Kristina Evey

JULY 9, 2014

Getting new customers, keeping those customers, and making more money are the goals you have for your business, right? Then let me share one of the most crucial factors into setting up that equation – DEFINE your ideal desired company culture ! Companies with clearly defined cultures have a high level of staff engagement.

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Culture Customer Centricity Loyalty Leadership 225

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Creating customer personas is an important part of any customer journey mapping exercise or really any customer experience management program. What is a Customer Persona? What is a Customer Persona? A customer persona is a visualization of a representation of your customer.

Customer Journeys 375

Customer Journeys Culture B2B B2C 375

InMoment XI

APRIL 19, 2022

And though this is applicable for improving experiences for customers and employees, we also mean that it’s important to really be present in the moments that matter most to you personally. Encouraging a Self-Care Culture. Doing so clearly displays employee commitment , and will lead to cultural and business success long term.

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Resources Exercises Tools Culture 493

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I speak with customer experience professionals every day. Some of them have fancy, customer-focused titles like Chief Customer Officer or Vice President of Customer Experience. Others have more common org chart regulars, like Chief Marketing Officer or Voice fo the Customer (VoC) Director. What’s the difference?

Leadership 259

Leadership Customer Experience Customer Centricity How To 259

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 23, 2020

What Does Employee and Customer Empathy Really Mean, Anyway? How about customer empathy? We know that the best brands in the world create empathy for both employees and customers. Think about your best experiences as a customer. Think about your best experiences as a customer. Employee empathy? Misery comparison.

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Exercises Culture Employee Engagement Customers 214

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Later I learned that in Asia, standing up and answering a question in front of 100 people during a presentation was, from a cultural perspective, was considered rude. It occurred to me that perhaps some of you have had something similar to your Customer Experiences in a different culture. We had them define their experience.

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Culture Net Promoter Score Consulting Effort Score 97

CX Journey

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Image courtesy of Pixabay What is a Culture Committee? Without a doubt, they are an important part of the customer experience transformation governance structure and transformation success. Another team that's important to your transformation is a Culture Committee. But culture doesn't just happen, either.

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Culture Meeting Exercises Groups 86

Comm100

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Most companies would agree that excellent customer service is a crucial aspect of running a business. A simple conversation between a customer service agent and a client goes a long way in determining whether that client will continue to pay for your services or whether they will move on. According to Cynthia J.

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Culture How To Tips Training 161

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. That’s not it at all. Core Values.

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Customer Centricity Culture Customer Journeys Leadership 80

ShepHyken

MAY 19, 2021

This is simply a positive experience we created for either a customer or team member at Shepard Presentations. It helps us keep customer service “front-of-mind” and is a positive way to start a meeting. By the way, this is the same exercise we teach in our customer service training programs. Because it works!

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Meeting Customer Service Exercises Customer Service Training 138

Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 25, 2024

Storytelling is an essential part of communication with customers, too. Brands that want to communicate this to their customers need an explanation that helps them understand how that is possible. This exercise allowed my potential clients to understand the concept personally. A story can help here. Be relatable.

Customer Engagement 78

Customer Engagement Engagement Exercises Connections 78

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

When working to grow their business and revenue, companies often focus most (if not all) of their resources on attracting new customers. Customers expect (and deserve!) If a customer tries a new brand that fails to deliver on their needs—especially during the earliest interactions—they have little reason to support it.

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Customer Retention Loyalty Loyalty Programs Social Media 271

Alida

APRIL 28, 2016

And when it comes to corporate culture, Hubspot has touted itself as a “ lovable company.” Many business leaders confess to aspiring to copy Hubspot’s “culture code,” which the company has made public since 2013. If the image that you project doesn’t accurately reflect your culture, current and former employees will call you out.

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Employee Engagement Culture Engagement Handbook 100

CX Journey

APRIL 3, 2019

Image courtesy of Pixabay If you don't know by now, customer understanding is the cornerstone of customer-centricity. Customer-centricity means putting the customer at the center; customer understanding is how you'll achieve that. What is customer-centricity? They ask, “How will this impact the customer?

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Customer Centricity Exercises Customers Culture 150

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 8, 2020

I know plenty of people who go through these exercises from a personal and professional standpoint. The same could be said about overall company goals, leadership goals and yes, customer experience goals, too. What was the top priority for our customer experience goals? What was the best thing we heard from customers?

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Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Effort Score Exercises 329

Micah Solomon

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The author, Micah Solomon, is an author, consultant, influencer, keynote speaker, and trainer in customer service, customer experience, customer service culture, and hospitality. Train your employees to handle unhappy customers–and to win them back when things go wrong. Develop a company language lexicon.

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Customer Experience Self Service Customer Service Hospitality 264

Uniphore

JANUARY 13, 2022

Andrew shared his thoughts on the value of company culture, how to empower a growing workforce and what leadership lessons he’s learned from nearly two decades in the tech industry. on most days I will either get some aerobic exercise via Peloton or some weight training in the gym. At around 6 a.m. This is an exciting time. “We

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Meeting Culture Exercises Connections 246

C3Centricity

JULY 1, 2019

One of the best ways to a deeper understanding of your customers is to watch and listen to them whenever you can. Customer observation is a powerful, but unfortunately too often an under-utilised tool of marketers. True understanding comes from regular interaction with your customers, not just from an infrequent observation or two.

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Culture Exercises Connections Analysis 149

Helpt

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

They are the invisible threads that weave together a strong company culture, foster effective teamwork, and empower your team to navigate the ever-changing IT landscape. A positive and collaborative culture fosters trust, motivates employees, and attracts top talent. Recognize and reward employee achievements.

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Leadership Culture Communication Exercises 98

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Customer experience is not a fad or a trend or a buzzy phrase. That’s why the foundational work of defining CX at your organization, through a CX Mission Statement and CX Success Statement , are so critically important to accomplishing real change and delivering on real outcomes through customer experience. Start with the why.

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Communication Tips Customer Journeys Customer Experience 178

ShepHyken

JANUARY 4, 2017

To kick off the start of 2017 I could share my “Top Seventeen Ways to Deliver Great Customer Service in 2017.” One of the most important ways to improve customer service is to make sure that everyone in an organization (company) is in alignment with the customer service and/or experience vision. And, that word is… alignment. .

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Customer Journeys Customer Focused Culture Touchpoint 96

CSM Magazine

APRIL 13, 2023

Excellent customer service is the backbone of any successful business, and it relies on a team of motivated, engaged, and well-coordinated professionals. Team bonding is essential to building a high-performing customer service team. They can also include experiential activities and exercises that simulate real-life situations.

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Engagement Customer Service Exercises Groups 52

CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 3, 2019

What about the way the company treats its customers? Make CX mandatory, not optional right from the start For those companies serious about a customer-centric culture, this must be introduced and ingrained from day one. Failure to do so is disrespecting the customer and the business."

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Tips Culture Exercises Feedback 296

CX Accelerator

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Collaboration with Ben Motteram and Nate Brown To transform an organization into one that is more customer centric is a complex task that requires many different skills. Customer experience is multi-disciplinary. Customer Insights/Measurement/Analytics. Customer Journey Mapping. Project/Program Management.

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Customer Journeys Resources Analytics Customer Centricity 307

ChurnZero

JANUARY 18, 2023

This is a guest article by Swati Garg , founder and CEO, Melo Associates , and Lindsay Lynch , senior recruitment consultant, Melo Associates , a recruitment firm focused on Customer Success hiring for SaaS and tech companies nationwide. As a Customer Success recruiting firm, we speak with active and passive job seekers all day, every day.

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Customer Success Culture Exercises Trends 98

CloudCherry

JANUARY 2, 2020

First off, Braeden emphasizes the Culture Shift that’s happening. It’s not so much about the product…Companies aren’t really comparing on product level anymore; They’re comparing to Customer Experience.”. Skilled in Business Planning, Customer Experience Management, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Market Research, and Management.

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Exercises Culture Tips Industry 195

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Building a Customer-centric Culture From the Frontlines to the C-suite. She shares how to leverage the insights of your frontline staff to design customer experiences and create a customer-centric culture. . The company’s leadership needs to be aligned with its customer experience goals.

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Customer Centricity Culture Exercises Leadership 120

Up Your Service

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

What is HR’s role in creating a strong and sustainable service culture? What is a service excellence culture? There’s a growing emphasis on treating employees as customers within the HR function. What can HR professionals learn from research on customer service excellence?

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Culture Exercises Leadership Tips 40

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The 7 Telltale Signs of a Company NOT Committed to Customers. I discovered many years ago that I could determine whether a company was committed to customers pretty quickly. The ideas behind this discovery later became my second book, Revolutionize Your Customer Experience. ”, few of them would say false.

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Company Customer Centricity Exercises Consulting 142

CX Accelerator

APRIL 11, 2018

A survival mode culture is one of the fastest way to destroy the experience for your customers as well as your employees. The customer suffers as well. At its very core, the work of Customer Experience (CX) is the timely effort of collecting customer data and solving relevant problems over the long run.

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Customer Experience Effort Score Exercises Wireless 182

Magellan Solutions

JULY 20, 2023

Language learning has become a key factor in bridging cultural gaps and is essential in developing personal and professional backgrounds. Users can practice their language skills by engaging in conversational exercises with the chatbot. Nuances and cultural references may sometimes be lost or inaccurately translated.

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Communication Tools Chatbots Exercises 94

ShepHyken

JANUARY 15, 2024

Top Takeaways: Shep’s Comment: Some may not see this as a customer service or CX interview. If they are on the frontline, dealing with customers, you want an elite performer, not just a competent performer. How can businesses encourage a shift from a blaming culture to a solution-focused accountability culture?

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Sports How To Exercises Culture 78

ShepHyken

JULY 1, 2019

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Is Customer Service The Same As Customer Experience? My Comment: What’s the difference between customer service and customer experience? Want to Consistently Deliver Remarkable Customer Experiences?

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Customer Journeys Customer Service Exercises B2C 119

Michel Falcon Experience

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As for exercising, sure I go to the occasional Barry’s Bootcamp but I wouldn’t allow anyone else to train me other than the trainers at SWAT Health. But, when and why does loyalty falter when doing business with our customers, employees, and suppliers? If our customers start behaving poorly then we may decline to service them.

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Loyalty Culture Strategy How To 60

ijgolding

JANUARY 17, 2017

In my exclusive column for CustomerThink in October 2016, I shared my ‘top tips’ for creating the right culture to enable an organisation to become genuinely customer centric. In November 2016 I did so with tip number 1 – how to make Customer Experience a priority for the whole company – you can read it here.

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Customer Experience How To Customer Centricity Tips 168

CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 3, 2019

What about the way the company treats its customers? Make CX mandatory, not optional right from the start For those companies serious about a customer-centric culture, this must be introduced and ingrained from day one. Failure to do so is disrespecting the customer and the business.".

Tips 182

Tips Culture Exercises Feedback 182

CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 3, 2019

What about the way the company treats its customers? Make CX mandatory, not optional right from the start For those companies serious about a customer-centric culture, this must be introduced and ingrained from day one. Failure to do so is disrespecting the customer and the business.". ,,, 4.

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Tips Culture Exercises Feedback 182