Human Performance

What’s Science Got to Do with It? | Customer Experience IS Team Member Experience

I worry that some human-focused leaders and consultants veer a bit too far away from research and data when it comes to understanding team member and customer behaviors. Amid extreme staffing challenges, I have read and heard a lot of employment guidance that runs in opposition to the science behind employee engagement. 

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Reflect and Integrate | Mindset & Agility – The Rocket Fuel for Customer Experience Success

This is the last post in a series titled Mindset & Agility – The Rocket Fuel for Customer Experience Success. In my last couple of posts, I unpacked the first six skills outlined in Professor W. Warner Burke’s research-based model of learning agility, namely: Flexibility Speed Experimenting Performance Risk Interpersonal Risk Taking Collaborating In this installment, we’ll…

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Take Risks and Reach Out | Mindset & Agility – The Rocket Fuel for Customer Experience Success

This is the next to the last post in a series titled “Mindset & Agility – The Rocket Fuel for Customer Experience Success.” In my last post, I started unpacking skills outlined in Professor W. Warner Burke’s research-based model of learning agility. As you’ll recall, Dr. Burke shared his findings in a book titled Learning Agility, which…

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How to Learn and Lead with Agility | Mindset & Agility – The Rocket Fuel for Customer Experience Success

In my last post, I spotlighted social psychologist Carol Dweck’s landmark work on growth mindset and offered a link between her research and customer experience excellence. Building on Dr. Dweck’s findings, let’s dive into the first of three posts that unpack Dr. W. Warner Burke’s model of learning agility. Professor Burke is an organizational psychologist…

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Why Customer Experience Equals Open Mindset | Mindset & Agility – The Rocket Fuel for Customer Experience Success

This is the fourth post in a series titled Mindset & Agility – The Rocket Fuel for Customer Experience Success. To date in the series, I have gently borrowed concepts from Roger von Oech’s classic book A Whack on the Side of the Head and repurposed his thought leadership for modern customer experience applications. This week I’ll quickly run through Dr.…

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Deliver 5 Levels of Value | Team Member and Customer Experience Value

Fairly early in my career, I was fortunate to happen upon customer value theories and research conducted by Professors Sheth, Newman, and Gross. In their book, Consumption Values and Market Choices – Theory and Application, these authors reviewed more than 200 studies on customer value. The book is a rich resource on what drives customer…

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Think Efficiency and Effectiveness | Team Member and Customer Experience Value

This is the third post in a series titled “Team Member and Customer Experience Value.”  Writing for the online magazine Simplicable, technologist John Spacey defines value creation as “any process that creates outputs that are more valuable than its inputs. This is the basis of efficiency and productivity.” In my recently released book Stronger Through Adversity,…

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What’s Value Got to Do With It | Team Member and Customer Experience Value

How do you create value for team members and customers? This is the first post in a series titled “Team Member and Customer Experience Value.”  In my recently released book titled Stronger Through Adversity, I wrote that “at its core, business is simple. Success involves six components of value creation and exchange: 1. Explore value: Understand…

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Faster into the Future | How to Deliver Memorable Experiences in a Pandemic and Post-Pandemic World

Racecar driver Mario Andretti once said that “if everything seems under control you are not going fast enough.” His words are appropriate for automobile racing and apply to customer experience delivery as well. Tidio recently conducted a study of more than 1,000 online shoppers and confirmed a trend regarding the importance of delivery speed. Specifically,…

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How to Deliver Memorable Customer Experiences in a Post-Pandemic World | We Are Forever Changed

Deepak Chopra once said that “All great changes are preceded by chaos.” Many of my clients ask what they need to do to engage team members and customers well-past the pandemic. While I have my hunches, I prefer to look at data on what people say they want from their employers and companies with whom…

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