FREE eBook: The 2021 CX Outlook
Kerry Bodine
JANUARY 27, 2021
Never in my life have I witnessed so many people collectively anticipate the turn of a calendar page. Yet many of the challenges from 2020 still remain.
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How Can YOU Make The World A Little More Beautiful?
Kerry Bodine
JUNE 1, 2020
This post celebrates Service Design Day and everyone who’s working to create our new normal. While walking across the Millennium Bridge in London a few years ago, I noticed a group of people standing around and looking down curiously at a man who was laying at their feet.
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Customer Experience: Your Superhighway To Business Success
Kerry Bodine
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Here’s how I define customer experience: It’s your customers’ thoughts, emotions, and perceptions about their interactions with your organization. These words — thoughts , emotions , perceptions — sound touchy-feely. Fluffy even. And because of that, many execs and organizations still dismiss them.
The Happiest Employees of 2021 — And Their Connections to Customers
Kerry Bodine
OCTOBER 11, 2021
As I looked at Comparably’s recent ranking of the 100 companies with the happiest employees in 2021, something struck me: In one way or another, many of top-scoring companies have a strong focus on customer experience.
How to Run a Successful Voice of the Customer Program
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The Voice of the Customer (VoC) is the core foundation of any successful customer experience program. Download this guide from GetFeedback to learn how you can launch a successful Voice of the Customer program that drives return on investment!
New Study Shows Major Disconnect Between Companies And Customers
Kerry Bodine
OCTOBER 1, 2021
Earlier this week I posted about a study commissioned by the CRM platform Insightly , which showed the lengths that consumers and business decision makers would go to in order to avoid stressful customer service interactions.
A CX Day Offer To Boost Your Journey Mapping Outcomes
Kerry Bodine
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Happy Customer Experience Day! I hope you and your colleagues are joining one of the many CX Day celebrations around the world.
Bias Check: Do Your Personas & Journey Maps Reflect Customer Diversity?
Kerry Bodine
FEBRUARY 6, 2021
I’m a strong proponent of including a short description of the customer persona on each journey map. Otherwise, how do you know whose journey is being represented?)
3 Questions To Guide Your “New Normal” Customer Experience Strategy
Kerry Bodine
MAY 11, 2020
As cities and countries around the world grapple with plans to reopen, we’re all wondering what our “new normal” will look like — both personally and professionally. But if you’re reading this post, you don’t have the luxury of sitting on the sidelines and watching it unfold.
Beat Up Ideas, Not People
Kerry Bodine
AUGUST 18, 2021
Yesterday I read a disturbing article in The New York Times about cultural change at Twitter. In a nutshell, Twitter brought in an executive to “revamp Twitter’s design team and make it more diverse.”
How Mature Are Your Digital Experiences? A Step-by-Step Guide to Improved CX
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Read about Verint’s Digital Maturity Model, where we share real tactics and strategies to improve CX, based on what has worked for our clients around the world.
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5 Ways To Rethink Customer Experience In The Face Of The Coronavirus
Kerry Bodine
MARCH 18, 2020
Hoo boy. It’s crazy out there. But you — yes, YOU — have an amazing opportunity to support both your fellow humans and the organization you work for.
1 Thing All B2B Companies Can Do To Improve The Customer Experience
Kerry Bodine
JANUARY 30, 2021
This morning I sent an email to my payroll provider. Not to a generic inbox, but to the real live person who’s assigned my account. A moment later, I received the following auto response: “XXXXX XXXXXXX is no longer employed with us.
Waiting In Line At The DMV? A Month With The In-Laws? Find Out What’s Worse Than Dealing With Customer Service
Kerry Bodine
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
I don’t often run across survey data that makes me literally laugh out loud. But a recent — and somewhat cheeky — study commissioned by the CRM platform Insightly had me rolling in my desk chair. Thirty-one percent of U.S.
Love Your Employees As Much As You Love Your Customers
Kerry Bodine
JANUARY 18, 2021
While my co-author Harley and I were prepping Outside In for publication back in the spring of 2012, I learned about the strange practice of soliciting “blurbs,” those pithy words of praise on a book’s back cover that tout the messages inside.
5 Elements for Building a World-Class Agent Coaching Program
Speaker: Francoise Tourniaire - Founder of FT Works and Omid Razavi - Chief Advocacy Officer at SupportLogic
In this presentation, we will discuss the five elements of building a real-time coaching program using AI-infused workflows that will allow managers and agents to continuously engage and drive more constructive dialogue, resulting in reduced agent burnout and increased employee satisfaction and retention.
Top 10 Customer Experience Posts of 2020
Kerry Bodine
DECEMBER 30, 2020
It’s been… a year. And while it feels a bit odd to celebrate 2020 with a “Best of” post, I wanted to share the Bodine & Co. content that CX professionals leaned on most during this trying time.
Virtual Journey Mapping Bootcamp: September 2021
Kerry Bodine
JULY 25, 2021
Hard-hitting content. Sessions that fit into your workday. Our two-part virtual bootcamp delivers a practical primer on journey mapping that you can immediately put into action for your organization. Part 1: Introduction to Journey Mapping.
Reimagining CX To Drive Real Human Connection
Kerry Bodine
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Recently, I was emailing with an online retailer about an item I wanted to return, and the message in their email footer struck me: “Please be kind to our team — it’s important for us to have real humans on our support and not bots. I promise all we want is to make you as happy as possible.” . Sigh… It really bums me out that we’re living through a time when this type of plea is necessary. . At the same time, I get it. Our proverbial buckets are at capacity, and we’re collectively exhausted.
Top 10 Reasons To Enroll In “Customer-Powered Profits”
Kerry Bodine
JUNE 3, 2021
If you’re looking to level up your customer experience skills, you need to check out my online course, Customer-Powered Profits: 10 Lessons To Unlock The Potential of Customer Experience. Need a reason to click that link? Here are 10! I make customer experience concepts simple.
Top Industry Secrets for Successful Contact Center Scripting
Speaker: Colin Taylor, CEO & Chief Chaos Officer at The Taylor Reach Group, Inc
Scripts have been around as long as contact centers. Scripts attempt to set out an ‘ideal’ path to success on the call, whether that's a sale, a resolved inquiry, or a closed case. While some scripting attempts have failed, AI and Agent Assist technologies can help.
Virtual Journey Mapping Bootcamp: May 2022
Kerry Bodine
MARCH 29, 2022
Hard-hitting content. Sessions that fit into your workday. Our two-part virtual bootcamp delivers a practical primer on journey mapping that you can immediately put into action for your organization. Part 1: Introduction to Journey Mapping. This introduction will help you build a solid understanding of the journey mapping methodology and how you can apply it to specific business challenges.
Congratulations To The 2020 Service Design Award Finalists!
Kerry Bodine
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
If you’re looking for customer experience or service design inspiration, look no further. We’ve just announced our ten 2020 Service Design Award finalists. And no, that’s not a typo… Covid through a wrench into our annual awards schedule.). The Finalists. Commercial Work.
Q&A From My CXPA Webinar: From Journey Mapping To Journey Management
Kerry Bodine
AUGUST 14, 2020
On Wednesday I presented a webinar with the Toronto Customer Experience Professionals Association. We got a ton of great questions about the content I presented. So many, in fact, that I didn’t have time to answer them all on the webinar itself.
A Belated Thank You To Tony Hsieh
Kerry Bodine
JANUARY 23, 2021
Amazon tells me that I last purchased Tony Hsieh’s book Delivering Happiness on August 26, 2010. The timing was fortuitous.
How woom bikes Takes an Employee-First Approach to Grow Its Customer Base
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Are your employees an untapped source of customer feedback? Watch this on-demand webinar featuring woom bikes to learn how their team improves employee and customer experiences in tandem.
Webinar: Strategies to Navigate CX Demands for the Contact Center
Kerry Bodine
JANUARY 14, 2021
In 2020, many contact centers were forced into “do or die” changes in order to overcome the challenges brought on by the pandemic. However, these often heroic changes haven’t come without their consequences.
Attention Marketers: Introducing Our New 3-Part Virtual Journey Mapping Bootcamp
Kerry Bodine
JANUARY 9, 2021
I’m thrilled to announce our new three-part open-enrollment virtual journey mapping bootcamp. And the best part is, you can mix and match the sessions based on your role or business needs.
Your One-Stop Guide To Customers’ Behavior During The Coronavirus Pandemic
Kerry Bodine
APRIL 9, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has ushered in a new way of life for people around the world. And, no big shocker here: Our collective behavior is impacting businesses large and small.
Join me at Medallia’s Experience 21 Event
Kerry Bodine
MAY 10, 2021
On Wednesday, May 19, I’ll be joining forces with my friend and former Forrester colleague Megan Burns at Medallia’s Experience 21 event.
Winning Solutions to Keep Contact Center Agents Engaged
Speaker: Adam Saad - Founder & CEO, Tech Stack Advising
In order to keep agents both satisfied and engaged, we must develop a plan that both mitigates these concerns with current agents and halts any potential issues that may arise with new hires. These plans must also take into account the different environments and locations your agents may be working in.
Catch Up On Our Most-Read (And Must-Read!) Posts From The Past Year
Kerry Bodine
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Every year I look back to see what blog content our readers have been most drawn to over the past year. It’s always interesting to see which new posts catch people’s attention (like #9 and #5 on the list) and which older posts (like #8 and #2) remain as enduring resources for those in the customer experience field. I hope you enjoy this year’s round up. #10:
The Pandemic Trigger: It?s Time To Update Your Journey Maps
Kerry Bodine
MAY 15, 2020
We’re in the midst of the most rapid change to human behavior that many of us will ever see. What you knew about your customers back in January just doesn’t apply now — and if you’ve got existing journey maps, they are officially out of date.
Virtual Journey Mapping Bootcamp: May 2021
Kerry Bodine
APRIL 7, 2021
Hard-hitting content. Sessions that fit into your workday. Our two-part virtual bootcamp delivers a practical primer on journey mapping that you can immediately put into action for your organization. Part 1: Introduction to Journey Mapping.
Embracing Change: The Service Design Global Conference Goes Virtual
Kerry Bodine
AUGUST 25, 2020
It’s the time for service designers from around the world to connect.
Why the Future Success of Retail Lies in Customer Experience
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Retail’s post-pandemic future: Are you prepared? Download this article by Harvard Business Review (brought to you by GetFeedback) to find out why the future success of retailers will ultimately depend on creating a cohesive customer experience, both online and in stores.
Two More Opportunities to Journey Map In Your Pajamas!
Kerry Bodine
AUGUST 21, 2020
In-person training won ’ t be back for a while… But the need to understand your customers’ behaviors, needs, and expectations remains as important as ever.
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