CX Journey

APRIL 21, 2015

Image courtesy of xianrendujia What do your employees know about customer experience? I''ve been talking about the importance of employees to the customer experience since my days at J.D. Company executives say: " We''ll collect feedback from employees later. Let''s start with customers."

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 19, 2016

In addition to my S, D and I view of Millennials, research shows they are EXPERIENCE SEEKERS. According to the Boston Consulting Group, 72% of Millennials report that they prefer EXPERIENCES over products.

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 16, 2016

Then again, I’m reminded of the Gallup research captured in the book Human Sigma: Managing the Employee-Customer Encounter which suggests that while there is a high correlation between employee engagement and customer engagement that relationship IS NOT CAUSAL.

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 9, 2016

There are few things more important about leadership than developing and growing talent.

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Wootric CX Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Why we love Jeannie: She’s a TEDx speaker , CEO and Chief Customer Experience Investigator at 360 Connext , trainer, workshop leader, consultant, and podcaster. A CX Consulting. Why we love Sandra: She’s the Customer Experience Director and thought leader for Strong-Bridge Envision Consulting.

Customer Journeys 67

Customer Journeys Consulting Customer Experience Professionals Chief Customer Officer 67

Michelli Experience

APRIL 20, 2016

While marketers like to call attention to aspects of a brand that they want to cement as PODS in the minds of prospects and customers, experience designers like me and business leaders like you should be thinking about DELIVERING PODS – behaving in ways that are relevant, different and valued by your customers.

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Michelli Experience

OCTOBER 12, 2016

I’ve been doing customer experience design for a long, long time. In the old days, I would have read about some intriguing customer innovation and assumed that the attempted breakthrough was crafted on a firm foundation of customer listening and data analysis.

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Michelli Experience

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

In the course of my work as an experience designer and consultant, I have been defining customer experience strategy as a disciplined approach to brand differentiation achieved by elevating the perception of those you serve based on their interactions with you.

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Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

I carry that evaluation process through every touch point with a brand including if/how they solicit feedback from me about their service delivery. Does this company “care about” meeting those needs?

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Michelli Experience

APRIL 27, 2016

As a professional speaker, I envisioned possible stage benefits from learning improvisational comedy skills but I hadn’t appreciated the benefits that improv training would provide me in my role as a leader or as a consultant charged with helping organizations increase the quality of experiences they provided to their customers.

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Michelli Experience

JULY 4, 2017

is a professional speaker and chief experience officer at The Michelli Experience. A New York Times #1 bestselling author, Dr. Michelli and his team consult with some of the world’s best customer experience companies. Michelli, Ph.D. Follow on Twitter: @josephmichelli.

Insurance 113

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SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

Meet the Top 150 Global Customer Experience Thought Leaders and Influencers of 2020. Adam Toporek – Customer Service Expert, Keynote Speaker, Trainer, Strategic Advisor . Annette Franz – Customer Experience Consultant, Keynote Speaker, Author . LinkedIn : [link]. Website : [link].

Customer Experience 132

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 17, 2017

Over the years, as a customer experience consultant, I’ve increasingly become a student of “game theory” and of the “gaming industry.” I sense I am not the only one. For example, Thomas J. Watson the founder of IBM is quoted as once saying that “business is a game.”.

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 18, 2016

Before founding his own company, he was an assistant professor at Duke University, a consultant at McKinsey & Co., An Honor Graduate from West Point, he served in the U.S. Army as a combat arms officer. and an executive at Capital One and Scotts Miracle-Gro. He regularly writes about leadership on the thought LEADERS Blog.

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Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Define Your Desired Experience – I’m continually surprised by how few organizations actually have a defined optimal customer experience. I spend considerable time as a consultant helping leaders articulate the experience they want customers to have at key touch points throughout the customer journey.

Customer Experience 100

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Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In his 1943 paper, “A Theory of Human Motivation”, Abraham Maslow foreshadowed a key ingredient to modern customer experience design. In essence, once you are able to meet a customers’ basic or functional need…there are higher needs you can address to drive their loyalty with your brand.

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Michelli Experience

JUNE 1, 2016

According to a recent comprehensive international study conducted by Accenture , 52% of customers reported that poor customer service caused them to switch from one brand to another in the past year. alone that “switching” behavior means poor service costs brands over 1.6 In the U.S. trillion dollars.

Advertising 100

Advertising Poor Customer Service Culture Study 100

Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

My job was to “improve customer service by deploying employee scripts.”. Given my naivete, I took to my task by researching the best available customer service programs. Generally speaking customer service scripts are less effective than desired. Patients felt the scripts were robotic.

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Policies Customer Service Engagement Training 100

Michelli Experience

AUGUST 10, 2016

Having been mentored by the father of the modern-day Ritz-Carlton Hotel company, Horst Schulze, I learned long ago that service professionalism and servitude should not be confused. Customers are not always right and when they wrongly mistreat your staff they should become former customers!

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Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Offer development tools for those who can improve their experience delivery. Encourage team members to explore other career opportunities or other employers if they consistently “don’t or won’t” delight your customers.

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Net Promoter Score Healthcare Effort Score Feedback 100

Michelli Experience

JUNE 28, 2016

As I help business leaders deliver branded customer experiences, I often start with the premise that brands are nothing more than what people say about us when we’re not around. From there, I work with leaders to determine what they want to be known for and what they want to hear their customers say about them.

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Michelli Experience

AUGUST 31, 2016

Have you been watching Domino’s global strategy over the recent number of years? If not, I think the pizza giant it worthy of study. Unbeknownst to many, Domino’s is an amazingly forward looking company.

Technology 189

Technology Travel Innovation Study 189

Michelli Experience

MAY 11, 2016

It’s that time of year when we remember and honor our mothers, so allow me to harken back to a “momism” that was frequently uttered in my childhood home. Marie Michelli was quick to say, “tell me who you run around with and I’ll tell you what you are.”.

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Michelli Experience

JULY 27, 2016

I have been involved with Starbucks since 2004, beginning with initial research I conducted for my first of two books about them (The Starbucks Experience).

Leadership 100

Leadership Course Engagement Employee Experience 100

Michelli Experience

JUNE 15, 2016

Yet again the world is rocked by a terrible and senseless mass shooting. In a community not far from me in Central Florida, innocent men and women entered a business not expecting to run out in horror, be carried out in pain, or not walk out at all. The media will spotlight the human suffering and try to understand the psychology of the shooter.

Leadership 100

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 23, 2016

So think about the world today and the chaos which envelops you and your customers. Based on the opinion of many people far smarter than me, it appears that humans have been on a journey to bring order to chaos from the beginning of time. In fact, the great graphic artist M.

Brands 100

Brands Travel Customer Experience Consumers 100

Michelli Experience

MARCH 2, 2016

Having worked with Starbucks since 2004, as I began my journey to my first of two books about them ( The Starbucks Experience and later Leading the Starbucks Way ), friends and colleagues are quick to contact me whenever Starbucks makes the news. That goes for both good and bad news!

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 11, 2016

Mobile technology has reached unprecedented levels on innovation. Products like Google Cardboard are revolutionizing virtual reality, and yearly location-based innovations are creating astounding utility. In 2016, mobile marketing will be a must-have by many businesses.

Technology 100

Technology Company Marketing Loyalty Programs 100

Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 30, 2015

As December comes to a close, many of us will do a “year in review” (and if we don’t, Facebook will do it for us). A lot of us will also think about how we can succeed in the year to come. I have long stopped doing “New Year’s resolutions” since I’ve repeatedly lost and gained back the same 10 pounds I have been resolving to lose since 2001.

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Michelli Experience

MAY 4, 2016

This blog is about relevant messaging throughout the journey your customers have with your brand. Much of a customer’s journey with a brand depends on the words and images that they encounter in marketing, shopping, and post-sale. I’ll leave all that to the theologians.

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Michelli Experience

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Thought leaders like Daniel Pink have provided insightful analysis of research showing three key drivers of human behavior: Purpose. Autonomy, and.

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Michelli Experience

JUNE 7, 2016

So what can every business leader learn from the brand experience consistently delivered by Muhammad Ali? Muhammad Ali was not only a civil rights advocate and exceptionally talented boxer – he was and will be an enduring brand.

Advertising 100

Advertising Brands Training Management 100

Michelli Experience

MARCH 30, 2016

Astronaut Eugene Cernan once said, “If you begin to think you’re something you’re not, you’re looking in the wrong mirror.”. In my opinion, many industries have been looking in the wrong mirror for a long time! Soberingly, those businesses are being forced to see themselves anew – in a reflection of the perceptions of their consumers.

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Ecommerce Advertising Sales Innovation 100

Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 15, 2016

If you are old like me, you will remember a time when there wasn’t an express checkout line at grocery stores. If you are somewhat younger, you might remember the days before self-checkout lanes were available.

Technology 100

Technology Customer Experience Consulting Employee Engagement 100

Michelli Experience

AUGUST 3, 2016

I suspect you’ve heard the phrase, “dollars to donuts.” From my research, its earliest reference occurred in 1876 and typically implies a wager where you are so certain of a bet that you are willing to gamble losing dollars (something of higher value) for the prospect of winning donuts (something of lower value).

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Trends Brands Customer Experience Consumers 100

Michelli Experience

JANUARY 24, 2017

Often entrepreneurs reach out to me to discuss “customer-centricity” and the likely viability of their innovative products or services.

Customer Centricity 100

Customer Centricity Automotive How To Social Media 100

Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Writing in Automotive News , Vince Bond Jr asks a question that is mission critical for many businesses today, “How do you quickly turn an Internet search into a conversation and turn that conversation into a sale?”. In general, I believe all marketing involves disruptively creating interest.

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