Brad Cleveland Blog

APRIL 14, 2022

When you peel back the layers of any customer-centric organization, you’ll find a culture of honoring employees, encouraging their insight, and engaging them every step of the way. Customer experience is built on a foundation of employee engagement. What is employee engagement?

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Employee Engagement Engagement Customer Centricity Culture 29

Blake Morgan

JANUARY 20, 2022

These 30 top blogs cover a wide variety of CX-related topics, from creating a customer-centric culture to refining the contact center or delivering personalized experiences. These blogs are powerful resources to keep you up to date on the ever-changing CX industry. Adrian Swinscoe . Bill Quiseng . Chip Bell .

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Case Study Customer Journeys Competitive Advantage Customer Centricity 96

PeopleMetrics

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Antsy for Customer-Centric Cultures. For example, independent research shows that customer focus plays a role in employee engagement. In company-centric cultures, 22% of employees are engaged, and four percent are fully engaged. Also, consider subscribing to our blog !

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Employee Engagement Customer Centricity Engagement Culture 48

Bold360

MARCH 26, 2020

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is having massive impacts on how companies engage with their customers and employees. No matter how the crisis evolves, customers and employees still expect to receive a high level of service that’s responsive to their needs. Being relentlessly helpful earns customers for life.

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Employee Engagement Chatbots Self Service Engagement 66

Brad Cleveland Blog

APRIL 14, 2022

When you peel back the layers of any customer-centric organization, you’ll find a culture of honoring employees, encouraging their insight, and engaging them every step of the way. Customer experience is built on a foundation of employee engagement.

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Employee Engagement Engagement Customer Centricity Culture 26

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

That would leave one group with a customer-centric mindset and the rest without one. Therefore, everyone in the organization has to embrace the customer-centric mindset—even those who never interact directly with a customer. We all know happy employees make happy customers. Click here.

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Net Promoter Score Engagement Effort Score Customer Centricity 78

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 12, 2018

That leader had an epiphany about customer-centric culture. If we focus on customers, we will be a better organization. We will create happier employees who care deeply about those we serve. ” This idea of customer-centric culture is more than an idea. Once upon a time, there was a leader.

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Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Culture Training 137

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Whenever the subject of employee satisfaction and engagement arises, it is often difficult to differentiate between them. If you believe that “a satisfied employee IS an engaged employee.” These employees start their work day, they perform their job at acceptable levels, and they go home.

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Employee Engagement Engagement Consulting Culture 68

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Leaders often have the customers in mind when they have these ideas. They want to do the right thing, but they get caught up in the idea of the moment instead of investing in truly customer-centric ideas for their long-term strategy. Blog Customer Experience Featured Opinion customer engagement leadership linkedin marketing'

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Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Social Media Consulting 110

PeopleMetrics

MAY 12, 2015

That number might seem shocking at first glance, but in terms of employee engagement strategy , it’s not so bad. Early in April, Hsieh sent an email to his employees about adoption of the system. That email subsequently leaked, which led to Zappos posting it on their insights blog for your reading pleasure.)

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Employee Engagement Engagement Customer Centricity Video 48

CX Journey

MAY 24, 2017

It appeared on their blog on August 29, 2016. Quite simply: without employees, you have no customer experience. The linkage between employee engagement and experience and the customer experience has been proven. It's real, and your employees matter! I originally wrote today's post for Clicktools.

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Engagement Strategy Customer Experience Customer Journeys 154

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

As more leaders discuss becoming customer-centric, I wonder how many actually walk the talk and put actions into their plans. What if customer-centric ideas and tactics were included in all strategy plans ? A strategy that is truly customer customer-focused needs to include ideas like these: 1.

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Customer Centricity Social Media Consulting Strategy 110

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

More brands will (and should) bring up customer feedback to the decision-makers in the company, and with the help of some new amazing technologies we’re changing the way businesses see their customers. Companies do marketing, sales and CRM – the customer does the experience! Read the full answers here below.

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Customer Experience Customer Centricity Self Service Culture 324

CX Journey

MARCH 12, 2015

As companies focus inward to understand how to achieve their customer experience goals, the term “engagement” is often used interchangeably with “culture.” The two terms are related, and they’re both elements of customer experience improvement. Engagement and culture are different, but they affect each other.

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Culture Engagement Employee Engagement Customer Centricity 80

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 12, 2016

Going the next step, beyond employee satisfaction, does their engagement profitably drive customer behavior? First, what does employee engagement, which has been around for over twenty years, actually mean? Coworkers/team members – How much influence do they exert on the employee’s level of engagement?

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Employee Engagement Connections Engagement Loyalty 60

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

I could write a book just about my Trader Joe’s customer experience! DoubleTree Hotels is another customer-centric organization that models good CX. The post Guest Blog: How One Experience Started My CX Passion appeared first on Shep Hyken. You can read more about return experiences and lessons about DoingCXRight.

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Hotels B2C Loyalty B2B 108

Integrity Solutions

APRIL 28, 2021

What actions can you take to both increase employee engagement and create a customer retention strategy that moves more of your customers from “satisfied” to “loyal”? One of the key tenets of a customer retention strategy is that it relentlessly focuses on value creation. A 5-step roadmap to get you started.

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Customer Retention Strategy Net Promoter Score Employee Engagement 90

Service Untitled

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Senior leadership must motivate employees by nurturing career development, integrity, and dedication. Leaders can not just assume what factors motivate employees. Make employee engagement an important part of the process.

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Employee Engagement Engagement Customer Satisfaction Loyalty 46

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Does the tone and messaging match your customer experience mission? Do they to reflect a customer-centric culture? Consider your hiring methods and make sure they align with your customer experience mission. There are places in the customer journey you know aren’t working. Make sure they do. Keep learning!

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Customer Journeys Customer Experience eBook Employee Engagement 306

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Creating a customer-centric organization from the inside out requires serious word-of-mouth messaging. Help your people who don’t interact with customers understand what that is like. How can you get your organization to deliver an exceptional customer experience? Happy Customer Experience Day!

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Customer Focused Employee Engagement Call Center Social Media 275

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 19, 2015

A recent article by a major employee research and engagement consulting organization led with the above headline. They were reporting on results of their national workforce tracking poll, the highlight of which was that employee engagement had risen 1.2% Those question are: 1) Really? Those question are: 1) Really?

Employee Engagement 60

Employee Engagement Engagement Customer Experience Effort Score 60

InMoment XI

JULY 18, 2022

In our last blog about creating an excellent food service customer experience (CX), we talked about how vital customer reviews are to growing your business (and how your customer experience plays a pivotal role in making sure your reviews are positive). .

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Feedback Culture eBook Training 492

West Monroe

JUNE 26, 2018

Over the past few years, water utilities have begun to embrace the importance of a unified customer experience strategy – one that involves technological transformation, employee engagement, and process improvements. A unified customer experience strategy requires more than employee engagement.

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Customer Centricity CRM Employee Engagement Loyalty Programs 40

Lumoa

JANUARY 19, 2023

Whether your company is using the Balanced Scorecard , OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), SMART , or simple KPIs , this will help you align the work of your future customer experience department to goals everyone in the company cares about. And it will make it easier to build strong relationships and a strong culture of customer centricity.

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Customer Experience Net Promoter Score How To Customer Journeys 236

inmoment

APRIL 30, 2020

The first, the inner loop (which you can read more about here ), is what we just mentioned—interacting with customers one-on-one to listen to and act upon their feedback. Closing the outer loop, by contrast, refers to making customer centricity and continuous improvement the beating heart of any organization.

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Customer Centricity Culture How To Feedback 69

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Task: Identify a “gap” in the customer experience journey. Customer-centric organizations do not invest in chatbots for the sake of “keeping up with the Joneses.” They invest to meaningfully improve the customer experience. Consistency instead refers to a singular, on-brand commitment to customer centricity.

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Omni-Channel Self Service Policies Abandon Rate 95

Maz Iqbal

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Let’s assume that for the purposes of this conversation that when I use the term customer-centricity I am pointing towards a specific behaviours which show an organisation as being attuned and responsive to the needs of their customers – their core customer base. Or are you? And what is theory?

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Customer Centricity Case Study Leadership Employee Engagement 79

Retently

JULY 28, 2023

How do you approach customer happiness in your company? Do you simply rely on the generic “the customer is always right” speech, or do you have a customer-centric culture in place that’s overseen by a professional who understands how customers think and feel, and who knows how to get that point of view across to other employees too?

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Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Call Center Metrics 142

PeopleMetrics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

“I am available to the employees brave enough to enter my office and interrupt me.”. These unspoken social interpretations are a big part of employee engagement and culture. They influence whether employees share their honest opinions or guard them. In our research, customer centricity works very well.)

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Customer Centricity Culture Employee Engagement Leadership 48

Stella Connect

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

She is an internationally recognized customer experience thought leader, coach, keynote speaker, and author of Customer Understanding: Three Ways to Put the “Customer” in Customer Experience (and at the Heart of Your Business). Let’s start with a look at engagement. How do agents become engaged?

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Connections Engagement Contact Center Culture 64

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 4, 2014

An organization’s process tells me a great deal about how Customer-centric they are. Is the process designed for the good of the Customer or was it designed for the good of the company? In my experience, the latter is more likely than the former, leaving most organizations with a process lacking a customer focus.

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Customer Focused Customer Journeys Customer Centricity Employee Engagement 153

Michel Falcon Experience

AUGUST 17, 2016

Doing so will, more often than not, increase employee engagement. The Workplace Research Foundation says that highly engaged employees are 38% more likely to have above-average productivity. Along with statistics, it’s interesting to read what proven business leaders have to say about employee engagement.

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Employee Engagement Case Study Engagement Tips 127

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

In pledging to my campaign, five wonderful people were rewarded with an interview feature on my blog – what you are reading is the second of the five ( you can read the first – an interview with James Dodkins – here ). Was HP a customer focused organisation at that time?

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Culture Measurement Customer Centricity Hotels 264

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Being Customer-Centric requires rewarding those that contribute to Customer-Centricity. Too many organizations are still not rewarding Customer Experience improvement because they don’t measure it. Focusing on rewarding these, however, is not conducive to Customer Centricity.

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Net Promoter Score Customer Experience CEM Customer Centricity 118

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 22, 2014

According to Wikipedia , the definition of a touchpoint is: Touchpoint (also touch point , contact point , point of contact ) is business jargon for any encounter where customers and business engage to exchange information, provide service, or handle transactions. I use online chat to engage. Yes and no, Wikipedia.

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Touchpoint Customer Journeys Social Media Consulting 302

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Customer centricity requires strategy to cultivate a culture that puts the Customer at the center of everything you do. As the third in our series of nine posts looking at the different parts of the organization contributing to Customer centricity, let’s look at: Customer Strategy.

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Net Promoter Score Strategy Customer Centricity CEM 163

Lumoa

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Our guests have multiple years of experience in managing and consulting customer experience management in global companies and now lead their own businesses helping companies make customers happier. Ian Golding, CCXP, CX Consultant and Trainer @ijgolding | blog “CX is at a very interesting point in its evolution.

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Customer Experience Customer Centricity Culture Consulting 160