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Ed Sykes

Jumpstart Employee Motivation – Ten Secrets to Empower Your Team

December 8, 2025May 21, 2015 by Ed Sykes
Team motivation

One of the important keys to employee motivation is to empower your employees to be successful.

Eight Leadership Techniques for Outstanding Teams

December 8, 2025May 21, 2015 by Ed Sykes
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Apply the following eight leadership techniques to create highly motivated, self-directed, and extremely productive employees and teams.

Motivate Your Team for Outstanding Customer Service

December 8, 2025May 3, 2015 by Ed Sykes
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How do we support and motivate our customer service team to give outstanding customer service? The following are five secrets to motivate your customer service team to give exceptional customer service.

Customer Service Secrets: Six Secrets of Outstanding Customer Retention

December 8, 2025April 27, 2015 by Ed Sykes
Customer Retention Manager

Ed Sykes reveals his customer service secrets for winning back customers, increasing customer satisfaction, and increasing your bottom line.

Bad Customer Service Is Not So Funny: Five Secrets to Giving Outstanding Customer Service

December 8, 2025April 11, 2010 by Ed Sykes
Bad customer service is not funny any more!

The following story tells how a customer service experience went from funny to sad in less than 24 hours..

Getting Back to Basics: A Customer Service Tale

December 8, 2025April 27, 2009 by Ed Sykes
Craft store

If your company is really about customer service, you do not want to stop providing service to customers just because they decide not to do business with you..

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