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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.
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Defining Quality in Customer Service
What does quality mean in customer service? What are standards and where do they come from? Take 5 minutes to explore these questions and learn how you can define quality standards in one of my Lynda.com videos. The entire course is titled Quality Standards in...
Staffing for Weekends
Here’s an idea: If you’re a consumer-facing service operation and want to stand out from the crowd, be there for your customers on weekends. That’s when many are checking accounts, kicking around options for the renovation, paying utility bills, and booking that trip...
Boosting the Strategic Value of Your Customer Service Operation
Be There for Your Customers Podcast
Kathryn Kemp Guylay recently interviewed me on her Mountain Mantras Podcast. The topic is customer focus and how to be there for your customers. You can listen here or on iTunes.
Expert Insight from ICMI Thought Leaders
ICMI recently put together the e-book Expert Insights on 8 of your Biggest Contact Center Challenges, featuring the ICMI Top 50 Thought Leaders. You'll find thoughtful guidance on topics ranging from employee engagement to VOC data to defining quality. It's definitely...
Videos to Spark Discussion
Are you looking for a way to incorporate long-term improvement into your team meetings? Take a few minutes during your next team meeting to watch a brief video on customer service and then discuss it as a group. Too often team meetings focus on urgent problems at the...
Improving the Accuracy of Schedules
Three Major Customer Service Trends
We are well into 2017. How's it going? Take a minute to reflect on how customer service continues to evolve at your organization. If you missed the December issue of my Edge of Service™ Newsletter, you might enjoy reading about three predictions that I have for...
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