Justifying Operational Budgets
When considering important aspects of justifying operational budgets— the funding you’ll need quarter after quarter, year after year — I recommend you use a toolkit of five ways to value returns on good customer experiences, and five types of costs that result from...
Customer Service Leadership: Understanding Customer Expectations
An essential part of customer service leadership is understanding what customers want. But what do they expect? And how are those expectations changing? You can explore the answers to these questions in this video below from my newest LinkedIn Learning course...
Refocus on Customer Advocacy
Customer advocacy means building a culture where, ideally, everyone in every role is advocating for customers. So here’s the definition I use for customer advocacy. And you’ll see, there are two parts to it: Customer advocacy consists of 1) the actions...
Service Level from the Perspective of Customers
For service level to have meaning, you must view it over an appropriate time frame. Daily service level reports often conceal important information. Service level can take a big hit in the morning, but if you have staff handling every contact immediately much of the...