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At the recent Qualtrics X4 event, we took a group of about 40 B2B CX professionals through a self-evaluation exercise. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but as Steve Walker says in our bonus 10 Traits Recap podcast episode, “it would take a pretty special brand of unicorn.” And guess what? Continue reading. The post Why you’ll never be <del>a unicorn</del> great at all 10 CX traits appeared first on CX Advantage. MORE

We now live in a world where our fridges can order food, our wearables can track and analyse our exercise habits, and we can receive updates about important events right as they’re happening. These developments are part of the customer service digital transformation, and it’s important you find a way to make use of the best technologies available to improve customer experience and maximise efficiency. Digital Transformation Customer Experience MORE

The good news is that if you haven’t done it yet, you don’t need to get to the level of detail you normally would for this exercise. This is the type of exercise that is not a “one and done.” Little successes added together make for large success down the road. Small successes add up. MORE

When Life Fitness wanted to step up its online efforts and relaunch its website, the exercise equipment manufacturer turned to ForeSee. Life Fitness knew it needed a partner with a. The post ForeSee Helps Life Fitness Ramp Up Customer Experience Analytics appeared first on ForeSee. Case Stories Customer Experience Analytics ForeSee Solutions MORE

Include daily exercises to help you feel good and maintain your health. Strive to include some exercises in your routine and spend more time on the move. For the most significant benefits of exercise, try to include at least two and half hours of moderate-intensity activity (e.g., Lots of scientific data suggest that a regular exercise routine gets the best results. Find forms of exercise that are entertaining and funny. Recruit an “exercise buddy.” MORE

It was a great exercise. This is the time of year for holiday cheer, family celebrations, and, of course, listings of annual trends! To help me identify trends for 2019, I reached out to some of the many thought leaders across Qualtrics and asked them to share one or two of the top experience management (XM) trends they are expecting to see in the coming year. MORE

Even though I want you to think beyond your competition, you should still do the exercises in this step and the next. You must be able to keep up with your competition, and this exercise helps. Stop comparing yourself to the competition. MORE

In this episode, we discuss this exercise’s critical question to present a new experience for your customers. 18:32 Colin and Ryan emphasize what the goal should be for this exercise over the next couple of months. There’s light at the end of the tunnel! – Re-imagine your customer experience! There was a time when we thought this moment would never come, but we are almost there. MORE

Many people view customer service as a purely reactional exercise. Questions come in, answers go out. That's it. Right? MORE

Include daily exercises to help you feel good and maintain your health. Strive to include some exercises in your routine and spend more time on the move. For the most significant benefits of exercise, try to include at least two and half hours of moderate-intensity activity (e.g., Lots of scientific data suggest that a regular exercise routine gets the best results. Find forms of exercise that are entertaining and funny. Recruit an “exercise buddy.” MORE

This exercise, as simple as it sounds, was her way of creating a process improvement initiative that has been wildly successful. This is similar to an exercise that we do in our customer service workshops. What responses you get from Diane’s question or our workshop exercise will vary. MORE

You wouldn’t exercise just once in a lifetime and say that you were done. Customer experience, employee engagement and sales results are driven by effective coaching. Coaching helps develop your agents’ skills. Done right, it also improves morale and employee retention. However, coaching needs to be done on a consistent basis. The same is true […]. Coaching agent development call center coaching contact center time management MORE

Before digging into your research on platform providers, a helpful exercise is to think about what exactly. There’s a lot of referral program software out there. While some technologies focus on simpler tasks—like tracking and capturing referrals—others have more complex features, like automated rewards and integrations with other tools to create a more seamless experience. The post What Type of Referral Program Software Does Your B2B Company Really Need? appeared first on Influitive. MORE

So, as we approach this year’s customer focused holiday, I want you to consider working through an exercise that will help you create a better customer service experience. Now, back to the exercise. Sounds like a simple exercise, and for some it will be. Don’t let the simplicity of this exercise fool you into thinking it is trivial or anything less than powerful. I’m very excited to share this concept with you, especially as we approach National Customer Service Week. MORE

During the rollout of this new style guide, we selected an issue type or contact driver that frequently aggravates customers, leading to dissatisfaction, and facilitated a journey mapping exercise to see the before, during, and after for that particular issue type. While I believe journey mapping proved to be a fruitful exercise, there were some opportunities for improvement. This added some awkwardness to the exercise. MORE

We’re just out there to get some exercise and have fun. Much of my life is spent traveling. Lately, I’ve been home more than usual, along with most other people in the era of COVID-19. When I am home, I play hockey three or four times a week. MORE

Not dentist-root-canal painful, more like exercising-again-after-taking-a-longer-break-than-you-should-have painful. Fair warning: Reading this article could be painful for you. But it may also give you a punch in the stomach, because I’m going to say things to you that may make you feel foolish for not seeing them before now. If you’re in call center management, you’re […]. Compensation agent pay call center contact center cost management MORE

Did you really exercise four times a week this year? How often do you keep your New Year’s resolution? Come on, be honest! Or skip the desserts and that end of day cigarette? Shh, I won’t tell. Get on with your bad self. MORE

They contact me to ask if I know of any good exercises or resources. The ultimate customer service team building exercise is writing a customer service vision. Team building seems to be a hot topic right now. I've heard from quite a few Customer Service Tip of the Week subscribers lately who are trying to create team cohesion and motivate a group of employees. There's another group of subscribers who have also contacted me. MORE

Customer journey mapping is an important part of measuring the customer experience, but getting started with this exercise can feel overwhelming. Customer Journey Mapping: Which Touchpoints Really Matter? MORE

This is not a trivial exercise. What gets measured, gets done, or so the saying attributed to the great management guru Peter Drucker goes. At some point in your best practice Net Promoter implementation, you are going to want to, in fact need to, start setting NPS targets for your staff and organisation. There are […]. The post Three Prerequisites to Setting Net Promoter® Targets appeared first on Genroe. Net Promoter Score Action Planning and Implementation NPS Goal Setting MORE

My Comment: Journey mapping is a powerful exercise that all companies should practice. This excellent article breaks down the process with six steps that it takes to work through this important exercise. Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. MORE

Creating a customer experience roadmap is not an easy exercise. This week we feature an article from Liliana Petrova , founder of The Petrova Experience. She writes about preparing a productive and successful customer experience strategy and why it’s important to have one. MORE

Uplifting Service book discussion guide management alignment reader's guide Service Culture study guide teambuilding exerciseUplifting Service Group Discussion Guide. This complimentary Uplifting Service Discussion Guide will enable you and your team to build a stronger and more sustainable service culture. Key questions for each chapter encourage personal reflection and dynamic group discussions. Use this Discussion Guide to engage and align all the members your team. MORE

If you are in FS, make sure you’re not just treating this as a tick-box exercise, referring to it a ‘Conduct Risk’ and thereby assuming it’s Risk & Compliance’s job! MORE

For many industries, planning during the pandemic can be a highly complex exercise. Welcome to the final installment of Talkdesk’s CX Reframe: A 5-Point COVID Response Plan. In our first three pieces, we discussed the massive quantum shift brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, and how CX leaders can adapt their contact center strategies to continue delivering excellent experiences while weathering the pandemic. MORE

I had the opportunity to participate in a team-building exercise known as the escape room. An escape room is a physical adventure game in which players are locked in a room for one hour and have to use elements of the room to solve a series of puzzles. Once solved within the time limit, you […]. Sponsored Posts Workforce Management call center CEM contact center customer experience management Sponsored Post WFO workforce optimization MORE

This exercise requires self-analysis and answering critical questions about the priority placed on Customer Experience. The 7 Telltale Signs of a Company NOT Committed to Customers. I discovered many years ago that I could determine whether a company was committed to customers pretty quickly. When I thought about how I recognized it, I found that organizations that did not commit to customers had some shared company culture cues that indicated where their focus was. MORE

In my many years as a practitioner and consultant in the field of Customer Management I’ve often wondered why business treats its Voice of Customer (VoC) and Voice of Employee (VoE) studies as completely different and dissociated exercises. MORE

And to connect with people, it’s important to understand it’s an emotional exercise and it’s always taken personally. Relationships: Personal, business and customer are all the same. Sure the intent is different but when it comes down to how we make those connect, it doesn’t really matter the situation, because people are people. A friend of mine recently. The post Why You Need to Treat Your Business Relationships Personally appeared first on The Upsell. MORE

Uplifting Service book book discussion guide management alignment reader's guide Service Culture study guide teambuilding exerciseUplifting Service Group Discussion Guide. This complimentary Uplifting Service Discussion Guide will enable you and your team to build a stronger and more sustainable service culture. Key questions for each chapter encourage personal reflection and dynamic group discussions. Use this Discussion Guide to engage and align all the members in your team. MORE

One of the most popular exercises we share with our clients is something called the Moments of Magic Card®. However, for the purpose of this exercise, only one example is needed. Here is an idea that just about any organization can do – write a book. But, not just any book. A customer service book, written by your employees, featuring great customer service experiences, for both internal customers and external customers. MORE

One of the arguments against journey mapping I often hear is that it's an exercise in futility: You map. This is key to avoiding that "exercise in futility" mentality or outcome. Today's post is a modified version of a post I originally published on Touchpoint Dashboard on February 4, 2015. You put it on the wall. And nothing changes. To that I answer: " You're doing it all wrong." MORE

The firm provided it for free to policyholders who performed the planned exercise regularly for two years. Consumers who completed the exercise target for the month did not have to pay the watch’s monthly installment. MORE

I once went through a user experience exercise where one of the pieces of feedback was, “you didn’t write this for me, you wrote this for yourselves.” Are you ready to be a better communicator? FYI: As a current or aspiring leader, your answer always needs to be YES. MORE

It’s a daunting exercise each year to calibrate your investments for the next 12 months. As the fiscal year 2019 draws to a close, most business leaders are forced to hoist a familiar bag of bricks, the strategic plan for the year ahead. Where do you spend? Where do you cut? Answering these questions for 2020 is even more difficult with the wild card variable of just what the economy will do in 2020. MORE

I have a little two-part exercise for you to do. The second part of the exercise is to create a plan to repeat them. I’m going to break away from my typical articles about customer service and experience and get personal. It’s that time of year when we make New Year’s resolutions that, while well-intentioned, we quickly fall short of and often forget in a very short time. Personal goals about working out and losing weight seem to be the most popular. MORE

Developing strategies shouldn’t be an overly academic or formal exercise, with the result being a plan that’s really not put to use. Herb Kelleher, co-founder and former CEO of Southwest Airlines, once said, “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.” MORE

Ingate Systems is one of the early players, and they’re still going strong, so that makes them a good partner for this exercise, and recently I’ve been working on this with their President, Steve Johnson. MORE

For some cases, you may consider repeating these training exercises and drills every six months. One of our Shepard Letter subscribers, Tom Korff, wrote in with an important question: how should customer support agents handle callers who are threatening to harm themselves and/or others? This is a serious topic. I will share my thoughts, but it’s important to note that the brevity of my answer does not diminish the importance of the question. MORE