Best Books
Featured are a selection of books that are highly recommended and will increase your knowledge of enhancing customer experience while highlighting how best to implement and avoid the common mistakes most companies make.
Leadership And Self Deception
The Arbinger Institute
Through a story everyone can relate to about a man facing challenges on the job and in his family, the authors expose the fascinating ways that we blind ourselves to our true motivations and unwittingly sabotage the effectiveness of our own efforts to achieve success and increase happiness.
The Anatomy of Peace
The Arbinger Institute
Through an intriguing story we learn how and why we contribute to the divisions and problems we blame on others and the surprising way that these problems can be solved. Yusuf al-Falah, an Arab, and Avi Rozen, a Jew, each lost his father at the hands of the other's ethnic cousins. The Anatomy of Peace is the story of how they came together, how they help warring parents and children come together, and how we too can find our way out of the struggles that weigh us down.
The Outward Mindset
The Arbinger Institute
The Outward Mindset presents compelling true stories to illustrate the gaps that individuals and organizations typically experience between their actual inward mindsets and their needed outward mindsets. And it provides simple yet profound guidance and tools to help bridge this mindset gap. In the long run, changing negative behavior without changing one's mindset doesn't last—the old behaviors always reassert themselves. But changing the mindset that causes the behavior changes everything.
The Amazement Revolution
Shep Hyken
Customer service isn’t a department—it’s a philosophy that includes every person and aspect of the best and brightest companies.
In a tough, competitive, and price-sensitive economy, customer service is one of the most essential tools to separate your business from the competition. In this sequel to the bestseller The Cult of the Customer, Shep Hyken delivers seven powerful strategies that any organization can implement to create greater customer and employee loyalty
The Journey To WOW
Shaun Belding
The Journey to WOW is an entertaining, humorous and deeply insightful guide to creating fierce customer loyalty, and transforming an organization's culture into one obsessed with customer experience. Using a unique business parable, WOW delivers penetrating “ah-ha” moments in a lighthearted, sometimes laugh-out-loud writing style. It will resonate with anyone who deals with customers in any type of organization—from the newbie part-time employee, to the corporate CEO.
The Service Culture Handbook
Jeff Toister
The Service Culture Handbook is a step-by-step guide to help you develop a customer-focused culture in your company, department, or location. Whether you’re just beginning your journey, or have been working on culture for years, this handbook will prepare you to take the next step. You’ll receive actionable advice, straightforward exercises, and proven tools you can utilize immediately.
Leading The Customer Experience
Brad Cleveland
The mandate to get customer experience right is real and urgent. Leading the Customer Experience is a guide to shaping experiences that win loyalty and deliver outstanding business results. It provides a bold, step-by-step approach that will get you and your team pointed in the right direction. And equipped to make sound decisions along the way.
Never Split The Difference
Chris Voss
After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a kidnapping negotiator brought him face-to-face with bank robbers, gang leaders and terrorists. Never Split the Difference takes you inside his world of high-stakes negotiations, revealing the nine key principles that helped Voss and his colleagues succeed when it mattered the most – when people’s lives were at stake.
What Every Body Is Saying
Joe Navarro
Read this book and send your nonverbal intelligence soaring. Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer and a recognized expert on nonverbal behavior, explains how to "speed-read" people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls, and look for deceptive behaviors. You'll also learn how your body language can influence what your boss, family, friends, and strangers think of you.