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.
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...
A New Wave of Work Is Coming to Contact Centers
Epiphanies can come from the most unexpected sources. My wife Kirsten and I recently spent some time in the London area. It was to be a quick business trip, but seeing that it fell on my birthday, we decided we’d add some personal days—with the goal of trying a new...
Customer Journey Mapping Tips
One of the most popular arrows in the quiver of a customer experience professional is the customer journey map. And for good reason...it’s a straightforward, effective way to visually depict a customer’s relationship with your organization. There are countless ways to...
The Power of Employee Engagement
The impact of employee engagement is incredible. Engaged employees are four times more likely than non-engaged employees to go beyond what’s expected of them according to the Temkin Group, a US firm focused on customer experience. Other studies show that when...
Customer Advocacy: The Secret Sauce
There’s a scene in the movie Jobs, the biographical drama of Steve Jobs’ life, where he is shown fiddling with a portable CD player. It’s clumsy, heavy, and he struggles to get the CD loaded. The next scene shows him throwing the device into the trash. Of course, the...
Aligning Service with Vision and Mission
Too often, I’ll see a vision or mission statement on an entry wall, but then observe very different priorities in day-to-day operations. We put our customers first, but keep the time you spend with them to three minutes. Or we deliver world class service, but we sure...
Boosting the Strategic Value of Customer Interaction
Delivering effective customer service is not a program, a back office function or an initiative – it’s a way of doing business that produces value for customers and the organization. One of the most important leadership priorities in today’s uncertain economic...
Powerful Lessons in Innovation
Recently, I got to live out a lifelong dream of mine. The experience taught me some unexpected and powerful lessons on innovation and quality. The innovation that occurred in the life of the Spitfire was dramatic: over 24 variants produced in only 10 years! How...
Managing Customer Feedback in Real Time
Managing customer feedback includes both short and long term objectives. It involves responding to feedback as it occurs and collecting and analyzing feedback from many customers to look for recurring problems and opportunities. What does it take to respond to...
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