Take the Telephone Doctor I.Q. Quiz

by Nancy Friedman, The Telephone Doctor Long ago a good friend once told me, “Nancy, the training your company provides is common sense that’s actually NOT very common!” There’s a lot of truth to that statement. Yet years later, rudeness and...

The Customer Experience – What is it?

by Nancy Friedman, The Telephone Doctor The other day, someone asked me, “What’s Customer Experience, Nancy?” They had not heard the expression yet. And as I went on to explain, I realized it’s not just one item, it’s many things. How can...

Essential Telephone Skills

By Nancy Friedman, The Telephone Doctor  Recently a Telephone Doctor client said to me, “Nancy, congratulations. Some people take a simple idea and complicate it; you have taken a simple idea and kept it simple.” We don’t believe you should scratch your...

10 Customer Service Skills &Techniques

By Nancy Friedman, the Telephone Doctor                  Be a DOUBLE CHECKER. Learn to use those words. Everyone loves it when you double check something for them. Even if you’re pretty sure the item is out of stock or the...

7 Steps to Service Recovery

By Nancy Friedman, Telephone Doctor Almost anyone who’s been in a customer service position has had the opportunity of running into either an irate call or person…or a situation that, shall we say, is not pleasant. And even though it may not even be our fault,...