CX Journey

APRIL 19, 2016

Have you put the spotlight on the employee experience at your company? I've written many times about the importance of the employee experience, both on its own with regard to retention and performance and with regard to the impact of the employee experience on the customer experience.

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Zeisler Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2021

Okay… now, feel free to refer to that as you read on, because I’m not trying to say that engagement isn’t fundamental; in fact, it’s a bedrock necessity if you’re going to provide a good Customer experience that you first ensure you are providing a good employee experience. For example, while I’m sure Zappos!

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 17, 2017

We’re going to spend a lot of time in the next book discussing the pros and cons of specific experiences, both good and bad. You may see a company one day go through a total customer experience/PR flame-out (United Airlines is a recent example, or Volkswagen) and wonder to yourself: How does that happen? More growth?

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Ian Williams

JANUARY 11, 2020

They book a flight, a hire car, insurance, ground transport, entertainment – the airline is only responsible for part of the experience, but should be considering the customer’s overall experience and understanding how they can improve or influence it.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 21, 2016

Getting them engaged about their employee experience after they are hired is something else. As the Fortune article points out, the Generation Z, fun-workplace-seeking employees will comprise at least 20% of the workforce by 2019, just three short years from now. Employee Ambassadorship Can Recruit Your Generation Z Workforce.

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Qualtrics

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

It’s the biggest Experience Management event on the planet, so you won’t be short of things to see. Check out our guide to the must-see employee experience (EX) sessions at this year’s X4. Most organizations are surveying their employees, but very few are delivering truly strategic employee experience (EX) programs.

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Think Customers

MARCH 21, 2023

The power of connectivity was on brilliant display this month in Salt Lake City, where approximately 10,000 customer experience professionals gathered to soak up inspiration and new ideas to deploy upon returning home. Improving the employee experience in this way ultimately enhances the customer experience as well.

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Andrew Mcfarland

JANUARY 16, 2018

(Guest post written by Carolyn Jenkins, a SaaS technology leader with award-winning experience leading companies in customer success, support, training, delivery, account management, human resources, and corporate operations.) Recently, I spoke with a software company that is enhancing its customer success.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 5, 2015

Other companies on the list included Southwest Airlines and Disney along with other big brand names. All of these companies have something in common: their employees are happy and engaged with their brand promise and they provide a good Customer Experience. I wrote about Google , Southwest Airlines , and Disney before.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 6, 2020

The first is based on creating enough value through the experience the customer would never want to go anywhere else. For example, an airline frequent flier program. The Impact Of Employee Experience On Customer Experience by Sagi Eliyahu. Focus on employees first. The concept is simple.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 28, 2017

These changes have improved the employee experience in dramatic ways, too! Who wants to work in a place where customers complain both to and about the employees in viral videos and publicly on social media ? So Comcast made dramatic efforts to improve the wait times and engaged their employees in the field to help.

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Russel Lolacher

MAY 30, 2022

There’s no such thing as great cultures without great leaders.”. It has been a while since you’ve been quote unquote, an employee. But I do want to ask the first question we ask every guest on the podcast, which is what’s your best or worst employee experience? Finding value-driven leaders.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 27, 2017

He cited the company’s culture as a reason, saying in a statement to Recode : “the beliefs and approach to leadership that have guided my career are inconsistent with what I saw and experienced at Uber, and I can no longer continue as president of the ride-sharing business.”. This is a dreadful position for any company to be in! Bewildered?

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SurveySparrow

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

On average, 64% of employees report that they do not have a strong work culture. And, 18% of employees said they intend to stay with their organization for one year or less! Smooth employee journey and serene employee experience. What is Employee Experience Journey Mapping? The reason?

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 7, 2018

Of the 136 ideas for rockstar employee engagement, a few of James’s favorites include having employees meet their customers, writing personal letters to employee family members, and holding fun employee events, such as a a class on how to make cocktails (named after emplyees and departments). Behaviors become cultures.

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Talkdesk

MAY 20, 2019

New technology, five generations in the workforce and an emphasis on providing the best possible customer and employee experiences make for some unique challenges and triumphs in the contact center sphere. Positive Contact Center Culture is Vital to Agents and Customers. One lie Ginger shared is that culture is “fluffy.”

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SurveySparrow

JUNE 20, 2023

Employee welfare has a major impact on business success. Ensure you value your employees and address their needs. Know more about your employees, by signing up to SurveySparrow ’s employee experience survey. Encourage Feedback Encourage your customers to share their experiences.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 8, 2016

As Customer Experience Consultants, we hear our clients worry about how much their Customer Experience program improvements will cost. This example of a high point in a Customer Experience from Southwest Airlines didn’t cost a dime—but it ended up on CNN Primetime, not to mention raising the spirits of the passengers on board.

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CX Journey

AUGUST 29, 2017

And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Start with employees and the rest follows from that. Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines Who comes first? Don’t be silly, says King Hal; it’s employees. Woolman, founder of Delta Airlines, was asked about an organization's most important asset: Simple: its people.

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CX Journey

MARCH 31, 2015

Confused by some of the employee experience lingo you''re hearing? We talked about the employee experience, employee journey mapping, and solutions that drive or impact workforce efficiency. During the presentation, a lot of employee experience terms were used, and I attempted to clarify with some definitions.

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CX Journey

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Fact : Without your employees, you have no customer experience. The linkage between employee experience and customer experience has been proven. It's real, and your employees matter. What is the employee experience? Let's go back to listening to employees and improving the employee experience.

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CX Journey

JUNE 23, 2015

Fact: The employee experience drives the customer experience. Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines How, then, do we get to this state of nirvana? First and foremost, no one can make an employee engaged. to facilitate and enhance those emotions or that commitment - then we have employee engagement.

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Aveus

JULY 12, 2017

Let’s look at an example of a company who has focused on its customers consistently over time, and evolved its operations and employee experience to meet the ever-changing demands of the marketplace. Southwest Airlines. Many have written about Southwest Airlines’ ability to focus on who they serve and what they solve.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 3, 2018

Airlines, technology, retail (on and offline), and even hospitals have been merging over the past twenty years. After all, when there are fewer places to work, fewer places where specific industry skills are valued, then why should the company create better wages and work cultures for employees? Why should they?

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CCO Council

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

A major airline found their internal customer satisfaction ratings dropping. Unless you work for the DMV, employees typically WANT to do what is right for the customer. Sadly, most employers resort to applying Emotional Pressure as they use guilt and shame to compel employees to work. Introduction.

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Ian Williams

MARCH 19, 2020

We are already seeing this in the airline industry with Norwegian, RyanAir and British Airways making significant announcements over the past 48 hours. Only yesterday morning, Norwegian Airlines announced that they would be temporarily laying off 7,500 staff. Can we redeploy our people? But what about those companies that overdeliver?

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Qualtrics

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

You’ll find it all at X4 – stories from the brands using XM to deliver breakthrough results, thought leadership from the best in the business, and an inside look at the tech helping XM professionals reach new heights in employee experience. Or do you want to really deliver breakthrough experiences for your customers and employees?

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CX Journey

JULY 13, 2017

These examples all come from well-meaning bloggers and reporters over the years who want to create a quick fix to engage employees. On top of that, a lot of what is written about what employee engagement often defines the "employee experience" in general. Perks and rewards do not drive employee engagement.

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ClearAction

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Recent snafus caused by faulty customer experience ecosystem management include United Airlines dragging a paying customer out of his seat and off the plane per a random drawing of passengers to make room for a flight crew to fly on that overbooked flight. Every company’s ecosystem is unique. Don’t stop there. Why this order?

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Qualtrics

APRIL 27, 2020

A global travel ban has meant business has gone virtual; many employees are required to work from home - often for the first time ever; and changes to consumer/citizen behavior mean that organizations are needing to adapt quickly in order to properly serve them. The results can be drastic. Happy customers mean a happy workforce.

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ijgolding

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

South West Airlines. British Airways. Innocent.

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Qualtrics

MAY 22, 2019

She points out that in many organizations, these unplanned experiences are costing them money too as customers get wise to the system and play ‘service roulette.’. You know, you’ve called an airline more than once, right?” she asks. “I This is an attitude shift,” she says. “It’s

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C Space

DECEMBER 2, 2021

3 With every technological leap forward humans reconfigure time and space, with profound economic, cultural, and commercial implications. While goods flowed along these paths, they were also vital arteries for the movement and interchange of scientific ideas, philosophies, people, and cultures between east and west. Go anywhere.

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Qualtrics

JANUARY 2, 2019

OMB Circular A-11 Section 280 , called “Managing Customer Experience and Service Delivery,” tells agencies to survey customers, report the survey scores publicly, establish CX governance, work on the connection between customer and employee experience, and consider agency customers in service design.

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ClearAction

MARCH 22, 2024

“ Culture and strategy complement and nurture each other and should be created simultaneously, making sure they are perfectly aligned. United Airlines passenger dragged off a flight: PR nightmare, customer churn, stock plunge. Culture is a group’s ways of thinking and doing. — How do you influence companywide?

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Elevio

APRIL 12, 2017

Originally when I joined in May of 2016, I was Shinesty’s Director of Customer Experience. My role has since expanded to the Director of Experience, overseeing the customer as well as the employee experience. How do you make sure you continue to provide an amazing customer experience?

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 6, 2022

From theme parks to airlines, the responses to my rant revealed issues that seem to encompass a wide range of businesses. The reader’s replies voiced many opinions about the possible causes and solutions for these declining experiences. Also, some of the problems are cultural. Please tell us how we are doing!

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