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What Is Professional Development? We Unpack the Essentials

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Career advancement: Increase your opportunities for promotions, transitions or entrepreneurial opportunities. Technical skills upgrade Whether you code software, are a customer service representative or design digital graphics, the technical landscape has likely changed since you attended college.

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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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How To Build A Thriving Coworking Community

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Often an indispensable component of a coworking operations team, community managers are recognized for their warm and welcoming personalities and their ability to provide top-quality customer service. Hosting a range of events promotes an inclusive workspace — which provides another outlet for community engagement.

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What Are Soft Skills? 12 Examples to Benefit You Personally & Professionally

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For instance, an adaptable employee will embrace the benefits of a new software system rather than focusing exclusively on faults. For example, a customer service associate can use the soft skills of communication, empathy and creative problem-solving skills to resolve a client complaint while increasing customer loyalty.

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Best Buy customer service still at odds

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Best Buy just can’t get it right, and customers continue to complain. Even the company’s promotion on used videos this weekend piled up consumer complaints as customers couldn’t find what they wanted in either the stores or online. It was impossible to deal with Best Buy’s customer service.

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Small businesses and the importance of outstanding customer service

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Although someone who loves your service may only tell one or two new potential customers, the flip side of dissatisfied customers can wind up with the loss of 20 customers – both current and in the future. So what’s a local merchant to do to cultivate their customers’ loyalties?

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Accountability in customer service

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Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Without accountability our customer service winds up with the grim consequences of empty promises, excuses and blaming others; most likely the customers. If I shop at Walmart for a pair of denim.