The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service are the world’s top sales awards, contact center awards, and customer service awards. The Stevie Awards organizes several of the world’s leading business awards shows including the prestigious American Business AwardsSM and International Business AwardsSM. More than 350 nominated customer service and sales executives from the United States and several other countries attended. Presentations were broadcast live by the Business TalkRadio Network. Survey Portal Earns Stevie PSAV earned the Bronze Stevie Award for its Survey Portal Access solution. The SPA gives PSAV employees the data necessary to respond to customer concerns immediately, leveraging real time feedback for continual improvement. "PSAV’s customer satisfaction program has been a tremendous success over the past six years," said Glen Adamik, PSAV Director of Corporate Communications. "Individual properties are ranked, as is the overall company, across several categories on customer satisfaction. Scores for the 3rd quarter of 2011 were the highest ever achieved since the program’s start more than seven years ago, with a general trend upward over the past five quarters since July 1, 2010. "This Survey Portal has been the key driver in the improvement of the customer satisfaction results," he said. "It offers our onsite personnel and regional management monthly updates and quarterly customer service results on the quality of all aspects of PSAV services at our 600+ of PSAV-partnered hotel and branch locations throughout the United States and Canada. Locations directors are able to logon and view monthly and quarterly results, individual respondent results, and overall internal and external participation levels." Additionally, Adamik said the portal has a mechanism by which regional management is notified via an urgent email when there is a sub-par response by a client who wishes to be contacted about an issue. This has led to client retention and improving the services offered at all operating locations. PSAV’s specific service metrics online portal reporting combined with real-time client engagement post-event has led to record high customer satisfaction scores and unprecedented client retention. "We are honored that the judges recognized this customer service achievement," Adamik said. "We are extremely proud of the company's overall performance and recognize the efforts of our onsite teams and customer service leaders for a job well done. PSAV is dedicated to remaining focused on customer service no matter what we do or where we go to support an event."  More
than 1,000 entries from organizations of all sizes and in virtually
every
industry were submitted to this year’s competition, an increase of
almost 30%
over 2011. Finalists were determined by
the average scores of 93 professionals worldwide, acting as preliminary
judges. Entries were considered in 27
categories for customer service professionals, including Contact Center
of the
Year, Award for Innovation in Customer Service, and Customer Service
Department
of the Year; 38 categories for sales professionals, ranging from Senior
Sales
Executive of the Year to Sales Training or Coaching Program of the Year
to
Sales Department of the Year of the Year; and categories to recognize
new
products and services and solution providers.
More than 100 members of seven specialized judging committees determined Stevie Award placements from among the Finalists during final judging this year. Michael Gallagher, president and founder of the Stevie Awards, has this to say: “We were delighted to kick off our celebration of the 10th year of the Stevie Awards movement with the 2012 Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer, which is the first program in which we conferred Silver and Bronze Stevie Awards. It’s gratifying and inspiring to have received so many remarkable entries for this year’s competition.” Details about the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service and the list of Stevie winners in all categories are available at www.stevieawards.com/sales. About The Stevie Awards Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com. Sponsors and supporters of the 6th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service include American Support, the Business TalkRadio Network, Coloredge Los Angeles * New York, Competence Call Center, SDL and ValueSelling Associates. About PSAV® Presentation Services  PSAV provides the ideas and
technology
that inspire great meetings. This has made PSAV the leading provider of
event
technology for meeting planners and producers across the corporate,
association, and tradeshow markets. PSAV provides an unparalleled range
of
event technology to support its customers’ ability to create,
collaborate, and
communicate. With more than 800 partner locations worldwide, PSAV
provides
people and resources right where you want to have your meeting. |
