Customer Service Employees Are Therapists, Cops, Negotiators, and Conflict Resolution Experts.
call center de-escalation customer service de-escalation de-escalationIs every other customer demanding, “Get me a manager?”
Do you find your customers more intense?
Are your employees burning out or quitting?
It’s not just you. Everyone is seeing this change.
I just read this quote from the New York Times.
“The meanness of the public has forced many public-facing industries to rethink what used to be an article of faith: that the customer is always right. If employees are now having to take on many unexpected roles—therapists, cop, conflict-resolution negotiator—then workplace managers are acting as security guards and bouncers to protect their employees.”
My De-escalation Academy for Customer Service will help you bring down the temperature with those mean customers. I’ll show you how to transfer customers out of the emotional right-brain and guide them to the next steps inside the Academy.
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If your team struggles to get angry customers to back down, get them in De-escalation Academy.
Myra Golden's De-escalation Academy
A psychology-based system that helps professionals stay calm, redirect difficult conversations, and confidently resolve interactions—even when the answer is no.
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