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

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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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

As someone who consults with companies on how to effectively listen and act on the feedback provided by customers, I thought it might be helpful to share a few best practices (which clearly many brands who attempt to engage me simply don’t utilize): Customer listening should be in the best interest of the customer, not the brand.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 15, 2022

Apply here: [link] Role: Director, Customer Success Location: Remote, Los Angeles, CA, US Organization: Limeade As a Director of Customer Success, you will lead and manage a team of remote SAEs focused on enterprise customers while maintaining high levels of employee engagement, customer satisfaction, revenue retention and growth.

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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.

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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.

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 12, 2016

It’s an occupational hazard of keynoting, consulting, and writing about customer service that my friends and family feel compelled to share all of their customer service nightmare stories. I’m really not complaining. I merely mention this as a set-up to a story shared with me by my son.

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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.

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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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SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

He is the author of ‘Be Your Customer’s Hero’, the founder of the popular Customers That Stick® blog, the Co-Host of the Crack the Customer Code podcast, and the creator of multiple virtual training courses on customer service and experience. LinkedIn : [link]. Website : [link]. LinkedIn : [link].

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 4, 2017

Every time I develop a customized customer service training tool for a client of mine, I caution that the tool is a “guidebook” for customer service behavior and that no tool can fit every application. As such, a customer service toolkit is only as good as the judgment and skill of the person using it.

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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.

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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

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.

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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).

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Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

I’ve suggested that customers will resist “robots” and I’ve based my thinking in part on the “uncanny valley” hypothesis which postulates that the more robots look like humans the less humans will feel comfortable with them. I have been slow to accept that, from a service perspective, humans will ever be replaced by computers.

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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.

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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.

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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. Once upon a time…in a land far, far away…I was a young organizational development specialist employed by a sizable health care system.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Would you be willing to be held to a standard (which I refer to as the “tremble effect”) when it comes to the quality and consistency of experiences you and your team provide to your customers? There’s accountability and there’s ACCOUNTABILITY. Try this one on for size….

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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.

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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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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

AUGUST 10, 2016

I love serving customers and helping businesses create loyalty-building customer experiences. HOWEVER, service does not mean customers should be given the power to ABUSE those that serve them.

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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. In the U.S. alone that “switching” behavior means poor service costs brands over 1.6 trillion dollars.

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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.

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