Quinn Byrne Coaching

Quinn Byrne Coaching

Customer Experience & Employee Engagement

Episodes

  1. 06/19/2008

    Customer Experience #17: Core Competence – Partners in Your Customers’ Preferred Direction

    This is the concluding part of Michael Byrne’s series of 8 podcasts on the Core Competencies for Sales. In this episode, we discuss what it means to be at the pinnacle of Sales Competence: Partners, with your Customers, in their Preferred Directon. The key to this relationship is Trust. Trust which has been built up [...]

    19 min

  2. 06/09/2008

    Customer Experience #16: Core Competence – Solve Your Customer’s Problem

    You may be an expert on the product or service you are selling. You may know all about the problems it can solve. But the only problem that matters is the one which is blocking your customer’s path along his preferred direction. Some serious skill is called for here. You see: the customer may not [...]

    20 min

  3. 05/22/2008

    Customer Experience #15: Core Competence – Creating & Nurturing Connections between Stakeholders

    In the last episode, we learned the importance of being able to have relevant conversations with very different types of stakeholders in your customer’s organisation. In this episode, Michael takes the idea further. How can you help reconcile these different interests (Production, Finance, HR, Logistics, etc), creating and nurturing connections which will help your customer [...]

    22 min

  4. 05/15/2008

    Customer Experience #14: Core Competence – Having Relevant Conversations

    Having relevant conversations with your customers is vital to making the sale. In this week’s podcast Michael talks about the importance of relevant conversations. He explains that while there may be one user of your product or service in your customer’s organisation, there can be many other people who have a stake – and a [...]

    1 sec

  5. 05/06/2008

    Customer Experience #13: Core Competence – Knowing What You Need to Know

    Trust between the sales person and the customer is key to unearthing the customer’s specific needs. Do you, as a sales person, know what you need to know in order for your customer to trust you? In today’s podcast, Michael explains the importance of trust between the sales person and the customer. Only when a [...]

    18 min

  6. 04/17/2008

    Customer Experience #12: Core Competence – Being Familiar with the Customer’s Standard Operating Procedures

    Familiarity with a customer’s Standard Operating Procedures is essential when trying to address that specific customer’s product needs. In today’s podcast, Michael explains that it’s not enough to know about your product – you must understand your customers business. He provides two examples where the salesperson suceeds, not by talking about his product, but by [...]

    20 min

  7. 04/03/2008

    Customer Experience #11: Core Competence – Product Knowledge

    In today’s podcast, Michael Byrne looks at the first of the seven defined core competencies for sales people: Product Knowledge. “The key to producing a great customer experience is taking product knowledge, knowing who you’re going to have a chat with and finding out what that person is interested in.” The challenge for a sales [...]

    14 min

  8. 03/13/2008

    Customer Experience #10: An Introduction to Core Competencies

    Today, QBC introduces a new series of podcasts in the Customer Experience track, focusing on the theme of building core competencies in sales teams. In this introductory episode, Michael Byrne explains the rationale for a competence-based approach to strategic management of sales teams, and outlines a model for developing competence, based on Customer Experience. The [...]

    27 min

  9. 12/10/2007

    Customer Experience Podcast #9: General Mood

    We conclude this series of podcasts on the subject of Emotional Intelligence with a look at the area of General Mood, as it relates to the Customer Experience. Michael reminds us of the importance of courtesy and congeniality in customer relations, and stresses that failure to observe this is “the one thing we won’t be [...]

    15 min

  10. 11/07/2007

    Employee Engagement Podcast #6: General Mood

    Our final Emotional Intelligence podcast in the Employee Engagement series focuses on the area of General Mood. There are two attributes to consider: Optimism and Happiness. Optimism refers to how we feel about the future, whereas happiness is about how we feel now. Not surprisingly, they are closely associated. Michael points out that these variables [...]

    17 min
  • 10 Episodes

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Customer Experience & Employee Engagement

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  • Creator
    Quinn Byrne Coaching
  • Years Active
    2007 - 2008
  • Episodes
    10
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    Copyright © Quinn Byrne Coaching 2011
  • Show Website
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