Horizon CX

MAY 19, 2023

An organizational transformation refers to a significant and intentional change in the structure, processes, culture, and strategic direction of an organization. Transforming an entire organization requires addressing multiple factors simultaneously, such as strategy, structure, processes, culture, and people.

Customer Centricity 130

Customer Centricity Leadership Culture Customer Experience Management 130

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

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. Then, you implement it.

Culture 114

Culture Customer Service Leadership Airlines 114

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

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. Follow Colin Shaw on Twitter @ColinShaw_CX.

Customer Focused 153

Customer Focused Customer Journeys Customer Centricity Employee Engagement 153

CX Journey

MARCH 12, 2015

As companies focus inward to understand how to achieve their customer experience goals, the term “engagement” is often used interchangeably with “culture.” The two terms are related, and they’re both elements of customer experience improvement. Prompts might include: “We know who is responsible for the customer.”

Culture 80

Culture Engagement Employee Engagement Customer Centricity 80

ijgolding

JUNE 9, 2015

However, for a business to most effectively leverage the competencies of CXPs, it is vital that they are supported by a critical and powerful ingredient – transformational leadership. An organisations approach to Customer Experience will live or die on the strength of transformational leadership. A customer-centric organisation.

Customer Experience Professionals 120

Customer Experience Professionals Leadership Customer Experience Effort Score 120

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 5, 2017

CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. Whenever the subject of employee satisfaction and engagement arises, it is often difficult to differentiate between them. If you believe that “a satisfied employee IS an engaged employee.” Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D.,

Employee Engagement 68

Employee Engagement Engagement Consulting Culture 68

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 20, 2016

CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. In the consumer world, satisfaction has only incidental proven connection to customer experience and behavior, and engagement has similar challenges for employees (and customers). That is what the scope of employee ambassadorship helps to provide.

Leadership 60

Leadership Engagement Customer Centricity Employee Engagement 60

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Before truly focusing energy on the customer, the XGS team has had to focus on the most important asset of all: its people. Through a variety of surveys and feedback forums, XGS realized that we had some work to do to create an internal culture that drove employee engagement and satisfaction.

Customer Experience 136

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Self Service Effort Score 136

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Emotional Engagement and Customer Centricity. How to Drive Customer and Employee Engagement for a Better Customer Experience. They discuss strategies for building customer centricity and emotional engagement. That means spending time on the frontlines of customer service.

Customer Centricity 73

Customer Centricity Culture Leadership Employee Engagement 73

Blake Morgan

JANUARY 20, 2022

These 30 top blogs cover a wide variety of CX-related topics, from creating a customer-centric culture to refining the contact center or delivering personalized experiences. He offers a European perspective on employee and customer engagement and customer focus and shares interviews with top CX leaders. .

Case Study 96

Case Study Customer Journeys Competitive Advantage Customer Centricity 96

Service Untitled

JANUARY 10, 2011

According to Wikipedia, “an engaged employee is one who is fully involved in, and enthusiastic about, his or her work, and thus will act in a way that furthers their organization’s interest.” According to Scarlett Surveys, 31% of employees are disengaged and 4% of those 31% are hostile. Create a culture of trust.

Employee Engagement 71

Employee Engagement Engagement Leadership Culture 71

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

ijgolding

JUNE 14, 2017

If a continuous stream of messages is not translating its way across all floors, corridors, smartphones, tablets and PCs, then it is unlikely that the intent to become customer focused will become a reality. There is no right or wrong way to communicate – it just needs to be consistent, engaging and to a degree fun.

Customer Centricity 171

Customer Centricity Communication Culture Customers 171

CX Journey

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Leadership : It starts at the top. If you''ve got the wrong leadership in place, it''ll be really tough to steer the ship in the right direction. This may require training, hiring for new skills and new attitudes; you''ll certainly want to be sure there''s a culture fit. But, customers can''t control your internal decisions.

Culture 173

Culture Leadership Employee Engagement Customer Centricity 173

ShepHyken

AUGUST 29, 2018

When you treat employees like rock stars, they will treat your customers like rock stars. That is what employee engagement is all about. Great leaders have preached that when you treat your employees well, they treat their customers – and fellow employees well. And, this isn’t just for the leadership.

Employee Engagement 94

Employee Engagement Leadership Customer Service Training Culture 94

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 2, 2018

But what’s even trickier is when you may not have customer experience or customer insights in your title. Being a customer-focused leader is a tall order. So how can you lead by example to make the experience better for your customers, regardless of where you are on the org chart?

Customer Experience 225

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Culture Leadership 225

Customer Bliss

AUGUST 23, 2016

Darryl Speach is a serial customer experience practitioner and change agent. He’s had leadership roles at New York Life, the Disney Institute, and Greystone and Company. Salmon and the “Destination Postcard” I often refer to customer experience work as being a salmon, i.e. swimming upstream. Episode Overview.

Chief Customer Officer 0

Chief Customer Officer Culture Leadership Insurance 0

Integrity Solutions

JULY 13, 2020

In fact, the real issue is that only a few organizations have made the commitment to plan and grow the kind of positive, well-defined sales culture that will create sustainable high performance. Ambitious employees want to work for companies that have a strong vision and committed leadership. But the sales challenges persist.

Sales 104

Sales How To Competitive Advantage Training 104

ShepHyken

APRIL 22, 2019

They face shifting demands from customers without the necessary tools, strategy, processes, and agents’ skills to meet them. My Comment: If you want the service culture in an organization to change, it must start at the top with leadership. Top-Rated in Employee Engagement and Customer Satisfaction: How does Quicken Loans do it?

Self Service 76

Self Service Customer Service Competitive Advantage Case Study 76

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 1, 2021

So, how can you keep good employees, and keep them not only engaged with their jobs but also engaged with their customers? The best employees don’t just work for a paycheck. They also work for the company and the customer. Meet my friend, leadership expert Tim Durkin – he has an answer.

Healthcare 125

Healthcare Customer Service Training Feedback Leadership 125

ECXO

MAY 11, 2023

You’ll also probably know that the most successful companies go beyond offering quality products and services, and competitive prices, to design experiences that differentiate their brand and create emotional connections with customers. Everything they do is built around their customers. Let’s continue.

Customer Centricity 52

Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Self Service Culture 52

Retently

JULY 28, 2023

How do you approach customer happiness in your company? Do you simply rely on the generic “the customer is always right” speech, or do you have a customer-centric culture in place that’s overseen by a professional who understands how customers think and feel, and who knows how to get that point of view across to other employees too?

Chief Customer Officer 141

Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Call Center Metrics 141

SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

She is an internationally recognized Customer Experience Thought Leader, Coach, Keynote Speaker, and Author of ‘Customer Understanding: Three Ways to Put the “Customer” in Customer Experience’ (and at the Heart of Your Business). LinkedIn : [link]. Website : [link]. LinkedIn : [link].

Customer Experience 132

Customer Experience Consulting Multi-Channel Leadership 132

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

He is currently focused on two areas: The impact of the digital customer experience disruption, the next wave of emergent customer engagement channels, and the value of unstructured VOC data in understanding customer behavior and demand generation. Bill Quiseng. Bruce Temkin. Dan Gingiss. Jeanne Bliss.

Customer Experience 147

Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 147

ShepHyken

MARCH 21, 2017

What lessons can we learn from rock stars in the world of customer service and customer experience, like Ritz-Carlton? First Up: In Shep Hyken’s opening comments he relates an experience from the customer service workshops his company conducts for client companies. What are the qualities of a customer-focused employee?

Leadership 81

Leadership Hospitality Hotels Customer Focused 81

CloudCherry

JANUARY 21, 2020

By staying in touch with customer expectations, companies can win more business and reduce trouble spots in the customer journey. VoC leaders also see an uptick in customer and employee engagement metrics. At the pinnacle of VoC maturity, listening to the customer voice is an essential component of your culture.

Effort Score 195

Effort Score Feedback Net Promoter Score Survey 195

CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Businesses that foster and support a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) culture see increases in output, creativity, innovation, and profitability. In today’s modern world, focusing on DEI is essential to increasing job satisfaction and employee engagement levels. Document Updated Operational Policies.

Policies 52

Policies Social Media Culture Employee Engagement 52

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

He is currently focused on two areas: The impact of the digital customer experience disruption, the next wave of emergent customer engagement channels, and the value of unstructured VOC data in understanding customer behavior and demand generation. Bill Quiseng. Bruce Temkin. Dan Gingiss. Jeanne Bliss.

Customer Experience 130

Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 130

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 2, 2018

But what’s even trickier is when you may not have customer experience or customer insights in your title. Being a customer-focused leader is a tall order. So how can you lead by example to make the experience better for your customers, regardless of where you are on the org chart?

Customer Experience 110

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Culture Leadership 110

Smith+co CX

JUNE 20, 2022

How a UK brand dominates a tough sector with purpose, passion & a kick-ass culture. Earlier this month in his regular Sunday Times article , Julian Richer, founder of Richer Sounds (UK’s biggest hi-fi and home cinema equipment retailer) explained his award winning style of brand leadership.

Brands 36

Brands Retail Culture Leadership 36

Integrity Solutions

MAY 26, 2022

employees said their workplaces had a strong ethical culture in 2020, compared with 1 in 10 who felt that way in 2000. employees experienced 2x more pressure in 2020. This is a critical component of what we have always believed strong coaching and sales leadership cultures must include. Compared with 2017, U.S.

Sales 52

Sales Culture Leadership Brands 52

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 28, 2020

The higher up in the organization, the further away from dealing with customers directly. It’s easy to believe your brand is thinking of customers when in reality the leadership simply isn’t ever asked to do so. This led leaders to have quarterly, short-term visions instead of long-term, customer-focused strategies.

Strategy 225

Strategy Customer Journeys Customer Experience Net Promoter Score 225

Customer Guru

AUGUST 21, 2018

DiJulius is a best-selling author of three books, a renowned keynote speaker, and an international customer experience consultant. John is an “Ex-Disney Guy” and Customer Experience Coach. John is an “Ex-Disney Guy” and Customer Experience Coach. Marketing and thought leadership programs. John Formica Follow @JohnFormica.

Customer Experience 115

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Consulting Customer Experience Professionals 115

Lumoa

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Our guests have multiple years of experience in managing and consulting customer experience management in global companies and now lead their own businesses helping companies make customers happier. Some hints: big data, omnichannel, personalisation, AI and organizational culture. Don’t underestimate culture.

Customer Experience 160

Customer Experience Customer Centricity Culture Consulting 160

Zeisler Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2021

Here goes: Good employee engagement is an absolute requirement in order to drive good CX. Meanwhile, you’ll expend plenty of resources that you may otherwise use to enhance the experiences for your actual Customers all the while patting yourself on the back about what a great culture you’ve created.

Culture 93

Culture Airlines Employee Experience Customers 93