leadership - Brad Cleveland

Recent WebTV Interview on Customer Service Trends

Dec 16, 2014 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Leadership, Mobile, Multi-channel Support, Social Media

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.

Don’t Leave Culture to Chance

Oct 8, 2014 | Call Center, Contact Center, Leadership, Organization and Culture, Videos

Boosting the Strategic Value of Your Customer Service Operation

Sep 16, 2014 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Service, Leadership, Videos

The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 10: Beware Others' Benchmarks

Sep 9, 2014 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Service, Leadership, The Edge of Service

The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 10: Beware Others’ Benchmarks Let me begin with a quick preface. The title is “beware others’ benchmarks,” not ignore them, or be uniformed of them. Benchmarks are necessary. But to the...

The Demand for Our Time Leads to Disengagement

Aug 7, 2014 | Call Center, Contact Center, Leadership, Organization and Culture, Research/Statistics

A widely-circulated article with the provocative title, “Why You Hate Work,” summarized the results of a recent study from The Energy Project. In it, authors Tony Schwartz and Christine Porath provide this snapshot: “Just 30 percent of employees in America feel...