QBC Podcast on The Customer Experience

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Date Title & Description Contributors
2008-06-19

  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... 		  conn@edgecast.ie author
2008-06-09

  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 c... 		  conn@edgecast.ie author
2008-05-22

  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 dif... 		  conn@edgecast.ie author
2008-05-15

  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... 		  conn@edgecast.ie author
2008-05-06

  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 o... 		  conn@edgecast.ie author
2008-04-17

  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 you... 		  conn@edgecast.ie author
2008-04-03

  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 ... 		  conn@edgecast.ie author
2008-03-13

  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 s... 		  conn@edgecast.ie author
2007-12-10

  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... 		  conn@edgecast.ie author
2007-10-23

  Customer Experience Podcast #8: Adaptability

Emotional Intelligence is defined as the power to respond appropriately, no matter what! When we say “no matter what” we are talking about Adaptibility. In the Emotional Intelligence model, Adaptability is considered in terms of Reality Testing, Flexib... 		  conn@edgecast.ie author