Upgrade Your Leadership Skills – Become a Positive Customer Focused Leader and Watch Your Relationships Thrive
The face of leadership is changing. Today for the first time ever a leader is just as likely to be female as male, just as likely to be young as old.
In today’s upended business world the customer- who has unprecedented access to media in You Tube and other social networks – is the one on “top” of the hierarchy. Leaders must be nimble and quick and able to motivate and empower people to action on the customer’s behalf.
In a world where there is
- Equal access to info – internet has made us all as smart as we want to be
- Four generations working side by side in the workplace
- The first time in history the younger generation are more technically proficient than their elders
- Connection globally
- Access by your customers to other customers
The old “command and control” models of leadership don’t work anymore. Those models were based on the boss having all the info and knowledge and having “power over” subordinates.
In an age when no customer wants to wait for the manager to make a decision, people at all levels of an organization need to have the power to fix the customer’s problem and deliver on the promises fast.
The new models of leadership are collaborative, “power with” models. They are based on a leader’s ability to inspire, engage, empower and motivate associates to deliver the kind of discretionary effort that delights the customers.
Today’s leaders must be focused on the needs of the customers as well as the needs of his or her talented staff members. Today’s leaders must manage relationships as well as processes and numbers, since employee and engagement is inextricably linked to customer engagement.
From our two day Positive Leadership workshops to our articles and MP3 programs, we’ve got insight to share on how customer focused leaders can upgrade their own skills and elevate the “wow” factor for their customers.
We’ve got Leadership tools that will open you to new world of thinking about the role you play in the success of others.
The Deeper the Roots, the Sweeter the Fruits
How healthy is your team and/or organizational culture? Is it yielding ‘sweet rewards’ like growth, peak employee performance, loyalty and profits? Or is it languishing, weak, neglected? This special report from the Customer Care Coach® will help you assess your culture at a ‘root level’ by looking at the living, breathing environment you’re managing in an all-new way.
Achievement Based Interviewing and Evidence Based Selection
Special Report on the BEST Hiring skills for this century (so far!) Introducing Achievement Based Interviewing and Evidence Based Selection – ABE. (E-book – to be downloaded after purchase)
21 Tough Questions
There’s no doubt about it! The Customer Experience and your employee’s experience are related. Customer happiness rarely occurs when the team is less than happy. This quick assessment gives you 21 questions (tough ones) you’d better be asking if Customer loyalty and advocacy is your end goal.
Create a Positive, Upbeat, Can-Do Workforce and Dazzle the Customer with Your Caring!!

Given the choice of dealing with a positive, upbeat employee with a “can-do” attitude or dealing with a disgruntled, distracted, uninterested one, which would you choose? No contest. Customers always want the best experience possible, they want it to be easy and pleasant to do business with your company. Enter the real challenge of “Relationship Management”, the relationships. Until all of our business is done electronically, as much of it most likely will be, managers, in addition to making sure the work gets done, still need to be concerned with the performance of the most important link in the customer connection — people.
Power-up Performance
Are your employees engaged in their work, or are they estranged from your company’s mission and their role in making it happen? Mounting evidence suggests that the more engaged employees are in what they do, the better their performance and the higher the rewards for everyone. The key is to have managers who are skilled at creating employee engagement.
Teachable Moments

As a customer care trainer who works with companies of all shapes and sizes, I’m well aware of the ‘extreme cautiousness’ with which most organizations are approaching any purchases – especially when it comes to training their employees to be and do their best. As I see it, there are three main challenges…

















