Customer Service - Brad Cleveland

Building Trust and Empowerment with Customer-Focused Coaching

Jul 27, 2023 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Leadership, LinkedIn Learning, Quality Management

Athletes often describe their best coaches as mentors and supporters that pushed them to be their best. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case with customer service coaching. Many employees face coaching with nervousness and...

Engaging Your Team: Leadership Principles for Lasting Success

Jul 21, 2023 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Leadership, Organization and Culture

Organizations are made up of people with myriad personalities, backgrounds and skills. Success depends on creating an engaging environment and bringing out the best in everyone who is part of it. But, as many leaders have learned (some the hard way), off-the-shelf...

Counting What Counts: Pitfalls of Service Metrics in Customer Service

Jul 13, 2023 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Leadership, LinkedIn Learning

In the 1960s, as mainframe computers were entering the business world and inspiring much awe, sociologist William Bruce Cameron observed that wouldn’t it be nice if everything could be represented in numbers and run through an IBM machine? But he warned,...

The World Needs CX Leaders

Jun 30, 2023 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Leadership

Customer experience leadership has never before been more important than it is right now. There are many reasons, but let me mention four that rise above all others—including one that may seem counterintuitive. 1. This is a unique journey One reason effective...

Engaging with Customers Who Are Brand Promoters

Jun 23, 2023 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Leadership, LinkedIn Learning

Customers who are active promoters are demonstrative and outgoing about your brand. They’re eager sharers. They converse with you and appreciate and expect recognition in return. They convince others to try your products or brand, and they’ll try new or...

An Introduction to Customer Access Strategy

Jun 15, 2023 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Access Strategy, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Leadership

A Customer Access Strategy is a well-documented, overall plan that guides your contact center. It helps to think of it as a blueprint for your day-to-day operations. It is “a framework—a set of standards, guidelines and processes—describing the means by which...