Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Highly-engaged employees will deliver better experiences to your customers, leading to increased loyalty, more referrals, and more business overall. The post 5 Epic Employee Engagement Issues You Never Noticed appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting. These simple moments add […].

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InMoment XI

MAY 24, 2022

The enterprise EX improvement and insights journey path often begins with very basic employee satisfaction, as companies are principally looking to manage and measure behavior at a macro level. For the employee experience maturity trajectory, it is the point of embarkation. 2: Employee Engagement.

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Kayako

APRIL 29, 2019

There is a lot of focus on employee engagement and experience these days. And with good reason, customer-centric culture is the backbone of good customer experience. Richard Branson famously said “If you look after your staff well, they will look after your customers. Let employees make the call.

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Customer Service Guidelines Employee Engagement Customer Journeys 163

Michelli Experience

JANUARY 26, 2016

Whenever I consider offering customer experience consulting services for a prospective business client, I interview senior leadership and ask a lot of questions that get at motivation and their perceived purpose for the potential partnership. How will you define employee engagement and customer experience success?

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Customer Enthusiast

MARCH 31, 2023

Last month, I presented to a group of hotel general managers. These were the presentation’s three main objectives: Reveal the totality of employees’ job roles. Inspire greater employee engagement. Connect daily work activities to the higher purpose of the job role.

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Customer Service Hotels Employee Engagement Study 62

Hallmark Business Connections

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Rapid shifts in operations have left little time to plan or organize change management, and many leaders are now scrambling to keep teams engaged, motivated, and proactively tackling what needs to get done. This is no small feat in normal times, as only 34% of employees consider themselves engaged in the workplace.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Agent Training Describe your training structure (team, facilities, Learning Management Systems, remote platforms, etc.) Describe your employee engagement strategies and measurement processes. How have your employee engagement strategies evolved to support remote and/or hybrid work environments?

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Customer Care Contact Center Comparison Employee Engagement 177

Kayako

MARCH 29, 2019

Customer service and experience have taken on a growing urgency for businesses large and small. Offering customers out-of-this-world customer experience is one of the most effective ways today’s businesses can set themselves apart and inspire loyalty and brand love from their customers. Set the Right Expectations.

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Russel Lolacher

MAY 30, 2022

A few reasons he is awesome – he’s a leadership, employee engagement and customer experience expert and keynote speaker through his consultancy Brand at Work. Where followers fit in good leadership. How trust is an outcome, not a value of leadership. KEY TAKEAWAYS. Finding value-driven leaders.

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Leadership Culture Exercises Airlines 52

Lumoa

JANUARY 19, 2023

We’ll walk you through the key steps to building a successful customer experience department in this guide. We will discuss topics such as defining the department’s goals and objectives, assessing the current state of customer service, and developing a strategy. It’s hard work, we know!

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Customer Experience Net Promoter Score How To Customer Journeys 236

Who's Your Gladys?

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

When your goal is to build a customer service dream team, and keep it going strong – it makes sense to learn from those who’ve already done it. That’s why we’re sharing concrete strategies from Dialog Direct, a company that offers a range of customer.

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Customer Relationship Management Call Center Employee Engagement Leadership 211

Maz Iqbal

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Servicing customers in a smart manner – by using the right combination (digital, telephone) of customer service channels. Now, let’s turn our attention to caring for the customer. Let’s start with the basic question, who (specifically) cares for the customer?

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Leadership Customer Philosophy Employee Engagement Loyalty 103

Michel Falcon Experience

DECEMBER 4, 2019

To be successful in our roles and contribute to the success of our organizations, our team members need to be aligned with their managers. In my career, I have been managed and have managed people over the past decade. Create a Manager Muse Document. For example, a sample of your manager muse could read like this.

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Calabrio

APRIL 28, 2021

For the past five years, Gartner has named Calabrio a Visionary in its Magic Quadrant for Workforce Engagement Management. Turns out, our “plan ” was aligned with the exact needs of our customers during a pandemic. What we hear from our customers is in our opinion, consistent with Gartner ’s report.

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Steve DiGioia

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Guest Post by Tal Schnall - Leadership and Customer Service Mentor This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. With 20 years of hospitality experience he writes about what ‘true leaders’ can do to provide great customer service. The answer is leadership! Thanks Tal. So can you!

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CX Accelerator

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Below are practical recommendations from several of the best minds in Customer Service (myself excluded) to help you develop your best culture in 2019! You might take some ideas from what they did: All leaders attended Situational Leadership II training. From Jeff Toister: Books To Read: Ken Blanchard's Whale Done.

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Culture Contact Center Leadership Employee Engagement 244

Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

Managing forecasting, scheduling, and agent productivity in a call center is a lot like searching for the fountain of youth. While we don’t have a roadmap to the proverbial fountain, we can help steer you in the right direction for better call center workforce management (WFM). What is Workforce Management for Call Centers?

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Bill Quiseng

MARCH 20, 2024

A veteran of over 40 years in hospitality leadership, I was, until several years ago, a customer service/customer experience speaker. as GM/Managing Director to Mr. Invisible, sequestered alone with my wife in my San Diego apartment. Unfortunately, I suffered a stroke in April 2021.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 15, 2019

Defining and managing your customer service culture is a significant issue for many organizations. Today we share some important considerations for establishing your customer service culture as well as the best practices of the leading customer service organizations. Then, you implement it.

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Culture Customer Service Leadership Airlines 114

COPC

JANUARY 10, 2023

By Vicki Brackett – BPO Veteran, WFH pioneer and SVP of Partner Success, livepro We all know employee perceptions of how they are treated directly influence their feelings about their employer. Further, how customers feel they are serviced greatly impacts how they perceive your brand. Get Employee Engagement Research Insights.

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Financial First Call Resolution Customer Experience Employee Engagement 77

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 23, 2024

CX leaders today face a long list of challenges, including adapting to a dynamic market environment and ensuring every stakeholder, supervisor, and employee in the business is aligned with the customer-centric vision. Understanding Customer Experience Management (CEM) Let’s start at the beginning.

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CSM Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

Your most important assets are not your customers and your employees. It’s how your customers and your employees feel about your company. Your success as a customer service manager is directly proportional to your ability to drive simultaneously customer satisfaction and employee engagement.

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Management Customer Service Hotels Airlines 72

BlueOcean

JANUARY 20, 2023

Whether you already have an RFP template on hand or not, there are two key things to remember: First, the partnership with your customer care outsourcer is a unique one, requiring customized questions for a more accurate assessment. Our updated list of customer care RFP questions keeps these facts top of mind.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Likewise for agents, if they don’t feel engaged, appreciated, or see a growth path, they too can take their talent to another organization. In a buyer’s market, what is the future of workforce engagement? How do you keep your best employees engaged, motivated, and empowered? What is Workforce Engagement?

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 4, 2015

If you haven’t yet discovered our podcast, Crack The Customer Code, I hope you will soon. We released our 15th episode , and it’s been quite the learning experience for my co-host Adam Toporek from Customers That Stick and me! Better customer service FTW.

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Customer Service Airlines Social Media Loyalty 110

Playvox

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In an economy that’s pitched more than a few curveballs over the last five years, retaining and growing a loyal customer base is consistently a winning business strategy. As a contact center leader, the top agents you hire, train, and manage are the clutch players. How Do You Identify Top Customer Service Talent?

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Contact Center Gamification Measurement Training 88

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.,

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Employee Engagement Engagement Consulting Culture 68

COPC

JANUARY 10, 2023

By Vicki Brackett – BPO Veteran, WFH pioneer and SVP of Partner Success, livepro We all know employee perceptions of how they are treated directly influence their feelings about their employer. Further, how customers feel they are serviced greatly impacts how they perceive your brand.

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Financial First Call Resolution Customer Experience Employee Engagement 52

ShepHyken

JANUARY 28, 2020

Employees Matter. Care for Your Employees and They Will Care for Their Customers. They discuss his leadership philosophies and approach to creating a “truly human” culture of caring. Customers ultimately benefit from the good treatment of employees. Shep Hyken interviews Bob Chapman.

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Leadership Employee Engagement Culture Engagement 142

Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

It seems most organizations have a Customer Experience program and an increasing number have started Employee Engagement programs. Because the experience you give your Customers is the same experience you should give your employees. Employee engagement is the latest buzz phrase in the industry.

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Customer Enthusiast

APRIL 5, 2023

Last week, I presented Part 1 of an activity that will enable supervisors, managers, and leaders to produce fresh suggestions for how the team can consistently deliver purpose-driven customer service.

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Customer Service Customers Management Employee Engagement 57

Playvox

MARCH 12, 2024

Agent motivation in a call center is crucial for driving employee engagement, enhancing customer satisfaction, and increasing overall performance. When employees are motivated intrinsically, they are more likely to be passionate about their work and go above and beyond to meet their goals.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2024

The core message of Carlzon’s work revolves around managing these touchpoints to ensure positive customer experiences. His leadership saw a shift toward customer-centric strategies, with an emphasis on empowering frontline employees.

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Touchpoint Airlines Social Media Leadership 52

Velaro

APRIL 8, 2016

Online chat software data can inform improvements across a customer service organization. Everyone who works in customer service cares about data for three reasons: to understand for our own sake how we’re doing/what’s happening. The Future of Performance Management through Online Chat.

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Michel Falcon Experience

JANUARY 10, 2016

Companies use traditional methods, such as radio, television, and print advertising, to increase their chances of converting new customers. As a management consultant and keynote speaker , I’m trusted by companies of all sizes to look into their strategies and find new opportunities. Efficiently survey your employees.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 3, 2015

So it’s up to the leaders of any organization to seek out your customer service superstars and discern the ways they make things just a little better for your customers. Here are some of the ways we’ve seen customer service superstars stand out: 1. Empathetic and engaging behavior.

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Stella Connect

JANUARY 9, 2018

In doing so, Rich set the tone for Brooklinen’s exceptional customer experience and inspired a unique approach to customer service training and performance management. Hands-on Customer Service Training: Building Excitement, Knowledge, and Trust. Jack Lorentzen, Senior Associate, Customer Experience.

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