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Directory of helpers and resources

Our directory of resources, subject matter experts, and providers of products and services to the customer care industry may help you find the support you need in your quest for customer excellence.  We currently have entries in the following categories:

 

ConsultantAdvisors and consultants

 

TrainerTraining providers

 

CoursesTraining courses

 

BooksBooks

 

MeasurementCustomer feedback and measurement


Member suggestions

If there are products and services you have used and would like to recommend we add to the directory, please let us know via the contact page. Sections we are hoping to add in the future include technology, recruitment and outsourcing. If you provide products or services to customer care and customer experience professionals and you would like to advertise in the cemNZ directory, please get in touch.

Tips on selecting service providers

When selecting advisors, consultants, trainers and other service providers, get to know them and understand their individual strengths and how they can help you and your organisation be more successful.

It is also helpful to distinguish between “generalists” – who can help with a wide range of business activities, and “specialist” – who provide their real value in a specific area of expertise.

Don’t be afraid to ask them what they do best – and what they don’t do. This can help you hire the one (or ones) that best match your needs.  Getting the right help, at the right time, can make a significant difference to the success of your organisation, your customers and your staff.


 

Advisors and consultants

Chris BellChris Bell

Turning the voice of the customer into management actions

The quality of the customer experience an organisation consistently delivers will ultimately determine the long-term success of that business. It’s a strategy that influences every part of a company.

Great customer experiences grow customer loyalty and loyalty leads to more word of mouth recommendations, the most powerful form of advertising.

As a professional speaker and customer experience designer I powerfully demonstrate using successful New Zealand organisations how embracing the customer experience strategy is used to create and grow a sustainable competitive advantage, in a world where competitive advantages are copied everyday.

 


View Chris Bell's profile on LinkedInChris Bell • Customer Experiences Ltd • Taupau • (027) 279 2360 • www.customerexperiences.co.nz

Paul LinnellPaul Linnell

Paul Linnell is a customer service champion.  His passion is helping organisations achieve business success through customer-driven quality and service improvement.

 
Over a period of more than 20 years, Paul has built a unique set of valuable skills specialising in the design and deployment of customer experience management, service quality improvement, customer service and voice of the customer programmes.

For most of his career he has worked in Europe and North America. Since founding the service quality improvement firm, CTMA New Zealand Ltd in 2002, he has been based in New Zealand, and continues to serve clients globally in a wide range of industries from Airlines to Local Government and from Automotive to Financial Services.

Paul is a regular speaker and conference chair and has spoken at numerous customer service conferences, seminars, industry forums and workshops in the UK, Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand.


View Paul Linnell's profile on LinkedInCTMA New Zealand Ltd • Auckland • (09) 414 6212 • www.CTMAworld.com

 

Training providers

Learning PlanetLearning Planet Ltd

Affordable learning to the world

Learning Planet is a resource library of over 50 hours of learning in soft skills techniques covering sales, services and leadership.

Rather than an end-to-end course it is a dip in and dip out resource library when staff require information or up-skilling at their fingertips for “just in time” solution.

Sign up for a demonstration log in today and discover what other users are raving about!.

 

 


Learning Planet Ltd • Albany • Auckland • 021 689 953 or 021 337 245 • www.learningplanet.me

Rapid ResultsRapid Results Ltd

Contact Centre training firm with areas of expertise include customer service, sales, leadership, communication, difficult customers and more.

 


Rapid Results Ltd • 4a Te Kea Place • Albany • Auckland • (09) 447 1994 • www.rapidresults.co.nz

 

Training courses

CTMALeadership training, coaching and events

 - online and in-person guidance and support

In our rapidly changing world, where there’s a new urgency to get customer experience right, there is even more emphasis on bringing the right skills, to the right people, to do the right things, at the right time.  There is no longer the luxury of letting them figure it all out for themselves.

In response to this challenge, in addition to our in-person services, we now also deliver our leadership programme, workshops and one-on-one executive planning and coaching sessions online - directly to you and your team - in your own meeting room, at your own desk or home office, in the form of live one-on-one or group, personalised seminars, workshops, and training and coaching programmes.  And, you can even bring our podcast with you on your walk, jog, commute, or even on holiday!.

Check-out the launch episode right here and subscribe to the series on your favourite podcast platform:

 


CTMA New Zealand Ltd • Auckland • (09) 414 6214 • www.ctmaworld.com

 

Books

Remote Activities for Virtual Teams

By: Derek Good and Craig McFadyen

101 Training ActivitiesAn Aladdin's Cave crammed packed with fantastic ideas for leading, inspiring and training your remote teams.

With over 200 pages in glorious colour, this book has over 100 activities that can be used for remote and virtual teams.

Virtual and remote teams are those that need to connect via technology and are not able to meet in person at the same physical location.  If you are a people manager, trainer, coach or just someone who has to engage people in remote locations, this book can give you valuable insights and includes 100 ready-to-use activities to help bond team members and crate some fun.

This book has been designed with over 30 years joint training experience by two corporate trainers who know how hard it can be to keep teams and groups engaged.  Whether you are looking to spice up your online training courses, energise your virtual team meetings, raise team morale or simply have some fun with your teams this book will help you achieve that.  Each activity has a consistent format and is allocated to a number of categories to make it quick and easy for you to find the one that will suit your needs.  Categories include topics like communication, icebreakers, team building and many more.  Activities range from full-on team building and communication activities down to quick fun energisers you can do to start a session.

With each activity carefully chosen and laid out to ensure you have maximum opportunity of success, we have also ensured you won't break the bank by needing lots of expensive or complicated materials to run these activities.  You may not have the time or budget to run full blown training courses but by using this book there is nothing stopping you from creating more engagement, energy and fun with your teams or groups in remote and virtual settings.

101 Training Activities & How to Run Them

By: Derek Good and Craig McFadyen

101 Training ActivitiesIf you are a people manager, trainer, coach or just someone who has to engage people this book is for you.

“101 Training Activities & How to Run Them” has been designed with over 30 years joint training experience by two corporate trainers who know how hard it can be to keep teams and groups engaged.  Whether you are looking to spice up your training courses, energise your team meetings, raise team morale or simply have some fun with your teams this book will help you achieve that.

Each activity has a consistent format and is broken down into categories to make it quick and easy for you to find the one that will suit your needs.  Activities range from full-on team building and communication activities down to quick fun energisers you can do on the spot.  With each activity carefully chosen and laid out to ensure you have maximum opportunity of success, we have also ensured you won’t break the bank by needing lots of expensive or complicated materials to run these activities.  You may not have the time or budget to run full blown training courses but by using this book there is nothing stopping you from creating more engagement, energy and fun with your teams or groups.

The Brain Based BossThe Brain-Based Boss

By: Terry Williams • Publisher: Thomson Reuters • ISBN: 978-0-86472-788-6

By unleashing the secrets of the brain in the workplace, leaders will be able to develop an engaged and high performance workforce. The book is research based, and the author draws on over one hundred academic books and studies. However it is written in an entertaining, informative, yet practical format designed to provide leaders with motivational tools that they can actually apply in their workplaces to create an environment that is conducive to employee self motivation. The book gives leaders 5 principles through which they can create such an environment.

The author, Terry Williams, is a professional speaker and trainer who has twenty years experience as a corporate trainer and a working lifetime as a manager and seller of products, services and ideas.

 

SellSell! - Tall tales from the legends of New Zealand Advertising

By: Hazel • Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ) • ISBN: 978-0-143-56841-4

Back in the 1890s, being an ad man in New Zealand was a simple case of placing an ad in the paper on behalf of a client.  By the 1980s, it was a golden ticket to an exclusive club of fast cars, big bucks and bad behaviour.

Sell! takes you on a wild ride through the history of New Zealand advertising and its larger-than-life personalities – from selling the suburban fantasy to power games, overnight acquisitions, lunatic capers and the iconic Kiwi ads that reached giddy heights on the world stage.

Legends of the local ad scene recall the glory days of big budgets and bigger egos, and tell the stories behind New Zealand’s best-loved campaigns, including the Fernleaf family, Spot the dog and the infamous Bugger ad.

A tale of creativity and ingenuity as much as it is of indulgence, Sell! will inspire anyone who’s ever wanted to carve their own destiny in the face of the disapproving establishment.

 

Customer feedback and measurement

CTMA New ZealandCTMA New Zealand Ltd

Turning the voice of the customer into management actions

We believe that customers are one of best sources of insight for innovation and business improvement. Our job is to help organisations capture that insight and then turn it into management actions.

CTMA is a customer experience and service quality improvement firm that provides a range of consulting, evaluation and customer experience measurement services to help organisations build loyalty and advocacy by improving service to customers.


CTMA helps organisations discover and prioritise the problems their customers experience and find out why loyalty and advocacy may be at risk.


CTMA New Zealand Ltd • PO Box 35-444 • Browns Bay • Auckland • (09) 414 6212 • www.CTMAworld.com