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

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

Service Untitled

JANUARY 10, 2011

According to Wikipedia, “an engaged employee is one who is fully involved in, and enthusiastic about, his or her work, and thus will act in a way that furthers their organization’s interest.” According to Scarlett Surveys, 31% of employees are disengaged and 4% of those 31% are hostile. Create a strong team environment.

Employee Engagement 71

Employee Engagement Engagement Leadership Culture 71

InMoment XI

MAY 24, 2022

Employee satisfaction will typically include job-related factors like compensation, workload, perceptions of management and leadership, flexibility, teamwork, resource availability, etc. . #2: 2: Employee Engagement. The next, and first real, EX journey signpost brings many organizations to employee engagement.

Employee Experience 221

Employee Experience Customer Experience Employee Engagement Culture 221

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

ECXO

JULY 23, 2024

The Heartbeat of a Customer-Centric Organization – Part 1 I’ve split this article on leadership into two parts because, you know, attention spans these days are pretty short! It is clear that the customer is king, right? Companies are realizing the importance of leadership styles that focus on the customer.

Customer Centricity 156

Customer Centricity Leadership Exceptional Customer Service Culture 156

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. Jane Treadwell-Hoye, CCXP and Managing Director at epifani “The future of CX is at a cross road.

Customer Experience 304

Customer Experience Customer Centricity Self Service Culture 304

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

Integrity Solutions

JUNE 18, 2021

As important as it was to keep your sales teams engaged, confident and motivated as the COVID crisis began, it’s equally important to be sure that front-line managers are prepared to meet the demands of an emerging world and economic recovery as the pandemic wanes.

Sales 95

Sales Leadership Infographics Culture 95

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

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

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

Blake Morgan

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Bashar Wali , Founder and CEO of This Assembly and Practice Hospitality, brings leadership experience from Starwood, Grand Heritage, and Provenance Hotels. She is a customer experience futurist and author of three books on customer experience. Don’t miss her new book, “The Eight Laws of Customer-Focused Leadership.”

Guest Experience 64

Guest Experience Hotels Hospitality Entertainment 64

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 148

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Self Service Effort Score 148

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

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

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 98

Employee Engagement Leadership Customer Service Training Culture 98

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

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

PeopleMetrics

MARCH 2, 2015

(That might be due to the fact that the companies able to articulate purpose and success are also more likely to be managing employee engagement and culture.) The bulk of companies are just trying to figure out where to start: engagement or culture? If you’re asking, “How can we get employees to care?”

Employee Engagement 48

Employee Engagement Culture Engagement Customer Centricity 48

Russel Lolacher

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with 4x author, keynote speaker and consultant on service culture Jeff Toister on connecting the dots to create tangible employee engagement at work. An instructor for Linkedin Learning, supporting training and employee development and more. He’s got some knowledge.

Employee Engagement 52

Employee Engagement Engagement How To Survey 52

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 CEM How To 120

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

CX University

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

CXUAsia will leverage the combined expertise of its founding partners to offer comprehensive CX education programs tailored for all organizational levels, from frontline employees to C-suite executives. CXU received the 2022 Impact Award from CXPA for its global influence on the practice of CX.

Training 114

Training Net Promoter Score Customer Experience Customer Centricity 114

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

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Customer journey maps of all shapes and sizes are adorning many a conference room wall. Enough customer personas have been created by businesses to launch a new country! It all sounds so positive and promising for the Customer Experience Profession.

Customer Centricity 263

Customer Centricity Customer Experience Customer Journeys Chief Customer Officer 263

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

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

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 9, 2015

I’ve seen plenty of Marketing, HR and Technology leaders who have made astounding improvements in the experiences they create for customers. Customer focused organizations smoke the competition. Whether or not your title says it, your leadership is needed! Take a minute to dive in and keep learning.

Customer Experience 110

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Professionals Resources 110

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

ECXO

MAY 11, 2023

You’ll also probably know that the most successful companies go beyond offering quality products and services, and competitive prices, to design experiences that differentiate their brand and create emotional connections with customers. Everything they do is built around their customers. Let’s continue.

Customer Centricity 156

Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Self Service Culture 156

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

As more leaders discuss becoming customer-centric, I wonder how many actually walk the talk and put actions into their plans. What if customer-centric ideas and tactics were included in all strategy plans ? A strategy that is truly customer customer-focused needs to include ideas like these: 1.

Customer Centricity 110

Customer Centricity Social Media Consulting Strategy 110

CX Journey

MARCH 12, 2015

The two terms are related, and they’re both elements of customer experience improvement. Employee Engagement: The “I” Point of View Employee engagement is the functional and emotional connection that employees have with an organization. Storytelling), or “We hire people who care about the customer.”

Culture 80

Culture Engagement Employee Engagement Customer Centricity 80

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

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 83

Self Service Customer Service Competitive Advantage Case Study 83

SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

Head of Customer Experience for UL EHS, Co-Founder of CX Accelerator, and CEO of Officium Labs, Nate Brown is an ICMI Top 50 Thought Leader. He is a Customer Experience Blogger and Speaker and offers expertise in customer journey mapping, a voice of the customer programs, survey process and analysis, employee engagement, and others.

Customer Experience 132

Customer Experience Consulting Multi-Channel Leadership 132

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. That means spending time on the frontlines of customer service.

Customer Centricity 83

Customer Centricity Culture Leadership Employee Engagement 83