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How to Communicate with Difficult Customers: Powerful Phrases Series

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Here are some powerful phrases to make communicating with difficult customers easier. Which is what makes communicating with them so challenging. I’ve (Karin) led tens of thousands of customer-facing employees over the years, including managing more contact center and retail customer escalations than I’d care to admit.

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How To Lead With Guts (and Have Their Backs)

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Retail is always a balancing act of providing great customer service and not giving away the store. Authenticity & Transparency Career & Learning Communication being a gutsy leader how to back-up your team how to show your team you have their backs' After all, we had strict guidelines about what we could and could not do.

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Don’t Let These Three Common Mistakes Undermine Your Leadership Presence

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Recently, we were in a retail store where a partial wall divided the customer-facing counter from the back of the store. Communicate confidence. For many leaders, emotional splash comes from their intensity and drive-useful attributes, but ones that need to be managed. Emotional splash takes many forms.

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How to Improve Employee Engagement in Retail: Importance, Ideas & Solutions

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A McKinsey study discovered that the turnover rate in the retail industry is 70% higher than in other industries. This alarming figure raises questions about the working conditions in retail sectors. Are retail employees truly motivated and committed to their workplace? Has this always been the case in the retail industry?

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8 Steps to Building a Successful Internal Communications Strategy

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Building and managing a successful internal communications strategy can be a tall order for organizations, especially large enterprises with a widely distributed workforce. Internal Communication Strategy Defined. The Importance of Building a Strong Employee Communications Strategy. Increase employee productivity.

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How Leaders Make Business Metrics Meaningful

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This understanding translates into how you communicate with your team. If you’re a convenience store retail manager, your key behaviors might include: Keep products stocked. If you’re a customer-service call-center supervisor, your key behaviors might include: Huddle with your team each day to connect and communicate.

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13 Barriers To Employee Engagement To Break Down

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Barriers to Employee Engagement in the Healthcare Sector Research has shown that nearly 20% of frontline employees, including nurses, did not feel their employer communicated appropriate messages. Indeed, a real tough challenge looms for healthcare leaders due to this communication gap. Such misleading situations hinder collaboration.

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