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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.
The Psychology of Queues
Queues are a fact of life—especially now, given staffing shortages and growing workloads in many organizations. All contact centers—even emergency services—queue customers some of the time. Answering every contact immediately would take as many staff as inbound...
Managing Customer Feedback: A Self-Assessment
Every organization receives feedback from customers, but some manage it far more effectively. Where does your organization stand? How effective is your approach? This video, from my LinkedIn Learning course "Customer Service: Managing Customer Feedback,"...
The Customer Experience Sixpack
Just as there are six flight characteristics essential to pilots (which they refer to as the “sixpack”), there are six dynamics essential to customer experience leaders. We’re not talking about drinks or abs—these are the six underlying and most basic dynamics at...
Removing Barriers: Demotivators
When it comes to empowering employees to do their best, incentives, rewards, and other motivational tactics typically have limited impact. But you can implement strategies that knock down barriers to great work and significantly improve your customer service. Here's a...
Justifying Operational Budgets
When considering important aspects of justifying operational budgets— the funding you’ll need quarter after quarter, year after year — I recommend you use a toolkit of five ways to value returns on good customer experiences, and five types of costs that result from...
Customer Service Leadership: Understanding Customer Expectations
An essential part of customer service leadership is understanding what customers want. But what do they expect? And how are those expectations changing? You can explore the answers to these questions in this video below from my newest LinkedIn Learning course...
Refocus on Customer Advocacy
Customer advocacy means building a culture where, ideally, everyone in every role is advocating for customers. So here's the definition I use for customer advocacy. And you'll see, there are two parts to it: Customer advocacy consists of 1) the actions you take to...
Service Level from the Perspective of Customers
For service level to have meaning, you must view it over an appropriate time frame. Daily service level reports often conceal important information. Service level can take a big hit in the morning, but if you have staff handling every contact immediately much of the...
The First Pillar of Customer Experience
To deliver great experiences, we need to know where we're going as an organization and what our goals are. The first pillar of customer experience is vision. This video, from my newest course The 10 Pillars of Customer Experience, will help you...
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