Owning Peace of Mind – Everyone is Responsible for Customer Calm (Part 2 of 2) – Infographic
In this week’s blog, I discussed about ensuring you deliver peace of mind to your customers. 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
Owning Peace of Mind – Everyone is Responsible for Customer Calm (Part 2 of 2)
Continuing from last week’s post on the importance of creating peace of mind for customers, let’s explore more actionable strategies that can elevate your customer experience, drive customer ease, and foster loyalty. Extraordinary customer experience companies make customers’ lives easier and more peaceful. Treating “peace of mind” as a value-add will distinguish your business from…
Lovemark? Infusing your brand with Mystery, Sensuality and Intimacy
Here’s an exercise: try going one day without seeing an advertising message. OK, how about an hour? Marketing messages are ubiquitous, appearing in unexpected places like the bottoms of golf holes. Every business talks to customers, but what makes that chatter banal or brilliant? Introduced by the global advertising network Saatchi & Saatchi in the…
Southwest Airlines’ Transformative Customer Experience Differentiation: Insights from Bill Tierney VP of Customer & Digital Experience (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about transforming your customer experience. 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
Southwest Airlines’ Transformative Customer Experience Differentiation: Insights from Bill Tierney VP of Customer & Digital Experience
In today’s rapidly evolving, technology-driven, and human-centered business landscape, the role of customer experience (CX) has never been more critical. Thanks to sponsorship from a leading provider of customer-engagement and technology-aided business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions, iQor, I caught up with Bill Tierney, the Vice President of Customer Experience and Digital Experience at Southwest Airlines—a…
Strengthening Teams Through Recognition
For customers to consistently feel understood and appreciated, staff must consistently feel understood and appreciated. While leaders and managers usually intend to listen to and recognize team members, those intentions often get lost amid daily challenges and demands. In the classic book, “The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their Employees,…
Navigating Challenges: Lessons from Starbucks’ Recent Performance Miss (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about navigating challenges in a customer-centric way. 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
Navigating Challenges: Lessons from Starbucks’ Recent Performance Miss
Starbucks Author and Consultant As someone who worked with Starbucks leadership when Howard Schultz was at the helm and since I’ve authored two books about the company (The Starbucks Experience and Leading the Starbucks Way), I look to the brand for lessons in prosperous and challenging times. This appears to be a season of challenge…
The Art of pARTnership: Maximizing Win/Wins (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about ways to establish and sustain “win/win” partnerships. 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
It Isn’t “Small” Talk: How to Build Rapport with Customers and Team Members
In business and life, “small talk” is an essential skill that produces “big results.” Mastering small talk is crucial for turning everyday interactions into deeper engagement and relationship-building opportunities. As a socially awkward teenager (quite frankly, who wasn’t), mentors taught me that small talk is less about “talking” and more about demonstrating “a genuine interest…