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I wrote a few weeks ago about how good CX is tied to revenue gains. I firmly believe that and preach it to all my clients and anyone I ever work with. If you do customer experience right — think in terms of the five core competencies — then you will (over time) create a customer-driven growth engine and see revenue uptick from your customer experience side.
Considering that so many of our employees associate training with some sort of punishment, the more appropriate question would be – What employees hate in training courses? As any other student, corporate trainees dislike continual learning for two simple reasons: first, it’s rarely inspiring and challenging enough to make them motivated, and second, it imposes an additional hour or two of work to their already busy daily schedules.
In addition, speech analytics software can help managers understand and measure their agents' empathy.
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Hotel giant Hilton recently dropped the H from its rewards program , replacing the linguistically puzzling Hilton HHonors with an easier to pronounce version, Hilton Honors. The change is more than cosmetic. The new rewards program will be the first in the industry to allow members to combine points and money for a hotel visit. Members can also combine points with friends or family members for free, or use points to buy things on Amazon.com.
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A while ago I led a journey mapping workshop at the ICMI conference. It was a ton of fun, as we mapped out how Amanda chooses her new health insurance plan. We looked at how and when to use journey mapping (answers: frequently, and in partnership with customers). During a break, one call center director asked […]. The post Don’t Forget to Map the Employee Journey appeared first on Heart of the Customer.
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I’ve sensed a certain weariness in recent discussions of marketing technology, as marketers realize their business problems remain even after massive investments in new systems. The term “martech fatigue” has crept into my conversations, suggesting that marketers are tired of buying new systems they often don't use. See, for example, this Kitewheel study which found 72% of agencies use less than 40% of their tools every week.
Why Only 15% of Voice of Customer Programs are “Very Successful” Lynn Hunsaker. Only 15% of voice of customer (VoC) programs are considered “very successful”* by their managers, according to the Temkin Group’s State of Voice of Customer Programs 2016 report. What’s broken? Just 34% say their VoC program is “good” or “very good” at making changes to the business based on VoC insights.
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Those very first few seconds when customers engage with our organization can be make-or-break of either a new relationship or the end of what may well have been a long and mutually beneficial association. (And perhaps hugely profitable to the organization.) It begs the question: Is your IVR good, bad or very ugly? Read More.
Some people love to tip and others do, but begrudgingly. However, it appears that nowadays everyone is expecting a tip even if they are just serving you at the checkout! When you see a tip jar by the cash register what do you think? To me, the tip jar says “I deserve a tip”. But it says quite a bit more, too, and none of it good about your Customer Experience.
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When you’re developing your journey maps, it’s important to remember that one journey map template will not meet all your needs. You need to tweak (or sometimes completely redesign) your journey map based on two key considerations: What kind of story you want to tell. You might want to show the pain points and highlights in your customer journey. But that’s a different story than, say, trying to show how often customer cross channels or how often they interact through digital touchpoints.
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“Internal stakeholders” refers to employees. A lot of companies tend to focus most of their attention on external stakeholders, which would typically include customers and potentially investors. There is nothing wrong with that approach, per se. You obviously want to pay a lot of attention to the people who buy your product/service (customers) and the people who help you have money to do it better (investors, if you have any).
Those very first few seconds when customers engage with our organization can be make-or-break of either a new relationship or the end of what may well have been a long and mutually beneficial association. (And perhaps hugely profitable to the organization.) It begs the question: Is your IVR good, bad or very ugly? Read More.
In our customer experience consultancy, we find there’s one thing that consistently prevents companies from adopting a more customer-centric approach. It’s not (as you might guess) cost! Instead, the problem is priorities, and specifically the priorities of people who make critical company decisions. You see, as people move up the chain of command, they get further and further removed from the average customer.
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Anthem, Inc. is in the middle of customer experience (CX) resurgence. I had the chance to catch up with Natalie Schneider, VP of Customer Experience, to learn more about their efforts to help build customer empathy in their employees. Tell us a little about what led you to start working on customer experience. A few […]. The post Building Customer Empathy: An Interview with Natalie Schneider appeared first on Heart of the Customer.
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Image courtesy of Adobe Stock/Robert Kneschke Today I'm pleased to share a guest post by Elena Lockett with FM Outsource. People are motivated by very different things. Money, personal achievements, or workplace goals – it differs person to person. To ensure your customer service (CS) teams remain motivated, whatever gets thrown at them, you need to make sure you are providing them with the inspiration and tools to do their job well and be happy!
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