Are you Visible and Available?

Improve Customer Experience by Making Employees More Available

As a customer you’ve no doubt experienced businesses where employees hide. Perhaps they’re directly in front of you but they avoid eye contact; pretending they’re so busy with their computer screen, inventory, or co-worker conversation that they just don’t see you. Apparently, their supervisors haven’t emphasized – or enforced – the concept of being visible and available. The principle is self explanatory. When we know there are customers around we stop huddling with coworkers. Make ourselves visible. And proactively make eye contact so we are seen to be available. As for other tasks – better to do them during quieter times or behind the scenes.

Today’s chuckle:

If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

Written By Jeff Mowatt (original content – not AI generated)

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