Having run a number of coaching courses this year for a broad range of clients, the biggest challenge facing all of these retailers is their people. The biggest complaint I hear is “they don’t do what I want them to do” and “how many times do I
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Every retailer on the planet wants to sell more products or services to every customer that walks into their store or makes a purchase online. However so many times I see the action (or inaction) of retailers preventing the customer from buying. In the stores, it can
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Every retailer on the planet wants to increase their sales. They spend money on advertising to attract more customers so they can grow their sales that way. They drop catalogues, use bill boards, newspapers and even TV. A number of these are expensive options when the answer
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I still find it fascinating and very disturbing when a business doesn’t handle a complaint well. It is so easy for customers to simply go elsewhere, there is so much choice these days. If you’d like some simple tips to better handle customer complaints click here for
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“How do I motivate my team members?” I hear this question from managers quite frequently when I work in a business or run training courses. I blogged recently about the challenges with motivating your team and in this blog I have more ideas that you can use
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I read a great article about a retailer in the US who seems to have a way to reduce the massive challenges with recruiting and managing their team. The retailer, Pal’s Sudden Service, a smallish US based fast food chain, was recently featured in a great article
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One of the biggest areas that we help managers and franchisees with, is how to give effective feedback, that staff actually take on board and then improve their performance. Most managers struggle in this area because they are never taught an effective way. Just by being promoted
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I believe that being a great leader is very challenging, not only do you have to be focussed on your own performance, but also the performance of others. Leaders can’t have a bad day, even a bad moment, as this sends the wrong message to the team
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I’m an absolute passionate fan of great customer service and being in the training game for almost 25 years, it’s not hard to work out that I’m a massive supporter of investing in customer service training. Yet not everybody thinks that customer service training is worth the
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We all know that feeling. Something about their service wasn’t quite right and you think it would be good to tell them so they know for next time. You’re thinking, they’ll take it well, they might even apologise and thank me for bringing it to their attention.
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