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.

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Culture Customer Service Leadership Airlines 114

CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

Sheri Kendall, Training Manager at Wayfair remembers, "Zappos has played an integral part in my love story with CX. When I was first introduced to the company I read everything I could find about their culture, training, leadership philosophy, and Tony. They revered the customer relationship and upended everything else.

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Return on Investment Culture Customer Centricity Ecommerce 182

ShepHyken

JUNE 7, 2021

The Secret Ingredients of a CX-Led Company Culture by Steven van Belleghem. CMO from IDG) Customer experience simply does not live in a void controlled by the marketing teams. Here, he shares an article focused on culture. Being Customer-centric Starts With A Top-Notch Employee Experiencestanley by Stanley Huang.

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Customer Service Loyalty Programs Customer Journeys Customer Centricity 133

ECXO

MARCH 21, 2023

Journey Map Your way to Customer Experience Maturity in Just 8 Steps + 12 with CX and EX Customer experience culture is a set of values, beliefs, and behaviors that a company adopts in order to create a customer-centric culture. Based on the company ‘’mindset’’ and approach.

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B2B Customer Experience Roadmap Culture 98

ShepHyken

JULY 27, 2022

One of my favorite sayings is, “What’s happening inside an organization is felt on the outside by the customer.” You can’t expect to consistently deliver a great customer experience if you aren’t creating a great employee experience. Some companies conduct exit interviews for employees who have chosen to move on.

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Culture Employee Experience Customer Service Training Training 67

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Is customer experience worth it? C-level leaders want to know if customer experience (CX) is worth the investment. Customer-focused employees across marketing, sales, HR, and other departments want to know if new CX initiatives are worth pushing for. How to invest in Customer Experience.

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Customer Experience Effort Score Net Promoter Score Culture 261

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 16, 2018

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.” If customer-centric culture-building and customer-focused initiatives were the only end goals, perhaps these approaches would be sufficient.

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Culture Company Customer Centricity Travel 83

Playvox

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In an era of agent turnover, budget cuts, and fleeting customer loyalty, it’s useful to explore the evolution of quality management from its traditional, compliance-focused roots to a modern, customer-centric approach. Automate recruiting, training, and onboarding. Understand customer sentiment. But why stop there?

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Customer Centricity Contact Center Management Customer Satisfaction 83

Innovative CX

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

How do we satisfy the needs of each while creating a culture that will support and deliver an effective CX strategy? What does all this have to do with improving the customer and employee experience in an organization? Having a culture flexible enough to do this is not an easy undertaking. Consider these examples.

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Culture Strategy Examples Engagement 56

ShepHyken

APRIL 11, 2022

What’s Your Training Schedule? Josh Linkner) Professional athletes achieve at the highest levels by spending 90% of their time training and 10% of their time performing. In fact, most business leaders, parents, and professionals spend closer to zero percent of their time in thoughtful study of their craft or training for improvement.

Customer Service 64

Customer Service Employee Engagement Customer Service Training Loyalty Programs 64

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Understanding what gives your customers “gratification” will help you meet and exceed their expectations. Your Customer Experience Model Has a Problem—Your Employee Experience is the Solution by Janelle Dieken. My Comment: We’re back to one of my favorite topics, which is the employee experience (EX).

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Customer Service Hospitality e-support eBook 70

CX Journey

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

If they're not all on board, if they don't all agree that the purpose of the business is create and to nurture customers, then there's a lot of short-term thinking that focuses on the numbers rather than a long-term vision to transform the culture and the business. It's about the employee experience more first!

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Employee Experience Culture Policies Customer Experience Professionals 116

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

However, with what is being referred to as The Big Quit, The Great Resignation, and other clever names to describe a problem plaguing many businesses today, we must focus on the employee experience more than ever. The cost of employee turnover goes beyond hiring and training. That can cause customers to leave as well.

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Customer Service Training Training Employee Experience Company 123

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Most organizations do not fully understand, or leverage, the key linkages and relationships between customer experience and employee experience/behavior. Enterprises typically focus on employee satisfaction or engagement, in the belief that high levels in either area will directly drive customer loyalty.

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Survey Company Leadership Study 111

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It represents a holistic approach that is aimed at transforming call center functions into a streamlined, customer-focused powerhouse. The ultimate objectives are crystal clear: Boost Customer Satisfaction : Happy customers are loyal customers. Call center optimization goes beyond minor operational adjustments.

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Call Center Tools Contact Center Net Promoter Score 104

CX Journey

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

That translates nicely to customer focus and to delivering a consistently great customer experience. I believe that every company should strive to achieve this level of customer experience maturity , where we look at each other every day and say, "What the hell is customer experience?" Enough said.

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Customer Experience Customer Centricity Return on Investment Culture 193

ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2021

Unit4’s Michelle MacCarthy has three recommendations for managing customer success through culture, engagement, and technology. My Comment: I enjoy articles that focus on the culture, and that is exactly what this article is about. First, a great customer experience starts with the employee experience.

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Self Service Customer Service Customer Journeys B2B 126

ShepHyken

JANUARY 6, 2020

I’m intrigued by the first of the six ideas, which focuses on culture, but not the corporate culture. It is about being in alignment with the customer and society’s culture. Employee Experience and Customer Experience Depend on Strategy by Liliana Petrova. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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Customer Service Contact Center Customer Journeys Employee Experience 104

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 29, 2019

These include a CX mindset, company culture, and leadership development. Everyone in a company, from executives to frontline employees, must have a CX mindset—an attitude of service and a desire to make their customers’ lives better. There is a correlation between how employees feel at work and the quality of work that they do.

Employee Experience 82

Employee Experience Culture Connections Technology 82

ShepHyken

MARCH 18, 2019

1 0 Tips to Build a Customer Centric Work Culture by Vandita Grover. MarTech Advisor) We list 10 customer experience (CX) tips that will establish customer centricity as the core philosophy of your organization and help create a customer-focused environment across your company.

Net Promoter Score 87

Net Promoter Score Customer Service Omni-Channel Customer Centricity 87

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Having a Customer-Centric culture doesn’t happen by accident. It takes a lot of work and concentration to create a deliberate Customer experience from all the parts of your organization. The reason you are delivering the Customer experience you do today is because of the way the organization is.

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Customer Centricity Employee Experience CEM Culture 114

Integrity Solutions

OCTOBER 27, 2021

After all, you can’t consistently deliver at such a high level- at every customer touch point- if only certain people are responsible for making sure it happens. In fact, exceptional customer service is more than a functional role; it’s a purpose, rooted in a culture and an understanding of what it means to be truly customer-focused.

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Customer Service Self Service Banking Culture 67

ShepHyken

MAY 16, 2018

A successful customer experience strategy is a result of the company’s culture. In other words, and I’ve said it many times before, what’s happening on the inside of the company is going to felt on the outside of the company by the customer. Let’s look at the EX, which is the Employee Experience.

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Employee Experience Hotels Video Culture 96

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Regardless of the definition, trauma is not something you want your customers to experience. This is all about being customer-focused. Whenever you make any kind of change to your product, process, price—anything—you must ask yourself, “How is this going to impact the customer?” Change can be good.

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Customer Focused Customer Service Training Employee Experience Customer Experience 122

Russel Lolacher

MARCH 2, 2022

Annette Franz , and that new book is Built to Win: Designing a Customer-Centric Culture that Drives Value for Your Business. I’m extremely excited to further learn from her and, I have no patience, so we had a discussion about what it takes to build a customer-centric organization that I wanted to share with you.

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Customer Centricity Omni-Channel Culture Leadership 59

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The mantra is a simple phrase—one sentence or less—that sums up your customer service culture. Don’t forget that customer experience starts with employee experience. Remember, what happens on the inside of the organization is felt on the outside by the customer. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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Customer Service Customer Experience Tips Social Media 123

CX Journey

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Source: Accenture Global Consumer Pulse Research, 2013 Amazon is really a great example of a customer-focused, customer-centric company. Actually, the better phrase, their phrase, is "obsessed over customers." customer experience customer focus customer-centric culture' Simon Sinek.

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Customer Centricity Poor Customer Service Metrics Customer Focused 160

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The stage includes ensuring that the employee has access to any applications and systems that are required for his job. Career Planning : During the planning stage, the employee and management collaboratively develop objectives and goals. Career Development : In this stage, the employee matures in his/her role in the organization.

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e-support Banking Culture Consulting 89

ShepHyken

AUGUST 18, 2023

AI-powered tools can analyze vast amounts of data to provide relevant solutions and recommendations, leading to improved customer experiences. Striking the Right Balance Ensuring Employee Training and AI Adoption Proper training and support are essential for employees to embrace AI effectively.

Customer Satisfaction 62

Customer Satisfaction Customer Service Exceptional Customer Service Employee Engagement 62

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 31, 2018

This is particularly true when endeavoring to identify employees’ level of commitment to the company, to its product and/or service value proposition, and to its customers. Most organizations do not fully understand, or leverage, the key linkages and relationships between customer experience and employee experience/behavior.

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Survey How To Culture Leadership 68

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Having a Customer-Centric culture doesn’t happen by accident. It takes a lot of work and concentration to create a deliberate Customer experience from all the parts of your organization. The reason you are delivering the Customer experience you do today is because of the way the organization is.

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Social Media Customer Centricity Culture Employee Experience 92

CX Journey

APRIL 5, 2017

Thou shalt put employees more first. The link between the employee experience and customer experience is real. Yes, you're in business to create and nurture customers. In order for employees to deliver on it, they must know it, i.e., it must be clearly communicated to them and reiterated often.

Customer Experience 144

Customer Experience Policies Employee Experience Innovation 144

Comm100

JUNE 19, 2018

At Disney, one of the most important parts of having a strong customer focus is having a common purpose and a clear brand promise. In short – aliases can be fantastic to inspire engaged employees to achieve better. But be cautious of mandating their use, as encouraging disengaged employees to fake a persona can be damaging.

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Contact Center Entertainment eBook Culture 101

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Customer centricity requires strategy to cultivate a culture that puts the Customer at the center of everything you do. As the third in our series of nine posts looking at the different parts of the organization contributing to Customer centricity, let’s look at: Customer Strategy. Hiring Customer-Ready Employees.

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Net Promoter Score Strategy Customer Centricity CEM 163

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Anand Janefalkar, CEO of UJET, “debunks” three myths, including the one that claims that human customer service will be eliminated. Improve Employee Experience to Improve Customer Experience by Jeannie Walters. Experience Investigators) The employee experience can feel hard to manage.

Customer Service 85

Customer Service Conference Employee Experience Customer Service Training 85

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Their customers don’t know about this initiative. They don’t know about the hours of training the employees are going through. All they know is that the experience is working. Once again, I share one of my favorite concepts: What’s happening inside the organization is felt on the outside by customers. .

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Customer Service Training Training Video Customer Experience 126

ShepHyken

MARCH 20, 2020

She shares five different strategies to build a stronger and more effective employee experience. According to Gallup’s recent polls, 87% of employees worldwide are not engaged. I get it, it’s hard to always interact with unhappy customers or deal with people complaining about a product or service they disliked.

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Contact Center Employee Experience Employee Engagement Training 104