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Do we really understand the difference between customer service delivery and customer experience delivery? Or, do we use the two terms interchangeably? At times, our self-focused perception leaves customer service delivery up to everyone with “service” as part of their job titles. MORE
Are complex story details in the stories you tell falling short of getting your point across to colleagues, investors and clients? As a result, the decision you ask them to make is lost in the details you spiel at them. This is not exactly the storytelling outcome you desire, is it? MORE
Would you describe yourself as professionally change-reluctant or completely change-averse? Think about it. Each day, you and I wrestle with moving one millimeter beyond our current professional comfort levels. So, we get to where we need to go. Together. One tiny millimeter at a time. MORE
What is the role of internal client experiences in creating extraordinary external client experiences (CX)? Customer experience seems to be on everyone’s mind these days. Paying lip service and talking the talk is different than consistently walking the walk. MORE
How are your best value added customer experience efforts sabotaged, both pre- and post-sale? What you do, when you are not actively selling, engineering, coding and serving, adds value to each customer’s experience of how it is to work with you. MORE
Enduring professional stories are the stories clients and colleagues remember, long after you leave the room. First, your message sticks in their brains: motivating their actions beyond today. Then, that message catalyzes their professional behavior and mindset tomorrow and in the future. MORE
Social communication etiquette is going over the top. Have you noticed? In spite of the topics I scheduled on my editorial calendar, the theme of this week’s posts is rapidly becoming Communication. Communication between leadership, management and front line employees. MORE
A purpose-driven client retention strategy leverages your own stories. Are the stories you currently tell purpose-driven and authentic? Or, do your stories sound artificial, non-essential, insubstantial? By now, you have told stories to many colleagues and clients. MORE
Yesterday’s business backstory gets you to where you are today. However, does this history showcase how you get clients to where they need to go: tomorrow and in the future? Today’s businesses represent the intersection of people, processes and interconnected software-machine interfaces. MORE
Capture your team’s pandemic stories. Record these together, review them together, celebrate them together. Today, tomorrow and future-forward. Because the large, and often small, and always human actions we take towards each other and our clients are our testimonials. MORE
Virtual meetings create a tremendous opportunity for everyone to co-create virtual stories. Together. Stories which support one another and the clients we serve. What are your stories? What are your experiences? MORE
Simple, extraordinary storytelling is generating right now. Well, here we all are. Together. Dealing with an unprecedented health scenario which impacts absolutely every aspect of our lives. These, indeed, are extraordinary times. MORE
Are you a confident remote storyteller? Regardless of your professional discipline, our messaging, information and stories need to become robust. No matter where, and when, we have opportunities to communicate with each other. MORE
Do you tell stories people really need to hear? About the stuff they really need to know. If you answer “Yes” to this question, the stories you tell always remain the same. And, clients and employees trust you to have their backs over the long haul. MORE
When you tell data-driven “Me” stories, you become short-sighted about the outcomes that decision makers look for when deciding to fund, invest and buy. Are the stories you tell well-balanced or out-of-sync with the stories people are listening for? MORE
Which employee segments does your HR engagement strategy best-serve? And, in serving these higher-performing employees, does your strategy marginalize, exclude or intimidate other employees? Consider the impact of storytelling on connecting employees across the organization. MORE
Idealized storytelling creates perfect story scenarios in which products, services, programs are placed. Not surprisingly, these stories always seem to have fairy-tale outcomes, where everyone lives happily ever after. Mostly, due to the outcomes created by our products, services and programs. MORE
If you practice a hopscotch client retention strategy, do not get your hopes up. Making clients successful is hardly child’s play. Co-partnering in your client’s success involves more than adhering to a mostly-linear protocol. MORE
Right now, do you feel like you are wearing an incredibly itchy, 100% wool sweater? And no matter how much you scratch, you become more and more uncomfortable wearing that sweater. Except you cannot take the sweater off. If you feel this way, you are not alone. MORE
Are we a bit too devoted to and obsessed by our professional labels? The awards we collect. The Top List of This or That we are on. Those accomplishments, honors, certifications, academic degrees in which we revel. Our professional labels are What We “Do”, for Other People, Right Now. Hmmm……. Really? MORE
Developing your provocative business storytelling acumen moves you one millimeter (or more) beyond sounding like everyone else. Because business stories easily sound too safe, too sanitized and too perfect. MORE
How much strategic business sense do your stories make? As I worked with one of my clients yesterday, he complained that decision makers were not taking action after his presentations. He just could not understand why. My question to him: “Do you tell connect the dot stories?” MORE
Creating and implementing an HR storytelling diversity and inclusion strategy is mission-critical. Especially for employee and client retention: Today, Tomorrow and in the Future. First, because Today’s Internet of Things (IoT), Fourth Industrial Revolution workplaces are extremely complex. MORE
Why do initiatives on retaining customers still feel like a bunch of isolated actions? Provided by people in separate departments. With different functions. All throwing their professional efforts at the customer. Instead of in partnership with the customer. MORE
Are you throwing storytelling spaghetti at employees and clients? Hoping they glean whatever message they can? Not only from the story you tell, but also as a result of how you deliver that story to them? MORE
Addressing unmet client needs is the key to designing the products, services, programs and systems which best serve customers. Over the long-haul. When client retention is the objective. Yet the strategic business stories you tell often do not address those long-term, stated or unstated client needs. MORE
Current and potential customers can tell us overstated stories. To attract our attention, negotiate business with us. And lead us on and on and on. So, why do we continue to believe them? Until we don’t, anymore? First of all, we are flattered that these customers contacted us. MORE
Consider that how we show up virtually impacts client experiences: today, tomorrow and moving forward. Think about it. These days, with no other option but to meet up virtually, both the concept and context of the word “meeting” are in transition. MORE
There’s a whole desert of business strategy sand out there. Waiting for you to hide your head in. Because tomorrow’s business strategies are overwhelming. And, you tend to think about the entire strategy, simultaneously. MORE
Do you have a customer retention scorecard? You know what I am talking about. Any of the plethora of scoring systems which measure customer satisfaction and loyalty. Chances are, your organization already has a scorecard or two. MORE
You have an opportunity of reassessing your professional relevance during these extraordinary times. So, perhaps it’s time to pause. Consider how your own professional behavior and actions impact more than making your own numbers or fulfilling your own KPIs. MORE
One Millimeter Mindset
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
If you practice a hopscotch client retention strategy, do not get your hopes up. Making clients successful is hardly child’s play. Co-partnering in your client’s success involves more than adhering to a mostly-linear protocol.
One Millimeter Mindset
APRIL 7, 2020
Capture your team’s pandemic stories. Record these together, review them together, celebrate them together. Today, tomorrow and future-forward. Because the large, and often small, and always human actions we take towards each other and our clients are our testimonials.
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One Millimeter Mindset
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
Do we really understand the difference between customer service delivery and customer experience delivery? Or, do we use the two terms interchangeably? At times, our self-focused perception leaves customer service delivery up to everyone with “service” as part of their job titles.
One Millimeter Mindset
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
Social communication etiquette is going over the top. Have you noticed? In spite of the topics I scheduled on my editorial calendar, the theme of this week’s posts is rapidly becoming Communication. Communication between leadership, management and front line employees.
Advertiser: Skilljar
In this eBook, we will show you a new framework for building a customer onboarding program, including how to segment users and drive long-term value and retention through education.
One Millimeter Mindset
APRIL 2, 2020
Consider that how we show up virtually impacts client experiences: today, tomorrow and moving forward. Think about it. These days, with no other option but to meet up virtually, both the concept and context of the word “meeting” are in transition.
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One Millimeter Mindset
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Current and potential customers can tell us overstated stories. To attract our attention, negotiate business with us. And lead us on and on and on. So, why do we continue to believe them? Until we don’t, anymore? First of all, we are flattered that these customers contacted us.
One Millimeter Mindset
MARCH 17, 2020
Simple, extraordinary storytelling is generating right now. Well, here we all are. Together. Dealing with an unprecedented health scenario which impacts absolutely every aspect of our lives. These, indeed, are extraordinary times.
One Millimeter Mindset
MARCH 19, 2020
You have an opportunity of reassessing your professional relevance during these extraordinary times. So, perhaps it’s time to pause. Consider how your own professional behavior and actions impact more than making your own numbers or fulfilling your own KPIs.
One Millimeter Mindset
MARCH 31, 2020
Virtual meetings create a tremendous opportunity for everyone to co-create virtual stories. Together. Stories which support one another and the clients we serve. What are your stories? What are your experiences?
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One Millimeter Mindset
AUGUST 9, 2018
What is the role of internal client experiences in creating extraordinary external client experiences (CX)? Customer experience seems to be on everyone’s mind these days. Paying lip service and talking the talk is different than consistently walking the walk.
One Millimeter Mindset
MARCH 12, 2020
Do you tell stories people really need to hear? About the stuff they really need to know. If you answer “Yes” to this question, the stories you tell always remain the same. And, clients and employees trust you to have their backs over the long haul.
One Millimeter Mindset
OCTOBER 30, 2019
Enduring professional stories are the stories clients and colleagues remember, long after you leave the room. First, your message sticks in their brains: motivating their actions beyond today. Then, that message catalyzes their professional behavior and mindset tomorrow and in the future.
One Millimeter Mindset
MARCH 26, 2020
Right now, do you feel like you are wearing an incredibly itchy, 100% wool sweater? And no matter how much you scratch, you become more and more uncomfortable wearing that sweater. Except you cannot take the sweater off. If you feel this way, you are not alone.
Speaker: Brian Morin, CMO, SmartAction & Patty Kleinfeldt, Director of Q&E, AAA
One of the most trusted brands in the world, AAA, took the most critical aspect of their Customer Experience and handed it over to an AI-powered virtual agent for omnichannel self-service. In this webinar, we will hear from Brian Morin of SmartAction and AAA's Dispatch Operations Manager, Steve Bennett. They will dive into how AAA handled this transition and the effect its had on CX.
One Millimeter Mindset
JANUARY 14, 2020
Developing your provocative business storytelling acumen moves you one millimeter (or more) beyond sounding like everyone else. Because business stories easily sound too safe, too sanitized and too perfect.
One Millimeter Mindset
OCTOBER 18, 2018
Why do initiatives on retaining customers still feel like a bunch of isolated actions? Provided by people in separate departments. With different functions. All throwing their professional efforts at the customer. Instead of in partnership with the customer.
One Millimeter Mindset
JANUARY 28, 2020
How much strategic business sense do your stories make? As I worked with one of my clients yesterday, he complained that decision makers were not taking action after his presentations. He just could not understand why. My question to him: “Do you tell connect the dot stories?”
One Millimeter Mindset
MARCH 3, 2020
Would you describe yourself as professionally change-reluctant or completely change-averse? Think about it. Each day, you and I wrestle with moving one millimeter beyond our current professional comfort levels. So, we get to where we need to go. Together. One tiny millimeter at a time.
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One Millimeter Mindset
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Addressing unmet client needs is the key to designing the products, services, programs and systems which best serve customers. Over the long-haul. When client retention is the objective. Yet the strategic business stories you tell often do not address those long-term, stated or unstated client needs.
One Millimeter Mindset
JANUARY 23, 2020
Creating and implementing an HR storytelling diversity and inclusion strategy is mission-critical. Especially for employee and client retention: Today, Tomorrow and in the Future. First, because Today’s Internet of Things (IoT), Fourth Industrial Revolution workplaces are extremely complex.
One Millimeter Mindset
JANUARY 9, 2020
Are complex story details in the stories you tell falling short of getting your point across to colleagues, investors and clients? As a result, the decision you ask them to make is lost in the details you spiel at them. This is not exactly the storytelling outcome you desire, is it?
One Millimeter Mindset
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
When you tell data-driven “Me” stories, you become short-sighted about the outcomes that decision makers look for when deciding to fund, invest and buy. Are the stories you tell well-balanced or out-of-sync with the stories people are listening for?
Speaker: David Spinks, Founder of CMX and VP of Community at Bevy, and Adrian Speyer, Head of Community at Vanilla Forums
Join Vanilla Forums as Founder of CMX and VP of Community at Bevy, David Spinks, and Head of Community at Vanilla Forums, Adrian Speyer talk about how the best companies in the world are building strong cross-channel communities to successfully protect their most valuable assets: their customers, partners and stakeholders.
One Millimeter Mindset
MARCH 10, 2020
Are you a confident remote storyteller? Regardless of your professional discipline, our messaging, information and stories need to become robust. No matter where, and when, we have opportunities to communicate with each other.
One Millimeter Mindset
JANUARY 30, 2020
Are you throwing storytelling spaghetti at employees and clients? Hoping they glean whatever message they can? Not only from the story you tell, but also as a result of how you deliver that story to them?
One Millimeter Mindset
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Yesterday’s business backstory gets you to where you are today. However, does this history showcase how you get clients to where they need to go: tomorrow and in the future? Today’s businesses represent the intersection of people, processes and interconnected software-machine interfaces.
One Millimeter Mindset
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
How are your best value added customer experience efforts sabotaged, both pre- and post-sale? What you do, when you are not actively selling, engineering, coding and serving, adds value to each customer’s experience of how it is to work with you.
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One Millimeter Mindset
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
Are we a bit too devoted to and obsessed by our professional labels? The awards we collect. The Top List of This or That we are on. Those accomplishments, honors, certifications, academic degrees in which we revel. Our professional labels are What We “Do”, for Other People, Right Now. Hmmm……. Really?
One Millimeter Mindset
JANUARY 21, 2020
Idealized storytelling creates perfect story scenarios in which products, services, programs are placed. Not surprisingly, these stories always seem to have fairy-tale outcomes, where everyone lives happily ever after. Mostly, due to the outcomes created by our products, services and programs.
One Millimeter Mindset
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
Which employee segments does your HR engagement strategy best-serve? And, in serving these higher-performing employees, does your strategy marginalize, exclude or intimidate other employees? Consider the impact of storytelling on connecting employees across the organization.
One Millimeter Mindset
MARCH 5, 2020
There’s a whole desert of business strategy sand out there. Waiting for you to hide your head in. Because tomorrow’s business strategies are overwhelming. And, you tend to think about the entire strategy, simultaneously.
Advertiser: Skilljar
On-demand training is a powerful tool you can leverage to support new customer onboarding and ongoing education through the customer lifecycle. In this eBook, we’ll delve into the 3 key benefits of on-demand training for your customer onboarding process.
One Millimeter Mindset
JANUARY 7, 2020
A purpose-driven client retention strategy leverages your own stories. Are the stories you currently tell purpose-driven and authentic? Or, do your stories sound artificial, non-essential, insubstantial? By now, you have told stories to many colleagues and clients.
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