Strengthening Teams Through Recognition (Inforgraphic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about strengthening your team through recognition. 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
Strengthening Teams Through Recognition
For customers to consistently feel understood and appreciated, staff must consistently feel understood and appreciated. While leaders and managers usually intend to listen to and recognize team members, those intentions often get lost amid daily challenges and demands. In the classic book, “The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their Employees,…
It Isn’t “Small” Talk: How to Build Rapport with Customers and Team Members
In business and life, “small talk” is an essential skill that produces “big results.” Mastering small talk is crucial for turning everyday interactions into deeper engagement and relationship-building opportunities. As a socially awkward teenager (quite frankly, who wasn’t), mentors taught me that small talk is less about “talking” and more about demonstrating “a genuine interest…
Navigating Growth and Innovation: Insights for Your Business
In the quest for business growth and expansion, obstacles range from ensuring cultural consistency to maintaining excellence in new ventures. Here are a few actionable insights on overcoming growth challenges – at scale. They are gleaned from my work with Starbucks and excerpted from the two books I’ve written about them: Maximize image Edit image…
Injecting Fun into Your Business Culture: A Lesson from Zappos (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about the benefits of infusing fun in your workplace. 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
Injecting Fun into Your Business Culture: A Lesson from Zappos
Online retailer and Amazon subsidiary Zappos practices random acts of fun and weirdness, demonstrating that workplace play can significantly boost creativity, productivity, and employee morale. In the spirit of that fun, and based on my book about them (The Zappos Experience), I created a short animated clip on “work made fun – gets done.“ For…
Starbucks – A Guide to Fostering Customer Connection
Starbucks, a brand synonymous with coffee, transcended the beverage sector by focusing on product differentiation, customer choice, and a customer experience (CX) brewed for efficiency and enriched human connection. My book, Leading the Starbucks Way, the second of two books I’ve written about the company (the first was The Starbucks Experience), took a deep dive…
The 2024 Customer Experience Thrill Ride: Trends, Projections & Tips
Looking back to 2023 and ahead to 2024, customer experience delivery appears to be continuing as a high-speed roller coaster ride. Last year, at lightning speed, AI and other technologies substantially reshaped how businesses interact with customers. So, let’s summarize consumer and innovation trends while projecting what’s likely to come this year. 2023: The Year…
Why Customers Leave: 5 Things To Ensure They Stay & Tell Friends
In an era where customer options are seemingly endless, the quest for loyalty is both challenging and mission critical. That journey to customer advocacy starts at the top, with leaders crafting and steering a customer experience vision. Here are five examples and tips for leaders to drive customer loyalty: Prioritize Response Times with Smart Technology:An…
Thankful Leadership – Why & How to Develop a Grateful Culture (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about how to drive a culture of gratitude. 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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