What is VUCA & How do YOU Thrive in Volatile Times?
VUCA Defined In their 1985 book “Leaders -The Strategies for Taking Charge,” economists Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus coined the term VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity). In the 1990s, VUCA was used as a US War College framework to guide scenario planning related to post-Cold War military tactics. VUCA – a Model for 21st-Century…
Employees Aren’t Happy – Here are 5 Ways to Reverse the Trend (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about driving employee engagement. 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.
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 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 Create WOW – Five Ingredients for Customer Delight
Do you satisfy your customers? Let’s hope so because, if you don’t, your customers will soon deem you incompetent and seek greener pastures. Now to the more challenging question, do you “wow” or delight your customers? Let’s assume that answer is either “I’m not sure” or “Yes, but only some of the time.” If so,…
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 (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about ways to ensure customer experience excellence during this most challenging time. 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:…
Bitter to Loyal: How to Move Customers from Detractors Into Advocates
Let’s imagine an irate customer calls your business and is being transferred to you. Now, fast-forward to the end of your call and imagine that this once disgruntled customer says, “Thank you, I am a customer-for-life and will tell all my friends.” OK, I’ll admit service recovery is seldom that extreme, but when you manage…
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.…
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