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.
Create a Specific, Compelling Vision
A clear vision, well communicated and continually reinforced by you, is essential to engaging your employees, aligning objectives, and driving action. Vision can take many forms, including a vision statement, a mission statement, a set of values, or some overarching...
Build the right skills, knowledge, and leaders
When developing an effective customer service strategy, you will need to include how to build the right skills, knowledge, and leaders. I've found in many cases those working on strategy will either under or overestimate the level of effort required by the people...
A Humbling Lesson in Customer Experience
One of my first jobs was working for a company that provided business communications systems—telephone and computer systems. My usual task was to run cable. So, I spent a lot of time underneath the floors of corporations and hospitals and other buildings. Much of my...
Gathering Frequent Employee Feedback
The late Steve Jobs once famously stated, “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.” No one in your organization understands processes, products and customers more than your employees....
Want to improve customer service? Look at your processes
Customer service involves many variables. In this video, we're going to look at customer service as a process. We'll see where quality standards fit, and why improving processes is where you'll make substantial progress. Your quality standards set the mark. But it's...
From Contact Center to “Insight Center”
Lutron, a global electronics company, is a major player in the Internet of things (Iot) and connected home markets. Products include control systems for lighting, ceiling fans, shading and others, which can be controlled from smartphones, voice assistants (such as...
Service Metrics for Accessibility and Quality
Accessibility and quality are closely related. Quality can't happen unless our services are accessible, but quality also impacts accessibility. If you don't handle interactions with quality, you'll have a higher level of waste and rework, time required to fix errors,...
The best way to improve employee engagement
When you peel back the layers of any customer-centric organization, you’ll find a culture of honoring employees, encouraging their insight, and engaging them every step of the way. Customer experience is built on a foundation of employee engagement. I don’t know of...
A Structured Approach to Customer Advocacy
Customer advocacy has the potential to strengthen your organization and transform customers into enthusiastic brand advocates. But you have to unleash it. Whether you're developing customer advocacy within a team, a department, or across the organization, you'll need...
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