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The Employee Hierarchy of Needs

ShepHyken

Last week, I introduced you to The Customer Hierarchy of Needs based on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. This week, we focus on our employees. Before you can have a strong customer experience, you must have a good employee experience. Fulfillment: At the tip of the pyramid model is fulfillment.

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Guest Post: 6 Best Business Management Tips While Investing in Customer Experience

ShepHyken

Harnessing your people in a way that makes them care about what you do as an organization will pay dividends far beyond anything else in customer experience. Empower your team to make decisions to serve your customers and reward them for being creative, prompt, empathetic, and mindful. Continue to Evolve.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of October 2, 2023

ShepHyken

Total experience transformation: Five strategies for a seamless customer and employee experience by Ron Shamah (Fast Company) Employee and customer experiences have an inherent overlap—one does not exist without the other. is an excellent way to do so. As you read this article, keep that in mind.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of March 22, 2021

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Forget Customer Experience. Forget Employee Experience. Enter Total Experience by David Roe. CMSWire) ECM and content services, while related, are not the same.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of January 18, 2021

ShepHyken

21 Tips for 2021 Customer Experience Excellence by Lynn Hunsaker. ClearAction) Here are 21 tips for achieving 2021 customer experience excellence in these areas and beyond. My Comment: We begin this list of the Top Five roundup with a list that includes 21 tips for 2021. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of November 9, 2020

ShepHyken

The experience equation: Happy employees and customers accelerate growth by Vala Afshar. ZDNet) Research shows the relationship between employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CX) and its impact on accelerated growth. but have you journey mapped the employee experience.

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29 Customer Service Training and Coaching Tips

Stella Connect

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.