It’s Emotional – Flip the Feeling
This is the fourth installment of the series “It’s Emotional – Creating an Unprecedented Team and Customer Experience.” I have an unusual perspective when it comes to the emotional impact of this pandemic. My view is shaped by working as a licensed clinical psychologist early in my career and helping people deal with anxiety, depression, loneliness,…
It’s Emotional – Listen to the Feelings Behind the Words
Thank you for joining me on this third installment in my series “It’s Emotional – Creating an Unprecedented Team and Customer Experience in the Pandemic.” This series is designed to offer tools to manage your emotions as well as support the emotional journey of your prospects and customers. A couple of installments back I talked about…
It’s Emotional – Honor the Fear
This is the second installment in my series “It’s Emotional–Creating an Unprecedented Team and Customer Experience in This Pandemic.” This series is designed to offer tools to manage your emotions as well as support the emotional journey of your prospects and customers. There are days in this pandemic reality that quite literally seem upside down. While disorienting at…
It’s Emotional – Focus on the Hole
This is the first installment in my series It’s Emotional–Creating an Unprecedented Team and Customer Experience in this Pandemic. This series is designed to offer tools to manage your emotions as well as support the emotional journey of your prospects and customers. This week’s installment is titled Focus on the Hole. I take exception with the…
Break the Glass – Be Surprisingly Kind
This is the 4th installment in my series Break the Glass, where we are looking at what you can do to maintain a positive human experience in a time of great business disruption. Our focus today is on being surprisingly kind. I was fortunate to be raised by a dad, who routinely mowed neighbor’s lawns every time…
Break the Glass – Anticipate
This is the second in my series entitled Break the Glass. If you missed the first installment, at the end of this post, I will tell you how to locate it. Last week we talked about the first of four categories of constructive behaviors that this series will cover, namely listening to the needs and…
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…
Drive EQ to Improve CX and ROE [INFOGRAPHIC]
Let’s look at what can be done to enhance the success of CX (customer experience) efforts and your ROE (return on experience) investments. First and foremost, we should select people with high EQ (emotional intelligence) and/or develop the EQ of our existing team members. I spend a lot of time talking about EQ in my…
7 Workplace Wellness Ideas That Boost Employee Engagement {Guest Post}
Guest post by Clara Masters: Did you know that only 29% of employees report feeling engaged at work? The remainder are either indifferent to their work or completely uninterested. Given that engagement is tied to both wellness and productivity, it’s an issue that needs to be taken seriously. Luckily, there are lots of ways to inspire any…
5 Things You Should Not Do in the Name of Customer Experience
I was asked recently to provide a couple (of what a reader called “See Spot Run”) blogs concerning must-have and must not do elements of a successful customer experience business. Dick, Jane, and Spot In case you aren’t familiar with the Spot referenced by the reader, he/she was a dog companion of Dick and Jane. Part of the…
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