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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.
Understanding the “Power of One”
Last week’s Contact Center Insider, ICMI’s weekly e-newsletter, includes an article I wrote “Understanding the ‘Power of One’ – As Important as Ever.” While we know the impact each agent has on individual customers and the subsequent publicity (good or bad) that can...
The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 16: Four Levers in Innovation in Customer Experience
The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 16: Four Levers in Innovation in Customer Experience I'm writing this from an eastbound Delta flight, 37,000 feet over northwest Colorado. The onboard wireless service, provided by Gogo, is enabling me to track flight progress...
The Best Managed Contact Centers: #7 – They View the Contact Center as a Total Process
Contact centers that consistently get the best results view the operation as a total process. This viewpoint takes many forms: Ensure that everyone in the contact center, and those with key supporting roles outside the center, have a basic understanding of how...
Interview with Business Innovators
Recently, I did a radio interview with Conston Taylor of Business Innovators. You’ll hear thoughts on customer expectations and the importance of making customer service a priority.
Developing a Mobile Customer Access Strategy
The Best-Managed Contact Centers: #6 – They Leverage the Key Statistics
Contact center measurements are plentiful and it's easy to get buried in information. The contact centers that get the best results from using their reports and information have several things in common: They focus on a relatively small number of measures and...
Social Customer Care: Listen, Learn, and Dialogue
Let me give you three steps that are absolutely fundamental in delivering services through social channels. Listen Begin by listening. You don’t just walk into a room and start talking, and that’s just as true in the social world. I recall an executive who works with...
How Long Will Your Customers Wait for Service?
The Best-Managed Contact Centers: #5 – They Have an Established, Collaborative Planning Process
Effective planning is a central theme in the best contact centers. A major objective of good planning is to get the right number of skilled people and supporting resources in place at the right times, doing the right things. But systematic planning accomplishes more...
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