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How to Gain Leadership Buy-In for Customer Experience: A Guide for CX Change Agents

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

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.

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Customer Centric Leadership: Are You Investing in the Organisational “Ecosystem” or Your Personal “Egosystem”?

ijgolding

The question was a precursor to defining why Customer Experience needs good, strong leadership. This month, I want to ask three connected but altogether different questions: What do you do if the organisation you work for or with does NOT have strong customer focused leadership?

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Transformational Leadership – the key to unlocking the competencies of Customer Experience Professionals

ijgolding

If you have followed my writing for a while, you will be very much aware that I am very proud and passionate Customer Experience Professional (CXP). One of a growing number of ‘specialists’ in the newly recognised professional field, this group of skilled, experienced practitioners is growing in number on a weekly basis.

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2021 CX Reflections – Building Community Through Servant Leadership

Horizon CX

Having a customer-centric mindset, as those of us within the Customer Experience profession tend to have, I’m particularly concerned about how we respond to those recommended measures intended to help mitigate viral transmissions—physical distancing, masks, sanitizers, vaccinations, etc. Consider the following.

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The Power of Multiplying Leadership

Horizon CX

Those might at first appear to be two leadership extremes and to some degree they are but unfortunately, they’re more common within business than we’d probably like to admit. Leaders in general, but especially those that are leading in Customer Experience roles, are in a challenging position today made even more difficult by the pandemic.

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Inspiration, Dedication, Perspiration – welcome to the mind of the Customer Experience Professional!

ijgolding

Last week I was afforded the undeniable pleasure of spending two whole days with Diane Magers, CEO of the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA). Great Customer Experience Professionals know that their reward comes as a result of doing the right thing – not putting ourselves first.

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Customer Experience Quotes to Inspire Your Company’s CX Transformation

InMoment XI

The best customer experience quotes can be a great source of inspiration for leadership teams and entire organizations looking to drive their CX transformation. Customer-centric companies are 60% more profitable than companies that don’t focus on customers.