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Know Your Leadership Style

Integrity Solutions

Whatever your leadership style, you must be able to develop people who have a sense of ownership in the outcomes that define success. Knowing your leadership style has never been more important than it is today. What’s your leadership style? Leadership Style Characteristics.

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3 Actions to Take on the Road to Leadership Bravery

Customer Bliss

Companies that practice what I call “ leadership bravery ” are choosing to reverse the trend on business practices that have defined their industries. Through leadership guidance and company actions, they are establishing more balanced relationships, where both sides win.

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Modernize Leadership: Detect and Disseminate

Experience Matters

That’s why organizations must shift to what I’m calling Modernize Leadership. I’m writing individual posts for each of the eight key changes required to modernize leadership. Customer Connectedness Customer experience Executive leadership Purposeful LeadershipIn a previous post, I described how today’s management techniques reflect outdated assumptions of technology-enabled practices, human behavior, and the meaning of success.

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Reinventing Leadership in the Workplace with Hamza Khan

Russel Lolacher

In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with academic and best selling author Hamza Khan on the importance of reinventing leadership to improve the workplace and the employee experience. And he’s here today to talk about leadership reinvented. But leadership.

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Sustaining Employee Engagement in the Contact Center

Speaker: Paul Ellis, Contact Center SME & Business Consultant for One You Love Homecare LLC

Join Paul Ellis, Contact Center SME & Business Consultant for One You Love Homecare LLC, for best practices and leadership strategies to fortify an economy of compassion and genuine empathy in the contact center.

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Modernize Leadership: Observe and Improve

Experience Matters

That’s why organizations must shift to what I’m calling Modernize Leadership. I’m writing individual posts for each of the eight key changes required to modernize leadership. Customer experience Executive leadership Purposeful LeadershipIn a previous post, I described how today’s management techniques reflect outdated assumptions of technology-enabled practices, human behavior, and the meaning of success.

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Oxford CEO Demonstrates Purposeful Leadership

Experience Matters

One of the key ingredients to a customer-centric organization is Purposeful Leadership. This video from Oxford Properties‘ CEO Michael Turner is a great example of Purposeful Leadership in action (thanks to Roger Pugsley for sharing it with me). The post Oxford CEO Demonstrates Purposeful Leadership appeared first on Customer Experience Matters®. Customer experience Purposeful Leadership

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Modernize Leadership: Engage and Empower

Experience Matters

That’s why organizations must shift to what I’m calling Modernize Leadership. I’m writing individual posts for each of the eight key changes required to modernize leadership. Customer experience Executive leadership Purposeful LeadershipIn a previous post, I described how today’s management techniques reflect outdated assumptions of technology-enabled practices, human behavior, and the meaning of success.

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Large Companies Lack Purposeful Leadership

Experience Matters

As you likely know, one of Temkin Group’s Four CX Core Competencies is Purposeful Leadership. Customer experience Purposeful LeadershipIt requires demonstrating 5 P’s of Purposeful Leaders: Persuasive, Passionate, Propelling, Positive, and Persistent. How prevalent are these attributes? To answer this question, I tapped into Temkin Group’s consumer benchmark study and examined feedback from more than 5,000 U.S. employees.

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Modernize Leadership: Learn and Adjust

Experience Matters

That’s why organizations must shift to what I’m calling Modernize Leadership. I’m writing individual posts for each of the eight key changes required to modernize leadership. Customer experience Executive leadership Purposeful LeadershipIn a previous post, I described how today’s management techniques reflect outdated assumptions of technology-enabled practices, human behavior, and the meaning of success.

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5 Ways to Engage Employees for Immediate Impact

Speaker: Vicki Brackett, Author and COO of Sinousia

Author of the new book The Leadership Toolbox and Chief Operating Officer of Sinousia, Vicki Brackett shares creative and proven ways to engage your employees in either work at home environment or traditional brick and mortar. These strategies have been vetted by thousands of employees and have a track record of making immediate impact to customer service satisfaction scores, sales conversion, absenteeism and employee retention. When it comes to employee performance, you must be proactive on the front-end, or you are forced to be reactive on the back end!

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The Leadership Blueprint for Culture Change with Kevin Oakes

Russel Lolacher

In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with author, keynote speaker and i4CP CEO Kevin Oakes on research-backed actions leadership can take to culture change their organization for the better. Things are filtered by the time it reaches senior leadership.

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What’s the Recipe for Effective Leadership Development?

Integrity Solutions

Effective leadership development focuses on the mindset, key skills and competencies they need for their particular role. Effective leadership development is like following a tried and true recipe; the core ingredients have to be there and they have to be high-quality.

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What Will be Your Leadership Legacy?

Russel Lolacher

There are many who fall into positions of leadership that are ill-suited (think Michael from The Office) and they aren’t bettering the organizational health. The post What Will be Your Leadership Legacy? Legacy is a funny thing.

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The Power of Multiplying Leadership

Horizon CX

Those might at first appear to be two leadership extremes and to some degree they are but unfortunately, they’re more common within business than we’d probably like to admit. This makes having the traits of a “Multiplying Leader” important in any CX leadership role.

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Leadership Panel: Lessons Learnt from a Global Support Community

Speaker: Panel hosted by Adrian Speyer, Head of Community, Vanilla Forums

Are you struggling to support your global community? Or, are you not even sure where you should start. Establishing a global support community comes with many many questions. How do you encourage your customers to help others? What are the key metrics to measure? What are the biggest challenges? Our super panel consists of community leaders from around the world, each of whom, have experienced and overcome the challenges of a global support community. They are ready to share the trials and triumphs, and everything in between, on the road to a successful community.

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7 Ideas to Make Your Leadership Style Even More Effective

C3Centricity

” Read on, to find my easily applied learnings that will make your leadership style more efficient and effective, no matter what industry you work in. I’d like to start this post with a story. As you know, I published my book Winning Customer Centricity a few years ago.

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Leadership Advice And Why Equality Matters

Doing CX Right

Catherine Sugarbroad, Chief Revenue Officer and Founder of sWorks.io, and Stacy Sherman discuss the meaning of equality in and out of the workplace, and why advancing women's leadership impact retention and customer experiences.

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CX maturity playbook: Leadership buy-in

GetFeedback

Actionable insight to uplevel your approach to gaining leadership buy-in for your customer experience program. Tools

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CX Competency: Purposeful Leadership (Video)

Experience Matters

This video provides an overview of Purposeful Leadership, where the goal is for leaders to act consistently with a clear, well-articulated set of values. Customer experience Executive leadership Purpose Purposeful LeadershipTemkin Group has found that the only path to sustainable customer experience differentiation is to build a customer-centric culture. By mastering Four Customer Experience Core Competencies.

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How Great Organizations Empower Customer Experience Teams

Speaker: Conference Speakers

Learn from the leaders at Digital Experience Virtual Summit ‘22, August 17-18. See inside the operations of top performing customer experience teams, and improve your organization’s CX outcomes. Lunch is on us when you attend. Save your spot!

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Customer Experience Strategy: Do You Conquer or Collaborate? | #Leadership #CX

Kate Nasser

Examples fr Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ | #CX Leadership Teamwork Collaboration. The post Customer Experience Strategy: Do You Conquer or Collaborate? | #Leadership #CX appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Wells Fargo: A Lesson in Leadership & Culture Gone Awry

Experience Matters

CCXP1 Customer-Centric Culture Corporate culture Customer experience Executive leadership Purposeful Leadership John Stumpf Wells FargoIn case you missed this in the news, Wells Fargo is under investigation for opening fraudulent accounts for its customers. During a period between 2011 and 2015, it is estimated that there were as many as 1.5 million deposit accounts and more than half a million credit card accounts opened inappropriately on behalf of customers. As part […].

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3 Leadership Buzzwords that Exist for the Best Reasons

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Thanks to a fun report from CCW , Customer Contact Week, and some clever customer experience pros (and prose – ha ha,) there is a discussion around leadership buzzwords we should have. But they become leadership buzzwords because a bunch of us realize they’re necessary!

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Leaving a Leadership Legacy

Michelli Experience

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. Long before I asked these questions of the CEO of Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA) Steve Cannon, he had publically declared that his leadership legacy would be the transformation of MBUSA from a product-centric culture to one that was customer-obsessed.

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The Employee Factor - Perfecting Your CX From Within

Speaker: Dennis Snow, President, Snow & Associates

Too often, organizations and their CX experts only look at the company's relationship with the customer to look for improvement. While it's essential to creating the perfect customer journey, it's only one aspect. It's time to look within: your employees' relationships with each other, and with the company. This webinar will provide you with strategic tools that can be used to raise the bar of service throughout your organization.

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Improved People Skills Take You Further Than Jerky Behavior | #Leadership

Kate Nasser

In leadership, teamwork, and business in general, this is death […]. The post Improved People Skills Take You Further Than Jerky Behavior | #Leadership appeared first on KateNasser.com. Do improved people skills really help people? Yes, they really do.

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Modernize Leadership: Shifting 8 Outdated Management Practices

Experience Matters

Compelling Brand Values Customer Connectedness Customer experience Employee Engagement Executive leadership Purposeful LeadershipOver the previous decade, I’ve had the opportunity to work with and study thousands of companies. One of the things that I’ve noticed is that the world has changed a lot, but organizational management has stayed substantially the same.

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5 Leadership Actions to Build Trust With Those Who Serve Customers

Customer Bliss

Here are the five leadership actions to build trust across teams. Be bold when challenging ideas, and be bold with your generosity. -- @DHicks, Former VP Global Ops @Twitter #leadership Click To Tweet.

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The 8 Remarkable Traits of Leadership

Steve DiGioia

Leadership. Is that all that’s needed to get the promotion, the raise, or the real leadership position? I have seen plenty of “leaders” that were good workers but have been utter cowards , without the ability to make a decision , unwilling to personally take on the tasks unable of others or have been Continue reading… The post The 8 Remarkable Traits of Leadership appeared first on Steve DiGioia and was written by Steve DiGioia. What makes a leader?

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The CX leadership toolkit

MyCustomer

65% of c-level executives rank improving customer experience as their most important overall business objective. Yet studies indicate that many customer experience initiatives are stalling

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Leadership: Care Sooner to Retain Employees & Customers | #PeopleSkills

Kate Nasser

Leadership: Do you wait for dissatisfied customers or employees to leave & lure them back? The post Leadership: Care Sooner to Retain Employees & Customers | #PeopleSkills appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Purposeful Leadership Lessons From Coach Brad Stevens

Experience Matters

I’m focusing on the leadership style of Brad Stevens, coach of the Boston Celtics. The post Purposeful Leadership Lessons From Coach Brad Stevens appeared first on Customer Experience Matters®. Customer experience Purposeful LeadershipIn case you missed it, I’m a huge Boston sports fan. So it feels great to write a post that combines one of my favorite teams with one of our Four CX Core Competencies.

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Catching Great Leadership Skills

Michelli Experience

Leadership skills learned from a great leader. Excerpting from the Seattle Times article, you can learn a lot about Johnny’s leadership style. Fortunately, I had the honor of chronicling much of his amazing leadership story in the pages of When Fish Fly (and better yet I was honored to share it from Johnny’s voice). Given the limitations of this blog, I will mention three elements of his leadership brilliance that I will always treasure: Leading Self First.

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2021 CX Reflections – Building Community Through Servant Leadership

Horizon CX

So, this now brings me to the concept of servant leadership as a highly potential and appropriate humanistic response to a pandemic that arrived through origins and forces still unclear. While servant leadership is a timeless concept, the phrase “servant leadership” was coined by Robert K.

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3 Leadership Behaviors That Prove Your Commitment to Customer-Driven Growth

Customer Bliss

Your answer is probably directly connected to how engaged your leadership team has been with you, and how much they take personal ownership of this work with you. Leadership Must Have Consistent and United Behaviors. In order for this to work, you have to understand the following: This must also be your work and the work of a united leadership team. The leadership team must model new behaviors in how they lead. Behavior 1: Unite the Leadership Team.

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Five Leadership Principles For Truly Driving More Diversity And Inclusion

Experience Matters

The post Five Leadership Principles For Truly Driving More Diversity And Inclusion appeared first on Experience Matters.

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3 Leadership Buzzwords that Exist for the Best Reasons

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Thanks to a fun report from CCW , Customer Contact Week, and some clever customer experience pros (and prose – ha ha,) there is a discussion around leadership buzzwords we should have. But they become leadership buzzwords because a bunch of us realize they’re necessary! The post 3 Leadership Buzzwords that Exist for the Best Reasons appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.

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Why CFOs Should Embrace Human-First Leadership

Gainsight

Today, financial leadership is transforming once again. Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta champions a concept known as “ human-first leadership.” Put People First First things first: What is human-first leadership? For today’s CFOs, Human-First leadership is no longer optional.

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Leadership accountability is killing your customer experience

Customer Bliss

Short post this week as I’m in the middle of moving, but I wanted to take a few seconds and discuss leadership accountability as relates to customer experience. In the writings and speeches I’ve done, I commonly refer to this as “one-company leadership.” The entire company, beginning with the senior leadership team, needs to be on the same page with regard to what the customer experience is — and why it’s important to the business growing.