Initiate and encourage voice of the employee The late Steve Jobs once famously stated, “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them...
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What’s Happening with Contact Center Workload?
What’s happening with contact center workload? Is the work handled by agents declining as AI capabilities become more robust and prevalent? Are calls being supplanted...
Read More >>>What Is Customer Experience? A Guiding Definition
The first step in leading customer experience is to understand what customer experience really is…and to ensure your team understands it in the same way....
Read More >>>Embracing Change in Contact Centers: 20 Trends and 3 Recommendations
We are midway into 2024. How’s it going? It has certainly been a year of...
Read More >>>Rallying Support for Customer Experience Investments
An essential step in building momentum and being an effective customer experience leader is making the case for ongoing funding and specific investments. I encourage...
Read More >>>The Highest Level of Customer Service Leadership
Professor Jim Collins and his team of researchers for the book Good to Great identified what they call Level 5 Leadership. The greatest leaders are...
Read More >>>The Future of Contact Centers: 5 Insights
After ICMI’s most recent Contact Center EXPO, I wrote a series of articles with reflections on the future of contact centers. I was recently reminded...
Read More >>>Championing the Customer in Everything You Do
My newest course on LinkedIn Learning is “Championing the Customer in Everything You Do.” It is intended for any role in the organization, at any...
Read More >>>Why Is It Getting Harder to Be a Good Customer Service Leader?
Many customer service leaders today are scratching their heads and wondering why it feels like...
Read More >>>What Do Your Customers Want? 10 Expectations to Guide Your Service Strategy
Understanding what customers want is essential to building an effective customer service strategy. In turn,...
Read More >>>CX in the Wild: Shaping Exceptional Journeys
A big thank you to Dennis Wakabayashi for inviting me to his podcast, “CX in the Wild.” It was a pleasure to spend some time...
Read More >>>The Enablers: 3 Essentials for High-Quality Customer Service
Some managers assume that quality standards are primarily for individuals, those actually delivering the service. But don’t miss half the fun and half the value....
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