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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. It’s what stakeholders assume to be the steps customers go through to complete some task; it's based on what they know as customers themselves and on customer feedback and other customer data. You put it on the wall. Keep going.

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Customer Service Foundations Training Plan

Toister Performance Solutions

The exercise files from the course. Many of the videos have downloadable exercise files that go with them. Have you earned feedback that matches your thank you letter? Have you earned feedback that matches your thank you letter? Have you earned feedback that matches your thank you letter?

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for the Week of August 28, 2023

ShepHyken

Optimizing Your Customer Feedback Strategy in 2023 by Lumoa (Lumoa) Your customers are sharing their experiences online. No matter what industry you’re in, your customers are eager and encouraged to share their feedback: the good, the bad, and the ugly. How do you know what your customers think of you?

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#CXSecrets: Collecting Feedback IS a Touchpoint

PeopleMetrics

Numbers aside, though, companies often tend to overlook one vital touchpoint when conducting these mapping exercises: the touchpoint of asking their customers for feedback. Optimizing the feedback collection experience. Think really hard about how you're interacting with your customer when you're asking them for feedback.

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Guest Post: What it Takes to Be an Effective Customer Service Manager

ShepHyken

You’ve never learned it all, and you never stop learning! By monitoring your team and offering useful and time-sensitive feedback on things like how to promote internet phone services , you can help your agents grow in a way that suits the company and reduces staff turnover rates. Help resolve more complicated issues.

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Why Timing is Now to Automate Performance-Based Learning

CCNG

A recent CCNG panel webinar, Why Performance-Based Training Requires Automation , featuring Mike Roberts, Technology Leader for Learning at Citibank, who adopted simulations to automate role play and coaching exercises in 2020 and Trey Fischer, an industry-leading consultant, discussed today’s impact of automation on performance-based training.

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SURVEYING YOUR CUSTOMERS - DON’T MAKE THESE 7 MISTAKES

CCNG

Is there an option to provide feedback after several months of use? Surveying shouldn’t be a feel-good exercise in your company – it needs to be taken seriously by every person to truly make the voice of the customer alive in your organization. There are pitfalls to this strategy. Has the product arrived yet?

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