Posts Tagged ‘empathy’

Improve Your Customer Service By Getting More Out of Your Customer-Facing Employees

June 1st, 2011

by Micah Solomon – Customer-Centered Leadership Expert

The range of how much (or how little) a single employee can give to an organization and its customers is so wide, as wide as the range of human possibility. I think of someone from an entirely different context – physiologist Ivan Pavlov — as an ultimate example of this.

Pavlov’s experiment–his research–was supposed to be analyzing the saliva of dogs after they were being fed. It was outside his purview to even notice the fact that the dogs salivated in advance of the food being delivered. In fact, by making note of this unexpected phenomenon, he made his job messier, the experiment less (more…)

Be Generous

August 11th, 2010

by Haley McLennan, Manager, Marketing & Communications

By now, most people have heard about the dramatic incident involving Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater. Reading the breaking story by The New York Daily News, I was laughing out loud. The basic story goes that Jet Blue flight attendant Slater was involved in a verbal altercation with a passenger on a flight from Pittsburgh to New York. The passenger got up and started rooting around in the overhead bin, and Slater requested that (more…)