Employees Aren’t Happy – Here are 5 Ways to Reverse the Trend
Gallup recently released its 2023 US Employee Engagement results. How do I say this delicately? They aren’t good. After a decade of rising employee satisfaction and emotional engagement, the last two years have shown marked declines. I think of employee engagement this way: Highly engaged team members are like owners. They demonstrate extra discretionary effort…
How to Be an Iconic Service Brand – Four Things You Must Master
Are you an iconic service brand? To help you answer that question, here are four essential elements to consider: 1) Relevance: To what degree do you give customers what they say they want? 2) Ease and Consistency: How well do you provide reliable products and frictionless service the first time, every time, and across all channels? 3) Speed:…
How to Profit from Employee and Customer Love – Staying on the Path Less Traveled
If you are reading this week’s post in the US, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France, or Australia, you are likely celebrating Valentine’s day (for those in other parts of the world, Valentine’s Day is a celebration of love). Thus, I’m providing a post about loving your team members and customers. I’ve always believed: Business,…
How to Create WOW – Five Ingredients for Customer Delight (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about ways to drive delight in your business. For more information on the topic, please refer to the blog. Otherwise, this infographic visually summarizes the blog’s content. To learn more about our team, please visit josephmichelli.com. To speak to me about your CX journey, please go to josephmichelli.com/contact.
How to Deliver Customer Experience Excellence in 2023 – Invest in Artificial Intelligence (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about how you can get ahead of 2023 trends. For more information on the topic, please refer to the blog. Otherwise, this infographic visually summarizes the blog’s content. To learn more about our team, please visit josephmichelli.com. To speak to me about your CX journey, please go to josephmichelli.com/contact.
Being Present Means More than Presents – How to Absolutely Delight in Holiday Moments
Every year around this time, I re-read Unplug the Christmas Machine: A Complete Guide to Putting Love and Joy Back into the Season. I first came across the book 30 years ago when I gave speeches on how to manage holiday stress. In the book, Jo Robinson and Jean Staeheli focused on four main themes:…
You Need to Deliver Extraordinary Customer Experiences – Now More Than Ever
In an article for Computer Weekly titled Efficiency to Empathy: Customer Experience in Cost-of-Living Crisis, Madeline Bennet encourages urgent action to improve customer experiences. Madeline writes: A recent survey of 2,000 shoppers from customer engagement software and services supplier Verint highlights the importance of customer experience (CX) for how businesses will fare during this downturn.…
Appreciating Customers Every Day – The Importance of Authentic Thanks
Thanks for spending time with me this year through my posts and books. I’m also grateful to people around the world who continue to entrust me to help them elevate team member and customer experiences. This time of year typically provides a time for reflection and a context for expressing gratitude. Specifically in the US,…
Make Customer Breakdowns into Breakthroughs – How to Embrace Service Shortcomings (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about how to make customer breakdowns into breakthroughs. For more information on the topic, please refer to the blog. Otherwise, this infographic visually summarizes the blog’s content. To learn more about our team, please visit josephmichelli.com. To speak to me about your CX journey, please go to josephmichelli.com/contact.
How to Design Wow – An Approach to Satisfy and Delight (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed the steps to design your next product/experience using the Kano model . For more information on the topic, please refer to the blog. Otherwise, this infographic visually summarizes the blog’s content. To learn more about our team, please visit josephmichelli.com. To speak to me about your CX journey, please go to josephmichelli.com/contact.…