Disney Institute Customer Service, mind

Disney Institute facilitators with Mickey Mouse
L-R: Mark, Sharon, me, Mickey, Chris, and a Production Assistant i can’t recall. Photo is a random grab from my photo’s archive.

Disney Institute class…

Disney’s Approach to Customer Service.

Thesis statement…

Exceed expectations, pay attention to details.

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Let’s go

disney customer service keynote speaker
Disney Customer Service Keynote Speaker. Yeah, that’s me.

What do you want to accomplish by December 31, 2025?

Why is that important?

Who decided these goals are the most important?

What criteria did you use to filter these goals to the top, from other important goals?

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Tools

Tools.

Airport travel delay greeting.

How did you measure the difference?

Was the difference an extra mile or inch?

Wow!

Demographics, and, psychographics.

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Harsh Reality

Three dinners.

No celebration, no milestone, no promotion, no holiday. It’s simply been a long day/week/month/year and you don’t feel like cooking. So you go to a nice, but def not fancy, place. Outback, Chilis, etc.

One’s amazing. One’s awful. One goes just the way you thought it would go.

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Day One

dark image with the word SERVE
dark image with the word Day One

9:00 AM.

Monday.

Disney University.

A classroom with 50 people, including two instructors.

Everyone is brand new, first day at Disney, except the instructors. A full-day class called Disney Traditions. Every brand new Disney employee (Cast Member) attends this on Day One, no exceptions.

It’s January 25…1982.

By the end of the day everyone, including me, was crystal clear about our top three priorities, in priority order.

  1. Make people happy
  2. Pick up trash.
  3. Do the job you were hired to do.

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