Customer Bliss

MARCH 16, 2017

We’ve talked before on this blog about the need to be a customer-focused CEO. But since CEOs are often the major decision-maker within an organization, it’s important to understand the decision-making styles of customer-focused CEOs. This behavior is a hallmark of CEOs obsessed with building customer-driven growth.

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Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

We’ve talked before on this blog about the need to be a customer-focused CEO. But since CEOs are often the major decision-maker within an organization, it’s important to understand the decision-making styles of customer-focused CEOs. This is important in any leader, but especially in a customer-focused CEO.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Is the process designed for the good of the Customer or was it designed for the good of the company? In my experience, the latter is more likely than the former, leaving most organizations with a process lacking a customer focus. Creating a Customer-Focused Process. Follow Colin Shaw on Twitter @ColinShaw_CX.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 16, 2016

I talked a bit about this in my book Chief Customer Officer 2.0 , but when discussing the idea of accountable leadership in terms of developing a customer-first, customer-obsessed culture, it all comes down to three major themes (which can further be broken down into a series of actions). Proving it with actions.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 10, 2019

As part of his onboarding process, Bob was put through customer service training. He learned about how to treat the company’s customers with dignity and respect. Leadership came in and talked about how important it was to deliver a great customer experience to what they referred to as one of their most valuable assets: their customers.

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eglobalis

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Create Clear Roadmaps: Developing roadmaps that connect individual roles with company and customer outcomes increases engagement. Challenge: Without this alignment, employees may disengage, seeing transformation as irrelevant to their work, which can lead to a lack of innovation and customer-focused efforts.

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Customer Bliss

JULY 19, 2018

In today’s lively chat with Sue, we talk about her customer service experience and leadership that paved the way for her success in transforming the CX culture at Newegg, a multi-billion dollar company that has been customer-focused since its inception. Customer Experience Leadership Means Being a Team Player.

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Customer Bliss

JUNE 2, 2016

What are the customer focus competency recipe cards and what are they based on? Today, I wanted to quickly talk about customer focus competency recipe cards, which are available on this site. I get asked often what they are or what that means, so I thought a quick post clarifying customer focus competency would be in order.

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Customer Bliss

MAY 10, 2019

How does a logistics company shift its gears to become more customer-focused? In today’s episode, Scott Allison , the Chief Customer Officer of DHL ’s supply chain, shares some strategies and tactics around communicating the brand’s message, telling the customer story, and improving employee and customer experience.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 31, 2015

As some of you who follow this blog may know, I took the CXI® magnifying glass with me to South By Southwest Interactive this month to scout for customer-focused themes within the latest tech trends. More Posts - Website Follow Me: The post Is Your Customer Experience Technology Helpful or Creepy?

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 9, 2015

I’ve seen plenty of Marketing, HR and Technology leaders who have made astounding improvements in the experiences they create for customers. Customer focused organizations smoke the competition. Whether or not your title says it, your leadership is needed! Take a minute to dive in and keep learning.

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eglobalis

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Establish a Cross-Functional Leadership Team Start by creating a cross-functional leadership team that promotes collaboration across departments. This team should be responsible for ensuring alignment on company goals, customer experience, and operational priorities.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Prevent customers from making negative associations with your brand by creating positive microinteractions. 5 Most Awful Customer Experience Solutions of All Time. What Does it Take to Be a Customer Focused Organization? As we scale our businesses, our focus on customers can become seriously threatened.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

As more leaders discuss becoming customer-centric, I wonder how many actually walk the talk and put actions into their plans. What if customer-centric ideas and tactics were included in all strategy plans ? A strategy that is truly customer customer-focused needs to include ideas like these: 1.

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CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 7, 2019

As you gather this information, bake in metrics so you can demonstrate to leadership the return on investment (ROI) of an enhanced customer experience. What if standards for every role could be defined by customer expectations rather than industry norms? After all, low hanging fruit and quick wins are great confidence boosters.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 28, 2020

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to begin at the beginning, build your case, and create a coalition of customer-focused leaders. First, understand the true costs of NOT investing in customer experience. Related: Overcome Leadership Bias: 5 Common Types and the #1 Solution. Then do it all over again.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2017

And, most importantly, he went through a very extensive set of interviews with every level of leadership he would be working with. From his LinkedIn: Determined to inspire engagement with employees and customers to deliver successful outcomes. Ritz-Carlton leadership training. I call this “one-company leadership.”

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CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

The idea of being a provider of customer service that happened to sell shoes gave us the idea that service is our big differentiator and a real asset.". Blueprint for customer-centricity. , Kay Phelps , Director of Product Marketing at Edify says, “Tony Hsieh provided extraordinary leadership and was a role model for great CX.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

They don’t care enough to invest in customer experience evaluation and improvement. Their company mission is not customer-focused, and they don’t care if your day is ruined. appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting. Blog Customer Experience Featured Innovation customer service leadership linkedin'

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Customer Bliss

JUNE 6, 2018

As “customer experience” has become a hot topic and nearly every industry has embraced it as a priority for their business, it is important that it also become united across your organization. Unite your business’ leadership. There is no separation between the “customer” work and the “real” work.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 17, 2019

2: 5 Ways to Instill Customer Focused Values Throughout your Organization. Even after over a decade of helping small and large businesses alike, I still meet leaders who believe that Customer Experience is just about so much call-center scripts or proper protocol around customer complaints.

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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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Customer Bliss

APRIL 20, 2016

In reality, the customer is the backbone of everything you do. Customer-Focused Organizational Decision-Making Begins With Connecting Silos. I call this one-company leadership. If interested in much more around this, check out Chief Customer Officer 2.0 or I Love You More Than My Dog.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 2, 2018

But what’s even trickier is when you may not have customer experience or customer insights in your title. Being a customer-focused leader is a tall order. So how can you lead by example to make the experience better for your customers, regardless of where you are on the org chart?

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CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 7, 2019

As you gather this information, bake in metrics so you can demonstrate to leadership the return on investment (ROI) of an enhanced customer experience. What if standards for every role could be defined by customer expectations rather than industry norms? Leadership #CustomerExperience #CXDesign. CX champions).

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CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 7, 2019

As you gather this information, bake in metrics so you can demonstrate to leadership the return on investment (ROI) of an enhanced customer experience. What if standards for every role could be defined by customer expectations rather than industry norms? Leadership #CustomerExperience #CXDesign. CX champions).

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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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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. Save 25% if you use our promo code: JEANNIE.

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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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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

APRIL 23, 2019

Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of calls from recruiters for very, very high-level CX leadership roles. Look for language around leadership engagement, culture, and that your role is defined beyond tactics. Look at leadership decisions that have been made. Get to Know the Leadership Team. Get Into the Underbelly.

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 12, 2019

Monica shares that this system was the core of TECO’s customer services and a project of this magnitude requires about a 12-18 month stabilization period, so she was essentially leading CX for a company that was going to be operating as a new organization. And not just from the customer perspective, but from a leadership perspective.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 29, 2016

To that end, I offer this nine-step action plan for inspiring customer-focused growth in employees. Leading for customer-focused growth must include clarity for employees – beyond identifying what they failed to do. Customers want to see that. It’s a crucial element of customer-focused growth.

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Integrity Solutions

JUNE 18, 2021

In this feature contribution to Forbes , Mike Esterday offers advice for how to prepare your customer-focused teams to deal with a dramatically changed marketplace and customer behavior. Understanding Human Behavior Styles Can Improve Sales, Coaching and Leadership.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Leadership defines the customer service and CX vision for everyone to follow. Good People: The people on the inside of the organization create the experience for the customers on the outside. Good Leadership Role Models: Leadership may define the vision, but they must set the example as well.

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