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Customers-Employees-Leadership: Distinguishing Between ‘Caring About’ And ‘Caring For’- And Why It Matters

Maz Iqbal

Ranking employees for performance management purposes; Minimising the costs associated with recruiting, retaining, managing, controlling employees. Leaders must dwell in the human real, the personal realm: ‘caring for’ the person.

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Customer Experience: Summing Up 2014

Maz Iqbal

Here’s the answer that the folks that manage Paddington Station have put in place: Let’s stop and consider this. Has management got rid of the potential hazard to customer safety? Has management improved the customer experience? What has management done? Has the challenge been addressed?

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2014 State of Customer Experience: Who Are UK’s Leaders And What Can We Learn From Them? (Part 4)

Maz Iqbal

Or flip it and ask yourself who loses out if power moves from head office to the operations, from managers to the people who actually deal with customers? Managers at all levels of the organisation. It means treating employees as human beings rather than resources which come in the troublesome form of human being.

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Tales of Customer Experience: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly?

Maz Iqbal

All three did the background checks on me, verified me as sound credit risk, approved me as customers and gave me a credit limit. Two of them, at the end of the process, invited-encouraged me to setup an online account with them so that I could manage my account online.

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Build an Empowered Team with A well- defined Customer Service Philosophy

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The second approach makes the customer feel valued and, thus, is a great way to pave your way into ensuring customer loyalty. With the above examples, it is clear that having a customer philosophy is essential in building a bond for life with your customers. . So, how do you create a good customer philosophy? .

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Customer Journey Mapping: It?s Not Just About the Destination

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Interview customers, analyze data from your systems, and gather analytics on web traffic, and more. Move from reactive to proactive: Changing your core customer philosophy from reactive to proactive is the biggest obstacle your company will face. Gather external research that’s relevant to your market.

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CX: Using Intelligent Generosity To Cultivate Customer Delight

Maz Iqbal

This is often seen as a problem – a problem of generating demand to drive sales, and a problem of inventory management. I have yet to see this viewed, by Tops, as an opportunity to delight customers, and … Continue reading "CX: Using Intelligent Generosity To Cultivate Customer Delight".

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