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.

Calibration Is Key to Improving Quality

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...

Caution: Don’t View Contact Center Performance Measures in Isolation

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...

The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 11: A Multichannel World

The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 11: A Multichannel World

The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 11: A Multichannel World If you were to walk into an Amazon.com customer contact center, you'd see desks turned sideways so that Fire tablet support agents have a neutral background for video calls (one-way, agent-to-customer)....

Recent WebTV Interview on Customer Service Trends

Recent WebTV Interview on Customer Service Trends

Earlier this week, I joined Laura Sikorski on the WebTV show, Sikorski's Think Abouts. In this 12-minute interview, we discuss the trends shaping service and how to meet today’s fast-evolving customer expectations.

How Many Customer Service Interactions Go Wrong?

How Many Customer Service Interactions Go Wrong?

According to a Nuance commissioned survey of 1,000 American consumers, a quarter (26 percent) of customer service interactions are a negative experience. Among Generation X consumers—those born between 1965 to 1980—this number rises to more than one-third (36...