Louie Gravance

Delivering WOW Service Moments Virtually

Forging the paths to delivering world-class service in a virtual world involves understanding a few foundational truths about the new arena:

1) We have all created avatars for ourselves that roam, shop, and explore in a virtual world seeking out the sources which serve us best. Whether we're aware of it or not.
2) Great brands can develop deeper bonds with their customers by becoming partners in personal publishing.
3) Customers will not value how an organization views itself as much as how an organization views THEM.

From his early work adventures as a Disney interactive street performer, Louie learned that creating “magical, Disneyfied moments” was about sharing the stage with the audience. To captivate their attention as an improvisational performer he referred to the audience constantly, drawing them with playful fascination.

In the highly humorous keynote, world-renowned customer service expert Louie Gravance will use career examples like this to show how the goal as service leaders is to use technology to enhance the emotional component of each transaction, rather than diminish it.

*VIRTUAL-Pay Intention | Setting the Stage for Your Company's Comeback

In my book, SERVICE is a SUPERPOWER—Lessons Learned in a Magic Kingdom, I outline the ten most important skills of a “service superhero”. The first, and most important skill, is Serving with Intention. An organization’s intention provides the context required for service excellence, no matter what they are providing or who they’re serving.

As your team re-enters the workforce after this challenging time it will be imperative to re-establish who you are and what you’re being for your customers and each other.

My years at Disney taught me that all business is show business. Allow me to offer the tools necessary to set the stage for a glorious comeback! Make sure your team is armed with all ten skills of the service superhero. And for goodness sake - PAY INTENTION.

Service is a Superpower

When a service employee asks the question, "What's in it for me," the honest and correct response is EVERYTHING."Your team members deserve to know that an investment OF themselves is an investment IN themselves.

This is not always an easy message to convey and convince your staff that "great service serves the server first."

Let me Louie it for you.

Just as he convinced and inspired thousands of cast members at Walt Disney World on their first day; let's illustrate to your employees how looking for opportunities to create magic for a customer can transcend their careers and lives.

When a WOW moment in customer service takes place it doesn't happen only for the customer, it occurs for both, simultaneously. Inspiring your team to make that connection is the single, greatest tool for maintaining a culture of service excellence. It has been Louie's pleasure re-ignite the passion for service excellence with bankers, nurses, claims adjusters, casino workers just to name a small few.

This power-talk explores what a WOW moment looks, sounds and feels like and why delivering them is good for everyone involved.

Every participant will come to understand that every customer interaction is an opportunity. An opportunity to define, not just what they're willing to do, but what they're willing to be.

Creating Wow Service Moments

ALL organizations are constantly engaging their internal and external customers in a NARRATIVE of sorts. Regardless of what anyone is selling or providing, a story is conveyed through every single transaction, involving every single sense we possess. This narrative drives everything from customer expectations to employee satisfaction and even your very BRAND ESSENCE.

• What do we look like?
• What do we sound like?
• What do we smell like?
• What do we feel like?

Since all of your team members are telling a story with every transaction, shouldn't it be the story you want to convey to your customers? Every day? Every transaction?

For over 40 years Louie has appeared on radio, network television, film, stage, in theme parks, as well as worked with corporate trainers in medicine, retail, foods, manufacturing, automakers, insurance companies to name just a few. They are all, at their core, show business.

This is a lively and comedic talk that can be customized to your event and purpose.

THE TEN SKILLS of the SERVICE SUPERHERO

This workshop is the perfect companion piece with the keynote, “SERVICE is a SUPERPOWER!” We further explore the delivery of “magical” service moments consistently through the use of ten basic skills.
Serving with INTENTION, and serving with VISION are just two of the skills covered in this deep-dive into the practical application of the Disney service principles.
Participants will:

1. Learn ways of identifying the narrative of your business.
2. Create an intention statement aimed at supporting the goals of your event.
3. Isolate keywords that ground your customers’ experience.
4. Learn a fun exercise they can implement with their staff called, “Good Show/Bad Show.
5. Create an action plan for performance improvement.
6. Laugh a lot.

Aimed at leaders and managers tasked with modeling and inspiring service excellence, participants come away with a training template for sharing what they’ve learned back home.

Workshop

During this exciting and engaging session, you'll explore the delivery of “magical” service moments consistently through the use of ten basic skills. Serving with INTENTION, and serving with VISION are just two of the skills covered in this deep-dive into the practical application of the Disney service principles. You will:

1. Learn ways of identifying the narrative of your business
2. Create an intention statement aimed at supporting the goals of your store
3. Isolate keywords that ground your customers’ experience
4. Learn a fun exercise you can implement with your staff called, “Good Show/Bad Show"
5. Create an action plan for performance improvement
6. Laugh a lot.

Aimed at owners and managers tasked with modeling and inspiring service excellence, you will come away with a training template for sharing what you’ve learned back home.

WHAT WOULD “DISNEYFIED HEALTHCARE” LOOK LIKE?
(And What Would Providing it FEEL Like?)

Healthcare professionals of all types are physically, emotionally and mentally exhausted from over two years an unrelenting pandemic. Some experts have even dubbed their condition as a type of post-traumatic stress of disorder caused by an overload of patients, high death rates, personal danger, and ever-shifting safety guidelines.
Perhaps it would be helpful to look at things a different way.
Isn’t it time to remind and re-enforce the superpowers healthcare workers have to create “magical service moments” that far exceed the significance of a theme park experience? In fact, aren’t these moments happening countless times a day and never recognized?

Author, speaker and former training designer for Walt Disney World, Louie Gravance asks the question, “What would ‘Disneyfied healthcare’ look and feel like? And what would it feel like to provide it?” This humorous and uplifting session explores ways healthcare teams can rediscover their service superpowers and the impact they provide endlessly to patients and co-workers alike.

Louie suggests the Disney cultural template of following the P.L.A.N.
Purpose
Language
Actions
Narrative-Shared

As he says in his book, SERVICE is a SUPERPOWER-Lessons Learned in a Magic Kingdom, “Every time we delight a guest or patient it makes us, the service provider, immeasurably stronger.”