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Creating Award Winning Employee Engagement: A Case Study

Beyond Philosophy

Didn’t Believe Amazon Was Customer Centric Before? Why Most Customer Experience Programs Fail. Colin Shaw is the founder and CEO of Beyond Philosophy , one of the world’s first organizations devoted to customer experience. You Will Now.

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What Ants Can Show You About Employee Engagement & Customer Centricity

PeopleMetrics

So speeding into autumn, full tilt toward the winter—it happened that I found an interesting research study about ants. In the aforementioned study , researchers watched five ant colonies over the course of two weeks. In future studies, they hope to capture evidence of ants switching between work and lazy modes.

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Connecting Satisfaction With Behavior: Does The Service-Profit Chain (or The Employee Engagement-Profit Chain) Still Work?

Beyond Philosophy

Its foundation of employee satisfaction is built on shifting sand. Namely, the connection between satisfaction and behavior, whether by customers or employees, has been challenged and largely refuted in study upon study. What’s true for customer attitudes relative to behavior can also be applied to employees.

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Employee Ambassadorship: CX Focus Built On Neither Employee Satisfaction Nor Employee Engagement

Beyond Philosophy

In part because of today’s greater emphasis on the emotional components of customer experience and customer value delivery, and how this must be an enterprise cultural priority, employees have become center stage in optimizing customer behavior.

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Employee Engagement: A Goldmine of Untapped Value (Infographic)

Customer Experience Matters

Employee Engagement is one of Temkin Group’s Four CX Core Competencies. In other words, you can’t be customer-centric unless you have a highly engaged workforce. Make sure to visit our Employee Engagement Page. png format, in .pdf pdf format 18? poster: in .jpg jpg format, in .pdf

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Why engaging HR, Finance, Legal, and IT to embrace the customer is vital!

Beyond Philosophy

That would leave one group with a customer-centric mindset and the rest without one. Therefore, everyone in the organization has to embrace the customer-centric mindset—even those who never interact directly with a customer. We all know happy employees make happy customers.

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Getting Employees to Care: Employee Engagement and Culture

PeopleMetrics

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?