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Want to improve your service, add customer value, and grow your revenues? After 30 years in the business, I can you this: When people and organizations talk about customer service, most of the time, they’re all talking about different things.

And if “service” means one thing to your sales team… another thing to your finance department, something else to your call center staff, and something else to your leadership team, then how can you even begin to lead a service transformation across the organization?

You can’t! Without a common definition of service, everyone will be pulling in different directions. You’re unlikely to see much improvement at all – much less long-term cultural change.

What you need is definition that is relevant in every situation, in every department, and to every team, and can guide your teams’ actions and decisions.

Watch the video to see MY definition of service – and to learn why it works for every kind of business, organization, role, and industry.

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First question for you and your partner. The book I wrote is called ‘Uplifting Service’. The keynote topic here is ‘Increasing your value with uplifting service’. Raises a question. What is service?

Some people will say, well, you know, service is giving somebody else whatever they want. But what if what they want is not what they need? Like, if you’re in the medical field, you know the importance of getting that right. What if somebody says service is meeting expectations.

Someone else says, no, no, no, no, no. Service is exceeding expectations.

Well, it sounds good, but what if your job is for example, aircraft engine maintenance and you say, “Oh, we did something really good for you, We exceeded your expectations.” Now don’t do that. So. Right. We need a really good definition of service if we’re going to focus on increasing your value by uplifting your service.

Now you’re all in business. So let’s find out what your definition is. It’s going to work like this. You’re going to turn to your partner. And when I say go, you’re going to do this. You’re going to say, “Service is…” and you tell them your word for word definition for the word service at the same time that they are telling you. So you’re speaking and you’re listening at the same time. And what you’re listening for is whether or not you’re saying the same thing. Everybody take a deep breath. Turn to your partner and go. Service is… Tell them! Great. Come on back. Come on back.

How many of you in this room of thousands found that you and your partner said to each other exactly the same words? Yeah, but that’s strange. I got a guy here, he raises his hand, and the partner goes, “No, no, no, no.” How many of you used different words but you meant the same thing? Raise your hands. Yeah, there goes all the hands in the room. But that’s a problem. That’s a problem. Because if you have one person who says give somebody what they want, somebody says, No, no, no, give them what they need. Or one person says, meet expectations and the other person says, no, no, no, exceed expectations.

You’re going to confuse yourself, you’re going to confuse your customer and you’re going to accuse everybody else that you work with. We need a better definition. And after working in this field for so long, I actually wrote one. Let me offer it to you, and then you see whether or not it works for your business. And it goes like this.

Here’s the first part. Service is taking action. Now think about it. Does that make sense? The action could be in person, like passing a referral. The action could be in person, like inviting a guest. The action could be online. The action could be over the phone. The action could be making a sale. The action could be answering a question. The action could be solving a problem. But in every case, service is taking action. Does that make sense for you? Alright. Now, the way I say it is like this service is taking action. With my legs, so you can see it.

Now you can’t do that because you’re all sitting down. So I want you to use your hands. So you go like this service is taking action. Let’s do it together. Ready? One, two, three, go. Service is taking action. Now, what is the purpose of the action? The purpose of the action is to do something that someone else will want, need, appreciate, desire, benefit from or v-v–v-v value.

So we say it again, like this service is taking action, right, to create value. Let’s do it. Ready? Here you go. Service is taking action to create value for? Right. Givers gain, right? It’s taking action to create value to help someone else get what they need, what they want to invite them to a BNI chapter, to pass them a referral, to help solve somebody’s issue. To be a more compassionate listener.

“Service is taking action to create value for someone else.”

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