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What Is Professional Development? We Unpack the Essentials

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Then, we’ll look at the benefits along with examples of how to achieve your biggest goals. Career advancement: Increase your opportunities for promotions, transitions or entrepreneurial opportunities. If your company decides to book a DEI speaker to promote creativity and expand market reach, attend and take notes.

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5 Ways to Include Soft Skills on Your Resume

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Whether you’re interested in an internal promotion or looking for a role with a new company, showing how you’ve used your interpersonal skills to succeed in past positions can make you a much more attractive candidate. Soft skills are personality traits or behaviors that can be hard to define.

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Industrious CEO Shares Pivotal Ways To Foster Workplace Connections

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Assess your current workplace culture Building a sense of community in the workplace is essential for promoting employee satisfaction, engagement, and productivity. Hodari emphasized the importance of using technology, such as AI, to improve the workplace experience and deliver better customer service.

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Hard Skills vs. Soft Skills: What’s the Difference and Which Do I Need to Build?

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For the individual, superior personal skills provide advantages in job satisfaction and foster the likelihood of promotion. For instance, customer service, sales and human resources, while having technical aspects, are more likely to require emotional intelligence to succeed.

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Is Customer Service a Tactic or a Strategy?

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Posted by Deborah Chaddock Brown on June 27, 2010 under Customer Moments | Be the First to Comment I get confused sometimes, more often than not, some would say, about the right word to use. A tactic, again from the dictionary is a plan, procedure, or expedient for promoting a desired end or result. hmmm sounds like the same thing.

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Once Upon a Time in Marketing: The Power of Storytelling

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Position your employees as the hero of the company story to achieve goals, identify vendors and partners as the hero to bolster synergies, or find ways to insert the customer into the role of hero or heroine. What saddens Smith is that this story was never shared outside the company. “A

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Chick-fil-A recipe for excellent customer service

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Today in the Jonesboro, Arkansas Regional Chamber of Commerce presentation, franchised restaurant operator and owner of Chick-fil-A, Mike Fullington explained to his audience how customer service can have an impact on a person’s day and even his life. He places families first, and is a firm believer in strong family units.