Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 27, 2016

One day, I was asking Horst about a client of mine that was struggling to engage customers. As I presented the challenge to Horst, I explained the efforts the company’s leaders had exerted to, “improve the quality of their customer experience so that most customers had less pain during interactions”.

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Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In keeping with that message, I am excited to be blogging about one of my favorite leadership brands – Ed Mady and to use Ed as an example of the importance of creating signature moments that frame those “out of earshot” conversations. Branded Customer Experience. Here are just a few examples of Ed’s recent tweets.

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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. Customers are not always right and when they wrongly mistreat your staff they should become former customers!

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Michelli Experience

JULY 25, 2017

I also opined on the critical role of trust in strengthening the social contract between businesses and customers. As such, I suggested business leaders should take the first step by trusting customers out of respect and gratitude for them. I depict this relationship in the formula: High TRUST = Happy Employees = Happy Customers =.

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Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

I have been slow to accept that, from a service perspective, humans will ever be replaced by computers. 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.

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 25, 2016

If a video can’t entertain, then why can’t it inform simultaneously—specifically in the realm of customer service? Videos are very efficient in dispensing valuable information that would help the customer base enjoy and possibly encourage more transactions. It helps potential customers warm up to a product.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In business today, it takes leadership to build a business that consistently engages customers. If customers aren’t emotionally connected to your brand, through the experiences you provide, you will be vulnerable to offers and solicitations from your competitors. Which are you? Such was the case for Mercedes-Benz!

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Michelli Experience

MAY 8, 2018

Redesigning Process Improvement in the Age of AI & the Customer. In essence, if you standardized your processes, you maximized efficiencies and drove consistency into your product creation and service delivery. Leadership: “Making a commitment to the responsible use of AI from the start.”. But What About the Customer?

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Storyminers

MAY 21, 2020

Too many organisations are “doing” before “designing” when it comes to digital transformation and customer experience. That’s the view of managing principal of Storyminers and experience design expert, Mike Wittenstein. The bottom line is they’re doing before design.”. Change by design.

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Michelli Experience

AUGUST 1, 2017

Over the past couple blogs, I reported a trust gap , emphasized the need to extend trust to customers , and outlined an initial list of qualities possessed by trustworthy leaders. Individually, and through resources, see that the problem is taken care of in a way that meets the satisfaction of the customer/team member and does not recur.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The focus on enhancing customer experience has gained traction in recent years. As businesses recognize its value, the shift from a product-centered approach to a customer-centric one continues. Actionability is also, as we believe, one of the essential aspects of customer experience management.

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Storyminers

JULY 29, 2018

Too many organisations are “doing” before “designing” when it comes to digital and customer transformation, and not going deep enough into insights analysis and cultural change. Wittenstein agreed that with the arrival of more technology at the front end of engagement, marketing and customer experience are aggressively coming together.

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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. Here is the truth from the trenches… .

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Michelli Experience

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Online retailers like Amazon have made shopping easier (24-hours a day, purchasing from the comfort of our home, with no lines at checkout) but they make customers wait for delivery (typically relying on UPS). For example, earlier this year Amazon began experimenting with ways to provide “on demand” delivery services.

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Michelli Experience

JULY 27, 2016

During my more than a decade relationship with the brand, I’ve never ceased to be amazed by the commitment of Starbucks leaders when it comes to continuous improvement for both the customer and employee experience. From a process perspective, Starbucks continues to explore ways to increase the speed of service.

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Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 23, 2015

According to Forrester Research, 93% of corporate leadership teams place customer experience improvement on their list of strategic priorities and 23% businesses have it in the number 1 position. So how do you not only satisfy your customers, but actually delight them? Well, not exactly. Actually, not at all.

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

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Storyminers

JULY 29, 2018

Too many organisations are “doing” before “designing” when it comes to digital transformation and customer experience. That’s the view of managing principal of Storyminers and experience design expert, Mike Wittenstein. The bottom line is they’re doing before design.”. Change by design.

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 18, 2016

Erin is a joy to lead, but she presents you with a big leadership challenge. Mike Figliuolo is the co-author of Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results and the author of One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership. Her talent means she could move on to bigger roles.

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 9, 2016

There are few things more important about leadership than developing and growing talent. As for the innovative, vital, and soulful culture at Acuity, I will let you read Fortune magazine to learn more about that and how Acuity was chosen the 2nd best workplace in the nation.

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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? So let’s assume you want to drive increased customer accountability in your business. Where do you start?

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Michelli Experience

APRIL 20, 2016

More than a decade ago marketing professors Kevin Keller and Alice Tybout advanced two concepts that not only changed the way people market their businesses but also SHOULD have changed the way we think about delivering customer experiences. In essence, they are the things you and your customers call your own.

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Myra Golden

APRIL 10, 2017

And I still needed to sit down with Jim to talk about issues with his recent tone with a customer. The second meeting was a task force to look for ways to increase customer loyalty. George was a bright, energetic, proactive frontline customer service representative. At 2:30 I have a customer loyalty task force meeting.

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Michelli Experience

APRIL 18, 2017

I was going to write a blog about all the missteps involved in the United Airlines customer experience disaster. Then I started seeing an “abundance of critics” rushing out of the woodworks – some of whom clearly have never tried to help a company strike a balance between customer needs and profitability. Such things as….

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Airlines Travel Transportation Customer Centricity 230

Michelli Experience

MARCH 27, 2018

I lay no claim to my prognostic ability, but when it comes to the future of customer experience delivery, I’m willing to venture an educated guess. Currently, companies like Amazon win customers through the selection, price, and ease involved in the shopping process. They lose them when customers want items now.

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Michelli Experience

JUNE 15, 2016

None of us knows how long we will have to be in service to others, nor do we know the back story of each person we are about to serve. Typically, we don’t know if the next customer has suffered a recent tragedy, is distressed by health or financial difficulties, or feels unaccepted by others.

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Stella Connect

JANUARY 4, 2022

Customer service coaching refers to the practice of ongoing communication between the agent and their manager to hone in on how to improve on specific skills, achieve specific goals, and develop their craft so they can handle even the most difficult customer interactions. Coaching Customer Service Agents for Individual Growth.

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SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

The Super-Heroes of Customer Experience are here! Customer Experience – The new focus of 2020! Customer Experience has become a top priority for businesses in 2020. They have not only brought new perspectives on the table but have redefined the customer experience exceptionally!

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 22, 2018

Customer Experience Design Strategies. For me, my “go to” strategies for product development or experience innovation involve components from my “empathic design” toolkit. In that article, Dorothy Leonard details many empathic design strategies including: User-designer. Ethnographic research.

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Michelli Experience

OCTOBER 19, 2016

They also expect their people to treat one another accordingly and to extend that treatment to the customers they serve. Accordingly, they produce interactions with customers that are frequently caustic and tension-filled. However, he had not worked his way out of anger, resentment, bitterness or a “controlling” leadership style.

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 22, 2018

Customer Experience Design Strategies. For me, my “go to” strategies for product development or experience innovation involve components from my “empathetic design” toolkit. In that article, Dorothy Leonard details many “empathetic design” strategies including: User-designer. Ethnographic research.

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Michelli Experience

AUGUST 15, 2017

Your Customer Experience Defined. From my perspective, your customer experience is the sum of perceptions consumers have about your brand based on their interactions with you. As a customer experience consultant, I disagree. Associations that Affect Customer Perception appeared first on Joseph Michelli.

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Michelli Experience

JUNE 13, 2017

Customer Experience Speaker, Consultant, Author VS. CASHIERS. To mitigate against our replaceability, we have to constantly assess what produces value in an ever-changing marketplace of customer wants, needs, and desires. Together my clients and I look for what serves their customers best. Master the Machines.

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Michelli Experience

JULY 4, 2017

Great leaders often ask me to help them create “customer value”, while others ask me to help them create “profit.” For me, the only way to generate sustainable profit is by developing a core competency for customer value creation. You have a customer solution, now what? You have a customer solution, now what?

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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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Connections Social Media Video Customer Experience Design 100

Michelli Experience

MAY 30, 2017

The progression of the Internet, mobile technology, social networking and social media is fundamentally reshaping the way we interact with our core customers and members. We may need to adjust our strategic initiatives depending on our members’ and customers’ reactions to and level of engagement with our initiatives.

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