Leadership - Brad Cleveland

How Effective Is Your Service Strategy?

Apr 25, 2019 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Access Strategy, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Leadership, The Edge of Service

On a recent trip to the Bahamas, I was reminded of the importance of an effective service strategy. As a customer service professional, it’s easy to get caught up in the daily details and lose sight of what ties it all together. There are many ways to approach...

Managing Customer Feedback – as It Happens

Mar 28, 2019 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Customer Surveys, Leadership

An important aspect of building customer relationships is managing customer feedback. This includes both short- and long-term objectives: it involves responding to feedback as it happens and collecting and analyzing feedback from many customers to look for recurring...

Employee Engagement Statistics

Mar 20, 2019 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Service, Leadership, Organization and Culture, Research/Statistics

Do you need to make the case for your efforts to improve employee engagement? These numbers may help: 51% of US workers are not engaged, while 17.5% are actively disengaged. (Source: Gallup) Compared with disengaged employees, highly engaged employees are 4.7x more...

The Strategic Value of Customer Service

Mar 13, 2019 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Service, Leadership

There are three levels on which effective customer service creates value: efficiency, customer satisfaction and loyalty, and strategic value. Only a small percent of organizations harness the true strategic potential of the insight that comes from customer service. In...

The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 28: Motivation: Removing the Barriers

Mar 6, 2019 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Service, Leadership, Organization and Culture

Dave Koz, the recognized jazz saxophonist and composer, has received nine GRAMMY nominations and has had nine No. 1 albums on Billboard’s Current Contemporary Jazz Albums chart. He’s played for several presidents, hosts two popular radio shows, and is a...

The Best Managed Contact Centers: #8 — They Leverage Technology to Support and Further Their Mission

Feb 28, 2019 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Service, Leadership

New technologies are not passive — they are changing customer expectations, causing reallocations of resources, creating power shifts in organizations, and changing the responsibilities of agents and managers. The best contact centers identify the technologies that...