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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...
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?
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...
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