Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 5, 2017

CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. Whenever the subject of employee satisfaction and engagement arises, it is often difficult to differentiate between them. If you believe that “a satisfied employee IS an engaged employee.” Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D.,

Employee Engagement 68

Employee Engagement Engagement Consulting Culture 68

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Is the process designed for the good of the Customer or was it designed for the good of the company? In my experience, the latter is more likely than the former, leaving most organizations with a process lacking a customer focus. Creating a Customer-Focused Process. Follow Colin Shaw on Twitter @ColinShaw_CX.

Customer Focused 153

Customer Focused Customer Journeys Customer Centricity Employee Engagement 153

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 20, 2016

CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. In the consumer world, satisfaction has only incidental proven connection to customer experience and behavior, and engagement has similar challenges for employees (and customers). That is what the scope of employee ambassadorship helps to provide.

Leadership 60

Leadership Engagement Customer Centricity Employee Engagement 60

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 12, 2016

CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. Earl Sasser, and Leonard Schlesinger in 1994 in Harvard Business Review, and in a 1997 book by the last three authors, can essentially be explained as follows: It is a theory of business management which links employee satisfaction to customer loyalty and profitability.

Employee Engagement 60

Employee Engagement Connections Engagement Loyalty 60

PeopleMetrics

MARCH 2, 2015

Let’s focus on three things at work here: culture, engagement, and goals. Engagement (or lack thereof) is present in every company. Or the number of applicants who come via employee referral. Goals, culture, and engagement don’t have a straightforward, linear relationship—but they are correlated. Or your time sheets.

Employee Engagement 48

Employee Engagement Culture Engagement Customer Centricity 48

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 24, 2015

Jeanne Bliss was one of the original Chief Customer Officers, and has held titles like that for companies including Land’s End and Allstate. For more than twenty years, she has helped organizational leadership recognize the importance of customer-focused initiatives in ways that directly impact the business results.

Leadership 110

Leadership Chief Customer Officer Handbook Social Media 110

Service Untitled

JANUARY 10, 2011

These kinds of business decisions can affect the remaining employee’s ability to stay positive and not focus on the negative. Employees need to be actively engaged so they can add value to the organization. The customer experience can be significantly affected when employees are not engaged.

Employee Engagement 71

Employee Engagement Engagement Leadership Culture 71

Horizon CX

MAY 19, 2023

Ineffective Leadership: Leadership plays a crucial role in driving and sustaining organizational transformation. Leadership alignment and competence are vital for setting the direction, creating a sense of urgency, and inspiring and engaging employees throughout the transformation journey.

Customer Centricity 130

Customer Centricity Leadership Culture Customer Experience Management 130

ijgolding

JUNE 9, 2015

However, for a business to most effectively leverage the competencies of CXPs, it is vital that they are supported by a critical and powerful ingredient – transformational leadership. An organisations approach to Customer Experience will live or die on the strength of transformational leadership. A customer-centric organisation.

Customer Experience Professionals 120

Customer Experience Professionals Leadership Customer Experience Effort Score 120

CX Journey

MARCH 12, 2015

As companies focus inward to understand how to achieve their customer experience goals, the term “engagement” is often used interchangeably with “culture.” The two terms are related, and they’re both elements of customer experience improvement. Engagement and culture are different, but they affect each other.

Culture 80

Culture Engagement Employee Engagement Customer Centricity 80

ClearAction

JANUARY 4, 2020

CEO’s Guide to Growth through Customer Experience Engagement Lynn Hunsaker. Customer experience engagement is a growth strategy. It’s the aim of Net Promoter Score®, CRM, loyalty programs, experiential marketing and so forth — rallying customers toward purchase volume, referrals and long-term relationships.

Engagement 48

Engagement Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Employee Engagement 48

ShepHyken

AUGUST 29, 2018

When you treat employees like rock stars, they will treat your customers like rock stars. That is what employee engagement is all about. Great leaders have preached that when you treat your employees well, they treat their customers – and fellow employees well. And, this isn’t just for the leadership.

Employee Engagement 95

Employee Engagement Leadership Customer Service Training Culture 95

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

This led to me spending a lot of time in my clients stores, observing customers and how they interacted with both the products and the employees. My fascination with the ‘customer interface’ was born! Was HP a customer focused organisation at that time?

Culture 264

Culture Measurement Customer Centricity Hotels 264

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Emotional Engagement and Customer Centricity. How to Drive Customer and Employee Engagement for a Better Customer Experience. They discuss strategies for building customer centricity and emotional engagement. Every employee must recognize their place in the customer journey.

Customer Centricity 75

Customer Centricity Culture Leadership Employee Engagement 75

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Before truly focusing energy on the customer, the XGS team has had to focus on the most important asset of all: its people. Through a variety of surveys and feedback forums, XGS realized that we had some work to do to create an internal culture that drove employee engagement and satisfaction.

Customer Experience 139

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Self Service Effort Score 139

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

There are many organisations embracing a people-centric approach to business (be it employee engagement on CX or on developing strong CX programmes) but there remain a large number who fail to fully grasp the need for change. Is customer centricity already part of the company DNA and culture?

Customer Experience 324

Customer Experience Customer Centricity Self Service Culture 324

Blake Morgan

JANUARY 20, 2022

His blog, Customers That Stick, features interviews with top CX leaders and answers common customer-related questions. . He offers a European perspective on employee and customer engagement and customer focus and shares interviews with top CX leaders. . Adrian Swinscoe . Annette Franz . Bill Quiseng .

Case Study 96

Case Study Customer Journeys Competitive Advantage Customer Centricity 96

NICE inContact

MARCH 26, 2019

Stage one — Customer-Negligent: An organization that fails to value customers as vital assets and doesn’t consider CX a priority. Have low or nonexistent employee engagement, with team members unaware of the customer journey and the role they play in it. Have customer focus as a shared value at all levels.

Customer Experience 152

Customer Experience Contact Center Policies Customer Centricity 152

ClearAction

JULY 29, 2018

Customer Engagement is an Enterprise-wide Imperative Lynn Hunsaker. Does customer engagement rely solely on Marketing, Sales, Success or Service strategies? Customer engagement is successful to the degree that the rest of the company empowers its success. It’s an enterprise-wide imperative.

Customer Engagement 48

Customer Engagement Engagement Customer Centricity Culture 48

CX Journey

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Leadership : It starts at the top. If you''ve got the wrong leadership in place, it''ll be really tough to steer the ship in the right direction. Employee Engagement : I list this separately from "leadership" and from "people" because employee engagement is a two-way street that requires both to work together for the greater good.

Culture 173

Culture Leadership Employee Engagement Customer Centricity 173

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 1, 2021

It has resulted in longer lines, longer hold times, and slower service – basically a lower level of customer service. . So, how can you keep good employees, and keep them not only engaged with their jobs but also engaged with their customers? The best employees don’t just work for a paycheck.

Healthcare 126

Healthcare Customer Service Training Feedback Leadership 126

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

They don’t care enough to invest in customer experience evaluation and improvement. Their company mission is not customer-focused, and they don’t care if your day is ruined. 360Connext serves mid-market companies and larger by helping them evaluate their true customer experience.

Company 231

Company Hotels Social Media Innovation 231

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 31, 2015

As some of you who follow this blog may know, I took the CXI® magnifying glass with me to South By Southwest Interactive this month to scout for customer-focused themes within the latest tech trends. 360Connext serves mid-market companies and larger by helping them evaluate their true customer experience.

Technology 110

Technology Customer Experience Social Media Trends 110

ShepHyken

APRIL 22, 2019

My Comment: If you want the service culture in an organization to change, it must start at the top with leadership. As Bill Patterson, Salesforce Service Cloud’s GM and Executive VP would say, “Never before has it been more important to rid the world of bad customer service experiences.” Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

Self Service 77

Self Service Customer Service Competitive Advantage Case Study 77

Customer Bliss

AUGUST 23, 2016

Darryl Speach is a serial customer experience practitioner and change agent. He’s had leadership roles at New York Life, the Disney Institute, and Greystone and Company. Salmon and the “Destination Postcard” I often refer to customer experience work as being a salmon, i.e. swimming upstream. Episode Overview.

Chief Customer Officer 0

Chief Customer Officer Culture Leadership Insurance 0

Integrity Solutions

JULY 13, 2020

Top-performing sales reps are a hot commodity in good times and in bad, but maybe even more so in a tough economy when you need a highly engaged, purpose-driven team. Ambitious employees want to work for companies that have a strong vision and committed leadership. Retaining Top Performers. Why do people leave?

Sales 103

Sales How To Competitive Advantage Training 103

Maz Iqbal

OCTOBER 28, 2017

… Continue reading "On Self, The Customer & Leadership Blog, and Cultivating Loyalty With Employees, Partners, and Customers". Today’s conversation is around that which has been unconcealed for me: about myself and the purpose/contribution of this blog.

Leadership 59

Leadership Loyalty Customers Customer Focused 59

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

She’s got more than 25 years of experience (both client-side and vendor side) helping companies understand their employees and customers and identify what drives retention, satisfaction, engagement, and the overall experience – so that employees, customers, and businesses reap the benefits and achieve their desired outcomes.

Customer Experience 147

Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 147

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

The best way to emphasize improving the Customer Experience is to tie rewards to it. It is critical to include all departments in the definition of KPIs that are Customer-focused, and then align those goals across your organization. 4 Ways to Gain Customers’ Trust in Data Security.

Net Promoter Score 118

Net Promoter Score Customer Experience CEM Customer Centricity 118

ShepHyken

MARCH 21, 2017

What lessons can we learn from rock stars in the world of customer service and customer experience, like Ritz-Carlton? First Up: In Shep Hyken’s opening comments he relates an experience from the customer service workshops his company conducts for client companies. What are the qualities of a customer-focused employee?

Leadership 81

Leadership Hospitality Hotels Customer Focused 81

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

She’s got more than 25 years of experience (both client-side and vendor side) helping companies understand their employees and customers and identify what drives retention, satisfaction, engagement, and the overall experience – so that employees, customers, and businesses reap the benefits and achieve their desired outcomes.

Customer Experience 130

Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 130

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Overlook this, however, and you are not likely to end up with the Customer focus you seek. This post is the second in a series of nine posts looking at the different parts of the organization contributing to Customer Centricity. Naïve companies are the least customer-focused and Natural companies are the most customer-focused.

Net Promoter Score 120

Net Promoter Score Customer Experience How To CEM 120

CloudCherry

JANUARY 21, 2020

By staying in touch with customer expectations, companies can win more business and reduce trouble spots in the customer journey. VoC leaders also see an uptick in customer and employee engagement metrics. At the pinnacle of VoC maturity, listening to the customer voice is an essential component of your culture.

Effort Score 195

Effort Score Feedback Net Promoter Score Survey 195

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 28, 2020

The higher up in the organization, the further away from dealing with customers directly. It’s easy to believe your brand is thinking of customers when in reality the leadership simply isn’t ever asked to do so. This led leaders to have quarterly, short-term visions instead of long-term, customer-focused strategies.

Strategy 225

Strategy Customer Journeys Customer Experience Net Promoter Score 225

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 2, 2018

But what’s even trickier is when you may not have customer experience or customer insights in your title. Being a customer-focused leader is a tall order. So how can you lead by example to make the experience better for your customers, regardless of where you are on the org chart?

Customer Experience 225

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Culture Leadership 225

Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 15, 2019

She helps leaders and teams make subtle shifts to create breakthrough success for customers. Her clients have won industry awards, raised customer satisfaction scores, and increased employee engagement. Add to it that leadership also wants to have an ROI. We shouldn’t see employees as simply revenue generators.

Culture 114

Culture Customer Service Leadership Airlines 114

CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In addition to altering our shopping habits, it is also influencing how we interact with social media, engage in games, and consume media. In today’s modern world, focusing on DEI is essential to increasing job satisfaction and employee engagement levels. In today’s dynamic marketplace, staying current is essential.

Policies 52

Policies Social Media Culture Employee Engagement 52