The “Art” of pARTnership – How to Amplify Your Success
How do you choose strategic partnerships? Put differently, How do you decide with whom to work – so you can create wins for your customers, your partners, and your business? Since partnerships can make the difference between a business’s success or failure, here are a few guideposts for sharing brand equity with a prospective “strategic…
How to Be an Iconic Service Brand – Four Things You Must Master (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about ways to elevate service excellence. 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.
Six Essentials to Actually Achieve Lasting Success
I am convinced that everyone is a leader. Some people are given formal leadership titles, while others informally lead without a title. Since leadership skills are applicable in all areas of our lives (and since customer experience success requires both formal and informal leaders at all levels of an organization), let’s explore a few essentials…
Pause, Reflect and Learn – How Looking Back Actually Helps You Surge Forward
While writing my book Stronger Through Adversity – World-Class Leaders Share Pandemic-Tested Lessons on Thriving During the Toughest Challenges, I stumbled upon research conducted by David Hoff and W. Warner Burke, which is summarized in their book: One of many key takeaways from research on learning agility is the importance of taking time to reflect…
How to Deliver Customer Experience Excellence in 2023 – Invest in Artificial Intelligence
I predict that artificial intelligence (AI) will play an increasingly important role in customer experience (CX) success for 2023. In support of this prediction, I typed the following into a popular AI tool: “CX predictions for 2023.” Here are the unedited results generated by the algorithm: 1. Automated Chatbot Interactions: As AI becomes more advanced…
Bitter to Loyal: How to Move Customers from Detractors Into Advocates (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about ways to flip customers from detractors to advocates. 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.
Have You Emerged Stronger Through Adversity? Four Evidence-based Lessons For Growth
Author Karen Salmansohn suggests: The most challenging times bring us the most empowering lessons. If Karen is correct, most of us have collected a lot of “empowering lessons” since 2020. Lest we forget, in the US alone, we’ve recently faced: COVID-19 Lockdowns Toilet Paper Shortages Civil Unrest Contentious Elections Supply-Chain Disruptions Staffing Challenges The Great…
Don’t Just Solve Problems! How to Actually Reconcile Relationships With Compassion
Here’s a question for you, one that I hope you’ll consider thoughtfully and answer honestly. Does your business complete transactions or create relationships? I suspect you will want to answer the question with “we create relationships,” since relational companies foster trust, enhance customer engagement, drive loyalty, and secure referrals. But do your behaviors really align…
Are You Winning Tomorrow? How to Really Create Lasting Customer Success
The world of customer care is littered with industry terms. Let’s quickly dive into the three most commonly used phrases and then focus on elements that matter most to customers. To get started, I’ll describe three concepts related to caring for people (whether we call those people – team members, employees, customers, clients, patients, users,…