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.

Handling Tough Customer Contacts

Handling Tough Customer Contacts

If you work in customer service, you will inevitably interact with angry customers. It comes with the territory. Their anger could be caused by a process or a product that's gone awry. They may have already had a bad experience as they attempted to get resolution. Or...

How Effective Is Your Service Strategy?

How Effective Is Your Service Strategy?

On a recent trip to the Bahamas, I was reminded of the importance of an effective service strategy. As a customer service professional, it's easy to get caught up in the daily details and lose sight of what ties it all together. There are many ways to approach...

Insight on Bots, Human Agents and the Future of Customer Service

Insight on Bots, Human Agents and the Future of Customer Service

Recently, I was interviewed by Convo, a publication of NewVoiceMedia. The focus of the interview was on the impact of bots and AI, the continued need for human interaction, and the changes taking place in customer service. Take a few minutes to read the interview and...

Offer More Consistent Customer Service with Accurate Workload Forecasts

Offer More Consistent Customer Service with Accurate Workload Forecasts

Everything to do with getting resources right in a contact center begins with predicting what the workload will be. Workload is what leads to how many agents are hired, what your schedule should look like, the number of work stations you need, even how many snacks are...

Managing Customer Feedback – as It Happens

Managing Customer Feedback – as It Happens

An important aspect of building customer relationships is managing customer feedback. This includes both short- and long-term objectives: it involves responding to feedback as it happens and collecting and analyzing feedback from many customers to look for recurring...