The Customer Service Survival Kit: What to Say to Defuse Even the Worst Customer Situations by Richard S. Gallagher is a practical guide for customer service professionals to effectively deal with difficult customers. The book provides valuable insights into the underlying causes of customer complaints, as well as scripts for handling challenging customer interactions.
The Customer Experience Book: How to Design, Measure and Improve Customer Experience in Your Business by Alan Pennington is a comprehensive guide to understanding, designing, and improving the customer experience. The book describes the importance of putting yourself in the customer's shoes and understanding their needs and preferences in order to create a positive customer experience that fosters loyalty and repeat business.
A Complaint Is a Gift: Recovering Customer Loyalty When Things Go Wrong by Janelle Barlow and Claus Moller is an insightful book that challenges the traditional view of customer complaints and presents a new perspective on how organisations can leverage complaints to build customer loyalty. The authors argue that complaints should be seen as valuable feedback and opportunities for improvement rather than as negative incidents to be avoided or ignored.
In Dealing with Difficult Customers: How to Turn Demanding, Dissatisfied, and Disagreeable Clients into Your Best Customers, author Noah Fleming provides valuable insights into how to effectively handle challenging customer interactions. The book is divided into three sections, each focusing on a different aspect of dealing with difficult customers.
"5 Star Service: How to Deliver Exceptional Customer Service" by Michael Heppell is a comprehensive guide that explores the principles and strategies behind providing outstanding customer service. Heppell's book goes beyond the basics, aiming to empower individuals and organisations to elevate their customer service practices to a level that not only meets but exceeds customer expectations.
To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others by Daniel H. Pink is a book that challenges the notion that sales is the domain of a select group of individuals with a specific set of skills. In fact, Pink argues that we are all in sales, as we spend a significant amount of our time trying to move others to our way of thinking, whether we are convincing our boss to give us a raise or persuading our children to clean their room.