Michelli Experience

AUGUST 10, 2016

It is one thing to be customer-centric (striving to build customer loyalty by helping your people, processes, and technology deliver customer engagement) and quite another thing to let your people become customer doormats. Service professionals certainly need skills to manage angry customers.

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ClearAction

APRIL 29, 2020

CEOs are committing to this modern standard: “purpose of business is to benefit customers, employees, suppliers, communities, and shareholders”. This stakeholder capitalism approach to management requires a deeper look at the ideal targets for customer experience leaders. job-to-be-done)].

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 27, 2016

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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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SmartKarrot

APRIL 15, 2022

Present data, findings, results, and recommendations to leadership. Negotiate effectively with customers and partners and ensure that all Limeade contractual obligations and service commitments are met. Challenge the customers on how they operate, share examples of other customers and best practice.

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Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 27, 2016

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”. Who in the world wants to follow you or that leadership team if your aspiration is so timid.

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 16, 2016

Clearly that man’s employer should have created a culture that put “employees first,” right? This means that there are situations where employees are highly engaged and customers are not (think of a workplace where employees feel like they are on a cruise but they forget to invite the customers along for the fun journey).

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 6, 2016

Hmm… Spending 7 times more to bring customers into your business (some of whom aren’t loyal by nature) or investing far less on the ones who want to be in relationship with you. If you want a competitive advantage driving customer engagement in 2016 …. Measure and drive employee engagement.

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Michelli Experience

JULY 27, 2016

Recently, for example, Starbucks has loosened up the employee (referred to as partner) dress code – expanding the acceptable clothing color pallet beyond black, khaki, and white. In addition to partner engagement, leadership is also targeting customer experience enhancements driven by process changes and technology deployment.

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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 what did leaders at Mercedes-Benz do that might help you with your customer experience elevation?

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 7, 2017

I’ve come to believe that in order to be truly successful deploying a customer-experience strategy, you fundamentally have to believe: In general, customers are honest and fair. Lifetime customer value is more important than any single transaction. Lifetime customer value is more important than any single transaction.

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Michelli Experience

APRIL 20, 2016

While marketers like to call attention to aspects of a brand that they want to cement as PODS in the minds of prospects and customers, experience designers like me and business leaders like you should be thinking about DELIVERING PODS – behaving in ways that are relevant, different and valued by your customers.

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Michelli Experience

JUNE 15, 2016

I also remember appreciating how leadership and the baristas at his Starbucks took the time to be “NICE” to him – thus providing a respite from the challenges he faced. I come to Starbucks for a coffee during my lunch break BECAUSE THEY ARE NICE TO ME and I feel able to get through the afternoon at work.” .

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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.

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Wootric CX Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Her She is a customer journey expert whose analysis of customer feedback at key touchpoints has led to product and service enhancements that have delighted customers. Why we love Angus: He’s the Customer Experience Manager at Sendoso and prides himself in “helping people connect the old fashion way.”

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 4, 2022

These insights will help manage and measure customer success efforts. Customer insights will help chalk the perfect customer success strategy. It is important to establish customer success at all levels of the organization. This alone will allow them to look from a customer-specific focus.

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Michelli Experience

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

These two NPS metrics are highly correlated – meaning when staff members “perceive” their company as worthy of being referred customers share that perception. So, why is it that some companies don’t focus on “perception” management in the pursuit of business success?

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Michelli Experience

AUGUST 31, 2016

DRU the drone has been testing pizza deliveries in New Zealand – a country with legislation favoring commercial drone deliveries.

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Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

” So the moral of the story, thanks to Joshie and Adolpho, is inspire and drive the power of individual and small group acts for the betterment of humankind and customer experience excellence.

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Michel Falcon Experience

APRIL 11, 2019

Company culture, customer experience, and employee engagement, and how all those three work together to build an admired, profitable company. I had the aspirations to grow this big experience, design advisory firm in my early 20s. I remember speaking to my manager. Michel Falcon: Yeah.

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Michelli Experience

JULY 4, 2017

The company goes through the process of photographing, identifying, categorizing and adding each item to an inventory that can be managed in a mobile app. When you store your stuff with Omni, it doesn’t just sit in a box or crate collecting dust in a warehouse somewhere.

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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

JUNE 7, 2016

Great leaders like Muhammad Ali inspire us with the grace by which they manage their adversity. He viewed success as an obligation to do good in the world. 5) Remain Positive in the Face of Adversity: All of us, to one degree or another, suffer Shakespeare’s “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.”

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 19, 2016

They have had to learn to manage options, information overload and make quick decisions on where they will dedicate their energy and attention. Millennials are native to the “new media” where events are documented in real time by people like themselves who offer eyewitness accounts on Twitter. Millennials are DISCERNING.

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Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In that article, Matt Carey discussed Home Depot’s substantial long-term investment designed to “transform the customer experience across all its channels, whether it’s in stores, in a person’s home, online or on a customer’s mobile device.”.

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Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

While far less harsh, the world of customer experience performance management has certainly taken a turn in the direction of increased accountability! It also has a morbid Darwinian flair whereby only the best architects survived.

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Michelli Experience

JUNE 28, 2016

As I help business leaders deliver branded customer experiences, I often start with the premise that brands are nothing more than what people say about us when we’re not around. From there, I work with leaders to determine what they want to be known for and what they want to hear their customers say about them.

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Michelli Experience

AUGUST 22, 2017

It’s hard to believe it has been seven months since United Airlines faced the first of three monumental customer experience debacles. Here’s a walk down that pothole-riddled memory lane: January 22 nd all domestic flights were grounded for 2.5 hours due to a problem with a computer system that provides technical information to pilots.

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 10, 2017

As customers, we’ve encountered a service provider who unfortunately chose to attend to something of interest to them instead of attending to our needs. We’ve all had it happen.

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Michelli Experience

MAY 11, 2016

It’s that time of year when we remember and honor our mothers, so allow me to harken back to a “momism” that was frequently uttered in my childhood home. Marie Michelli was quick to say, “tell me who you run around with and I’ll tell you what you are.”.

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 23, 2016

So think about the world today and the chaos which envelops you and your customers. Based on the opinion of many people far smarter than me, it appears that humans have been on a journey to bring order to chaos from the beginning of time. In fact, the great graphic artist M.

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Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

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

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 2, 2016

Having worked with Starbucks since 2004, as I began my journey to my first of two books about them ( The Starbucks Experience and later Leading the Starbucks Way ), friends and colleagues are quick to contact me whenever Starbucks makes the news. That goes for both good and bad news!

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Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

My job was to “improve customer service by deploying employee scripts.”. Given my naivete, I took to my task by researching the best available customer service programs. Once upon a time…in a land far, far away…I was a young organizational development specialist employed by a sizable health care system.

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Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Maybe it is an occupational hazard, but every time I receive service I make two rather important decisions: Does this company know how to “care for” my presenting need? Does this company “care about” meeting those needs?

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 11, 2016

Mobile technology has reached unprecedented levels on innovation. Products like Google Cardboard are revolutionizing virtual reality, and yearly location-based innovations are creating astounding utility. In 2016, mobile marketing will be a must-have by many businesses.

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 12, 2016

It’s an occupational hazard of keynoting, consulting, and writing about customer service that my friends and family feel compelled to share all of their customer service nightmare stories. I’m really not complaining. I merely mention this as a set-up to a story shared with me by my son.

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