CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

The all-too-sudden and tragic passing of former Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh has sent a ripple through the business world, and the customer experience (CX) community is no exception. In the past, I’ve often chuckled upon reading about Zappos in a book or hearing the name mentioned in a keynote address as a model for customer-centricity.

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TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Paul is a Transformational, hands-on, customer service department leader with extensive experience using performance metrics, lean process improvements, and positive leadership in building effective, efficient, and happy customer service departments. Brian Cantor, Managing Director, Digital at Customer Management Practice.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 26, 2016

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. You can even make the book available to the public.

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Lumoa

MARCH 21, 2023

Although it makes sense to search for information online where you can find up-to-date answers to specific questions, what about getting a more comprehensive understanding by reading a book about the topic. For example, there are plenty of good customer experience books to read if you want to learn more about customer experience.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 21, 2019

“Don’t look at yourself, look at your customer. Be sure you have your customer in mind when you create something. Be sure it’s customer-focused, not self-focused,” says Horst Schulze , Founder, Chairman & CEO of the Capella Hotel Group, and Co-founder & Former COO of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co.

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Customer Bliss

JULY 21, 2016

United leadership is important. I’ve been doing this type of work since 1983 (wow), and united leadership — which I regularly call one-company leadership in my books, speeches, and my five competencies — is as important as anything else. (If United Leadership: Necessary to move from talk to action.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 16, 2015

Need a customer-focused speaker for your next event? Jeannie Walters is a TEDx speaker with more than 16 years of experience leading discussion and delivering keynotes as well as leadership and motivational addresses for conferences and corporate events around the world. Get in touch to book Jeannie today! . Your Name *.

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InMoment XI

AUGUST 2, 2023

NPS Best Practices Tip #2: Build a Customer-Centric Culture A customer-focused culture is essential, where processes align with customer-centricity, making it a systematic approach rather than mere aspiration. The true value lies in taking decisive action based on the insights gathered from customers.

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Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Everything, of course, is through the lens of total customer focus. Head of Customer Experience Trait No. ’ You are basically the facilitator for uniting the organization to see things differently and act differently to deliver a one-company customer experience. ” Head of Customer Experience Trait No.

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ProProfs Chat

JUNE 30, 2020

To help you understand this essence and develop better customer service strategies, we’ve curated a list of some of the best customer service books below. These books can help you: Work towards better leadership strategies. Create a positive customer-centric culture amidst the support team. Author: Robert J.

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CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

The all-too-sudden and tragic passing of former Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh has sent a ripple through the business world, and the customer experience (CX) community is no exception. In the past, I’ve often chuckled upon reading about Zappos in a book or hearing the name mentioned in a keynote address as a model for customer-centricity.

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Books Magazine Return on Investment Culture 182

ShepHyken

JULY 6, 2021

Empowering Employees through Caring Leadership. The Impact of Caring Leadership on Employees and Customers. Top Takeaways: Hire people who assume a leadership position when it comes to taking care of the customer. Caring leadership is showing daily actions that show concern and kindness to those you lead.

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 5, 2016

When working with companies on developing customer-focused growth cultures, I often get asked about this idea of a company core values list. If that’s a listed core value, but then employees regularly see back-stabbing and in-fighting among the leadership, the core value has absolutely no meaning anymore.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

I even wrote a book, Amaze Every Customer Every Time , in which I used Ace as the role model example throughout the entire book. Disney Institute teaches the Disney way in the form of courses on customer service and experience, leadership, and more. What if they looked beyond the competition?

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 30, 2016

In order to understand how customer-focused companies design processes for listening to customers, we need to start by thinking about the three types of listening: Unaided or volunteer listening. That has validity as a management approach, but not if you want to truly be a company focused on customer-driven growth.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

How do you make health care more personal and customer-focused? This is a topic that comes up in my interview with Antoinette Taranto , Chief Customer Officer at The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. Lean into Your Customers. million people in the state.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Whatever the case is for your organization right now, I can tell you this: The most Customer-centric organizations have quite different answers than the majority of companies. When we look at the answers, we often determine whether a company is more Customer-focused or more product or internally focused.

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GetFeedback

JULY 23, 2018

Organizations need to get inside the heads of their customers and see things from their perspective to understand how to best deliver products and services in the most customer-focused way. Using Customer Journey Mapping to Create an Omni-Channel Experience. booking an appointment with an associate.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 31, 2016

For the employees left behind to fix the mess leadership left for them, it can be demoralizing. After all, how proud would you be to announce where you work at a crowded bar when it defrauded over two million customers? Although it might have been interesting to read how many different ways customers could tell Wells Fargo where to go!

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 26, 2016

Whenever I consider offering customer experience consulting services for a prospective business client, I interview senior leadership and ask a lot of questions that get at motivation and their perceived purpose for the potential partnership. Declare It – Once you have your leadership destination in mind, make it public.

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Leadership Automotive Hotels Culture 60

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

(CMSWire) Although the terms “customer loyalty” and “customer retention” are often used interchangeably, they actually refer to two different things. Customer loyalty refers to customers who have decided to continue to do business with a brand as a preference over that brand’s competitors. There’s a big difference.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 14, 2021

If all you do is compare yourself to your competitors, you may be missing your best opportunities to create the best experience for your customers. In my newest book, I’ll Be Back: How to Get Customers to Come Back Again and Again , I cover a six-step process to getting your customers to say, “I’ll be back.”

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

The best way to emphasize improving the Customer Experience is to tie rewards to it. It is critical to include all departments in the definition of KPIs that are Customer-focused, and then align those goals across your organization. 4 Ways to Gain Customers’ Trust in Data Security.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

There are nine orientation areas that we use to determine a company’s customer centricity level. Customer Strategy. Culture & Leadership. From senior management to “back office” staff, Natural companies believe everyone should interact with customers and have channels for this interaction to occur. Measurement.

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Micah Solomon

OCTOBER 10, 2018

That is the difference between providing ho-hum service by merely reacting to customer requests and building loyalty through true anticipatory service. Let me share an example adapted from one of my bestselling books on the subject. And the way to get there is through purpose-driven, customer focused leadership.

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Customer Bliss

MAY 19, 2016

I did want to create a quick blog post about customer experience competencies, however. I came to these competencies over 30 years of observing customer-focused growth engines that worked — and many that didn’t work. Here’s the essential overview: Customer experience work is often tremendously reactionary.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 23, 2020

However, if you want to be one of the 75 percent that is still working at making your organization more customer-focused, and you want to show that your programs well, work, here’s what you have to do: You need to engage in research on what drives value for customers in reality. Follow Colin Shaw on Twitter @ColinShaw_CX.

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Customer Bliss

JUNE 22, 2020

These conversations span across a range of industries but tend to have an overarching theme that comes back to the importance of leadership bravery. These experts have all spent time enacting behaviors, either within their own companies or the companies of others, that consider the well-being of their employees, customers, and partners.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Overlook this, however, and you are not likely to end up with the Customer focus you seek. This post is the second in a series of nine posts looking at the different parts of the organization contributing to Customer Centricity. Naïve companies are the least customer-focused and Natural companies are the most customer-focused.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

I talk a lot about Customer-centricity of organizations. We use a model called Naïve to Natural that measures how an organization is oriented toward Customers, with the Naïve not having a Customer focus and the Natural having the most Customer focus. This is why training and employee engagement are so key to its success.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Her new book, The Shopping Revolution: How successful retailers win customers in an era of endless disruption , details her experience as Director of the Patty and Jay H. However, she noticed the respondents in these conversations were not talking about customers. Then, she reviewed her marketing books.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Most companies might understand the concept, yet still engage in activities that influence company culture in a way that hurts the Customer Experience. When we perform our Naive to Natural assessment to determine our client’s Customer centricity, we find that Culture and Leadership has a massive influence on the outcome of the experience.

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SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

Blake Morgan – Customer Experience Futurist, Keynote Speaker, Author. Industry Leader in customer experience, Blake Morgan is a Keynote Speaker, Author of two books, a Customer Experience Futurist, and a Guest Lecturer at Columbia University. Website : [link]. LinkedIn : [link]. Website : [link]. LinkedIn : [link].

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Culture is one of the most important parts of customer service and customer experience. I’ve written numerous articles about this and have included a chapter on this topic in my latest book, I’ll Be Back: How to Get Customers to Come Back Again and Again , which by the way, is finally out. So there you have it.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Coming out from under eBay’s shadow will let them blossom, into what I hope will become a Customer-centric organization. They have Customer-centric leadership. It’s great that their new CEO, Dan Shulman is coming from American Express, a highly Customer-centric company. Competition is great for Customer Experience.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 7, 2019

Entire books have been written about how to create a culture. Leadership must decide what they want the company to be. Shep Hyken is a customer service expert, keynote speaker, and New York Times bestselling business author. For this lesson, let’s keep it simple. Remember, simple doesn’t mean easy.)

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. From my perspective, at least, experiences that drive customers’ emotional brand trust and bonding can be both shaped and sustained. On the employee side of the equation, ambassadorship builds both passion and partnership, enhancing the customer experience.

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