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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.
The Biden Administration’s “Time is Money” Initiative
Bad customer experiences invite costly regulation. These compliance costs and liability risks are unnecessary burdens that could be avoided if organizations simply prioritized their customers' best interests from the outset.
Reframing Customer Service: Three Levels of Value
Customer service is only part of customer experience, but it's a vital and strategic part. When effective, customer service makes it easy for customers to resolve issues, and provides extraordinary opportunities for listening and learning. In this video from my...
Empowering Employees as Customer Advocates: Overcoming Barriers
The idea of empowering employees to be customer advocates sounds great to many leaders—in concept. But doing so is easier said than done if barriers are in place. These can include lack of training, misguided performance targets, limited decision-making authority and...
Using AI in Customer Service: Steps for Seamless Integration
As customers, we've all experienced technologies that aren't helpful or that create even higher levels of frustration. They offer many options, just none that we need. They force us to enter account numbers or other information that's not passed along to agents. We...
Listen to Your Employees: Survey Smart and Survey Often
Initiate and encourage voice of the employee 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,...
The Seven Factors of Customer Tolerance
Customer tolerance influences how long customers will wait, how many give up and leave, whether they try alternatives, and how they feel about the experience. In this video from my LinkedIn Learning course Customer Service: How to Manage Your Customer Queues, I...
What’s Happening with Contact Center Workload?
What’s happening with contact center workload? Is the work handled by agents declining as AI capabilities become more robust and prevalent? Are calls being supplanted by digital channels and self-service? These are important questions—the answers will impact your...
What Is Customer Experience? A Guiding Definition
The first step in leading customer experience is to understand what customer experience really is…and to ensure your team understands it in the same way. Most customer experience definitions refer to “touchpoints”—customer experience is the sum of all of the...
The Contact Center as a System of Causes
Thinking about how to improve the quality and productivity of your contact center can be overwhelming. There are so many components that make up the environment it can be hard to know where to start! To learn how to improve contact center management, we first have to...
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