
Director of Client Care at Straightaway Health Careers
"As a trainer at heart, Jeff’s genuine desire to see his readers improve their customer service shines through in the examples, exercises, and thoughtful frameworks that he outlines in this newest book."
Justin Robbins
Founder, Metric Sherpa