Customer Experience Blog
Expert insights on customer experience, employee engagement, and service leadership. Stay ahead with Brad Cleveland’s blog—featuring CX trends, actionable strategies, and real-world solutions to help you improve customer satisfaction, streamline operations, and drive business success.
Connect the Dots with a Three-Layered CX Dashboard
You probably have a ton of data on customers, products, services, and processes. A customer experience dashboard will help you cut through the clutter and tell a unified story. CX dashboards are important tools and, along with human experience and wisdom, can put and...
The Customer Feedback Funnel
Your feedback process should act as a funnel, catching data from all the various sources and bringing it into a centralized location. This could be a database that’s part of your customer relationship management (CRM) system, a dedicated customer feedback system, a...
It’s Time to Build Your Customer Service Strategy
Customer service strategies are different from one organization to the next, but in every successful organization, they serve as a bridge between the organization's vision and mission and the decisions and actions that happen every day with customers. If you don’t...
Contact Center Management on Fast Forward receives Best Customer Experience Books of All Time award
It’s been almost 25 years since the first edition of Contact Center Management on Fast Forward was introduced. The response surpassed our highest expectations, and we were excited and grateful to see the book reach so many corners of the world. The book, now in...
Quality Standards for Customer Service: Common Misconceptions
I've found there are several common misconceptions that can hamper the development and use of quality standards. One common misconception is that quality standards are overly rigid and scripted. Another common misconception is that quality standards for customer...
Build Customer Insight into Your Vision
A clear vision, well communicated and continually reinforced by you, is essential to engaging your employees, aligning objectives, and driving action. I have colleagues who are huge fans of eyewear retailer Warby Parker. Warby Parker is renowned for exceptional...
Effective Customer Service Strategies: 4 Key Factors
As 2024 comes to a close, take some time to reflect on your customer service strategic direction. Is there a secret to ensuring that your customer service strategy is effective? Are there common denominators among organizations getting the best results? I've observed...
Responding to Negative Feedback
Elon Musk, the successful entrepreneur and CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and other companies, often highlights the importance of negative feedback: “You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that’s wrong with it and fix it....
Champion the Customer: Make It Easy, Make It Happen, Show You Care
One of my newest LinkedIn Learning courses, Championing the Customer in Everything You Do, outlines the CENTERED approach – simple steps anyone can take to keep the customer front and center. This video discusses the second step: Engage proactively. Take a few minutes...