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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.
Encouraging Customers to Use Self-Service
Calibration Is Key to Improving Quality
Calibration is the process in which variations in the way performance criteria are interpreted from person to person are minimized. It is an essential aspect of understanding and continually improving the quality of service you deliver. A high level of calibration...
Don’t Leave Culture to Chance
Caution: Don’t View Contact Center Performance Measures in Isolation
Consider a few examples that illustrate the interrelated nature of contact center performance measures: Cost per contact going down may actually be a bad sign. Viewed alone, a dropping cost per contact would seem like a positive indication. However, if errors and...
Always Connected: Blessing or Curse? (Brad’s TEDx Talk)
Is being "always connected" a blessing or a curse? Are you in charge or a slave to your smartphone? This TEDx Talk covers three principles that can help you survive and thrive in an always-on world.
Improvements Must Be Ongoing
Making continuous innovations and improvements that lead to services that are faster, better and more cost-effective is an ongoing process that must be an inherent part of the organization's culture and outlook. There is something powerful about consistently focusing...
Improving ROI on Quality Monitoring
Cultivating Effective Communication, Part 2
This discussion of communication continues with four more principles common to successful contact centers. You can read the first part of this discussion here. Develop Formal and Informal Channels of Communication. Effective leaders cultivate both formal and informal...
Cultivating Effective Communication, Part 1
Communication creates meaning and direction for people. When good communication is lacking, the symptoms are predictable: conflicting objectives, unclear values, misunderstandings, lack of coordination, confusion, low morale and people doing the bare minimum required....
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