Customer Service Skills for Success

Product Description Lucas’ top-selling and award-winning Customer Service 8e has been revised to reflect the demands of customer service today. Chapters are divided into three parts, focused on key aspects of customer service: 1) The Profession 2) Skills for Success, and 3) Building and Maintaining Relationships, and Retaining Customers. Throughout the text, readers discover tips for implementing proven customer service strategies, case scenarios, and activities to help apply concepts to real-world situations.Customer Service 8e addresses many market changes such as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, working in remote teams and greater focus on customers with disabilities with featuring several companies such as Amazon, Target, American Express and Chipotle. Students will practice putting concepts into action through our integration digital learning platform, Connect. Connect provides revised case analyses that challenge students to apply what they’ve learned to real-world scenarios featuring companies such as Zappos, Ben & Jerry’s, and Southwest Airlines. Additionally, Connect has role-playing application-based activities to help students demonstrate understanding of the key elements that will make customer interactions more successful and revised Language Toolkits geared toward helping students develop an understanding of key terms. About the Author Robert W. Lucas earned a B.S. in law enforcement from the University of Maryland in College Park; an M.A. with a focus in human resources development from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia; and a second M.A. in management and leadership from Webster University in Orlando, Florida. He is an internationally known award-winning author and learning and performance expert who specializes in workplace performance-based training and consulting services. Professor Lucas has more than four decades of experience in human resources development, management, and customer service. He has written and contributed to 36 books, training video leaders’ guides, and compilations. He also has taught training and development, diversity, and interpersonal and organizational communication at the master’s level for almost two decades at Webster University.