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The Culture Challenge

ShepHyken

Culture is one of the most important parts of customer service and customer experience. I’ve written numerous articles about this and have included a chapter on this topic in my latest book, I’ll Be Back: How to Get Customers to Come Back Again and Again , which by the way, is finally out.

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Culture is Contagious

ShepHyken

We were discussing how important it is to “bake” customer service into the culture. It’s leadership’s job to define the customer service vision, ensure it’s communicated, and be the role models demonstrating how customers and employees are to be treated. In addition, leadership and management must defend the culture.

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Six Ways to Actively Build a Customer-Centric Culture

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

You know the brands that do customer culture well. They create such a focus on the customer that everything and everyone throughout the organization is on board. . In a word, it all comes back to the culture. Sometimes the customer-focused “way” is seen as a brand within a brand.

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How to Build a Strong Customer Service Culture

Help Scout

Your customer service culture is not what your fancy “Customer Guarantee” promises, and it’s not whatever you say it is in your new employee handbook. Your culture is the set of beliefs held by your employees about your company: who and what it is for, what it values, and how they act in response to those beliefs.

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Employee Advocacy: Improving Experiences for Employees and Customers

InMoment XI

The most basic definition of employee experience often has to do with overall happiness on the job (or what is generally understood as employee satisfaction). How aligned they are with the company’s overall business goals and culture. As a result, it only marginally impacts customer experience and downstream behavior.

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The Employee Experience Maturity Path: How Does EX Improvement Impact Customer Behavior?

InMoment XI

These signposts, or markers, represent the points along the path, or the trajectory, employee experience has taken, as companies become more mature in a) how they consider employee contribution, in other words the importance attached to it, and b) what role, or roles, employees have in enterprise culture, strategy, and business outcomes. #1:

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The importance of customer culture – an interview with Chris Brown

ijgolding

As CEO and co-founder of MarketCulture Strategies , he, like everyone he associates with, is on a mission to get companies to understand the importance of customer culture: Ian. This led to me spending a lot of time in my clients stores, observing customers and how they interacted with both the products and the employees.

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