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101 Ways to Improve Customer Service: Training, Tools, Tips, and Techniques
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101 Ways to Improve Customer Service: Training, Tools, Tips, and Techniques

by Glen Arm Lorraine L. Ukens Team-ing with Success Maryland
February 2007
Beginner
400 pages
4h 25m
English
Wiley
Content preview from 101 Ways to Improve Customer Service: Training, Tools, Tips, and Techniques

Chapter 3. Information, Please: Observation and Information Gathering

Goal

Goal

To refine the skills of observation and information gathering. Participants will identify a preselected picture based on information provided by the facilitator.

Time Required

Approximately 30 minutes

Group Size

Five to fifteen participants

Materials

Materials
  • Ten to twelve large pictures of similar content mounted on card stock

  • Prize for winner (optional)

Process

  1. Prior to the session, select ten to twelve large pictures that are similar in content (for example, landscape, house, room interior, individual, group of people) but that have some evident differences, and mount them on card stock. Display these pictures around the room so that all participants can see them.

  2. Introduce the session by explaining that participants will be using information to determine which displayed picture is the one you selected to describe. Tell them that you will provide additional information only when someone requests “Information, please.” Any time a guess is made and the picture is incorrect, that person is eliminated. You may choose to provide a prize to the winner to increase the motivation for participants to make a guess.

  3. Mentally select one picture for which you will provide clues to the participants. Say, “I am thinking of a picture; which one ...

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