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.
The Truth About Objectives for Abandonment
A Way of Doing Business
One of the most important leadership priorities 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. It’s what will...
Encouraging Customers to Use Self-Service
Calibration Is Key to Improving Quality
Calibration is the process in which variations in the way performance criteria are interpreted from person to person are minimized. It is an essential aspect of understanding and continually improving the quality of service you deliver. A high level of calibration...
Don’t Leave Culture to Chance
Caution: Don’t View Contact Center Performance Measures in Isolation
Consider a few examples that illustrate the interrelated nature of contact center performance measures: Cost per contact going down may actually be a bad sign. Viewed alone, a dropping cost per contact would seem like a positive indication. However, if errors and...
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.
Improvements Must Be Ongoing
Making continuous innovations and improvements that lead to services that are faster, better and more cost-effective is an ongoing process that must be an inherent part of the organization's culture and outlook. There is something powerful about consistently focusing...