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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.
Focus on the Next Three Hours
Recently, I was invited to participate in Jim Rembach's FastLeader Show Podcast. It was a great experience and gave me the opportunity to reflect on what has mattered most over the years. One bit of advice that has made an impact on my career is to focus on the next...
Interpreting Benchmarks
The Best Managed Contact Centers: #11 – They Are Willing to Experiment
The most successful contact center teams continually review and reassess how they do things and the results they are achieving. What can be improved? What should be scrapped? What assumptions no longer make sense? What can be done differently? They would agree with...
The Essential Role of Today’s Front Line Managers
Rewind the clock about ten years, and you’d find top level managers in many organizations, along with most industry pundits, predicting that front line managers (a.k.a. supervisors) would become less important in contact centers, and that their numbers would begin to...
Boosting the Strategic Value of Your Customer Service Operation
The Single Customer View – Myth or Reality
“Is the Single Customer View a realistic ambition or just a pipe dream talked about at conferences?” That’s the question asked in the latest CCE Board of Experts “ask the experts” article by Hannah Brewer. Note: This article is no longer available. You can find...
The Best Managed Contact Centers: #10 – They Build an Effective Organization
Successful contact center leaders design an organizational structure that facilitates collaboration among and across job roles and business units. They tap into the principles of good organizational design and revisit their structure often. They continually work on...
The Influencers Customer Service Report
Recently, I was reminded about a report that OneReach put together in October. They asked 63 customer service influencers to answer the question “What’s the best way to improve customer service?” The resulting report provides food for thought from multiple...
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...
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