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Expert insights on customer experience, employee engagement, and service leadership. Stay ahead with Brad Cleveland’s blog—featuring CX trends, actionable strategies, and real-world solutions to help you improve customer satisfaction, streamline operations, and drive business success.
How Generative AI Will Transform Contact Centers and Shape Your Career
The following are excerpts from the transcript of Brad’s recent keynote address to Contact Center Expo, hosted by ICMI, the International Customer Management Institute, May 16 and 17, 2023. Hi everyone. Thanks so much for joining us. Generative AI is taking the world...
From Troubadour to Catalyst: How Stories Drive Change in Customer Experience
In the Middle Ages, storytellers, often called troubadours, were honored members of royal courts. They were expected to know everything from noteworthy historical tales, to healing remedies, to court gossip. Few others had the ability to influence the thoughts and...
The Power of Meaningful Work in Customer Service
For years, a well-known company had high turnover in their customer service department. Customer ratings were low and employees jumped at any chance to move to other jobs. This department was second from the bottom in an annual company-wide...
7 Characteristics of Customer Advocacy: A Self-Assessment
When it comes to customer advocacy, there are important aspects of equipping your organization to act within and across functions. The following is a self-assessment. Depending on where your organization is in this process, some may seem underdeveloped or out of...
Managing Perceptions When Capacity Is Limited
What do you do if customer demand outstrips supply? What if there are more customers than the capacity that you have? After all, you can't add more seats in the restaurant. The ski lift line, parking spots, checkout lanes are all finite. So what can you do? This...
Four Words That Changed My Views
It was a privilege to speak at a recent Tugboat Institute conference, where I shared the story of meeting W. Edwards Deming early in my career. Dr. Deming was a pioneer in the quality movement. I asked him, “What’s one thing you’d change in any organization?” His four...
Evaluating CX Improvement Initiatives
How should you assess potential projects? Perhaps there are new technologies that can help you deliver services more efficiently or sorely needed process-improvement efforts. Or maybe there is a training program that you know will bring...
What Do Customer Service Leaders Need to Know About Customer Queues?
Queues are something we would all rather avoid. Yet, as customers, there we are standing in line at the grocery store, in the airport, getting coffee, on the phone with customer support. Queues are everywhere. If you’re responsible for customer service, managing them...
Are We There for Our Customers When They Need Us?
CXM Today recently interviewed me for their publication. We discussed a range of topics on the minds of customer experience professionals, including ROI, customer behavior and drivers of new technologies. Here’s an excerpt with a link to read the full interview. What...
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