Human Performance

Emotional & Cultural Value: Lessons from Inca Cola & Starbucks (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about how you can create emotional and cultural value. 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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Keeping Brand Promises – Delivering Experiences that Drive Referrals (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about how you can create experiences in keeping with your brand promises. 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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Keeping Brand Promises – Delivering Experiences that Drive Referrals

The Importance of Authentic Branding in Business Your brand is more than your trade dress or marketing slogans. It’s what your people and customer think and say about you. In that broad context, here are a few things to consider as you review your business from the perspective of branding: 1) Brands Are Promises Kept…

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Excellence in Operations: The Not-So-Secret Recipe for Repeat Business & Referrals

In my book, The New Gold Standard, I deeply dive into how operational excellence and process improvement lay the foundation for top-tier service, as exemplified by the ladies and gentlemen of the Ritz-Carlton. Let’s look at the spa in the Ritz-Carlton Dubai as an example. If you were to book a 45-minute massage at that…

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The Power of Metrics: Knowing Beyond Subjectivity (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about selecting and tracking key customer metrics. 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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How to Emotionally Engage Your Customers Through Storytelling (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about delivering engaging brand stories. 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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Unearthing Timeless Customer Experience Wisdom – Lessons from P.T. Barnum

My friend Scott Mckain wrote a powerful customer experience book titled, All Business is Show Business, which prompted me to wonder: What could a great show person teach us about customer experience design and delivery? To answer that question, I picked up P.T. Barnum’s book “The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money.” …

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Cornerstones of Effective Customer Service: Emotional Intelligence and Conflict Management

Welcome to the modern world of customer service, where confrontations increasingly resemble boxing matches! You can picture a loud, brash, and entitled customer in the red corner and a poorly selected, ill-trained staff member in the blue corner. According to the 2022 National Customer Rage Study:  74% of Americans reported product or service problems in the…

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Branded Customer Experience: How to Stretch Your Business Without Losing Consumer Trust (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about executing well-received brand extensions. 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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Why All Business is Personal: Keys to Humanizing Business Success

A recurring theme throughout my career as an author, public speaker, and business consultant has been, “All business is personal.” Amidst the rush for revenue generation and product development, companies sometimes overlook the importance of fostering deep personal relationships with their employees and clientele. Here are four tips to drive sustainable success by “keeping it…

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