ITCustomerService.com Celebrates Customer Service Week With Free Training Resources

October 4th, 2010

ITCustomerService.com is celebrating National Customer Service week, October 4-8, 2010, by giving away one of my IT soft skills training resources each day.

If you’d like to get in on the freebies, please sign up at ITCustomerService.com

Here’s the line up for the week:

On Monday, October 4th, download  the ebook and audio version of Become Your Customer’s Hero and The Top 5 Customer Service Mistakes IT Professionals Make (And How to Overcome Them)

  

  

 

On Tuesday, October 5th, get 10 day access to the streaming video of  Customer Communication – The Art of Customer Service , a57 min. training specifically for IT Professionals.

 

 

On Wednesday, October 6th, download the Building a Better Business Case report and audio version to learn what information makes it easier for the decision makers to say yes to your next IT project or proposal.

 

 

 

On Thursday, October 7th, watch the first segment of Communication Skills for IT Professionals on how tailoring our messages for our specific audience improves your communication’s effectiveness, and download the transcript for future use.  

 

On Friday, October 8th, watch the second segment of Communication Skills for IT Professionals on how Attitude plays a part in communication with our IT customers, and download the transcript for future reference.

 

 

If you miss the freebies, each item is also available for purchase from ITCustomerService.com.

2010 International Spectrum Conference

January 7th, 2010

Work in the MultiValue community or are a vendor serving the MultiValue community?

Don’t forget to register for the 2010 International Spectrum conference, scheduled for April 12th-15th in Denver, Colorado. And come say hi. I’ll be presenting FIVE sessions this year:

  • The Art of Customer Service
  • The Science of Making UI “pretty”
  • Building Better Business Cases 
  • Social Media for Techies (NEW this year!)
  • Communicating through Change  (NEW this year!)

See you there!

Customer Service Training for IT Professionals

July 15th, 2009

Every one of us has customers – whether we call them clients, customers, or even co-worker. Anyone who uses our services, skills, and knowledge is a customer. And those customers have the power to shape our businesses and/or careers. How we treat our customers can launch us forward or hold us back.

For those of us in IT, it isn’t always comfortable to expand on our customer service or communication skills, yet these are the exact skills that often open new opportunites for us. In a quest to be successful in my own career, I’ve spent a large chunk of time improving my own “soft skills” and coaching others one-on-one to improve theirs.  The effort has always paid off.

To learn how you can you can improve your customer service skills and become your customer’s hero, I invite you to visit my newly updated site ITCustomerService.com