Kerry Bodine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In the past, one of my favorite studies to cite showed a correlation between employee engagement at big box retailers like Kohl’s, Costco, and Best Buy and customer satisfaction with those same firms. It’s a beautiful graph (if you’re into that sort of thing).

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Experience Matters

JANUARY 6, 2015

With this post, I’m declaring 2015 “ The Year of the Employee.”. Voice of the employee efforts are becoming an integral component of modern voice of the customer programs. Taken together, this new emphasis on culture, training, and Voice of the Employee will put employees at the center of CX attention this year.

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Experience Matters

JANUARY 20, 2015

We just published a Temkin Group report, Lessons in CX Excellence, 2015. We also highlight their best practices across the four customer experience competencies—purposeful leadership, compelling brand values, employee engagement, and customer connectedness.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 12, 2015

Have a listen and then be sure to subscribe to hear more from SXSW 2015. Jeannie Walters Jeannie Walters is the Chief Customer Experience Investigator™ and founder of 360Connext, a global consulting firm specializing in the cornerstones of customer experience: customer engagement, employee engagement and connections like social media.

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Experience Matters

MAY 12, 2015

We just published a Temkin Group report, The State of the CX Management, 2015. Companies have also achieved the best scores we’ve seen for two of our four core competencies, Employee Engagement and Customer Connectedness. This is the sixth annual benchmark of CX activities, competencies, and maturity levels.

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Heart of the Customer

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Yesterday, four of the CXPA’s CX experts spoke about the year in review, and what customer experience has in store for 2015. Employee engagement? The post What’s the customer experience focus for 2015? Customer Experience Employee Engagement Resources Voice of the Customer'

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Customer Enthusiast

DECEMBER 30, 2014

It occurred to me while reading through a list of 15 Customer Service Trends for 2015 assembled by Richard Shapiro, president of The Center For Client Retention , that nine of the 15 trends are related to omnichannel: a seamless approach to a consumer’s experience through all available shopping channels (e.g.,

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CX Journey

JULY 21, 2015

It appeared on their blog on February 19, 2015. Is this the secret to employee engagement? Smart simplicity is all about creating an environment where: employees can work with one another to develop creative solutions to complex challenges. These rules really present an interesting approach to employee engagement.

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Engine Insights

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Each year, ORC International celebrates excellence in employee engagement amongst our clients around the world. Winners of ORC’s International Excellence in Employee Engagement Award achieve the highest engagement survey scores relative to external benchmarks. More details at www.orcemployeeconference.com. .

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Experience Matters

JANUARY 7, 2016

In our listing of customer experience trends for 2015 , I labeled 2015 as “ The Year of the Employee.” ” To help accelerate the focus, we created our Engage Employees campaign. Here is some of the relevant content that we created in 2015: Video: Customer Experience Matters. Flexibility.

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Horizon CX

APRIL 1, 2024

Employee engagement: Employees are empowered to deliver a positive customer experience. Back in 2015, MaritzCX conducted a revealing study that shed light on the state of CX maturity across industries. Data-driven decision-making: The organization uses customer data to inform its CX strategy and decision-making.

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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? correlation.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 31, 2014

2015 is locked and loaded, right? We have big plans ourselves in 2015. See you in 2015. All set with your shiny new strategies and bold new plans? It’s ok if you’re facing the calendar and thinking “already!?” ” We’ve all been there. Today is the day! Are you ready?

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 12, 2015

The post Philosophies to Improve Your Customer Experience in 2015 appeared first on Beyond Philosophy. Blogs Customer Experience CEM CEO Conferences consultants consumer behaviour Customer Behaviour Customer experience customer experience industry customer experience management employee engagement'

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Experience Matters

OCTOBER 15, 2015

H-E-B Earns Top Spot in 2015 Temkin Emotion Ratings (post). State of Customer Experience Management, 2015 (report). Employee Engagement Competency & Maturity (report). Positive Psychology Infuses Customer Experience (post). Customer Experience Matters (video). What is Customer Experience?

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Think Customers

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Customer Engagement Customer Experience Customer Strategy Emerging Trends Employee Engagement Marketing businessdisruption digitaldisruption disruptingbusinessin2015 technologydisruption' There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog. 1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 16, 2015

Colin is an international author of four bestselling books and an engaging keynote speaker. The post 7 Signs of Decline for the CX Movement in 2015 appeared first on Beyond Philosophy. Follow Colin Shaw on Twitter @ColinShaw_CX.

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Maz Iqbal

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Today, … Continue reading State Of CX 2015 – Nunwood’s UK Analysis: What Are the Key ‘Findings’ (Part 1). Worth pointing out that Nunwood has been acquired by KPMG so is now KPMG-Nunwood. Back to the research titled: A New Era of Experience Branding. You can download this by going to the KPMG-Nunwood website.

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Daniel Group

AUGUST 21, 2020

Time to integrate your CX, CI, and Employee Engagement Programs. How are your CI (Continuous Improvement), Customer Experience (CX), and Employee Engagement (EE) programs stacking up? One of the takeaways of this story is that employee engagement makes all the difference. WELCOME TO SUCCESS STRATEGIES.

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Experience Matters

JUNE 4, 2015

Comcast earned terrible ratings in both the 2015 Temkin Customer Service Ratings (last place out of 278 companies for the 2nd year in a row) and 2015 Temkin Experience Ratings (291st out of 293 companies). Employee Engagement : Employees are fully committed to the goals of your organization.

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Customer Interactions

JULY 7, 2015

“The year of the employee,” is the title CX maestro Bruce Temkin gives to 2015 and most of this week’s authors will concur. Paradoxically, the more customer-centric a company seeks to be, the more it must focus on employee engagement and satisfaction.

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Wired and Dangerous

MARCH 7, 2016

workers in 2015 who Gallup considered engaged in their jobs averaged 32%. The majority (50.8%) of employees were “not engaged,” while another 17.2% ” The 2015 averages are largely on par with the 2014 averages, and reflect little improvement in employee engagement over the past year.

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Kerry Bodine

JANUARY 18, 2021

I think about the December 2019 Verge exposé about hip luggage brand Away , in which 14 employees told stories of being verbally abused, forced to work long hours without overtime pay, and denied requests for time off in order to catch up on an ever-growing backlog of customer emails.

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Wired and Dangerous

AUGUST 20, 2018

The majority (67%) of employees were “not engaged,” while another 18% were “actively disengaged.” ” The 2017 data are largely on par with the 2015 data and reflect little improvement in employee engagement over the past year. Are your employees engaged?

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CX Journey

APRIL 19, 2016

I've written many times about the importance of the employee experience, both on its own with regard to retention and performance and with regard to the impact of the employee experience on the customer experience. Sadly, many companies still aren't focusing on the employee experience. That's insane.

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Experience Matters

DECEMBER 15, 2015

In my post last year I named 2015 “ The Year of Employee.” As you can see in our video Driving CX Transformation , customer-centric culture requires mastering four CX core competencies : Purposeful Leadership , Compelling Brand Values , Employee Engagement , and Customer Connectedness. Effort Metric Expanding.

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Think Customers

JANUARY 21, 2015

Customer Strategy Emerging Trends Employee Engagement employeeengagement employeeexperience employeeproductivity employeesatisfaction' However, all hope may not be lost quite yet. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog. 1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 15, 2015

YWCA Chicago (@YWCAChicago) June 10, 2015. A photo posted by Jeannie Walters (@jeanniewalters) on Jun 10, 2015 at 11:26am PDT. Women, he believes, consider the customer more. Jack Ma @AlibabaGroup “women are key to #success “! BABASmallBiz @AskAmex #HeForShe pic.twitter.com/i47KgTEIwy. Stay lean if you can.

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CX Journey

JANUARY 6, 2015

And while looking ahead is an important part of planning, there''s also a lot of value in taking the opportunity to stop, reflect, and look back on: what was on our to-do list for the year what we accomplished what we did not accomplish where we''ve been where we are now Having said that, here are some of my thoughts on customer experience in 2015.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 31, 2015

SXSW 2015 was no exception. Jeannie Walters Jeannie Walters is the Chief Customer Experience Investigator™ and founder of 360Connext, a global consulting firm specializing in the cornerstones of customer experience: customer engagement, employee engagement and connections like social media.

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Experience Matters

AUGUST 24, 2016

Why do employees leave their companies for another job? To examine this question, I tapped into our Q3 2015 consumer benchmark study which included more than 5,000 U.S. full-time employees.

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Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Thanks to livestream.com we know: 81% of internet and mobile users watched more video in 2016 than 2015. Great customer experience brands are not only “visual storytellers” but they are supporting their customers as those brand loyalists visually communicate about their brand journey.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 24, 2015

Mike Zarin (@zarin) March 24, 2015. via Gina Bhalwalker @scottrade #ngce — Jeannie Walters (@jeanniecw) March 23, 2015. Throughout all these sessions, as well as the sidebar conversations in the San Diego sunshine, certain topics came up from many angles. So many answers! NGCE [link] pic.twitter.com/U8rdqOdYqS.

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CX University

JANUARY 8, 2019

When service employees display empathic behavior toward customers, they increase commitment, perceived quality of service and satisfaction ( Jones & Shandiz, 2015 ). Empathy Might Be Even More Important for Employee Engagement and Retention.

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Experience Matters

JANUARY 19, 2016

The report provides insights from eight finalists in the Temkin Group’s 2015 CX Excellence Awards. We just published a Temkin Group report, Lessons in CX Excellence, 2016. The report, which is 100 pages long, includes an appendix with the finalists’ nomination forms.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 23, 2015

Social Customer Care: Best Practices for Major Engagement. 30, January 2015. Are you ready to engage with customers on social media? In January, we’ll be examining some basic ideas around social customer care , and what you can do to improve yours. 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CST.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 18, 2015

A photo posted by Jeannie Walters (@jeanniewalters) on Mar 14, 2015 at 1:04pm PDT. . A photo posted by Stan Phelps (@9inchmarketing) on Mar 17, 2015 at 7:22pm PDT. There are corporate sponsors like Miller Lite and McDonald’s taking over from independent brands with unique offerings. So, yes, there are things to complain about.

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