Imagine it is 2025 – How’s Your Customer Experience?
What will customers expect and encounter when they interact with you and your business in 2025? I know that the question is asking about a distant horizon line, but it wasn’t long ago that 2020 seemed like it was forever far away. As a consultant to Fortune 500 companies, I have had the privilege of…
Winning this Holiday Season | The Art of Selling through Human Experience Creation
The next few weeks will be “make or break” for retailers. With more shopping occurring online (particularly through mobile devices), brick and mortar retailers are looking for ways to get people to leap from their couches and into their stores. For example, traditional retailers like Saks are creating multichannel experiences for Frozen 2 holiday window…
Create a Hostile Environment for the Ungrateful [Infographic]
I often consult with leaders who are trying to develop human-centric cultures. In the context of that work, I have shared my view that it’s essential to make it easy for compassionate and caring people to stay with your business and also to make it easy for ungrateful and scarcity-minded people to find employment elsewhere.…
The Formula for Experience Success: Artificial + Human Intelligence
Wherever you get your news, you are likely to read or hear something about the role sales-enhancing technology will play this holiday season. There’s much at stake for this year’s retailers with spending projected to break a record and possibly top the 1 trillion-dollar mark. Whether it’s the way Target will be using augmented reality…
The Art of Service Storytelling [Infographic]
American lawyer John E. Jones III is credited with saying, “What gets measured gets done, what gets measured and fed back gets done well, what gets rewarded gets repeated.” From my perspective, when it comes to customer experience excellence, what gets rewarded gets done and what gets talked about also gets done. After 25 years of consulting in what used to be called…
Inspiring Growth: Not Demanding It!
I have been on the road a lot lately, thanks to a combination of consulting, speaking, and the launch of my new book, The Airbnb Way. (Speaking of that book, we are sponsoring a 4 day, 3 night trip to San Francisco with a tour of Airbnb HQ. There is no purchase necessary so enter here and…
Customer Experience Excellence Requires Shared Communication Platforms [Infographic]
A few weeks ago, I wrote about organizational silos and their negative impact on seamless customer experiences. Apparently, I hit a raw nerve, as evidenced by a flood of responses from readers. Since I wrote that post Smartsheet (a solution provider that helps organizations streamline information sharing both internally and externally) announced their Achieve as One…
Customer Experience Excellence Requires Shared Communication Platforms
A few weeks ago, I wrote about organizational silos and their negative impact on seamless customer experiences. Apparently, I hit a raw nerve, as evidenced by a flood of responses from readers. Since I wrote that post Smartsheet (a solution provider that helps organizations streamline information sharing both internally and externally) announced their Achieve as One…
Success is a Patient, Team Sport – Experiencing Collaboration The Airbnb Way [Infographic]
If you are someone who doesn’t like to wait, writing a book is not for you! This week my book, The Airbnb Way – 5 Leadership Lessons for Igniting Growth through Loyalty, Community and Belonging will be released! Given that I’ve written nine business books, The Airbnb Way was completed rather swiftly. Several of my prior…
Experiencing Collaboration The Airbnb Way
Success is a Patient, Team Sport – Experiencing Collaboration The Airbnb Way If you are someone who doesn’t like to wait, writing a book is not for you! This week my book, The Airbnb Way – 5 Leadership Lessons for Igniting Growth through Loyalty, Community and Belonging will be released! The journey for this book began…
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