When it comes to celebrating Customer Service Week, we recommend taking advantage of the holiday to express appreciation for customer service professionals. Customer Service Week is a nationally-recognized observance week taking place October 1 – 5, 2012. The recognition holiday provides companies the opportunity to put the spotlight on frontline customer service representatives.

We recommend companies start by brainstorming Customer Service Week themes. Using a theme makes the event more memorable, and saves time and money during the planning process. A theme serves as the branding for your event or program. Our designers spend weeks perfecting themes and searching high and low for the newest gift items.

We have over 100 recognition themes, and our recognition experts recommend customers choose a different theme for Customer Service Week each year. The popular Customer Service Week theme for 2012 is You Rock, a new addition to the Baudville repertoire that is designed for a diverse workforce.

When you’re planning your Customer Service Week celebration, remember that sincere appreciation of frontline employees is an important part of customer satisfaction and retention. Research shows that happy employees lead to happy customers and happy customers generate more revenue.  Customer Service Week themes make the appreciation more memorable and effective, and therefore has a greater impact on customer satisfaction.

Managers looking for unique Customer Service Week themes should visit our Recognition Resource Center for articles, videos, and newsletters. All the resources focus on planning effective Customer Service Week celebrations that will increase employee and customer satisfaction.

At Baudville, we’ve seen firsthand the value celebrating exceptional customer service can bring to an organization.  We want to help our customers have a similarly great experience with their celebrations!

We recognize Customer Service Week with a week-long celebration that includes the entire company because we believe every employee plays an important part in the customer experience. We celebrate our customer service excellence every year, and it all starts with great Customer Service Week themes!

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Cori is Baudville's in-house Recognitionista (she's officially a Certified Recognition Professional, too)  and a member of the Millennial generation. Get her employee recognition tips and special discounts by liking Baudville on Facebook.

Customer Service Week 2012 is October 1-5, and it’s always a big celebration at Baudville because we believe every member of our team has a part in providing an excellent customer experience. We take great pride in the service we provide our customers, so we celebrate Customer Service Week as a whole company! Our celebration always includes a Customer Service Week theme, activities, prizes, and often a lunch for the team to enjoy together. As you can imagine, our events are pretty memorable!

In our latest Recognition TV webisode, I asked four of our Customer Service Representatives about their favorite Customer Service Week ideas, tips, and celebrations. Here’s a summary of what they had to say:

 
Meet our Customer Service All Stars! From left to right, Mikki, KJ, Amanda, and Amber.

KJ’s favorite Customer Service Week theme was Made in Michigan from our 2011 celebration. She loved the team ArtPrize competition and playing corn hole with her teammates during lunch.

Mikki knows that Customer Service Week is important because treating employees well will make them want to do more for the company and the customer! She gives some great insight into the recognition event in our Recognition TV webisode.

Amber’s favorite part of Customer Service Week is getting a handwritten note from her manager. Baudville managers often write a personal note to each of their employees during Customer Service Week and have it waiting on their desk first thing in the morning. Take a tip from Amber and write a note to your staff!

Amanda loved our Hollywood celebration when employees were given a movie ticket to a showing of short Pixar movies and a gift of a Star Performer Twist Top Tumbler. She still has the personal award she received from her manager displayed at her desk! 

To hear all the tips from our Customer Service Representatives and get our high five Customer Service Week ideas, watch the full Recognition TV webisode. It’s the shortest webinar you’ll watch – it’s only 9 minutes long!

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Cori is Baudville's in-house Recognitionista (she's officially a Certified Recognition Professional, too)  and a member of the Millennial generation. Get her employee recognition tips and special discounts by liking Baudville on Facebook.

This year, Customer Service Week is October 1-5, and it will be here before you know it! The summer is flying by and because Customer Service Week is the first full week of October, it has a habit of sneaking up on us!

We have two new themes for Customer Service Week 2012 that provide great gifts and supplies for your celebration. You Rock is my personal favorite because the theme includes several fun and low cost gifts for your team. You can give employees a small gift every day of Customer Service Week. For example, the Give ‘Em a Hand Pens can be the gift on Monday, and you can end the week with the You Rock Lollipop. Use the Tokens of Appreciation throughout the week as part of an ongoing game or competition. Plus, this theme easily lends itself to a myriad of activities. You can play Rock Band, host a karaoke or lip sync contest, play rock and roll trivia, and much more! 



Also new for Customer Service Week 2012 is our star-filled We Appreciate You theme. This is a great theme because it clearly expresses appreciation for your team – the objective of Customer Service Week! Start the week by giving each member of your team the themed Twist Top Tumbler with a personal thank you note tucked inside that identifies their special contributions.




Our Spirit Team has been thinking ahead to Customer Service Week 2012, and you should, too! To help you get started, here are some free resources that will help you make this year’s celebration better than ever before!

• Shop for Customer Service Week
• Customer Service Week blog posts
• Customer Service Week Articles in the Recognition Resource Center
• Customer Service Week board on Pinterest
• Customer Service ePraise cards

Want help planning your Customer Service Week 2012 celebration? Call our recognition specialists at 1-800-728-0888 or email them at service@baudville.com.

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Cori is Baudville's in-house Recognitionista (she's officially a Certified Recognition Professional, too)  and a member of the Millennial generation. Get her employee recognition tips and special discounts by liking Baudville on Facebook.

This year, Customer Service Week is October 1-5, and it will be here before you know it! The summer is flying by and because Customer Service Week is the first full week of October, it has a habit of sneaking up on us!

We have two new themes for Customer Service Week 2012 that provide great gifts and supplies for your celebration. You Rock is my personal favorite because the theme includes several fun and low cost gifts for your team. You can give employees a small gift every day of Customer Service Week. For example, the Give ‘Em a Hand Pens can be the gift on Monday, and you can end the week with the You Rock Lollipop. Use the Tokens of Appreciation throughout the week as part of an ongoing game or competition. Plus, this theme easily lends itself to a myriad of activities. You can play Rock Band, host a karaoke or lip sync contest, play rock and roll trivia, and much more! 



Also new for Customer Service Week 2012 is our star-filled We Appreciate You theme. This is a great theme because it clearly expresses appreciation for your team – the objective of Customer Service Week! Start the week by giving each member of your team the themed Twist Top Tumbler with a personal thank you note tucked inside that identifies the special contributions that individual makes to the team.




Our Spirit Team has been thinking ahead to Customer Service Week 2012, and you should, too! To help you get started, here are some of the free resources we offer that will help you make this year’s celebration better than ever before!

• Shop for Customer Service Week
• Customer Service Week blog posts
• Customer Service Week Articles in the Recognition Resource Center
• Customer Service Week board on Pinterest
• Customer Service ePraise cards

Want help planning your Customer Service Week 2012 celebration? Call our recognition specialists at 1-800-728-0888 or email them at service@baudville.com.

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Cori is Baudville's in-house Recognitionista (she's officially a Certified Recognition Professional, too)  and a member of the Millennial generation. Get her employee recognition tips and special discounts by liking Baudville on Facebook.