Driven to Delight

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.

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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:…

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Have You Emerged Stronger Through Adversity? Four Evidence-based Lessons For Growth

Author Karen Salmansohn suggests: The most challenging times bring us the most empowering lessons. If Karen is correct, most of us have collected a lot of “empowering lessons” since 2020. Lest we forget, in the US alone, we’ve recently faced: COVID-19 Lockdowns Toilet Paper Shortages Civil Unrest Contentious Elections Supply-Chain Disruptions Staffing Challenges The Great…

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Bring on the Service Professionals? It’s Time to Supplement Mainstream Self-Service

Is it just me, or have you noticed that it’s getting harder to get ahold of a human being when you need customer service? For example, some websites have replaced their customer service number with online forms. Other companies still provide a phone number, but when you call, you are instructed to contact the company…

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Don’t Just Solve Problems! How to Actually Reconcile Relationships With Compassion (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed the ways to enhance customer relationships. 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.  

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Don’t Just Solve Problems! How to Actually Reconcile Relationships With Compassion

Here’s a question for you, one that I hope you’ll consider thoughtfully and answer honestly. Does your business complete transactions or create relationships? I suspect you will want to answer the question with “we create relationships,” since relational companies foster trust, enhance customer engagement, drive loyalty, and secure referrals. But do your behaviors really align…

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Being a Fred (or Davide) – Leveraging Passion to Actually Ensure Customer Loyalty (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about my take on four key lessons from The Fred Factor. 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.

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What Would your Customers Actually Say? Mustering Courage to Observe the Truth (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about six primary ways to drive convenience. 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. 9

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Join the Convenience Revolution – How to be Easier to do Business With

When I started working with and writing books about Starbucks (The Starbucks Experience and Leading the Starbucks Way) in the early 2000s, Starbucks’ leaders sought to create the “third place.” Conceptually, the “third place” was a gathering location between work and home. When meeting at work was too formal and meeting at home was too…

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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.  

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