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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.
Beyond Net Promoter
Great products are not enough. Today, customers expect and demand immediate attention. Customer service is essential to business success. There is tremendous opportunity to get this right for customers. In this Evergreen Journal podcast, I discuss a three-level...
Alternatives – and cautions – when measuring quality
Why is it that professional sports teams put so much focus on tracking statistics? They want to get better. They want to see trends and identify areas where they can make improvements. The same thing goes for quality standards. You will want to measure how things are...
Good Governance Boosts Customer Experience Innovation
The term "governance" might feel out of place in the context of customer experience innovation. In fact, to some, creating a governance process might sound limiting or even stifling. But as a customer experience consultant, I’ve found the opposite to be true. It’s the...
Ensuring service metrics are SMART
Have you ever had a metric that drives the wrong behavior? A bus company in a city with a well established international and cosmopolitan flair, had a reputation for too often running late. Leaders decided to give drivers incentives for ending their routes on time....
The Pros and Cons of Virtual Queues
Many contact centers are grappling with labor shortages, surging workloads, or a brutal combination of both. The resource mismatches have resulted in long wait times and frustration for customers, and high occupancy and burnout for agents. More serious implications...
Cross-functional benefits of customer advocacy
Customer advocacy is most effective when the entire organization works together to do what's best for customers. That's great for customers, of course, and the organization benefits from their loyalty. But departments across the organization benefit as well. That's a...
Leveraging technology for improved customer experience
With a clear vision and sound processes, the right technology solutions for your customer experience efforts tend to come into focus. Some improvements will be incremental — small wins here and there — and others will be more sweeping. In some cases, you might even...
Avoiding pitfalls when managing customer feedback
There are vast differences in how organizations are collecting and using customer feedback, and some are far more effective than others. Your approach to managing customer feedback must be action-oriented. You must do something with it. Too often, organizations miss...
7 Ways to See Your Business from Your Customers’ Perspective
The most successful leaders don’t rely solely on data to tell them what’s happening. They take steps to put themselves in their customers’ shoes. They want to deeply understand the business—its products, employees, and competitors—and experience it as their customers...
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