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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.
Cultivating a Customer-Focused Culture
The number one key to sustaining great service is culture. The culture of doing the daily hard work to focus on what's best for customers. What do organizations with the most engaged employees and customer-focused cultures have in common? Here is a Lynda.com video...
12 Principles for Building Profitable Customer Relationships
Over the past decade, ICMI has studied, codified and periodically published a summary of the most important principles behind building strong, profitable customer relationships. Lately, I’ve been asked, are these principles less important? Have evolving customer...
7 Suggestions for Improving Schedule Adherence
10 Things Senior Leaders Should Know About Contact Centers
A prerequisite to getting good support from senior management is that they have at least a basic understanding of what contact centers do. To fulfill their potential, customer contact centers need commitment and involvement from the top. And a prerequisite to getting...
Boosting the Strategic Value of Customer Interactions
One of the most important leadership priorities in today’s economy is to ensure that your customer contact center delivers maximum strategic value to your organization. That, in turn, is what will get you the support you need from colleagues across the organization....
Managing a Contact Center: The Immutable Laws
For contact centers to deliver great service they need to get the right resources in the right places at the right times. This is no easy task. I recently created a course for Lynda.com on Managing a Customer Contact Center. In this succinct course, you'll learn what...
Strategy Drives Structure
Many contact centers have been through consolidations or restructurings that are really just cleanup efforts for lack of having or using an effective customer access strategy. For example, I recall helping an insurance company with agent group "consolidation." Their...
Always Connected: Blessing or Curse? (Brad’s TEDx Talk)
Is being "always connected" a blessing or a curse? Are you in charge or a slave to your smartphone? This TEDx Talk covers three principles that can help you survive and thrive in an always-on world.
Adherence to Schedule Tips
Adherence to schedule is an important performance objective for agents. It is within their control (when implemented appropriately) and measures if agents are available to handle contacts as scheduled. However, to ensure your approach is supporting the culture you...
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