PeopleMetrics

MARCH 2, 2015

You’re going to have to face them sooner or later if you’re trying to build a customer-centric culture. Before you bang your head on your mahogany desk, maybe you should ask yourself another question: Why should your employees care? The bulk of companies are just trying to figure out where to start: engagement or culture?

Employee engagement 106

Employee engagement Customer centricity Customer Experience Management 106

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Before I explain what I mean by that and how it has to do with Customer Experience, however, let me first tell you where I was born. The effect of loss aversion in a marketing setting was demonstrated in a study of consumer reaction to price changes to insurance policies. [2] How is this applicable to Customer Experience?

Customer Experience 351

Customer Experience Banking Customer emotions Employee engagement 351

Noble Systems

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Recently, we published a blog on customer-centricity, which refers to creating a culture that places the customer at the core of every business decision a company makes so that their experience at every touchpoint is amazing every time. So, in order to be truly customer-centric, you must first become employee-centric.

Employee engagement 59

Employee engagement Contact Center Gamification Customer centricity 59

Customer Experience Matters

JULY 23, 2018

We just published a Temkin Group report, Employee Engagement Competency & Maturity, 2018. We also asked survey respondents to complete Temkin Group’s Employee Engagement Competency & Maturity (EECM) Assessment. Highlights Read More.

Employee engagement 50

Employee engagement Surveys Customer Experience Benchmark 50

The Petrova Experience

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Knowing the ROI of customer experience helps to fund CX projects and make intelligent investments in customer experience. But a deeper examination into the question about CX return on investment gets to the heart of what customer experience means for your business, your customers, and your employees.

Customer Experience 105

Customer Experience Self service Airlines Technology 105

Noble Systems

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Recently, we published a blog on customer-centricity, which refers to creating a culture that places the customer at the core of every business decision a company makes so that their experience at every touchpoint is amazing every time. So, in order to be truly customer-centric, you must first become employee-centric.

Employee engagement 53

Employee engagement Contact Center Gamification Customer centricity 53

Horizon CX

APRIL 1, 2024

Organizational Growth Through CX Maturity Introduction In today’s competitive landscape, delivering exceptional customer experiences isn’t just a goal; it’s a necessity for sustained success. What is Customer Experience Maturity? HorizonCX offers a free CX maturity assessment here: [link].

Journey mapping 52

Journey mapping Customer centricity Customer retention Feedback 52

ClearAction

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Customer Centric Action Plans Lynn Hunsaker. Monitoring voice of the customer is one thing, but can all your employees name the customers’ top ten wish list? Customer Experience Manager Ravi Bhalla says customers have appreciated seeing changes made based on their feedback.

Customer centricity 54

Customer centricity Banking Best practices Employee engagement 54

PeopleMetrics

JUNE 26, 2015

Costco managed that lack of stress handily, and the experience offers four lessons, each of which can benefit your own business’s trek to customer centricity. Their brand, corporate mythos, and customer advocacy played a large part in my stepping through their sliding glass door in the first place. Which reminds me.

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Customer centricity Customer advocacy Employee engagement B2B 102

Netomi

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Customer experience has become a critical differentiator for companies looking to stand out from the crowd. In today’s fast-paced and highly competitive business landscape, quality customer experience has become even more important. Customers have more choices and higher expectations than ever before.

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Customer retention Employee engagement Chatbots 52

PeopleMetrics

JUNE 16, 2015

(DISCLAIMER: The CX Feud is a game in which 150 customer experience professionals took our assessment about the presence, or absence, of customer centricity practices in their organizations. When it comes to customer experience activities and commitment, leaders appear to be: 1. The Survey Says.

Customer centricity 96

Customer centricity Employee engagement Surveys Feedback 96

ClearAction

JUNE 8, 2015

Creating World-Class Customer Experience Teams. In a recent #CXO tweet chat these same success factors were discussed as they apply to customer experience teams. In a recent #CXO tweet chat these same success factors were discussed as they apply to customer experience teams. Offer good service."

Customer Experience 94

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer centricity Employee engagement 94

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

One study from Duke University estimated that habits shape 45 percent of the choices we make every day, not conscious decision making as you might have thought. This statement from the psychologists Townsend and Bever captures one of the great truisms of human behaviour – and one of the great challenges for marketers.

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Marketing Customer emotions Employee engagement Customer centricity 418

Integrity Solutions

APRIL 28, 2021

What actions can you take to both increase employee engagement and create a customer retention strategy that moves more of your customers from “satisfied” to “loyal”? One of the key tenets of a customer retention strategy is that it relentlessly focuses on value creation. A 5-step roadmap to get you started.

Customer retention 90

Customer retention Employee engagement Customer centricity Metrics 90

ClearAction

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Customer Experience Articles. Customer experience articles. Tools, techniques, and case studies catalyze your customer experience management success. Peruse ClearAction articles, podcasts and webcasts, and ask how these best practices can be customized to your specific needs.

Customer Experience 48

Customer Experience Customer centricity Employee engagement Enterprise 48

Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

AUGUST 10, 2018

While it might seem like it’s back-breaking to get a customer to buy, today’s empowered customer is also loyal–as long as they get their money’s worth. Businesses love to declare they’re customer-centric but fail to keep their customers. This involves being open to criticism from employees and peers.

Customer Experience 62

Customer Experience Customer centricity Employee engagement Coaching 62

Beyond Philosophy

MAY 31, 2016

Today, there’s a lot of discussion among corporate strategists, and even senior HR folks, about “putting employees first”. Whenever this is surfaced, it’s useful to ask some relevant questions with regard to ultimate enterprise value, particularly the employee experience vis-à-vis the customer experience.

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Customer advocacy Chief Customer Officer Employee engagement Consulting 279

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.

Customer Experience 104

Customer Experience Customer advocacy Employee engagement Feedback 104

Transparent BPO

AUGUST 13, 2019

How can contact centers turn that around so that customers are left feeling positive about the interaction? Contact center technology provider Serenova has some suggestions — five, in fact — that can transform how you operate your contact center to deliver customer experience success. Attrition, for one.

Contact Center 85

Contact Center Customer Experience Gamification Interactive Voice Response 85

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Here is the reality: As demonstrated again and again, if all employees are not committed to, and supportive of, CX initiatives, the enterprise – in any industry, in any locale – will suffer. HR execs and consultants would say that what is needed is a higher level of employee engagement.

Employee engagement 170

Employee engagement Customer advocacy Consulting Consulting 170

ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

CCXP exam (Customer Experience Professional Certification) competencies are a guide to highly profitable customer experience management. Pulling together all of this, you create your customer experience strategy. Pulling together all of this, you create your customer experience strategy.

Journey mapping 62

Journey mapping Metrics Accountability Surveys 62

Playvox

JANUARY 30, 2024

There’s more to engaging, motivating, and empowering employees than simply giving lip service with buzzwords like “you’ve got this,” “quick win,” and “continuous improvement.” Numerous studies link employee satisfaction, performance, and engagement with management’s ability to provide actionable, positive feedback and coaching.

Gamification 79

Gamification Contact Center Coaching Quality management 79

ijgolding

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

BM: Generally, the customer engagements I’m proudest of are those where the value of becoming more customer-centric has been amply demonstrated and I’ve “converted” sceptics within the company. IG: Experience, experience, experience. What are among your most proud CX accomplishments?

Customer Experience 95

Customer Experience Customer centricity outsourcing B2B 95

The Petrova Experience

JULY 20, 2023

We see that, when it comes to providing continuity of service through long-term employees, the hospitality industry is struggling. But there is a way to help keep those employees. Further, the study reports 75% of employees with development opportunities are likely to stay with their employer for an additional five years.

Customer centricity 40

Customer centricity Employee engagement Engineering Management 40

Eptica

JUNE 13, 2018

Date: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 Author: Taoufik Massoussi Measuring the customer experience: three key considerations. Author: Taoufik Massoussi Understanding how your company is performing in terms of Customer Experience (CX) is a key part of benchmarking against competitors and identifying areas for improvement.

Customer Experience 49

Customer Experience Average Handle Time Benchmark Metrics 49

CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In a competitive market, stellar customer service stands as the cornerstone of a thriving business. As a matter of fact, 49% of customers have left a brand due to poor customer service , as revealed in a study back in 2021. Note that most of these customers were once very loyal to the brands they supported.

Customer Service 52

Customer Service Upselling CRM Employee engagement 52

RapportBoost

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Did you miss this Customer Experience Update Webinar from the end of November? Read the transcript below: Nicholas Rodriguez: …the highest priorities for Contact Centers that focus on the customer. So, Talkdesk Enterprise Contact Center empowers companies to make their Customer Experience a competitive advantage.

Customer centricity 40

Customer centricity Contact Center Self service Journey mapping 40

Customer Interactions

JULY 7, 2015

If you spend half-an-hour Googling “Voice of the Customer business impact,” you’ll no doubt stumble across the much discussed link between customer advocacy (often referenced in terms of Net Promoter Score™) & bottom-line revenue. Regardless of whose study you read, you’ll get an impressive and perhaps surprising-looking figure.

Employee engagement 28

Employee engagement Customer advocacy Customer centricity Marketing 28

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 11, 2019

I complain a lot about companies that get Customer Experience wrong. Today, I am going to take another angle and explore how one company has taken on the Customer Experience journey and gets it right. RICOH Canada has done some incredible work in improving Customer Experience. The RICOH Canada Backstory.

Customer Experience 316

Customer Experience Employee engagement Journey mapping Customer centricity 316

ClearAction

JANUARY 12, 2022

“They put the customer first and invest in their employees and communities. Standout firms outperformed the S&P 500 by an 8-to-1 ratio in a study of companies that aligned the interests of all stakeholder groups , cited in the first article of this series. For customers, the path of least resistance wins.

Government 62

Government Enterprise Customer centricity Banking 62

CX Journey

MARCH 12, 2015

As companies focus inward to understand how to achieve their customer experience goals, the term “engagement” is often used interchangeably with “culture.” The two terms are related, and they’re both elements of customer experience improvement. It’s understandable. And so the cycle will continue.

Employee engagement 66

Employee engagement Customer centricity Entertainment Airlines 66

Customer Relationship Metrics

JULY 26, 2017

In a study by Jobvite, 95% of recruiters say hiring will be as or more competitive in the coming year (2017). A sense of ownership is a required component to experience engagement. And as many studies have confirmed, engagement is directly correlated with higher levels of individual and organizational performance.

Contact Center 211

Contact Center Calibration Construction Customer centricity 211

Playvox

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Related: Confluence of Agent and Customer Experience. Employee Engagement. According to a McKinsey study , engaged contact center employees are 8.5 says Kevin Kruse in his Employee Engagement Research (Master List of 32 Findings). [[bad Processes You Can Gamify in Your Contact Center.

Gamification 52

Gamification Call Center Contact Center Coaching 52

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Apart from being a lovely chap, like many people in the global Customer Experience (CX) community, he is as passionate and enthused about developing knowledge and education around CX competencies as I am. Although I was studying accounting and finance at the time, I started out in sales and marketing.

Customer centricity 105

Customer centricity Customer advocacy Marketing Finance 105

TechSee

APRIL 16, 2019

Measuring performance-based KPIs, such as first contact resolution (FCR), Net Promoter Score (NPS) and truck rolls are imperative to ensuring a smooth and customer-centric operation. Enhancing employee satisfaction and cutting agent attrition should also be core priorities. After all, happy agents mean happy customers.

Call Center 126

Call Center Contact Center Agent Empowerment Coaching 126

Horizon CX

MARCH 25, 2019

We often hear that to deliver a great customer experience, it must start at the top with executive buy-in and commitment. Thinking about this reminded me of a good article titled “Key Traits of Effective Customer Experience Leaders” written by freelance writer Aki Merced and published in Tenfold. 1 Accountability.

Customer centricity 45

Customer centricity Employee engagement Construction Coaching 45

Global Response

MARCH 27, 2023

As the recent data highlights: 86% of customers would leave a brand they were previously loyal to after just a few bad experiences, with 62% saying just one bad experience is enough to dissuade their loyalty. 68% of customers will pay more for products or services from brands known for their excellent customer service.

Customer Service 62

Customer Service Chatbots Self service Personalization 62