Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

In our recent podcast, we had a guest Bob Thompson, CEO of Customer Think Corp., an independent research and publishing firm focused on customer-centric business management and the founder and editor-in-chief of CustomerThink.com. Recommendation #4: Get feedback from sources other than surveys.

Customer Experience 385

Customer Experience Journey mapping Customer centricity Surveys 385

ShepHyken

JUNE 19, 2023

It is about communicating with your customers, getting feedback, responding to comments, and taking action based on what your customers tell you. Instead of replying with a generic “thank you” each time someone leaves a comment, respond in a way that makes the customer feel heard as an individual.

Customer centricity 167

Customer centricity Marketing Customer Care Education 167

CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The first days and weeks are so critical when it comes to employee engagement and helping the employees buy in to the mission of their new company. Make CX mandatory, not optional right from the start For those companies serious about a customer-centric culture, this must be introduced and ingrained from day one.

Feedback 296

Feedback Customer centricity Employee engagement Contact Center 296

360Connext

MARCH 28, 2018

As an employer, you need to provide oodles of feedback to employees to ensure they know what they’re doing, what they’re supposed to be doing, what they’re doing well and what they could be doing better. Bad feedback is BIG feedback! Your employees hate their jobs. Your social media is stagnant.

Feedback 132

Feedback Customer centricity Consulting Consulting 132

PeopleMetrics

AUGUST 25, 2015

Which begs the question: What can you do to remain relevant for customers in the long term? Use customer and employee feedback to make minor corrections. If you want to figure out how to retain customers and find new ones, listening to the Voice of the Customer is a necessary step. And guess what.

Customer centricity 95

Customer centricity Employee engagement Feedback Customer Experience 95

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This week we feature an article by Tanya Ahmed, a Digital Marketer of Vantage Circle , a cloud-based employee engagement platform. She writes about what customers expect from companies in 2021 and what they actually get. Provide employee feedback platforms that can help stimulate small changes.

Customer Experience 266

Customer Experience Advertising Employee engagement Sales 266

Beyond Philosophy

MAY 31, 2016

Service, especially, is often a major differentiator and lever for either customer advocacy or, if done grudgingly or poorly, customer defection. Also important is gathering customer ane employee feedback at key touch-points so the company can know, in as real time as possible, what is working.

Customer advocacy 279

Customer advocacy Chief Customer Officer Employee engagement Consulting 279

PeopleMetrics

JUNE 16, 2015

DISCLAIMER: The CX Feud is a game in which 150 customer experience professionals took our assessment about the presence, or absence, of customer centricity practices in their organizations. When it comes to customer experience activities and commitment, leaders appear to be: 1. On your marks…. Let's start …. The CX Feud!

Customer centricity 96

Customer centricity Employee engagement Surveys Feedback 96

Customer Guru

JULY 20, 2018

If they don’t, then customers – potential and existing – will not think twice before moving on to the competition. Hence, it is imperative that organizations become customer-centric and more importantly, hire leaders with a clear customer-centric vision. How to become a customer-centric leader?

Customer centricity 110

Customer centricity Metrics Coaching Employee engagement 110

PeopleMetrics

JUNE 26, 2015

Costco managed that lack of stress handily, and the experience offers four lessons, each of which can benefit your own business’s trek to customer centricity. Their brand, corporate mythos, and customer advocacy played a large part in my stepping through their sliding glass door in the first place. Be worthy of their esteem.

Customer centricity 102

Customer centricity Customer advocacy Employee engagement B2B 102

PeopleMetrics

MARCH 27, 2025

The Case for Recognition At PeopleMetrics, weve helped companies implement recognition alerts those golden nuggets of feedback where a customer calls out an employee who went above and beyond. That feedback becomes a trigger for a recognition alertand thats where the cultural shift begins. No AI required.

Brand ambassadors 62

Brand ambassadors Management Customer centricity Feedback 62

ShepHyken

MARCH 25, 2022

This week we feature an article by Anjan Pathak, Co-founder and CTO at Vantage Circle , an Employee Engagement Platform. He shares how rewarding your customer experience team is critical to building an inspired, high-performing team. Anjan Pathak is a Co-founder and CTO at Vantage Circle – an Employee?

Customer Experience 205

Customer Experience Employee engagement Customer centricity Chatbots 205

PeopleMetrics

APRIL 9, 2015

And once you have a customer experience management plan in place, well—then there’s even more work to do. You’ll have to worry about adoption, straightening out the kinks in your closed-loop feedback systems , engaging employees, and measuring your actions and results. Want to learn more? We''d be happy to talk with you!

Customer Experience 125

Customer Experience Customer centricity Employee engagement Feedback 125

Satrix Solutions

MARCH 26, 2018

For Command Alkon, gathering customer feedback on the direction of the company and its efforts for delivering an A+ customer experience is a top priority. To keep the focus on customers, the company partnered with Satrix Solutions to manage its Voice of the Customer ( VoC) program.

Customer centricity 79

Customer centricity Feedback Surveys Employee engagement 79

Outsource Consultants

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Demonstrating a genuine commitment to customer satisfaction builds trust and loyalty, fostering long-term relationships. Improved Employee Engagement A strong customer experience culture empowers employees.

Upselling 67

Upselling Interactive Voice Response Customer centricity Employee engagement 67

Noble Systems

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Recently, we published a blog on customer-centricity, which refers to creating a culture that places the customer at the core of every business decision a company makes so that their experience at every touchpoint is amazing every time. So, in order to be truly customer-centric, you must first become employee-centric.

Employee engagement 59

Employee engagement Contact Center Gamification Customer centricity 59

Beyond Morale

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

You can travel the world and the seven seas, everybody’s looking for customer-centric cultures. Some customers want to use you. Thanks to Annie Lennox, of the Eurythmics, for getting me to think about customer-centric cultures in a way that we all can relate to. Without customers they would not exist.

Customer centricity 63

Customer centricity Employee engagement CCNG Construction 63

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 24, 2014

He maintains that his focus on taking care of Customers, listening to their feedback on the experience, and fixing problems when they arise ensures that they continue to get the same rankings by their Customers that they do now. He isn’t concerned about that, however. I couldn’t agree more.

Customer emotions 186

Customer emotions Employee engagement Customer centricity Customer retention 186

ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Secrets to Customer-Centric Business Growth Lynn Hunsaker. A potter’s wheel makes a great metaphor for customer-centered business. Sharing the vision, walking the talk, and nurturing the ecosystem are foundational musts for customer-centered business. Improvement — Preventing Issue Recurrence.

Customer centricity 74

Customer centricity Construction Accountability Feedback 74

CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The first days and weeks are so critical when it comes to employee engagement and helping the employees buy in to the mission of their new company. Make CX mandatory, not optional right from the start For those companies serious about a customer-centric culture, this must be introduced and ingrained from day one.

Feedback 182

Feedback Customer centricity Employee engagement Contact Center 182

CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The first days and weeks are so critical when it comes to employee engagement and helping the employees buy in to the mission of their new company. Make CX mandatory, not optional right from the start For those companies serious about a customer-centric culture, this must be introduced and ingrained from day one.

Feedback 182

Feedback Customer centricity Employee engagement Contact Center 182

Tethr

JULY 15, 2020

Customer-centric decision-making should be the basis of all operational decisions. The difference between a company that says they are customer-centric and one that already is comes down to listening. Customer-centric businesses should be looking to enhance their listening (as opposed to their telling).

Customer centricity 65

Customer centricity Employee engagement Surveys Sales 65

Noble Systems

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Recently, we published a blog on customer-centricity, which refers to creating a culture that places the customer at the core of every business decision a company makes so that their experience at every touchpoint is amazing every time. So, in order to be truly customer-centric, you must first become employee-centric.

Employee engagement 53

Employee engagement Contact Center Gamification Customer centricity 53

ClearAction

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Customer Centric Action Plans Lynn Hunsaker. Monitoring voice of the customer is one thing, but can all your employees name the customers’ top ten wish list? Customer Experience Manager Ravi Bhalla says customers have appreciated seeing changes made based on their feedback.

Customer centricity 54

Customer centricity Banking Best practices Employee engagement 54

PeopleMetrics

MARCH 13, 2015

Communication is core to customer centricity. In our research into customer-centric culture , we''ve uncovered one cultural dimension that supports Employee Engagement and customer Net Promoter Scores more than any other. If they can, are you analyzing that feedback and closing the loop with them?

Customer Experience 109

Customer Experience Customer centricity Employee engagement Feedback 109

ProProfs Blog

MARCH 27, 2019

There are various things that need to be taken into account besides the use of a support tool that will make or break the experience for a customer. In our interview with Ben Motteram , we’ve explored areas like customer-centric strategies, emotional intelligence and the upcoming role of chatbots.

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Customer Support Chatbots Customer centricity Enterprise 163

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The focus on enhancing customer experience has gained traction in recent years. As businesses recognize its value, the shift from a product-centered approach to a customer-centric one continues. Long-term actions are based on the analytics results of customer feedback.

Customer Experience 167

Customer Experience B2C Journey mapping B2B 167

PeopleMetrics

MARCH 25, 2015

Or worse still, you can leave customers stranded with their problems. One of the major benefits of customer experience management software is its ability to operationalize closed feedback loops. It creates a habit of listening to customers and responding to their feedback. They live it on a day-to-day basis.

Customer Experience 93

Customer Experience Employee engagement Customer centricity Feedback 93

aircall

MARCH 16, 2022

Which is why we’re diving into how you can optimize your support tech stack for great customer-focused outcomes. . What Being Customer-Centric Looks Like for Support Teams. A way to gather and share positive feedback from customers . Effective ways to deal with unsatisfied customers .

Customer centricity 71

Customer centricity Finance Interactive Voice Response Coaching 71

ClearAction

APRIL 3, 2015

Make sure employees buy into the Why not just the What. What is happening with employees is what will be reflected to customers: use #VoE as window to CX realities. If employee engagement is high and customer satisfaction is low, then you know you’ve got troubles. Customers First, or Employees First ?

Customer Experience 121

Customer Experience Employee engagement Government Big data 121

inmoment

APRIL 30, 2020

The first, the inner loop (which you can read more about here ), is what we just mentioned—interacting with customers one-on-one to listen to and act upon their feedback. Closing the outer loop, by contrast, refers to making customer centricity and continuous improvement the beating heart of any organization.

Customer centricity 69

Customer centricity Feedback Employee engagement Customer Experience 69

Genroe

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

So when you are considering investing considerable time and resources in rolling out a new customer feedback or Net Promoter® program you should make sure that why is the first question you ask as well. To Drive Employee Engagement. Again there are many versions of this answer: To support employees.

Feedback 68

Feedback Employee engagement Construction Customer centricity 68

CSM Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2023

Bob Dylan once sang, ‘The Times They Are a-Changin’ and when it comes to prioritising employee engagement, this is certainly true. One of the positives to come out of the pandemic is that it made every customer service department think more about the wellbeing of employees than ever before.

Employee engagement 52

Employee engagement Agent burnout Gamification Analytics 52

PeopleMetrics

MAY 15, 2015

One of the interesting things about customer opinion is you’ll never hear all of it. Even with the best customer feedback management in place, you’ll only hear from the customers who choose to provide feedback. But rest assured, customers are forming opinions about your business in every interaction.

Customer Experience 104

Customer Experience Customer advocacy Customer centricity Employee engagement 104

AskNicely

AUGUST 17, 2018

And 23% of CEOs list customer service as one of their top three business priorities. Savvy CEOs understand that growth and employee engagement can be created by listening to customer feedback while following one guiding principle: Be customer obsessed. Obsession expressed through actioning customer feedback.

Feedback 60

Feedback Customer centricity Surveys Employee engagement 60

ProProfs Blog

MAY 30, 2019

Your customers should not feel the need to move away to your competitor because they found your customer care operators to be inefficient or your support mechanism to be weak. Read on to learn the 10 steps that are a must in your customer success plan for ensuring greater customer success stories in your business.

Employee engagement 110

Employee engagement Journey mapping Customer Support Feedback 110

ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2021

In-app feedback tools help businesses to collect real-time customer feedback , which is essential for a thriving business strategy. In-App feedback mechanisms are convenient, which allow users to share their concerns without disrupting their mobile app experience. What is an In-App Feedback Survey?

Feedback 78

Feedback Surveys APIs Customer centricity 78