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5 Customer Experience Concepts your Agents Need to Know (and How to Teach Them)

Nicereply

The common mantra that ‘ Customer Experience is not a department, it is an attitude ‘ only succeeds when agents are set up successfully to provide the experience you desire. CX skills involve empathy, language, creative and critical thinking, vast experiences, and skills not directly taught in school.

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Journey Maps: Not an Exercise in Futility

CX Journey

One of the arguments against journey mapping I often hear is that it's an exercise in futility: You map. You map because you need to understand the customer experience; you know that you cannot transform something you don't understand. This is key to avoiding that "exercise in futility" mentality or outcome.

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Forging the link between Customer Experience and Innovation – Six Crucial Principles

Peter Lavers

acquisition) rather than about serving existing customers better (i.e. Improving the customer experience is also high priority, but often there’s a big disconnect between where innovation and customer experience sit in the organisation. CUSTOMER EFFORT. retention).

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6 Customer Experience Principles for Immediate yet Lasting Change

Interaction Metrics

And you’ve been tapped to lead a customer experience team. Do you need a lengthy class or book on customer experience principles? Short is sweet, and this brief article gives you a primer on the critical customer experience principles you need for high-impact, laser-focused success.

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How to Track Customer Effort for Every Transaction

Kayako

Viktor Magic will walk you through how to run a customer effort questionnaire and why it’s important to track CES after every transaction. Customers don’t want high effort experiences because difficult experiences make the customer feel exhausted. Sending a Customer Effort Survey.

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Customer Experience Benchmarking: beware how you use it!

ijgolding

When it comes to Customer Experience, benchmarking is regularly seen by many leaders as being an important ‘yardstick’ by which to determine the success of their business in achieving their customer focused objectives – if indeed they have customer focused objectives in the first place.

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How to deliver a positive customer experience when failures occur

Taylor Reach Group

The question is, “But, is it worth the effort?” The Goldberg machine suggested a complaint often heard in Contact Centers – “thanks for the fix but it’s too complicated.” Enter Customer Effort Score (CES) and its applicability in a well-crafted Customer Journey. CES Defined and Exemplified.