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Answering Reader Mail: Being Terminated (Social Etiquette Part 2)

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Hello Readers - 8 months ago, a reader asked me a question about fraternization and social etiquette at work. My question however, is… should I disclose the reason for my termination in my job interviews? I am also not sure if upon your exit interview, HR gave you any guidance on if you could collect unemployment, etc.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Customer Escalations and You

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Employees, and especially managers, who are too far removed from the actual issues and the actual customers are going to have a harder time coming up with effective policies and good ideas. Policy creation, personnel management, interviewing, etc. Focusing on management. This is a valid point as well.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Help customer focus with the.

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Everyone puts their best attitude forward when interviewing for a position, but during the training period and internship, we can use the opportunities to observe and evaluate each new customer service agent. Ineffective interactions will result in inconsistent policies among other customer service agents, and it is sure to create chaos.

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When you suspect a co-worker has a substance abuse problem.

Laughing all the Way to Work

it requires a firm culture that discusses recovery openly and strongly support it -both in action and written policy. and hopefully, they have supportive procedures and policies in place to help them." Admin in the Spotlight: Interview with Lynn Holgat. This is usually a lot of "talk" in companies.but little real support for it.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Employee satisfaction a key to.

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Depending on the company policy, budget or protocol, definitive rewards keep employees striving towards the next level. If an employee perceives something in the company policy or required protocol when dealing with customers isn’t working, someone in management should deal with the problem before it becomes a major issue.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » White Glove Service in 4 Steps

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If the employees are restricted by a huge number of rules, policies, or procedures (that they don’t have the power to excuse themselves from in certain situations), the customer service experience will suffer. The environment is respectable.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » B&H Customer Service

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Liberal return policy. B&H isn’t the only retail store that has a very liberal return policy (see this post on Nordstrom). A liberal return policy represents a desire to keep customers loyal to the company in the long run instead of just making money off of them in the short run.