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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.
Customer Access Strategy as Playbook
Does a customer access strategy sound like something that would be nice to have? Actually, it’s vital. Just ask anyone who’s part of the University of California’s Retirement Administration Service Center (UC RASC). The University of California is the world’s leading...
Customer Service Strategy: Avoid Common Pitfalls
Herb Kelleher, co-founder and former CEO of Southwest Airlines, once said, "We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things." He makes a great point. Developing strategies shouldn't be an overly academic or formal exercise, with the result being a plan that's...
The Contact Center’s Role in Building Self-Service
Many organizations are learning firsthand that contact centers play a central role in encouraging and supporting low-cost access channels. For example, the contact center can provide a wealth of information about which contacts can be automated or handled in customer...
Quality Standards: As many as you need, but as few as possible
Can you have too much of a good thing? Well that can certainly be true with quality standards. If you have way too many, your team will become numb to them. My recommendation is to establish as many quality standards as you need, but as few as possible. In one of my...
Time-Tested Tips for Handling Tough Contacts
How equipped are your agents for those situations when something is going wrong? When customers are clearly upset? Here are some time-tested tips: If your organization messed up, acknowledge it in a sincere way—and in plain language. (How often as a customer do you...
Employee Engagement: A Key Metric in All Service Environments
Employee engagement should be a key metric in all service environments. Research shows that employee engagement influences - even drives - customer satisfaction and loyalty. Retention, productivity, and quality are all strongly and positively correlated with employee...
GM Leverages AI in Social Customer Care
GM, America's largest automobile manufacturer, has more than 17 million social brand mentions and engages in more than 400,000 customer care conversations each year. GM set (and met) two aggressive goals to support their customer-centric vision. Goal 1: Deliver on...
Contact Center Scheduling Can Be Creative and Collaborative
It's a new year and a great time to reflect on challenges in your contact center. Chances are that if you've managed a contact center for any length of time, organizing schedules has been one of them. But there is good news. Scheduling is creative. It's collaborative....
Hands-on Leadership
One of the keys to high levels of employee engagement in contact centers - and the strong performance that follows - is hands-on involvement from the top. For example: Among other endeavors, Dan Gilbert is the founder and chairman of Quicken Loans, the giant...
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