The Language of Experience Certainty
Imagine your flight is canceled and you are going to miss a wedding. You finally reach the gate agent, panicking, and they say: “I’ll try to get you on the next flight.”
Does your anxiety go down? No. It spikes.
Why? Because “I’ll try” is the language of passive hope. It leaves a massive door open for failure. It tells the customer, “I’m going to make a mild attempt, but when it doesn’t work, don’t blame me.”
When a customer’s world feels chaotic, they don’t want your effort. They want your certainty.
In his latest article, The Language of Certainty, Joao Pereira explains how a culture of “Defensive Customer Service” has accidentally trained our agents to speak like politicians—committing to nothing just to protect their QA scores.
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