Brad Cleveland Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The most customer-centric organizations build on a foundation of employee engagement. What’s behind that level of engagement? As it turns out the key driver is purpose.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 12, 2015

I dedicate my career to helping organizations take their current Customer Experience to the next level, or Beyond the Philosophy of it and into the “real world.”. Philosophy drives my actions, of course , including the following five: Philosophy #1: Experiences are not just about the “what” but also the “how.”.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 17, 2016

In our customer experience consultancy, we see employee stress and burnout as barriers to providing an exceptional customer experience. If Huffington succeeds in transforming the way that companies view stress and performance, she could also help make it easier for companies to improve customer experiences.

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Call Center Weekly

APRIL 15, 2019

TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY WOMEN, TO BUILD THEIR SKILLS AND FOCUS ON A CAREER IN THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE FIELD. Voxpro interviewed five women leaders who talk about the need for females in high-level customer-focused roles. I’M WRITING THIS ARTICLE FOR TWO REASONS: 1. CX is not a fad. A: There will ALWAYS be obstacles.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The most customer-centric organizations build on a foundation of employee engagement. What’s behind that level of engagement? As it turns out the key driver is purpose.

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Etech GS

APRIL 16, 2019

While nearly every company will agree that keeping the customer experience (CX) at the forefront of any business strategy is key to maximizing growth and overall success, it’s certainly no longer the only important factor. Going Above Engagement To Focus on Overall Employee Experience.

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PeopleMetrics

MAY 12, 2015

Customer experience darling Zappos recently reported 210 of its employees have resigned. That number might seem shocking at first glance, but in terms of employee engagement strategy , it’s not so bad. When it was all said and done, 210 out of 1,503 employees decided to leave Zappos. A Call to Arms.

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PeopleMetrics

MARCH 2, 2015

It lives in your productivity stats, your error rates, your absenteeism, and your customer satisfaction scores. How people act over the course of your day-to-day operations is reflective of your unique culture. The bulk of companies are just trying to figure out where to start: engagement or culture? Culture is the same way.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

They understand that delivering on the tangible and functional elements of value are just table stakes, and that connecting, and having an emotionally-based relationship with customers are keys to leveraging loyalty, advocacy, and brand-bonding behavior. They market, and create experiences, within the branded vision.

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Lumoa

JANUARY 19, 2023

Understanding customers is a key step to success, and organizations do it best when they have a customer experience department in place. This department is tasked with analyzing customer feedback and data and disseminating its findings to improve the organization’s processes, products, and services.

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Clarabridge

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

You can’t have a great customer experience without a great employee experience. The two are intrinsically linked: Great managers create great employees, who ultimately create great customer experiences. It’s also about employees showing empathy and understanding.

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Taylor Reach Group

DECEMBER 11, 2019

It is your agents that interact with your customers, they are the ones who deliver service and have the greatest impact on your Customer Experience. Each of these, of course, is at some level a reflection of the culture and practices you have embraced in your operation.

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ClearAction

APRIL 3, 2015

Why Customer Experience Excellence Requires HR Engagement. People are at the center of providing or receiving customer experiences. And it’s commonly accepted that engaged employees are a prerequisite to high-value, engaged customers. —@Lynn_Teo. " —@thecxguy.

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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.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 21, 2016

Employee engagement is critical to your organization’s hiring efforts. As the Fortune article points out, the Generation Z, fun-workplace-seeking employees will comprise at least 20% of the workforce by 2019, just three short years from now. Our four-part online Employee Engagement course covers the employee ambassador concept.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 25, 2016

Nearly 40,000 employees from two unions contracting with Verizon have been on strike for a little over a month. Now, Verizon is learning firsthand the cost of not having a strong culture of employee engagement—in actual dollars and sense. Employee Engagement and Customer Experience Are Linked.

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PeopleMetrics

JULY 31, 2015

If you can tell, we’re fans of using feedback in your customer experience strategy. It helps you keep tabs on your experience. However, when thinking about collecting feedback on the customer experience, we can limit ourselves to considering feedback from customers. It helps you gain perspective.

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Clarabridge

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

You can’t have a great customer experience without a great employee experience. The two are intrinsically linked: Great managers create great employees, who ultimately create great customer experiences. It’s also about employees showing empathy and understanding.

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ClearAction

AUGUST 29, 2015

3 Types of Customer Experience Action Essential to ROI. If your recipe for customer experience ROI does not call for 3 types of action, it will probably flop. If your recipe for customer experience ROI does not call for 3 types of action, it will probably flop. 2) Macro Customer Experience Action.

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ProProfs Blog

MARCH 5, 2019

Organizations gather customer experience data through CSAT (customer satisfaction) surveys that are built into their help desk ticketing systems. Conducting such surveys helps them in finding out the challenges faced by customers over time. Gathering data from customers helps to improve their service experience as well.

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ClearAction

JANUARY 4, 2020

CEO’s Guide to Growth through Customer Experience Engagement Lynn Hunsaker. Customer experience engagement is a growth strategy. It’s a never-ending hamster-wheel to entice engagement. Customer experience is customers’ realities compared to their expectations.

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Real Blue Sky

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

As we delve into five dynamic strategies for brand growth, we’ll explore how prioritizing customer retention can significantly boost profits. We’ll discuss the art of enhancing customer experiences to keep your customers not just satisfied but delighted and loyal.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 16, 2015

Customer Experience continued to be a dominant business issue throughout the world in 2014. They are all working to improve their Customer Experience. I can say with confidence the Customer Experience concept is now a worldwide phenomenon. Of course I know what the Customer Experience is about!”.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 24, 2018

By EX, of course, we mean employee experience. Customer experience optimization has, for some time, been the stated goal of many enterprises around the world. Statements such as the assumption that positive employees feel satisfied; and, when satisfied, may recommend the company to others, are often cited.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 27, 2016

We see this all the time in our Customer Experience consultancy: We come in with a Customer Experience program that we want to deliver. We give it to the customer-facing teams…. We haven’t taught them how to deliver the Customer Experience we designed. First, Give Employees the Goal.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Employee Engagement: Your employees are people, and likely support the same team or local causes. It’s fun for employees to have a promotion that makes Customers happy. Happy memories are essential to your Customer Experience. It also feels good to have a higher purpose and do good for others.

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360Connext

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The job descriptions for a customer experience leader vary between tactical analyst and strategic overlord. Defining just what a customer experience leader does can be tricky. But what’s even trickier is when you may not have customer experience or customer insights in your title.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 15, 2024

An accountability mindset in customer service empowers employees to actively choose behaviors that improve customer experience and ensure success. It’s a matter of choosing the dominant mindset that determines the course of one’s performance and career over time.

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Integrity Solutions

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Whether they’re sending the message via quiet quitting or actually giving two weeks’ notice, more and more employees are making it clear that burnout has taken a toll, they want to find more meaning and purpose in their work, and their companies haven’t done enough to address the problems. At least, it shouldn’t be.

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PeopleMetrics

MAY 15, 2015

Second: What hobo cryptography has to do with customer experience strategy. In a similar way, your individual customers are united in the circumstances that brought them to you. That might seem melodramatic, but that micro-to-macro mindset is where customer experience metrics like Net Promoter Score originated.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 17, 2017

In our customer experience consultancy, we spend a lot of time educating people about the components of a great customer experience. If customers just had a gadget that could do more or electronic kiosks they could play with in the store, or a virtual reality app – well, then the customer experience would be great.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

They are, of course, using a life event as a major trigger for changing habits and the one they chose is woman-specific. It has proven to be successful…so successful that there is a famous story where a father learned a couple of weeks after Target that his teenage daughter was expecting. The Power of Habit.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 10, 2015

Honesty is the best policy, and the only policy that gives you a chance for Customer retention. For more Customer Experience concepts, register for our Advanced Customer Experience Management (CEM) Certification Course beginning on April 20th. What do you do when you make a mistake?

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 17, 2015

Employee Experience and Customer Experience are linked. The Voice of the Customer (VOC) refers to the feedback you get regarding a Customer’s expectations and their experience with your organization. These same organizations would be wise to listen to their employees as well. And guess what?

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Call Center Weekly

DECEMBER 20, 2017

One way, is to create a crossword puzzle with the questions and answers related to the organization’s mission, values, and of course, product knowledge. She is a Corporate Trainer & Leader specializing in customer service, customer experience, contact centers, employee engagement & workplace culture.

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Callminer

MAY 27, 2020

Maximizing the value your employees derive from their roles within your organization on a daily basis – satisfaction, engagement , accomplishment, community and more – has the potential to build loyalty among your workforce in ways higher wages never could AND benefit your business’s bottom line. Keep employee data analysis consistent.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

When was the last time you got an email from your CEO suggesting that you need to be concerned about how your Customer feels? For the vast majority of you, my guess is your answer is never, unless of course you work at Starbucks. Never truer words were spoken, particularly when you are addressing Customer Experience.

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