Human Performance

Amping up Delight – How to Actually Maximize Customer Pleasure (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about how to actually maximize customer pleasure. 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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Amping up Delight – How to Actually Maximize Customer Pleasure

In my last newsletter, I highlighted twelve forms of pleasure outlined by Professors Costello and Edmonds. Those dimensions are creation, exploration, discovery, difficulty, competition, danger, captivation, sensation, sympathy, fantasy, camaraderie, and subversion. Let’s take a moment to focus on four of the twelve (discovery/sensation/fantasy/camaraderie) and give you examples of how you can amplify each of…

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Customer Satisfaction vs Delight? Make the Choice for Business Survival

You probably don’t want to read the following sentence. Up to 75% of customers who leave your business are likely satisfied or highly satisfied with your products and services. How fair is that? Fair or otherwise, customers aren’t making purchase and loyalty decisions based on satisfaction – they choose based on emotion! Alan Zorfas and…

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Top of Heart Not Top of Mind? Sparking Delight Across Every Customer Experience (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about sparking delight across every 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.  

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Moments of Truth – How to Master What Actually Matters to Customers (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about four tips for owning arrival moments and customer perceptions of belonging.  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…

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Moments of Truth – How to Master What Actually Matters to Customers

In 1981, Jan Carlzon saved Scandinavian Airlines by focusing on “Moments of Truth.” Six years later, he wrote a book titled Moments of Truth – New Strategies for Today’s Consumer-Driven Economy Carlzon described those moments as all interactions between a customer and an employee that lasted 15 seconds or more. While all customer-facing interactions are…

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From Promises to Commitments | How to Drive Delight the Mercedes-Benz Way

For context and based on requests, I’m in the process of presenting key concepts from my ten McGraw-Hill customer experience and leadership books. This is the first in the five-post series, “How to Drive Delight the Mercedes-Benz Way.” In my book, Driven to Delight: Delivering World-Class Customer Experience the Mercedes-Benz Way, I outlined leadership and customer experience strategies that catapulted Mercedes-Benz USA…

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Mobilize the Connection | How to Deliver World-Class Customer Experiences – Leading the Starbucks Way

This is the fourth in a 5-post series and we’re continuing on through the business concepts in my book Leading the Starbucks Way: 5 Principles to Connect with Your Customers, Your Products, and Your People. In the context of my principle, Mobilize the Connection, I talked with, then CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz about digital transformation. He…

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Love to be Loved | How to Deliver World-Class Customer Experiences – Leading the Starbucks Way

This is the second in a 5-post series, “How to Deliver World-Class Customer Experiences – Leading the Starbucks Way.” In this installment, we continue to explore business concepts in my book Leading the Starbucks Way: 5 Principles to Connect with Your Customers, Your Products, and Your People. When sitting across from Howard Schultz (the former CEO…

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Success Requires Community Engagement | Customer Experience Excellence – The Airbnb Way

This is the final post in my series titled – “Customer Experience Excellence – The Airbnb Way.” This week we continue to journey through key concepts found in my 10 leadership books, as we finish our quick review of my book titled The Airbnb Way – 5 Leadership Lessons for Igniting Growth through Loyalty, Community, and Belonging. Throughout this series, we’ve explored…

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