ShepHyken

APRIL 12, 2019

This week we feature an article by Joel Gottesman who shares tips to ensure that seasonal employees provide an excellent customer experience. This past season, retailers hired more than 575,000 seasonal employees to help manage the holiday rush. Many of these employees were tasked with challenging customer-facing positions.

Customer Service 268

Customer Service Education Healthcare Customer centricity 268

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 7, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague Erica McBride, shares a story that explains why your organization doesn’t want to just be good, you want to be great! There was a time when ‘good’ was ‘good enough’ If a customer said we were ‘good’, we were happy.

Enterprise 299

Enterprise Coaching Personalization Customer Experience 299

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

This week we feature an article by Dawn Gucciardo who took my model of Six D’s to Creating a Customer-Centric Culture and applied it to developing and implementing a CRM software. – Shep Hyken. Shep Hyken believes customer centricity must start on the inside, with your employees. Guess what? Disseminate it. Delight in it!

Customer centricity 220

Customer centricity CRM Finance Coaching 220

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 21, 2018

This week we feature an article by Prasad Reddy who shares 10 ways to improve CSAT scores by enhancing customer satisfaction. – Shep Hyken. Customer satisfaction is at the core of your business health and growth. In this age of social media, unhappy customers can cause extensive damage to your brand. for customer service.

CRM 235

CRM Best practices Customer Service Metrics 235

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

This week we feature an article by Jessica Wise who shares a story to illustrate how you can develop a lifelong relationship with your customers by creating a customer experience they will never forget. The chance to shock and awe your customers will arise when they present you with a problem that needs solving. Aberdeen ?).

Customer Experience 282

Customer Experience Personalization Customer Service Marketing 282

ShepHyken

AUGUST 26, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Doug Sandler, busts some popular customer service myths. Arming employees with knowledge and training is key. MYTH – Great customer service starts with understanding the customer is always right. Shep Hyken. Every episode Jamie and Adam (et al.)

Customer Service 0

Customer Service Airlines Government Consulting 0

ShepHyken

JANUARY 4, 2019

This week we feature an article by Anand Srinivasan who writes about how important it is to have a properly trained customer service team to ensure business success. – Shep Hyken. Customer service is one of the primary drivers of growth in many organizations. Traits that define a great customer service rep.

Customer Service 194

Customer Service Calibration Feedback Sales 194

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

This week we feature an article by Misa Chien who shares great lessons we can learn from the Southwest Airlines customer culture. This also reminds us that customer service doesn’t just happen on the front line. But would customer service ever make the highlight reel of such an event? 2) Share in customers’ excitement.

Airlines 213

Airlines Customer Service Surveys Feedback 213

ShepHyken

MARCH 3, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Jeff Dahms, explains the importance of encouraging internal collaboration within your organization. These are great strategies to help take care of your internal customers. According to the same poll, 8% of employees would choose a root canal. Shep Hyken.

Surveys 206

Surveys Feedback Customer Service Management 206

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 12, 2016

Be careful about policies you issue that are focused on the organization and not on the Customer. Uzbekistan Airways decided to weigh customers before boarding their flights for “safety reasons.” 8: Losing Customers’ Trust is the Worst Penalty VW Will Face. I’d like to take a second to wish a Happy New Year to all my readers.

Consulting 268

Consulting Consulting Customer Experience Personalization 268

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Your employees have the power to make or break your Customer Experience this holiday season with the customer service they provide. However, when employees aren’t happy, customer service often suffers. However, they also provide an excellent Employee Experience. Remember the Nordstrom Way.

Consulting 418

Consulting Consulting Customer centricity Customer emotions 418

CX Accelerator

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Surely customer support could help me sort this out. It was incredibly distressing to encounter a customer service representative who clearly couldn’t care less if I ever left my house again. Give inconsistent or incorrect answers to customers. 10) shut down customer support channels for cost rather than customer choice.

Customer centricity 316

Customer centricity Airlines Feedback Construction 316

ShepHyken

AUGUST 19, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Jack Plantin, writes about the importance of customer support and options we can offer for around the clock support. 24/7 customer support is great to have, but it can expensive and time-consuming for small companies. He shares some excellent self-help ideas.

Customer Support 223

Customer Support Banking outsourcing Coaching 223

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

McDonald’s also has an Archways to Opportunity program that helps their employees continue their education, whether that means learning English, finishing secondary school or earning their college degree. Employee Engagement: Your employees are people, and likely support the same team or local causes.

Transportation 419

Transportation Customer emotions Coaching Employee engagement 419

ShepHyken

JULY 12, 2019

This week we feature an article by Hugues Meyrath who says that by integrating machine learning and AI capabilities into your processes, you can optimize the performance of your facilities and staff to drive a positive customer experience. At the heart of this is the need to create better customer experiences and deliver new services.

Customer Experience 266

Customer Experience Technology Enterprise Analytics 266

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This week we feature an article by Brian Cantor who gives us a list of ways to achieve success and consistency when communicating with customers on any channel. – Shep Hyken. Making for a jointly admirable and problematic reality, the customer contact community often takes a lofty, wide-eyed approach to strategy and technology.

Abandon rate 236

Abandon rate Journey mapping Average Handle Time Customer centricity 236

Lumoa

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Success in customer experience (CX) can be represented by numbers. A high Net Promoter Score (NPS), a large number of new customers in a month, or fewer unsatisfactory customer service request conclusions, are just some of the metrics we use to measure an effective customer experience.

Customer Experience 83

Customer Experience Healthcare Metrics Customer emotions 83

ShepHyken

MAY 26, 2017

This week we feature an article by Bikash Mohanty about how important customer experience metrics are to your business. Companies that track and measure their customer service have a competitive advantage. So, what are the most-necessary Customer Experience metrics your Business should keep tabs on? Customer Effort Score (CES).

Metrics 227

Metrics Customer effort Customer Experience Surveys 227

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Soon after that, I founded my global Customer Experience consultancy, Beyond Philosophy. We had him on the podcast recently to talk about his new book, Winning on Purpose: The Unbeatable Strategy of Loving Customers. Also, treating customers well is good for employees. So, What Went Wrong with NPS?

Airlines 273

Airlines Metrics Accountability SaaS 273

ShepHyken

JUNE 24, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Jeremy Watkin shares a story demonstrating the importance of empowerment to great customer service. If you empower employees to come up with creative solutions to problems, you’ll be amazed at the results. Shep Hyken. Think about that for a moment.

Technical Support 211

Technical Support outsourcing Education Customer Service 211

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. The second examined the retail experience of 40,000 Customers.

Employee engagement 419

Employee engagement Consulting Consulting Banking 419

Steve DiGioia

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

There’s always that one employee who refuses to follow directions. So, what do you do with an employee like this? Sure, we can give him a kick in the rear and show him the door, but you never want to lose an otherwise half-decent employee if you can help it. If the employee underperformed, they did little to correct them.

Enterprise 345

Enterprise Management Accountability Customer Service 345

Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 6, 2015

A definite link exists between Employee Engagement and Customer Experience. In spite of this, many organizations choose to keep their Employee Engagement programs and their Customer Engagement programs separate. And these employees aren’t facing happy Customers either.

Employee engagement 414

Employee engagement Call Center Banking Management 414

CCNG

MAY 31, 2023

I told them what happened, and he responded, “That must make you feel good, Mommy, because you are happy right now.” The client was a Fortune 200 international company that had contracted us to answer technical support calls from customers. This impacted customer service scores in a big way. That must have been good news!”

Technical Support 195

Technical Support CCNG First call resolution Customer Service 195

Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 16, 2017

This concept becomes even more crucial when you become a manager and assess your team—especially as it pertains to how they work with or on behalf of customers. In our global Customer Experience consultancy, we find most employees fall into one of five commitment categories for employees. Employee Ambassadors (Advocates).

Consulting 350

Consulting Consulting Employee engagement Customer Experience 350

ShepHyken

JUNE 2, 2017

This week we feature an article by Matt Nolan who talks about what a great customer service experience really is. As customer service professionals, we have a hard time agreeing on what a “great customer experience” really is, and what’s truly possible. Shep Hyken.

Wireless 189

Wireless Banking Analytics Call Center 189

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 15, 2017

Unfortunately, none of this is good news for your Customer Experience. They are the future of your workforce and the future of your Customer Experience. So, engaging the millennials you employ should be an important part of your Customer Experience improvement strategy. As I always say, happy employees make happy customers.

Employee engagement 364

Employee engagement Consulting Consulting Customer Experience 364

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 2, 2016

We all want to be happy. But how do you consistently make your customers happy? Experts from companies like Disney and SoulCycle offered good advice on this subject during a panel discussion on designing happiness at SXSW. Apple employees came out to chat with us. Empowering Employees. Transitions.

Consulting 283

Consulting Consulting Banking Customer Experience 283

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Keeping employees happy and motivated is an agenda item that is on everyone lips, but little action seems to be happening. As a result, Employee Engagement is slipping as well, which is a problem for Customer Experience. To me, a great Customer Experience is only provided through employees that are engaged.

Employee engagement 410

Employee engagement Customer Experience Management 410

ShepHyken

AUGUST 17, 2018

This week we feature an article by Kaavya Karthikeyan who writes about customer support metrics that you should be tracking. – Shep Hyken. The best way to outperform your peers is through constant evolution and refining, and nowhere does this apply more than in the customer support arena. The industry benchmark for FRR is 7 hours.

Benchmark 189

Benchmark Metrics Customer Support First call resolution 189

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 21, 2015

Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group, led the charge for better parental leave benefits this week for his employees. With Virgin’s announcement on Monday, they are one of only a few companies that offer this kind of benefit for its employees. Valuing Employees is the Foundation for Employee Ambassadorship.

Customer Experience 400

Customer Experience B2C Banking B2B 400

Steve DiGioia

APRIL 3, 2023

Coming out of the COVID pandemic, many businesses are still having difficulties hiring enough employees to properly service their customers. But, if that’s the case, at least find a few seconds to acknowledge the customers who enter your door, regardless of how busy you are. I understand that. So, I waited. I’m here, waiting.

Surveys 162

Surveys Customer Service 162

Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 25, 2015

Performance reviews are part of most employer/employee relationships. However, recent developments show that improving employee experience involves finding new ways to give employees feedback to improve motivation and success. After a less than insightful review, most employees might sigh as well.

Feedback 419

Feedback Customer Experience Management 419

ShepHyken

AUGUST 3, 2018

This week we feature an article by Eugene Aronsky who talks about good customer service versus bad customer service and how proper training and proper knowledge are key to answering any question that a customer may have. – Shep Hyken. Good customer service is essential for a successful business.”

Customer Service 215

Customer Service Call Center Sales Marketing 215

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 18, 2015

Many of us would like to know the secret to lasting happiness. Dr. Thomas Gilovich, a professor at Cornell University, believes that material items might provide happiness—but it doesn’t last. There is lasting happiness to be found from shopping, although it doesn’t involve stuff. But science might prove that it doesn’t.

B2C 399

B2C B2B Employee engagement Customer Experience 399

CCNG

MARCH 8, 2023

As a contact center leader, you’re always looking for ways to improve performance and keep your agents happy. As soon as an agent starts “just going through the motions” rather than engaging with customers, interaction quality plummets—and so do customer satisfaction scores. So, what if the issue is apathy?

Morale 195

Morale Contact Center CCNG Agent burnout 195

CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

The all-too-sudden and tragic passing of former Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh has sent a ripple through the business world, and the customer experience (CX) community is no exception. In the past, I’ve often chuckled upon reading about Zappos in a book or hearing the name mentioned in a keynote address as a model for customer-centricity.

Customer centricity 266

Customer centricity Banking Education Contact Center 266