Sara January 30, 2013 Customer Service, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Organizational, Professional Development

Manage Permanence

OK – I lied, I said last week that you only had to hand with me on this Southwest Airlines bandwagon for one more day, but I forgot something that’s noteworthy in ...

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Sara October 28, 2012 Communication, Customer Service, Leadership, Management, Operations, Professional Development

Do you have “Talk Equity”?

That’s free advertising accordinging to the Southwest Airlines leadership who develped a “personality description model” for their company to   craft the ...

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Sara October 20, 2012 Customer Service, Human Resource Management, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Operations, Organizational, Professional Development

Where does your staff think they are in the pecking order?

It may surprise you to learn that Southwest Airlines is the most unionized airline, with 85% of its employees in unions.    Yet the airline has a reputation for amicable ...

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Sara June 14, 2012 Communication, Customer Service, Sales & Sales Management

“Get Clear” by assessing your strengths

Your strengths are your talents, skills and knowledge.  Talent is your innate aptitude for an activity.  A skill is something you learn and become more adept at doing through ...

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Sara November 3, 2011 Communication, Customer Service, Synerdynamics

Re-engineer your company by beginning with a vision of what the customer wants.

If you surveyed a room of agents why their last account went to another agency at renewal, the overwhelming majority will tell you it was because of price. Our industry ...

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Sara November 2, 2011 Communication, Customer Service

Do you know what makes your customers loyal?

  If I ask agency or 20, every one will almost always tell me they have a very loyal client base.  My second question is “why?” which is when the fun begins.  ...

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Sara November 1, 2011 Communication, Customer Service

Are you keeping up with your customer’s expectations?

Paying attention to what you hear from your client’s will shape where you take your business.  It gives you an opportunity to experiment a little, be innovative and improve ...

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Sara October 27, 2011 Communication, Customer Service, Synerdynamics

Customer expectations are changing at internet speed. How are you keeping up?

Of course that statement assumes you’re even asking or paying attention to what you’re client expectations are – unfortunately to many people aren’t and ...

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