ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Even several years before the pandemic began, The American Customer Satisfaction Index found the overall ratings slipping, even with brands most recognized for high levels of customer service. . It’s not like companies purposely provide poor customer service. The company can’t keep up. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

Culture 106

Culture Customer Service Poor Customer Service Leadership 106

Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

How do you transform the culture and operations of your company to benefit the lives of your customers? Determine What Your Customers Value and What Makes Them Happy. Sami and his colleagues in the C-Suite wanted to know what customers really thought of American Bath Group. What did they value?

Culture 197

Culture Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Company 197

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Customer Experience Leaders Have a Global Customer Focus. Even after over a decade of helping small and large businesses alike, I still meet leaders who believe that Customer Experience is just about so much call-center scripts or proper protocol around customer complaints. Share the best stuff! Do this more often!

Customer Focused 208

Customer Focused Customer Centricity Call Center Communication 208

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Culture is one of the most important parts of customer service and customer experience. I’ve written numerous articles about this and have included a chapter on this topic in my latest book, I’ll Be Back: How to Get Customers to Come Back Again and Again , which by the way, is finally out. So there you have it.

Culture 108

Culture Customer Centricity Sports Customer Service Training 108

InMoment XI

AUGUST 2, 2023

In our latest report, State of Customer Experience: 2023 UK Consumer Study in partnership with NPSx by Bain & Company, we uncovered the differences between industries and brands and how each brand represents certain values. The true value lies in taking decisive action based on the insights gathered from customers.

NPS 260

NPS Customer Centricity Tips Automotive 260

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 5, 2021

You know the brands that do customer culture well. They create such a focus on the customer that everything and everyone throughout the organization is on board. . In a word, it all comes back to the culture. Sometimes the customer-focused “way” is seen as a brand within a brand.

Customer Centricity 190

Customer Centricity Culture Customer Journeys Government 190

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 20, 2014

As business owners, we want to believe if we INTEND to have a customer-focused organization, we will! It’s organic – we just ARE customer focused. Consider the ways growth and scale as an organization can threaten the focus on the customer. RULES are established instead of culture. Understanding.

Customer Focused 289

Customer Focused Employee Engagement Culture Social Media 289

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Customer experience is about so much more than call-center scripts or proper protocol around customer complaints. The best companies, the ones we know as customer experience leaders, adopt a customer focused view to everything. Silos make understanding the customer journey that much harder.

Customer Focused 275

Customer Focused Employee Engagement Call Center Social Media 275

Magellan Solutions

DECEMBER 11, 2023

He observed that call centers catered to Fortune 500 and 1000 companies. Frederick thought, “How about a BPO business focusing on the economy’s unsung heroes: small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs)? He recalls the early days when the company operated from a home office. It is where the spark of innovation ignited.

Leadership 52

Leadership Industry Call Center Culture 52

Help Scout

APRIL 29, 2021

Your customer service culture is not what your fancy “Customer Guarantee” promises, and it’s not whatever you say it is in your new employee handbook. Your culture is the set of beliefs held by your employees about your company: who and what it is for, what it values, and how they act in response to those beliefs.

Culture 139

Culture Customer Service How To Policies 139

Amity

AUGUST 5, 2017

When you think of company culture, what comes to mind? I consider these perks, which are certainly an expression of a company’s culture, but not the actual culture in itself. So what, exactly, is company culture? A customer focused value statement is not enough.

Culture 63

Culture Company Leadership Study 63

InMoment XI

MAY 24, 2022

These signposts, or markers, represent the points along the path, or the trajectory, employee experience has taken, as companies become more mature in a) how they consider employee contribution, in other words the importance attached to it, and b) what role, or roles, employees have in enterprise culture, strategy, and business outcomes. #1:

Employee Experience 295

Employee Experience Customer Experience Employee Engagement Culture 295

Amity

AUGUST 5, 2017

When you think of company culture, what comes to mind? I consider these perks, which are certainly an expression of a company’s culture, but not the actual culture in itself. So what, exactly, is company culture? A customer focused value statement is not enough.

Culture 60

Culture Company Leadership Study 60

InMoment XI

MARCH 6, 2024

The best customer experience quotes can be a great source of inspiration for leadership teams and entire organizations looking to drive their CX transformation. According to research: Companies that earn $1 billion annually can expect to earn, on average, an additional $700 million within 3 years of investing in customer experience.

Customer Experience 260

Customer Experience Social Media Customer Centricity Feedback 260

Blake Morgan

MARCH 13, 2023

Looking to be customer-centric? Companies with female CEOs aren’t just more profitable —they also tend to lead in customer experience. Women thrive in customer-centric roles. Although women are still underrepresented in leadership positions, tides are changing to include more women in the C-suite.

Customer Centricity 66

Customer Centricity Company Insurance Travel 66

Michelli Experience

JANUARY 26, 2016

Whenever I consider offering customer experience consulting services for a prospective business client, I interview senior leadership and ask a lot of questions that get at motivation and their perceived purpose for the potential partnership. How do you define corporate culture? And most importantly….

Leadership 100

Leadership Automotive Employee Engagement Hotels 100

Kayako

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

When you think about businesses that are known for providing extraordinary customer service like Zappos, Amazon or Chick-Fil-A, they share a common trait. They’re obsessed with their customers. The brands mentioned above aren’t just shaping the customer service experience for their customers. And it has paid off big time.

Culture 120

Culture Banking How To Customer Service 120

Customer Bliss

JUNE 2, 2016

It’s called The Human Duct Tape Show because CCO work often is akin to being a form of human duct tape — and if you want really actionable insights and plans in terms of how people broke down silos and stitched together cross-functionality in the name of the customer in huge companies, those episodes all have some great examples.

Customer Focused 100

Customer Focused Leadership Customers Innovation 100

Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 15, 2019

Defining and managing your customer service culture is a significant issue for many organizations. Today we share some important considerations for establishing your customer service culture as well as the best practices of the leading customer service organizations. Then, you implement it.

Culture 114

Culture Customer Service Leadership Airlines 114

Customer Bliss

JULY 21, 2016

United leadership is important. I’ve been doing this type of work since 1983 (wow), and united leadership — which I regularly call one-company leadership in my books, speeches, and my five competencies — is as important as anything else. (If United Leadership: Necessary to move from talk to action.

Leadership 100

Leadership Chief Customer Officer Customer Journeys Metrics 100

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Many companies seeking to improve their Customer Experience (CX) understand the importance of putting the customer at the center of everything they do. Not all companies have this problem though. There are nine orientation areas that we use to determine a company’s customer centricity level. Measurement.

Company 160

Company Customer Centricity Leadership Consulting 160

ShepHyken

MAY 29, 2020

She shares tips on how to create an effective customer-centric company culture. There’s a lot of talk about customer-centricity and customer-centric organizations, but what does that really mean? If your business is customer-centric, those things are the least of your worries. Leadership. Core Values.

Customer Centricity 81

Customer Centricity Culture Customer Journeys Leadership 81

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It starts with leadership defining who you are as an organization and what you stand for. Creating an organization’s positive and supportive culture is key to delivering extraordinary experiences. Daily meetings involving all team members, regardless of their position, help to unify the company’s culture and values.

Net Promoter Score 88

Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Culture Employee Experience 88

CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

The idea of being a provider of customer service that happened to sell shoes gave us the idea that service is our big differentiator and a real asset.". Blueprint for customer-centricity. , Kay Phelps , Director of Product Marketing at Edify says, “Tony Hsieh provided extraordinary leadership and was a role model for great CX.

Return on Investment 266

Return on Investment Culture Customer Centricity Ecommerce 266

Integrity Solutions

JUNE 11, 2020

There’s never been a better time to step up to more transformative culture change — to increase transparency and shift the culture with a greater focus on customers, employees and the community. For Most Organizations, Culture Has Already Changed. What Does it Take to Sustain Culture Change? By Bob McCarthy.

Culture 91

Culture Banking Financial Sales 91

Horizon CX

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Art of Selling CX: Convincing Skeptical Senior Leaders on Customer Experience Success Introduction In the dynamic landscape of customer experience (CX) management, the journey extends beyond strategic implementation; it’s a constant process of persuasion and selling ideas, especially to senior leadership.

Customer Centricity 130

Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Automotive Fashion 130

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 24, 2015

Jeanne Bliss was one of the original Chief Customer Officers, and has held titles like that for companies including Land’s End and Allstate. For more than twenty years, she has helped organizational leadership recognize the importance of customer-focused initiatives in ways that directly impact the business results.

Leadership 110

Leadership Chief Customer Officer Handbook Social Media 110

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 16, 2018

CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. A recent article on corporate customer-centricity by a prominent market research firm made the case for this type of culture as “the most effective way to meet customers’ changing needs.” Customer-centricity, in short, is not pervasively ‘people first’.

Culture 83

Culture Company Customer Centricity Travel 83

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Whether they need help setting up a new device or to repair a damaged product, the way in which these interactions are handled are at the heart of customer satisfaction. Customer Management Practice is the analyst, advisor and industry network that helps companies turn customers into raving fans.

Customer Service 251

Customer Service Contact Center Chief Customer Officer Call Center 251

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 11, 2014

One of the most influential factors on your Customer Experience is your company culture. Most companies might understand the concept, yet still engage in activities that influence company culture in a way that hurts the Customer Experience. This revealed how they thought of Customers.

Culture 134

Culture Customer Experience Customer Centricity Airlines 134

ijgolding

MAY 17, 2017

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. The driving force behind that, was the culture Jack Welch embedded across the GE empire. Jack Welch believed in people – employees AND customers. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

Customer Centricity 181

Customer Centricity Leadership Competitive Advantage Sports 181

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 4, 2014

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. Creating a Customer-Focused Process. We call this type of map, Moment Mapping ®.

Customer Focused 153

Customer Focused Customer Journeys Customer Centricity Employee Engagement 153

CSM Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2016

More and more companies are recognizing just how important a deliberate and intentional customer-focused culture is, but few companies do it well. Make customer service a key priority. Be Customer-Focused: Put your customer needs ahead of your own.

Customer Focused 40

Customer Focused Culture Competitive Advantage Guidelines 40

Customer Bliss

APRIL 12, 2016

We talked about several key topics, including: The rise of the chief customer officer. Why every company should strive to implement customer-centric leadership. Adopting and holding to customer-centric practices. How to still value customers in times of economic/business downturns.

Chief Customer Officer 100

Chief Customer Officer Company Customer Experience Customer Centricity 100

Customer Bliss

APRIL 5, 2016

When working with companies on developing customer-focused growth cultures, I often get asked about this idea of a company core values list. Does a company core values list even matter, then? Why does a company core values list matter? The first tier of a company core values list.

Company 100

Company Leadership Culture Examples 100

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 26, 2017

CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. Most organizations do not fully understand, or leverage, the key linkages and relationships between customer experience and employee experience/behavior. The questions in these ‘new age’ employee surveys address such key areas as:: – Organizational stakeholder-centric leadership.

Survey 111

Survey Company Leadership Study 111

Kustomer

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by Annette Pedroza to learn about building a customer centric culture. Success Starts with Leadership. Improving CX Through Company Assessment. Are their employees open to change?

Customer Centricity 59

Customer Centricity Culture Leadership Effort Score 59