Published Articles

Writing a “Knock Your Socks Off” Service Culture Plan
Call Center Times

It May Not Be Your Fault (But It Is Your Problem)
Retail Observer

Who Are Your Customers? If You Don’t Know, How Can You Serve Them?
Retail Observer

Moving to Another City: How to Avoid Negativity
Planeta HR (Russia)

Delovaya Afisha-Interview with John Tschohl (Russia)

Birzha Interview with John Tschohl (Russia)

Unhappy Customers Are Like A Bomb, Megapolis (Kazakhstan)

Human Resources Management Interview with John Tschohl (cover story)(Russia)

St. Petersburg In Your Pocket Interview with John Tschohl (Russia) HeadHunter (Russia)

Planeta HR: Safety and Time Issues Cannot Be Solved By Prohibiting

Who Are Your Customers
Hoteliers

Moving Up, Get out of that rut!
Personal Excellence

Moving Up, Take Control and Get Out of That Rut!
Retail Observer

Forbes Magazine (Russia)

Mackay: We’re all in the customer service business (Published in 52 Newspapers)
StarTribune | busines

Who Are Your Customers? – If you Don’t Know, How can You Serve Them?
Article Weekly

Co-workers are customers too: Provide them with the best service possible
Daily Buzz

Hire and Check
Client’s Territory – Spring 2013 (Russia)

Time to Hire? Target Your Recruiting efforts
Retail Observer

Time to Hire? Target Your Recruiting efforts
Call Center Times

Customers Aren’t Always Right. Sometimes You Have to Risk Letting Them Go
The Retail Observer

How Do You Rate? How Do You Impact Your Employees and Their Productivity?
Call Center Times

How Do You Rate? How You Impact Your Employees and Their Productivity
The Retail Observer

Masters of the Customer Experience: What Kind of Value Do You Provide Your Customers?
Call Center Times

How Do You Rate? How Do you Impact Productivity?
Sales and Service Excellence

Master the Experience. Provide customers more value.
Sales and Service Excellence

2012 Customer Service Articles

E-Satisfaction: Everything You Do Should Focus On The Customer
Multi-Unit Franchisee

How Do You Impact Your Employees and Their Productivity?
4 Hoteliers

Customer Service Myths: The Real Story Behind Superior Service
The Retail Observer

The Real Story Behind Superior Service
4 Hoteliers

Gold-Medal Service: What the Olympics Can Teach You
Sales and Service Excellence

Empower Employees to Be Decision-Makers
Fox Business

Empower Employees to Be Decision-Makers
MSN: Business on Main

Follow the Leader – and Leave the Rest of the Pack Behind
Call Center Times

Follow the Leader – and Leave the Rest of the Pack Behind
The Retail Observer

Million-Dollar Ideas: A Strategy for Creating Content
Speaker Magazine

Porque todos somos Clientes
Cable en linea

Wanted: E-Commerce Leaders – Everything You Do Should Focus on the Customer
The Retail Observer

Walk in Customers’ Shoes: Are you easy to do business with? (see page 16)
Sales and Service Excellence

Insurance industry earns high marks for customer service
InsuranceQuotes.com

Want To Be A Service Leader?
The Retail Observer

Doing More With Less: Motivating Employees To Be More Productive
Floor Care Professional

Costa Concordia Discount Offer Misconstrued
LA Times

5 Business Problems Solved (In One Page or Less)
Business News

Making A Wrong Right: How to Handle Irate Internal Customers
The Retail Observer

Speed, Price, and Service
The Retail Observer

Seven Tips For Coping With Customer Questions
Entrepreneur

Partnering With Your Customers
The Retail Observer

Employee Satisfaction: Survey, Analysis, Reaction (Russian)
Planeta HR (HeadHunter.ru)

Kill Stupid Rules (Russian)
Brainity

Coworkers As Customers
Sales and Service Excellence Magazine

John Tschohl, Called the “Guru of Customer Service” by Time Magazine, In an Exclusive Interview for Write and Read (Russian)
WriteAndRead.me

Indignities of Travel: Fliers Recount Humiliating Incidents
USA Today

Costa and Carnival Try to Put Out PR Fires
Forbes

How to Tame a Caligula (Russian)
CIO Magazine

How Banks Can Keep Customers Happy
Bankrate.com

We Are Responsible For Those We Manage. Leading Customer Service Teams (Russian)
Client’s Territory

7 Secrets to Super Customer Service
CNN Money

As One Team (Russian)
HeadHunter

Wells Fargo Charges Fee For Checking
The Wall Street Journal

Tale of the Three Investments (Russian)
Brainity

Corporate Values: The Development and Promotion of Staff (Russian)
HR Planet

Coworkers Are Customers, Too
The Retail Observer

How Companies Can Create A Service Culture
Star Tribune

High Tech High Touch
The Retail Observer

2011 Customer Service Articles

Open Letter To NetFlix
My DVD Insider

High Tech High Touch
Customer Think

7 Secrets To Super Customer Service
CNN Money/em>

Small Business Saturday Tips
Daily Herald, Bellevue, WA

Black Friday Shopping Strategies
SheKnowsShopping.com

Empower Your Employees…Your Business Depends On It
MSN Business on Main

How Can You Motivate Your Employees To Be More Productive?
4 Hoteliers – Hospitality, Hotel, and Travel News

Dump Your Bank Day: Can consumers put a serious dent in big banks?
Christian Science Monitor

Stuck on a plane, fliers have few options
MarketWatch

Doing More With Less
Call Center Times

How To Motivate Employees To Be More Productive
Retail Observer

Life Lessons Excerpt
Real Simple

Does Your Bank Want You Off Their Books?
Fox Business

You Can’t Hide Bad Service
Call Center Times

Bank loyalty fading on fees as customers take accounts elsewhere
Denver Post

9 Ways Supermarkets Suck You In
Daily Finance

B of A Should Take a Page from Vernon Hill

Bank Fees Are Irking Customers
Sun Herald

Interview – Commercial Director 09/2011 (Russian)

Citibank is next with a new banking fee
Los Angeles Times

Banks Going the Way of Airlines, Netflix, With Debit Fees
Bank Systems Technology

Empowered Employees Create Happy Customers
All Business.com

4 Roadblocks On The Road To Small Business Empowerment
Lendio Blog

Customer Service Myths: If you Believe Them You’re In Trouble
Promotional Products Business

Crowdsourcing
Brainity.ru(Russian>

HR Brand- Dialogues
HRBrand.ru(Russian>

How Do You Rate As A Boss?
Call Center Times

Who Controls Your Destiny?
The Retail Observer, September 2011

Cutting Costs While Improving Customer Service”
Brainity.ru(Russian>

Is It The e-Service Era?”
Brainity.ru(Russian>

How To Achieve Delivering Great Customer Service
Modern Restaurant Magazine, June 2011(Russian)

A Winning Strategy: Create a Service Culture and Watch Your Sales Soar
Retail Observer August 2011

Success Formula “I myself”
Review “Empowerment: A Way of Life” BFM.ru(Russian)

Achieving Excellence Through Customer Service
Review Digest Kyivstar(Russian)

Article on Low Customer Service in the Far East(Russian)

First Class Customer Service (Review: “Achieving Excellence Through Customer Service”
Bankir.ru(Russian)

Review of “Empowerment: A Way of Life”
Facebook(Russian)

Review – “Empowerment: A Way of Life”
Bizbook.ua (Ukraine)(Russian)

“Empowerment: A Way of Life” listed among 2011 most interesting books
BoffoBooks.ru(Russian)

Service Recovery: A Powerfull Tool for Success
HR Brand (Russian)

HR Branding of the Future: How Companies Will be Recruiting and Keeping Employees in 2015
HR Brand (Russian)

Say Yes. Don’t Say No.
HR Brand (Russian)

Line Managers Leadership Development
Human Potential Magazine 2011 (Russian)

Empowerment – Book Review
Spring 2011 – IICM Credit Focus

Reduce Costs and Improve Morale
June 2011 – Retail Observer

Competitiveness Benchmarking
May 2011 – Brainity (Russian)

Technology and the Human Touch
May 2011 – Retail Observer

Customer Service Myths (Russian)
April 2011 – Expert Club Pulset

Technology and the Human Touch
April 2011 – Call Center Times

Customer Service Myths: If You Believe Them, You’re In Trouble
April 2011 – Retail Observer

Customer Service Myths: If you Believe Them, You’re in Trouble
March 2011 – Call Center Times

Empowerment as a Way of Life
March 2011 – Brainity.ru (Russian)

Customer Service Myths: If You Believe Them, You’re in Trouble
March 2011 – 4Hoteliers.com (English)

John Tschohl Featured in Strong-Man.ru Publication
March 2011 – Strong-Man (Russian)

Russian Business Seen by an American
March 2011 – Pulset-Club (Russian)

Effective training and development tools for sales reps
February 2011 – HR Brand

Keep Those Complaints Coming
February 2011 – Retail Observer

Hiring: no formal approach!
February 2011 – Expert Club Pulset (Russian)

Build A Great Team: Hire for Attitude, Train for Skills
February 2011 – Brainity (Russian)

No New Year’s resolutions and plans but real goals to change things for the better
January 2011 – Brainity (Russian)

Keep Those Complaints Coming
January 2011 – Media Release

If You Don’t Believe Me, Believe Them
January 2011 – Retail Observer

2010 Customer Service Articles

Empowerment Role Models
December 2010 – 4Hoteliers

Q and A: Investing in human resource is key to improving service delivery — Customer Service Expert
December 2010 – Sundaytimes

Five Questions with… John Tschohl
December 2010 – Inventors Digest

Removing Road Blocks
December 2010 – Excellence

400 Trained in customer care
November 2010 – The New Times – Rwanda

Removing the Roadblocks
November 2010 – Retail Observer

What customers back? Treat them well
October 2010 – Post-gazetter.com – Business

JetBlue campaign jabs rivals’ fees
October 2010 – USA TODAY – MONEY

Service Recovery: A Great Return on Investment
October 2010 – Retail Observer

Customer Service will drive success
April 2010 – Siemens Industry Journal

A Tale of Three Investments and the Power of a Service Strategy
September 2010 – Retail Observer

Changing the Way You Work
July 2010 – Retail Observer

Six Steps of Customer Service
June 2010 – Call Center Times

A Lesson in How “Not” to Win Customers
June 2010 – Retail Observer

Complaining 101: Make Your Gripe Heard
May 2010 – MSN Money

National Economic Newspaper – Belarus
April 2010 – In Russian

What is Your Dream?
The Retail Observer May 2010

No Job Is Safe
The Retail Observer April 2010

Bad Bosses: Don’t Be One
The Retail Observer March 2010

Empowerment: is it a myth?
The Retail Observer February 2010

Don’t Hire Employees Who Don’t Like People
The Retail Observer January 2010

2009 Customer Service Articles

6 Steps of Customer Service – Master these and you will succeed
Better your company by following these 6 easy steps
The Retail Observer December 2009

Kagame calls on business leaders to change mindset
John Tschohls presentation on Achieving Excellence Through Customer Service has Rwanda’s top leaders looking to improve customer service throughout the country.
The New Times – Rwanda’s First Daily, December 05, 2009.

Managing For Success – Elevating Your Level of Customer Service
Superior people handling skills aid the bottom line.
Investors Business Daily, November 30, 2009.

Create a Service Culture – You will be Rewarded
The Retail Observer November 2009.

John Tschohl in La Prensa Grafica – El Salvador
Front page article in Spanish on John Tschohl in La Prensa the largest newspaper in El Salvador. From his Service Strategy seminar on October 16.
Article Date: Ocober 23, 2009

John Tschohl in La Prensa Grafica- El Salvador
Front page article in Spanish on John Tschohl in La Prensa the largest newspaper in El Salvador. Before his Service Strategy seminar on October 16.
Article Date: Ocober 15, 2009

Social Networking – Will it Create More Sales?
Social Networking Article by John Tschohl. The Retail Observer October 2009.

The Oceanaire: A Customer Service Role Model
Article on Customer Service by John Tschohl. The Retail Observer October 2009.

John Tschohl featured in full page article in La Prensa Grafica newspaper in El Salvador.
It is in Spanish. On October 16 John is doing a one day seminar, Service Strategies for an Economic Impact – The Wow Effect in El Salvador. About 150 top executives from throughout Central America are attending.

John Tschohl In Romania. Video Interview – September 24, 2009
John Tschohl had an exclusive interview with Newchannel ro in Bucharest, Romania before his major Customer Service Conference. About 100 of the leading companies in Romania attended his public seminar sponsored by SQI Romania

The Times (S. Africa), September 5, 2009
Increase the odds of a job, John Tschohl comments on employee attitude

Time, September 3, 2009
The Airlines’ Customer-Complaint Lines: No Answe

USA Today, August 19, 2009
John Tschohl in USA Today on Service Recovery with Continental Airlines

Sales and Service Excellence, July 2009
Customer Experience: Create Great Ones or Recover Fast

Boost Your Bottom Line, August 3, 2009
John Tschohl shares secrets to an effective employee suggestion program.

Qatar Press Release, August 2009
Al Raya Newspaper Qatar

The Retail Observer, August 2009
“Don’t Run From Complaining Customers”

USA Today, July 29, 2009
John Tschohl quoted in USA Today the largest newspaper in the U.S.
Customers say hotel service improves despite cost cuts.

USA Today, Jaunary 14, 2009
“Fliers’ Complaints on Upswing”
USA Today states John Tschohl as the “Guru of Customer Service”

The Retail Observer, July 2009
“Bulletproof your Job”

First Rate Customer Service, June 2009
“Respond confidently to customer complaints”

First Rate Customer Service, June 2009
“Overcome limitations”

The Retail Observer, May 2009
“Service Recovery – What to do when you’ve made a mistake”

Business Review – Key Bank, Spring/Summer 2009
“Service with a Smile”

Lawn and Landscape, May 2009
“Service Check“

Sales and Service Excellence, April 2009
“Customer Friendly – Get rid of all that is not”

Retail Observer, February 2009
“Is Money a Motivator, No!”

Emprende Revista, January 2009
“Email Marketing”

Human Resource Management, January 2009
Russian Magazine

Bankstocks.com, January 7, 2009
“On Customer Service: To Destroy Value, Skimp on Employee Training”

Retailnologies e-Magazine, January 2009
“El Guru del Servicio al Cliente”

2008 Customer Service Articles

2012

Walk In Your Customers’ Shoes

Emprende Revista, Diciembre 2008
“Consejos Del Guru Mundial Del Servicio al Cliente”

Sales and Service Excellence Magazine, August 6, 2008
“Tough Action – Don’t Try to Motivate People“

HR Management Magazine, April 2008 – Russia
“Train, Educate, Reward!“

General Director Article in Russian, April 2008 – Russia

Entreprenur Articulo Febrero – Spanish

2007 Customer Service Articles

Sales and Marketing Management, December 2007
Russian Magazine

Sekret Firmy (Corporate Secret) Magazine – Russian

Press Release on Euroset, in Russia.

Entrepeneur Magazine Article, August 2007
Entrepeneur Russia Magazine featuring John Tschohl