Ten Ways to Keep Employees – Fundamentals for Robust Engagement
If I had my way, everyone would stop referencing Customer Experiences and Employee Experiences and instead would talk about Human Experiences. The rationale for my renaming preference is twofold: You can’t create excellent customer experiences if you don’t provide outstanding employee experiences. (If it doesn’t live inside your brand, it won’t live outside.) Our goal…
How to Actually Win Customers – Move Astonishingly and Brazenly Fast
Racecar driver Mario Andretti once said that “if everything seems under control, you are not going fast enough.” Mario’s words transcend automobile racing and apply to customer experience delivery. Tidio recently conducted a study of more than 1,000 online shoppers and confirmed the importance of delivery speed. Specifically, the Tidio study notes: “The COVID-19 pandemic has…
Winning the Customer Experience – How to Drive Customer Loyalty and Referrals
There are only FOUR ways to improve your customer experience. I refer to them as 3P’s and a T – which stands for Products People Process Technology Let me give you a pictorial example from my Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA) work. The image to the right was taken in the MBUSA customer experience “war room”…
Amping up Delight – How to Actually Maximize Customer Pleasure (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about how to actually maximize customer pleasure. For more information on the topic, please refer to the blog. Otherwise, this infographic visually summarizes the blog’s content. To learn more about our team, please visit josephmichelli.com. To speak to me about your CX journey, please go to josephmichelli.com/contact.
Stop Your Customers From Leaving – 5 Things You Urgently Need to Fix
The late Steve Jobs once said, “ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.” Last week, we focused on executing fixes in response to customer complaints. This week let’s talk about driving operational excellence, so customers don’t need to complain – especially in areas that bother them most.…
Return on Experience – The Pot of Gold at the End of the CX Rainbow (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed a concept I refer to as ROE. Please refer back to the blog for more detail. Otherwise, this infographic captures Return On Experience (ROE) and research that demonstrates it.
Return on Experience – The Pot of Gold at the End of the CX Rainbow
Allow me to launch this new year with the Customer Experience (CX) wisdom of Harry Hynekamp. While working with Harry in his role as Director of Customer Experience for Mercedes-Benz USA, he noted: “If you think customer experience is a destination, you don’t understand the journey.” Since customer experience elevation (for internal and external customers)…
Vigor, Dedication, and Absorption | Customer Experience is the Result of Team Member Experience
This is the second post in a series titled “Customer Experience is the Result of Team Member Experience.” Before I launch into an expansion of employee engagement research, I thought I’d share the real-world impact of employee disengagement and staff shortages. I recently spoke for a large convention where events were split between a major convention center…
What’s Science Got to Do with It? | Customer Experience IS Team Member Experience
I worry that some human-focused leaders and consultants veer a bit too far away from research and data when it comes to understanding team member and customer behaviors. Amid extreme staffing challenges, I have read and heard a lot of employment guidance that runs in opposition to the science behind employee engagement.
Reflect and Integrate | Mindset & Agility – The Rocket Fuel for Customer Experience Success
This is the last post in a series titled Mindset & Agility – The Rocket Fuel for Customer Experience Success. In my last couple of posts, I unpacked the first six skills outlined in Professor W. Warner Burke’s research-based model of learning agility, namely: Flexibility Speed Experimenting Performance Risk Interpersonal Risk Taking Collaborating In this installment, we’ll…
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