Anexa BPO

MAY 24, 2023

In today’s hyper-connected and customer-centric business landscape, understanding and meeting customers where they are is vital for success. Additionally, many businesses approach customer listening in a fragmented manner. They rely solely on surveys or occasional feedback forms, missing out on the broader picture.

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Personalization Customer centricity Feedback Surveys 52

CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Put Employee Engagement Top of the Agenda When employees are disengaged, they are less productive and more likely to leave. The good news is contact centres from all parts of the world recognize the importance of agent wellbeing in meeting customer demands. Here are a few quick-win ideas to bridge the gap: 1.

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Average Handle Time Customer centricity Coaching Self service 52

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Many companies are still measuring customer sat in hopes that learning about its drivers will help build customer loyalty, but satisfaction isn’t contemporary regarding decision-making or reflective of what is going on in the customer’s real, emotional world. 10 BIG Ideas for Customer-Centric Success.

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Enterprise Customer centricity Employee engagement Consulting 150

Playvox

JANUARY 30, 2024

According to a recent Gallup survey , only 23% of employees worldwide and 32% in the U.S. fall in the “engaged” category. In order to be successful, managers need to be better equipped to provide ongoing feedback and employ effective strategies to boost employee engagement. Yet managers continue to fall short.

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Gamification Contact Center Coaching Quality management 79

Horizon CX

APRIL 1, 2024

Customer experience maturity is a way of measuring an organization’s ability to design and deliver a consistently positive customer experience. These characteristics may include: Customer-centric culture: The organization has a culture that is obsessed with the customer and focused on meeting their needs.

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Journey mapping Customer centricity Customer retention Feedback 52

Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Each year, we do a Global Leader Survey of top executives in Customer Experience Management. Last year’s survey revealed that Amazon claimed the top spot and Bank of America…well, didn’t. According to the global leaders, that’s because: They deliver excellence customer service. They communicate well.

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Banking Employee engagement Customer centricity Surveys 150

Lumoa

JANUARY 19, 2023

Whether your company is using the Balanced Scorecard , OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), SMART , or simple KPIs , this will help you align the work of your future customer experience department to goals everyone in the company cares about. And it will make it easier to build strong relationships and a strong culture of customer centricity.

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Horizon CX

MAY 19, 2023

They develop change strategies, manage the timeline and resources, coordinate communication and training efforts, and monitor the progress of the change initiative. They can advocate for the importance of customer experience and embed it as a core element of the transformation strategy.

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Customer centricity Customer Experience Employee engagement Best practices 52

ProProfs Blog

MAY 30, 2019

Your customers should not feel the need to move away to your competitor because they found your customer care operators to be inefficient or your support mechanism to be weak. Read on to learn the 10 steps that are a must in your customer success plan for ensuring greater customer success stories in your business.

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Employee engagement Journey mapping Customer Support Feedback 110

TechSee

APRIL 16, 2019

Employers around the globe are facing the most severe recruitment crisis in 12 years, according to the latest Talent Shortage Survey , with 40% of companies surveyed reporting difficulties filling roles. Enhancing employee satisfaction and cutting agent attrition should also be core priorities. Training can also be incentivized.

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Call Center Contact Center Agent Empowerment Coaching 126

CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Not Meeting Customers’ Expectations Meeting customer expectations is crucial for maintaining customer satisfaction and loyalty. There are several ways you can bridge this gap: Conduct surveys, gather feedback, or analyze their reviews. Use improved communication to address issues before customers notice them.

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Customer Service Upselling CRM Employee engagement 52

SharpenCX

JULY 26, 2023

It provides deeper insights on customers. Want to become more customer centric? Get to know your customers on a deeper level — not just their name, contact information, and purchased products, but their likes, dislikes, and inclinations for future purchases. From there, you can set goals for improving the metric.

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Call Center Contact Center Contact center software Coaching 67

ClearAction

APRIL 3, 2015

Hope was expressed about HR group’s H2H (human-to-human) skills and aspirations to enable operational excellence and cultural transformation. Make sure employees buy into the Why not just the What. What is happening with employees is what will be reflected to customers: use #VoE as window to CX realities. Tell stories.

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Customer Experience Employee engagement Government Big data 121

RapportBoost

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Customer channel preferences are increasingly important, with more knowledge, organizations can deliver better self-service. Optimization of this knowledge can be accelerated by leveraging artificial intelligence , and employee engagement is a powerful force that can be used to drive customer engagement.

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Customer centricity Contact Center Self service Journey mapping 40

Customer Relationship Metrics

JULY 26, 2017

You’ve conducted surveys, created committees, put in recognition programs, and still you struggle. Effective setting of employee expectations is a critical part of successfully leading and managing a team. When an employee fails or performs poorly, call center managers typically do not blame themselves or the system.

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Contact Center Calibration Construction Customer centricity 211

Integrity Solutions

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Whether a salesperson is new to the company or a seasoned high performer, the pressure is on in today’s world: Up your game, add more value, strengthen customer relationships and meet aggressive sales targets—fast. The question is, are sales training efforts keeping up? Sales Training and the “Soft Stuff”.

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Sales Coaching CRM Technology 40

SmartKarrot

APRIL 4, 2022

Customer-centricity is important for any organization’s culture. Customer-centric DNA means the person needs to have the qualities or features that fundamentally keep the customer at the center of every action. A customer-centric DNA is when the focus of your company is customer success.

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Customer centricity SaaS B2B Employee engagement 10

Jive

AUGUST 9, 2018

Five common reasons employees flee from contact centers are lackluster training, management, limited opportunities for advancement, employee burnout, and substandard technology and tools. If an AI chatbots can take even 25% of the incoming inquiries, that will significantly lower the stress level of your employees. #2.

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Contact Center Chatbots Employee engagement Customer Support 75

AskNicely

AUGUST 17, 2018

Why is Customer Obsession a Priority? A recent Gartner survey of CEOs found that 40% list growth as their number one business priority for 2018 and 2019. And 23% of CEOs list customer service as one of their top three business priorities. Here’s the big one: customers are always beautifully, wonderfully dissatisfied.

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Feedback Customer centricity Surveys Employee engagement 60

ClearAction

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Peruse ClearAction articles, podcasts and webcasts, and ask how these best practices can be customized to your specific needs. 81% of companies with strong capabilities and competencies for delivering customer experience excellence are outperforming their competition.(1). Customer Experience Strategy : Exploring Success Factors.

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Customer Experience Customer centricity Employee engagement Enterprise 48

Global Response

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Starbucks While Starbucks hasn’t always been a customer-centric company, its pivot toward customer obsession in recent years provides a great example for other companies to follow. As you can see, Starbucks didn’t need to reinvent the wheel in order to improve customer loyalty and customer-centricity.

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Customer centricity Feedback Customer retention Customer Experience 62

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.

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Customer Experience Customer centricity Employee engagement Coaching 62

SharpenCX

JANUARY 21, 2020

When you treat your customers like a valuable piece of your corporate puzzle they’re going to be more loyal. And those loyal customers pack on a higher LCV and ROI than new customers. Reese found that customer-centric companies fulfill the big picture needs of customers. Do they need more training?

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Metrics Contact Center Abandon rate Coaching 76

ijgolding

JUNE 9, 2015

You must absolutely believe that enabling an organisation to be more customer centric is the ‘right thing to do’ – right for the customer; right for the employee; and right for the shareholder. Not only that, the Customer Experience is not the responsibility of a CXP – it is the responsibility of the WHOLE ORGANISATION.

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Customer Experience Customer centricity Metrics Journey mapping 119

Horizon CX

MARCH 25, 2019

This involves being open to criticism from employees and peers. In customer-centric organizations, issues are resolved with the customers’ best interests in mind. Great customer experience is an organization-level pursuit. Leaders who reach out to their employees improve employee engagement.

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Customer centricity Employee engagement Construction Coaching 45

The Petrova Experience

APRIL 8, 2021

Employee experience is the vehicle to get the second year subscriptions for your business. Invest in real employee training (not only self-service recordings!). Invest in technology that helps employees deliver better experiences. Or if they do, employees get a one-off survey and leaders take no action.

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Employee engagement Surveys Customer retention Consulting 64

Etech GS

APRIL 30, 2019

Most businesses understand what’s at stake each time a customer needs to reach out, so what’s being done to ensure more positive experiences? While CSAT scores and KPIs still rule for some companies, others are taking a more customer-centric approach that has managed to completely alter the landscape of what contact centers could be.

Contact Center 71

Contact Center Coaching Healthcare Feedback 71

Noble Systems

JANUARY 29, 2019

In its “ The Future of the Contact Center in 2019 ” report, CCW writes that customer contact leaders believe “the best way forward is to make sure the heart of customer centricity is not left in the past,” and that in 2019, they will emphasize agent “empowerment.”

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Agent Empowerment Contact Center Customer centricity Surveys 58

NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

They can optimize team productivity and achieve exceptional results by focusing on key areas such as KPIs, technology, workforce management, training, culture, and continuous improvement. Check our guide on what KPIs to follow if you want to have excellent customer service. Click here to tune in.

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Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Management Gamification 52

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. More specifically though, about 18 months ago I implemented a VoC survey for an IT Helpdesk that ended up saving all their jobs.

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Customer Experience Customer centricity outsourcing B2B 95

CSM Magazine

JULY 24, 2019

Regardless of the industry that you operate in, the number one priority of any company is its customers. An unhappy customer leads to a limited, fractured relationship and a loss of any potential brand loyalty and future sales. If your business is customer centric, then focusing on customer service should be a top priority.

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Customer Service outsourcing Feedback Employee engagement 45

ijgolding

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

More and more organisations are starting to consider how best to measure VOE – Voice of the Employee. Capturing ’employee perception’ and aligning it to ‘customer perception’ is critical in building a robust customer centric measurement system. The next year it might happen thereafter.

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Surveys Metrics Employee engagement Consulting 77

Noble Systems

JANUARY 29, 2019

In its “ The Future of the Contact Center in 2019 ” report, CCW writes that customer contact leaders believe “the best way forward is to make sure the heart of customer centricity is not left in the past,” and that in 2019, they will emphasize agent “empowerment.”

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Agent Empowerment Contact Center Customer centricity Surveys 47

Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The first step in creating a revenue-generating customer service organization is to determine which strategy or strategies are most applicable to your business today. According to the Customers 2020 Report, by 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator.

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Call Center Customer Support Customer centricity Contact Center 56

SharpenCX

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

But rather than building a strategy core to the business, companies hold one-off events to boost engagement. They create patch-fixes for an entirely broken experience and expect a complete mind shift and better customer outcomes in return. The reality is, the employee engagement mind shift has to start at the top.

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Contact Center Coaching Metrics Average Handle Time 67

SharpenCX

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

But rather than building a strategy core to the business, companies hold one-off events to boost engagement. They create patch-fixes for an entirely broken experience and expect a complete mind shift and better customer outcomes in return. The reality is, the employee engagement mind shift has to start at the top.

Contact Center 67

Contact Center Coaching Metrics Average Handle Time 67

Global Response

MARCH 27, 2023

In this article, our team of experts outlines the four key attributes of good—and great—customer service, and the key tactics and strategic insights to know as you implement them at your organization. Improving Customer Service Connections Unlike speed or accessibility, connection is difficult to automate.

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