by Gerry Brown | Jul 30, 2014 | Customer Service Education
In a recent blog entitled Customer Service Education – A License to Skill, I spoke about the importance of rethinking, expanding and broadening career preparation for young people. In particular, the need for businesses and academic institutions to do more to equip...
by Gerry Brown | Jul 15, 2014 | Customer Service Education
The Road to a Brighter Future isn’t a Dead-end Street The despair was etched across Gavin’s face. His trembling handshake and hunched shoulders conveyed a very real sense of low esteem, dejection and hopelessness. We met at a student job fair last year where I...
by Gerry Brown | Mar 27, 2014 | Customer Experience
The original three Rs can trace their start in life as a reference to the importance of a strong educational foundation: Reading, Riting and Rithmetic. Depending on which account you believe, they appear to date back to the early nineteenth century and, despite...
by Gerry Brown | Mar 8, 2014 | Customer Experience
For those of you that follow this blog regularly you’ll know that I like UK Train Operating Companies (TOCs) as much as I like a tooth ache and that molar misery is always intensified by one of my regional carriers, First Great Western (FGW). My recent blog The Great...
by Gerry Brown | Feb 26, 2014 | Customer Experience
I’m sure that being stuck for over an hour on a cold train platform on a dark and stormy night in February was a major contributor to the already dark thoughts I had about South West Trains and the rest of the ghastly UK train operating companies (TOCs). My train had...