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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.
Empowerment: How Much Guidance Is Too Much – Or Not Enough?
If you want to bring out the best in your team, empower them to make their own decisions, and then back it up with the right amount of direction and support. But how much guidance do employees need? Watch several scenarios in this video from my LinkedIn Learning...
Unmasking the Service Illusion: Why Listening to Customers Matters More Than Ever
Consumer Reports’ November/December 2023 issue is on newsstands now. The company’s flagship website and magazine publishes reviews and comparisons of consumer products and services, reaching millions of readers each month. The website (CR.org) has been called “the...
AI in Customer Service: The Nifty 9
When it comes to using artificial intelligence, many organizations just jump in and automate what they can, but those with the best service start first and foremost with customer needs and expectations and use them to guide decisions. These organizations are giving...
Prepare Your Contact Center for the Future
Megan Jones, Editor at Call Centre Helper, recently interviewed me to discuss the habits every leader should adopt to succeed in planning ahead. The article includes 5 things the very best leaders do to prepare for the future as well as 5 mistakes which often see...
The Psychology of Queues
From a customer's perspective, there are two basic types of queues. (And I don't mean long ones and short ones.) Queues are either visible or invisible. Visible queues refer to any situation where customers know where they are in line. With invisible queues, however,...
Better Service at Lower Costs? Yes, It’s Possible
The need to identify and address customer expectations stems from a widely accepted principle: improvements in customer satisfaction lead to increased customer loyalty, better business results and a stronger brand reputation. Consider the old adage about building the...
The ROI of Customer Service: Overcoming Objections
Understanding the value of customer service and how to quantify that value has never been so important. And that's true for any organization and for anyone leading customer service teams or projects. Your finance department may have an ROI calculator to help you...
CX Leadership: 3 Questions to Ask Yourself
There’s a lot riding on customer experience leaders right now. Our organizations, our customers, our employees are counting on us. As you embark on new (or renewed) efforts toward improved customer experience, let me suggest a few questions to ponder: What’s your...
Boosting Your Contact Center’s Strategic Value
The most effective leaders focus on the contact center's opportunity to create value for customers and the organization. There are three levels on which contact centers can create value. They include efficiency, customer satisfaction and loyalty, and strategic value....
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