221. Customer Service Fatigue: How To Prevent and Stop It (Replay) | Laurie Guest

221. Customer Service Fatigue: How To Prevent and Stop It (Replay) | Laurie Guest

July 21, 2026 · 45 min · Season 10 · Episode 221

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Stacy Sherman and Laurie Guest discuss service fatigue and strategies to enhance customer service.

Is "service fatigue" plaguing your teams and negatively impacting the customer experience? Do you need motivation and practical strategies to refresh and refuel your customer service approach? In this episode of Doing CX Right, host Stacy Sherman is joined by Speaker Hall of Famer Laurie Guest. Together, they unpack the concept of "service fatigue" and its damaging ripple effects across the customer journey. Discover Laurie's powerful principle of the "10 Cent Decision" and how to implement small but mighty changes that lead to significant gains. You'll hear actionable insights to reignite passion in your people, combat complacency, and create customer conversations that build loyalty and new business. What You Will Learn Review your team's after hours contact expectations this week and set explicit working hour boundaries with clients, because unclear availability windows are a direct cause of employee exhaustion in 24/7 service roles Audit one full customer process this month for unnecessary steps or paperwork fields, and remove any field that does not directly affect the outcome, following the cosmetics company example where removing intake fields improved conversion at no…

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