Experience Matters

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Hall joined the D-backs in May 2005 as Senior Vice President, Communications, was named president in September 2006 and CEO in January 2009. But Hall is so committed to the culture, fan experience, and community items that he told me that the organization was cutting baseball payroll this year instead of cutting those other items.

Culture 313

Culture Sports Employee Engagement Leadership 313

InMoment XI

AUGUST 23, 2023

Customer experience transformation goes beyond cosmetic changes and surface-level improvements. It involves a comprehensive overhaul of internal processes, technologies, organizational culture, and customer engagement strategies. 4: Empower Employees Happy employees lead to happy customers.

Customer Experience 260

Customer Experience Omni-Channel Employee Engagement Innovation 260

InMoment XI

OCTOBER 5, 2022

They become passionate advocates who positively affect the customer experience. The reverse is also true: When employees are not satisfied, they become liabilities to your brand. The question is, then, “What is the critical element to helping employees engage in their work?” Areas of Staff Motivation to Keep in Mind.

How To 493

How To Feedback Strategy Customer Centricity 493

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. Employees are excited. Department leaders begin to envision ways they can improve their customer’s experience.

Customer Centricity 137

Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Culture Training 137

Horizon CX

APRIL 1, 2024

Customer experience maturity is a way of measuring an organization’s ability to design and deliver a consistently positive customer experience. These characteristics may include: Customer-centric culture: The organization has a culture that is obsessed with the customer and focused on meeting their needs.

Customer Journeys 130

Customer Journeys Touchpoint Customer Centricity Competitive Advantage 130

CX Centric

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Speaking to many business leaders especially in my part of the world, I am always keen to find out the overall culture that they set out to create. This translates into the precision of a strong customer strategy, supported by a strong communications plan for your organisation. Again I propose a ‘Customer Centric’ culture.

Culture 105

Culture Leadership Roadmap Customer Centricity 105

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 11, 2023

However, many customer experience (CX) initiatives fall short of achieving their desired outcomes due to a lack of proactive leadership and strategic planning. There needs to be a focus on intentional strategy, clear goals, effective communication, employee empowerment, and a commitment to continuous improvement.

Customer Experience 110

Customer Experience Competitive Advantage Leadership Customer Centricity 110

PeopleMetrics

MARCH 2, 2015

You’re going to have to face them sooner or later if you’re trying to build a customer-centric culture. Before you bang your head on your mahogany desk, maybe you should ask yourself another question: Why should your employees care? But employees are part of the collective “we” that makes up your company.

Employee Engagement 48

Employee Engagement Culture Engagement Customer Centricity 48

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 23, 2024

CX leaders today face a long list of challenges, including adapting to a dynamic market environment and ensuring every stakeholder, supervisor, and employee in the business is aligned with the customer-centric vision. It’s up to CX leaders to clearly communicate about these connections for their organization.

ROI 143

ROI CEM Net Promoter Score Customer Experience 143

InMoment XI

JULY 18, 2022

In food services, operations managers are typically concerned with hiring and training employees, coordinating work and schedules, developing working relationships with front and back of house staff, and more. Where customer feedback can help with these responsibilities is by promoting an internal culture that puts the customer at the center.

Feedback 492

Feedback Culture eBook Training 492

PeopleMetrics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

In case you missed it, The New York Times recently published a tell-all exposé about Amazon’s corporate culture. He also offered a LinkedIn write-up from an employee , which argued something like, “Amazon’s culture isn’t as bruising as the article claims. So, in light of all of that, let's talk about culture.

Customer Centricity 48

Customer Centricity Culture Employee Engagement Leadership 48

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.

Customer Centricity 69

Customer Centricity Culture How To Feedback 69

Experience Matters

APRIL 3, 2015

I often say that the customer experience your organization delivers is a reflection of your culture and operating processes. In other words, what customers experience outside is based on what’s going on inside. To consistently differentiate your customer experience, you need to transform your culture.

Culture 120

Culture Customer Connectedness Airlines Employee Engagement 120

Russel Lolacher

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with speaker and Police Chief of the Mountain View Police Department Chris Hsiung on how communication and creating connection within an organization can improve workplace culture. What to put in your communications that will resonate with staff. . PLAY AND SUBSCRIBE.

Culture 98

Culture Connections Leadership Communication 98

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Short termism is mostly the result of a product-centric and “numbers focused” culture, which inevitably results in a “race to the bottom”. Customer centricity is the answer, backed with a credible customer profitability lens that gives an alternative view to traditional product sales/market share KPIs.

Customer Experience 324

Customer Experience Customer Centricity Self Service Culture 324

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.

Customer Centricity 110

Customer Centricity Social Media Consulting Strategy 110

CSM Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Companies who truly want to build an engaged workforce must look at employee connection and involvement. We all have been part of an ’employee engagement’ initiative, whether an individual program or a full-fledged organizational imperative. Employees grew to despise the company. Recognition Gone Wrong.

Employee Engagement 40

Employee Engagement Engagement Hospitality Effort Score 40

ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Secrets to Customer-Centric Business Growth Lynn Hunsaker. A potter’s wheel makes a great metaphor for customer-centered business. Sharing the vision, walking the talk, and nurturing the ecosystem are foundational musts for customer-centered business. These criteria drive behavior even more than goals and values.

Customer Centricity 74

Customer Centricity Sports Policies Culture 74

CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The first days and weeks are so critical when it comes to employee engagement and helping the employees buy in to the mission of their new company. Make CX mandatory, not optional right from the start For those companies serious about a customer-centric culture, this must be introduced and ingrained from day one.

Tips 296

Tips Culture Exercises Feedback 296

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.

Customer Retention 90

Customer Retention Strategy Net Promoter Score Employee Engagement 90

Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

While I believe there are several factors at work here that make the difference between the two organizations, employee engagement is a big part it. According to the global leaders, that’s because: They deliver excellence customer service. They communicate well. What does your company do to encourage employee engagement?

Banking 138

Banking Culture Employee Engagement CEM 138

Second to None

APRIL 4, 2019

Company culture is a fluid concept from top to bottom. Culture is outlined by leadership, executed by management and embraced by employees. When leaders emphasize work culture, it becomes a priority for managers. In other words, a happy employee (in an effective environment) is an engaged employee.

Culture 83

Culture Engagement Leadership Customer Centricity 83

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.

Customer Experience 236

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score How To Customer Journeys 236

AskNicely

AUGUST 17, 2018

And 23% of CEOs list customer service as one of their top three business priorities. Savvy CEOs understand that growth and employee engagement can be created by listening to customer feedback while following one guiding principle: Be customer obsessed. They strive to continually surprise and delight customers.

Competitive Advantage 150

Competitive Advantage Feedback Net Promoter Score NPS 150

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 5, 2017

In part because of today’s greater emphasis on the emotional components of customer experience and customer value delivery, and how this must be an enterprise cultural priority, employees have become center stage in optimizing customer behavior.

Employee Engagement 68

Employee Engagement Engagement Consulting Culture 68

Horizon CX

MARCH 25, 2019

This involves being open to criticism from employees and peers. In customer-centric organizations, issues are resolved with the customers’ best interests in mind. Great customer experience is an organization-level pursuit. 2 Sharp Communication. Use various communication channels. 3 Empathetic.

Leadership 113

Leadership Customer Centricity Employee Engagement Effort Score 113

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Customercentric culture is all about being proactive. If customers are complaining about the same issue over and over again, it’s time to figure out what’s really going on. Communicate in shareable ways. Creating a customer-centric organization from the inside out requires serious word-of-mouth messaging.

Customer Focused 275

Customer Focused Employee Engagement Call Center Social Media 275

CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The first days and weeks are so critical when it comes to employee engagement and helping the employees buy in to the mission of their new company. Make CX mandatory, not optional right from the start For those companies serious about a customer-centric culture, this must be introduced and ingrained from day one.

Tips 182

Tips Culture Exercises Feedback 182

CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The first days and weeks are so critical when it comes to employee engagement and helping the employees buy in to the mission of their new company. Make CX mandatory, not optional right from the start For those companies serious about a customer-centric culture, this must be introduced and ingrained from day one.

Tips 182

Tips Culture Exercises Feedback 182

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

However, to create a breakthrough to change the organization’s culture, you can’t stop there. 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.

Net Promoter Score 78

Net Promoter Score Engagement Effort Score Customer Centricity 78

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. What about taking the soft approach?

Customer Centricity 79

Customer Centricity Case Study Leadership Employee Engagement 79

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

They’ve identified and instilled the values that matter — not just the process — which gives employees and customers alike a “why” to support the “what.” Silos make communicating and understanding the customer journey that much harder. Communicate in shareable ways.

Customer Focused 208

Customer Focused Customer Centricity Call Center Communication 208

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). Because the company’s issues have to do more with it’s culture than with the number of people that it employs.

Customer Connectedness 120

Customer Connectedness Customer Experience Customer Centricity Culture 120

Maz Iqbal

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Two, they put the receptionists through a soft skills training course to improve their communication and guest engagement. So what did the hotel management do? Three things. One, they clarified roles, processes and scorecards. Did it work? And what kind of results showed up? I will share these with you in the next post.

Customer Centricity 100

Customer Centricity Hotels Case Study Customer Satisfaction 100

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The Interview with Annette Franz: Customer understanding is a cornerstone of a customer-centric culture. You must understand who your customers are, the experience they’re having, the problems they face, their goals, and how your business helps them achieve their goals. How can I create a great employee experience?

Customer Centricity 109

Customer Centricity Employee Experience Communication Employee Engagement 109

CX Journey

MAY 29, 2018

Image courtesy of Quadient Are you communicating with customers in their preferred methods? At the same time, we talked about technology's impact on employee engagement and culture change. How to build out out process workflows in parallel to provide faster application acceptance and better customer service.

Customer Experience 126

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Omni-Channel Government 126

CSM Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2024

His leadership saw a shift toward customer-centric strategies, with an emphasis on empowering frontline employees. He advocated for the idea that each employee, regardless of position, has a role in influencing the customer’s perception of the company.

Touchpoint 52

Touchpoint Airlines Social Media Leadership 52