Customer Experience Blog

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.

Be Bold in Doing What’s Right

Be Bold in Doing What’s Right

When you think about innovation and growth in the future, what's your role as a leader? Are there steps you need to take that are a little bit uncomfortable or require some courage?  In this video from my recent LinkedIn Learning course "Contact Center Leadership," I...

Can agents get work done between customer contacts?

Can agents get work done between customer contacts?

I know, I know. It’s busy out there. The demand for agent-assisted service is relentless (wasn’t that AI-driven chatbot going to reduce workload?). Your team is juggling customer workload across channels—phone, chat, social media, et al.—and it feels a bit like...

6 Traits of a Customer-Focused Culture

6 Traits of a Customer-Focused Culture

I recall a new restaurant with great food and impeccable service that quickly built a following. Referrals spread rapidly, reviews were positive, and before long, the waits to get in became longer. To customers, this was just confirmation the restaurant was a great...

Employee Engagement: The Key Driver and 4 More

Employee Engagement: The Key Driver and 4 More

The most customer-centric organizations build on a foundation of employee engagement. What's behind that level of engagement?  As it turns out the key driver is purpose. Watch this video from my LinkedIn Learning course “The 10 Pillars of Customer...

A “safe” CX strategy may be dangerous

A “safe” CX strategy may be dangerous

You know the stories about companies that were successful—until they weren’t. Kodak. Blockbuster. Gateway. These were solid companies with high-quality products, operating under established business rules. Then competitors offered something different. Their fates...

Listening to the Voice of the Customer

Listening to the Voice of the Customer

The best customer experience leaders know how to listen and respond. Feedback from customers and employees is like oxygen. Your organization must have it to survive and thrive. Whether you're a print shop with three employees, a government agency with 3,000, or a...

Use a CX dashboard to cut through the clutter

Use a CX dashboard to cut through the clutter

The disciplines of customer experience and employee experience wouldn’t exist without access to large amounts of data. That includes, increasingly, the insights generated by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies. You can understand more about...

Forecasting the Contact Center Workload

Forecasting the Contact Center Workload

Everything to do with getting resources right in a contact center begins with forecasting, predicting what the workload will be. Workload is what leads to how many agents are hired, what your schedule should look like, the number of workstations you need, even how...