Lumoa

MARCH 21, 2023

I wanted to share the tactics and tools I teach in my speeches, as well as what my team teaches in our customer service workshops. Specifically, included in the tips and strategies in the book are our top culture-changing tools that move an organization to be more customer-focused.” Customer service is not a department.

Customer Experience 236

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Management Customer Centricity 236

CX Journey

MARCH 13, 2018

The good news is, more and more company leaders are starting to get that they need to focus on the customer experience; the bad news is, many – most – are still struggling with the concept , choosing instead to focus on sales, metrics, and maximizing shareholder value. The crazy thing is that they think that they are customer focused.

Customer Centricity 173

Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Customer Experience Professionals Metrics 173

ijgolding

APRIL 19, 2016

Trying to change the way a business works; the way a business thinks; is one of the most challenging things any business professional can do. I sometimes think that I have a slightly mad, psychopathic streak in me – as do other Customer Experience Professionals I have the pleasure of networking with. I could go on!!

Customer Experience Professionals 120

Customer Experience Professionals Strategy Customer Experience Customer Centricity 120

InMoment XI

MARCH 6, 2024

Every team or department, from marketing and sales to customer support and product development, has a stake in the customer experience. This statement by Jan Carlzon emphasizes the importance of customer focus and service within an organization. The more advocates you have, the fewer ads you have to buy.”

Customer Experience 260

Customer Experience Social Media Customer Centricity Feedback 260

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 23, 2020

Forrester predicted that one in four Customer Experience Professionals will lose their job in 2020. Why are so many Customer Experience professionals facing the ax this year? If you’re going to have a job improving Customer Experience, you should first define which parts of your experience drive value.

Return on Investment 177

Return on Investment Customer Experience Professionals Leadership Consulting 177

Lumoa

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Jim, CCXP (Certified Customer Experience Professional), is a founder of a CX consulting agency, Heart of the Customer , and sees the world in a special way: through the eyes of customers. Plenty of customer experience professionals refer to NPS as very predictive, while others completely disagree.

Analytics 273

Analytics Customer Journeys Customer Experience Net Promoter Score 273

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 28, 2020

Anxiety is ramping up for senior leaders focused on customer experience, and it’s not difficult to understand why. According to Forrester’s 2020 Predictions , 1 in 4 customer experience professionals will lose their job this year. Related: Is Your Mission Customer-Focused, or an Empty Promise?

Customer Journeys 250

Customer Journeys Net Promoter Score ROI Metrics 250

Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

He has extensive experience in retail, wholesale, franchising, and small business and has a strong belief in positive customer experience. She has over 16 years of experience in areas of market research, program management, marketing, instructional design, and training. Aimee Lucas Follow @Aimee_Lucas.

Customer Experience 130

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Consulting Customer Journeys 130

Horizon CX

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Crucial Link Between CX and Strategic Goals: Effectively advocating for customer-centric strategies involves aligning proposals with the overarching strategic goals and objectives of the organization. These organizations prioritize understanding and meeting customer needs, leading to increased customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Customer Centricity 130

Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Automotive Fashion 130

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.

Leadership 259

Leadership Customer Experience Customer Centricity How To 259

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Jeff is truly obsessed with customer service. As an author, consultant, and trainer, he helps organizations develop customer-focused cultures. Jeff’s Inside Customer Service blog has been recognized as one of the Top 50 customer service blogs on the planet. Jeanne Bliss, Founder and CEO at Customer Bliss.

Customer Service 251

Customer Service Contact Center Chief Customer Officer Call Center 251

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 9, 2015

I’ve seen plenty of Marketing, HR and Technology leaders who have made astounding improvements in the experiences they create for customers. Customer focused organizations smoke the competition. Get certified. There is now a special certification for people who know their stuff well enough to test it.

Customer Experience 110

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Professionals Resources 110

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MAY 17, 2018

The Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) 2018 Insight Exchange offered CX experts and professionals of all kinds, various titles and comfort levels a few days to learn, connect and get inspired. But per usual, I was learning from and with my peers. It’s inspiring!

Leadership 161

Leadership Culture Customer Experience Professionals Customer Centricity 161

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

However (there is always one of those), Customer Experience Professionals all around the world, still seem to be fighting a justification battle – fending off attack from those who do not believe in the value of CX as a strategic priority, or from those who do not believe that any ongoing investment is required to sustain a focus on it.

Customer Experience 208

Customer Experience Poor Customer Service Financial Return on Investment 208

ijgolding

MAY 17, 2018

Today I am absolutely delighted to share my final interview with Genevieve Bruketa-Baskovic – an amazingly well travelled Customer Experience Professional who is passionate about doing everything she does with the customer in mind – enjoy…. Tell us a little bit about your working background: Genevieve.

Travel 164

Travel Hotels Customer Experience Feedback 164

Customer Guru

AUGUST 21, 2018

The CXPA Board of Directors member has expertise in ’embedding customer experience DNA in company culture’ – she has successfully led company-wide customer experience at Applied Materials. Its original version was the cornerstone of the 2012 book “Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business.”

Customer Experience 115

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Consulting Customer Experience Professionals 115

Kustomer

AUGUST 26, 2022

Experience This! Customer retention expert Joey Coleman and social media expert Dan Gingiss host this lively podcast. Their ‘quick-hit’ segments deliver customer-focused tips, tools and trends for optimizing your brand strategy through customer service. The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show.

Customer Experience 105

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Competitive Advantage Hospitality 105

CX Journey

AUGUST 26, 2014

Getting leadership buy-in and helping them understand that the sooner the focus is placed on the customer experience, the sooner the business will benefit is an everyday challenge for customer experience professionals. That customer focus becomes an organizational discipline, not a department.

Customer Experience 185

Customer Experience Management Government Customer Journeys 185

CX Journey

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

And customers are still complaining. In other words, customer experience improvement efforts are failing. We advocate, as customer experience professionals, getting to the root cause of issues. Customers and the voice of the customer need to be woven into all you do. So here goes. It's all CX!

Employee Experience 116

Employee Experience Culture Policies Customer Experience Professionals 116

Oracle

MARCH 11, 2020

She’s the founder and president of CustomerBliss and the Co-Founder of The Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA). She pioneered the role of Chief Customer Officer and has held it at 5 of the world’s largest brands. Follow Jeanne Bliss on Twitter to get her latest thoughts.

Customer Journeys 83

Customer Journeys Technology Chief Customer Officer Video 83

Customer Guru

MARCH 1, 2018

Pednekar is currently working as the Director – Quality for Atos in India and drives initiatives on Quality & Customer Experience. She is a Certified Customer Experience Professional from the CXPA (US). Especially, driving Quality and Customer Experience initiatives is very close to my heart.

Customer Centricity 94

Customer Centricity Customer Experience Professionals Employee Engagement Training 94

ijgolding

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Customer journey maps of all shapes and sizes are adorning many a conference room wall. Enough customer personas have been created by businesses to launch a new country! I am immensely proud to be part of a wonderful community of committed, passionate, driven professionals.

Customer Centricity 263

Customer Centricity Customer Experience Customer Journeys Chief Customer Officer 263

ijgolding

JANUARY 24, 2017

Time after time, representatives of organisations stood in front of me and my fellow judges and brilliantly described how the customer was core/central to the strategy of the business. The big winner of the awards I had the privilege of being part of last week was the customer – consumers and businesses alike.

Customer Experience 120

Customer Experience Transportation Banking Customer Journeys 120

ShepHyken

APRIL 8, 2019

To Provide the Best Customer Experience, Be Proactive by Frank Konkel. NextGov) “Be where your customers are” and other helpful tips from customer experience professionals. My Comment: Is it possible to learn a customer service lesson from government? The short answer is yes.

Customer Service 100

Customer Service Hotels Hospitality Government 100

ijgolding

APRIL 29, 2016

It is always a huge pleasure and often humbling for me to meet fellow Customer Experience Professionals. As well as being remarkably reassuring that I am not the only customer focused ‘nutcase’, I learn a considerable amount too!

Fashion 120

Fashion Social Media Retail Consulting 120

Kayako

APRIL 15, 2019

We had the pleasure of hosting customer service and experience expert, Shep Hyken earlier this month for a half hour Q&A session on why customer experience matters so much and what businesses must do to create the best experiences for their customers.

Customer Experience 169

Customer Experience Self Service Hospitality Customer Journeys 169

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Top 5 ChatGPT Prompts for Customer Experience Professionals by Michelle Hawley (CMSWire)In a world where customer experience (CX) is increasingly important, CX professionals need to stay ahead of the curve. Go to The Customer Focus™ to learn more about our customer service training programs.

Customer Service 62

Customer Service Call Center Ecommerce Call Center Experience 62

ijgolding

MAY 23, 2017

Usually (although not exclusively) the domain of men and women working for organisations in senior roles, the ‘rolling eye phenomenon’ often occurs when someone like me, a Customer Experience Professional, starts to talk about anything related to the Customer Experience.

Customer Experience 227

Customer Experience Financial Customers Insurance 227

ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

It’s a time when customer experience professionals take extraordinary care to thank customers — and employees who make a difference in customer experience (CX). CX Day is in the first week of October, founded by the Customer Experience Professionals Association ( CXPA ).

Customer Experience 48

Customer Experience Customer Experience Professionals ROI B2C 48

Customer Guru

MARCH 1, 2018

Padnekar, currently working as the Director – Quality for Atos in India, and drives initiatives on Quality & Customer Experience. She is a Certified Customer Experience Professional from the CXPA (US). Especially, driving Quality and Customer Experience initiatives is very close to my heart.

Customer Centricity 79

Customer Centricity Customer Experience Professionals Employee Engagement Training 79

Forrester

OCTOBER 10, 2014

But the reality is that focusing on CX can also do a lot for less sexy industries. to speak at Forrester''s Forum for Customer Experience Professionals EMEA in London on November 17 and 18, 2014. And even though utilities don''t exactly captivate their customers, E.On

Customer Experience 87

Customer Experience Automotive Fashion Advertising 87

CX Journey

MAY 24, 2017

If your employees aren't engaged with your improvement efforts - or engaged overall with the organization - it will be very difficult for them to delight your customers and deliver the experience they expect. Employees are critical to the customer experience, which is critical to the success of the business.

Engagement 154

Engagement Strategy Customer Experience Customer Journeys 154

CX Journey

AUGUST 28, 2015

As customer experience professionals, we have no shortage of work. Or are we spinning our wheels, doing tactical things, and looking like we're making improvements - when, in reality, we're applying bandaids and simple fixes rather than making/doing meaningful overall process improvements and customer experience redesign work.

Roadmap 80

Roadmap Customer Centricity Customer Experience Professionals Culture 80

ijgolding

MAY 23, 2016

The ability of a company to robustly and continuously capture a ‘fact based’ understanding of how capable they are of meeting customer needs and expectations is critical if they have a desire to achieve customer focused success.

Measurement 148

Measurement Customer Experience Customer Journeys Customers 148

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Whatever the case is for your organization right now, I can tell you this: The most Customer-centric organizations have quite different answers than the majority of companies. When we look at the answers, we often determine whether a company is more Customer-focused or more product or internally focused.

Customer Experience 154

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity CEM 154

Customer Guru

MARCH 7, 2018

Maneesha Pednekar is currently working as the Director – Quality for Atos in India and drives initiatives on Quality & Customer Experience. She is a Certified Customer Experience Professional from the CXPA (US). Especially, driving Quality and Customer Experience initiatives is very close to my heart.

Customer Centricity 60

Customer Centricity Customer Experience Professionals Employee Engagement Training 60

Oracle

MARCH 1, 2019

Hi, this is Ian Golding, global customer experience specialist, bringing you episode 25 of Unforgettable, the series all about delivering great customer experiences. Getting recognition also helps you to drive authority for customer experience.

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Customer Experience Professionals Course Conference Customer Experience 40