Strativity

JANUARY 18, 2018

The world’s premier Experience and Culture Design consultancy, Strativity Group, Inc., The world’s premier Experience and Culture Design firm, announces the addition of Steven Walden and Bentley Williams and the opening of two new offices. He is the author of Customer Experience Management Rebooted, 2017.

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Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

I have been slow to accept that, from a service perspective, humans will ever be replaced by computers. I’ve suggested that customers will resist “robots” and I’ve based my thinking in part on the “uncanny valley” hypothesis which postulates that the more robots look like humans the less humans will feel comfortable with them.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The key, it seems, is in the clues we leave for customers in our Customer Experience design. In Carbone’s Book, Clued In How to Keep Customers Coming Back Again and Again , Carbone emphasizes the significance of clues and signals for our unconscious mental processes.

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Hotels Customer Experience Management Books Consulting 131

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Warn Customers of the dangers they face and encourage them to keep their data safe through strong passwords. Listen to your customers and engage with them. Superior Customer Experiences require a two-way dialogue with your Customers. Customer Experiences are a catalyst for Customer trust and loyalty.

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Wootric

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

She has experience in both helping companies understand their employees and customers and identifying what drives retention, satisfaction, engagement, and the overall experience – so that, together, they can design a better experience for all constituents. A CX Consulting. Colin Shaw.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Unfortunately, the recent UK Customer Satisfaction survey echoes those findings, indicating that it has fallen over the past couple of years, from 78.2 Joanne Causon, CEO of the Institute of Customer Service , joined me on our podcast about this downward trend in Customer Satisfaction. Is the US Next?

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Michelli Experience

JULY 25, 2017

In support of my formula, Neil Davey, the managing editor of mycustomer.com recently cited David Ulrich’s research on the value chain of trusting and engaging employees. By contrast, employee distrust, disengagement, and neglect for development create the environment for most customer complaints. Trust, Engagement, and You.

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Myra Golden

JUNE 2, 2016

Myra Golden Customer Service Training Highlight. Verbal Aikido: A non-agressive, highly effective strategy for handling difficult customers. Thanks to the Internet and social media, customers are more savvy now than ever before. This means the customer service professional must develop a response plan.

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Myra Golden

JUNE 2, 2016

Myra Golden Customer Service Training Highlight. Verbal Aikido: A non-agressive, highly effective strategy for handling difficult customers. Thanks to the Internet and social media, customers are more savvy now than ever before. This means the customer service professional must develop a response plan.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 31, 2019

Nobel-Prize Winning Economist and Professor Daniel Kahneman along with Barbara Frederickson theorized that what people remember most about an experience is the moment when they felt the most intense emotion and how they felt at the end. Customer loyalty is a function of customers’ memories. What emotions are you trying to evoke?

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Michelli Experience

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

In the course of my work as an experience designer and consultant, I have been defining customer experience strategy as a disciplined approach to brand differentiation achieved by elevating the perception of those you serve based on their interactions with you. In the end, we are all in the perception business.

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Net Promoter Score NPS Financial Consulting 89

CX Journey

APRIL 21, 2015

Image courtesy of xianrendujia What do your employees know about customer experience? I''ve been talking about the importance of employees to the customer experience since my days at J.D. Power and Associates 20 years ago; sadly, in the heat of customer experience design efforts, employees are still forgotten.

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Customer Experience Roadmap Employee Experience Customer Experience Design 81

Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 6, 2016

I’ll admit it, as a customer experience consultant I have a tendency to see improving customer experience as a cure for all business ills. Forrester found that 71% of consumers say that valuing their time is the most important thing a company can do to provide them with good service. .

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Customer Experience Social Media Mobile Customer Service Consulting 85

Michelli Experience

JANUARY 17, 2017

Over the years, as a customer experience consultant, I’ve increasingly become a student of “game theory” and of the “gaming industry.” billion customers. In his article Mark identifies three key ways that designers in the video and mobile gaming industry create “gamer engagement”, loyalty, and spend.

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Customer Experience Banking Sports Loyalty 85

Michelli Experience

JANUARY 19, 2016

In addition to my S, D and I view of Millennials, research shows they are EXPERIENCE SEEKERS. According to the Boston Consulting Group, 72% of Millennials report that they prefer EXPERIENCES over products. Engage them socially. Increase their knowledge. Leverage technology. Demonstrate transparency.

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 9, 2016

There are few things more important about leadership than developing and growing talent.

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Magazine Engagement Insurance Loyalty 45

SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

Meet the Top 150 Global Customer Experience Thought Leaders and Influencers of 2020. Adam Toporek – Customer Service Expert, Keynote Speaker, Trainer, Strategic Advisor . Annette Franz – Customer Experience Consultant, Keynote Speaker, Author . LinkedIn : [link]. Website : [link].

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Michelli Experience

APRIL 20, 2016

While marketers like to call attention to aspects of a brand that they want to cement as PODS in the minds of prospects and customers, experience designers like me and business leaders like you should be thinking about DELIVERING PODS – behaving in ways that are relevant, different and valued by your customers.

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 25, 2016

If a video can’t entertain, then why can’t it inform simultaneously—specifically in the realm of customer service? Videos are very efficient in dispensing valuable information that would help the customer base enjoy and possibly encourage more transactions. So why not publish a video that addresses their needs?

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Entertainment Customer Service Social Media Healthcare 45

Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

That’s the power of customer experience design resulting in a “signature moment” that enhanced the Dairy Queen Fan Experience. As I worked with Garbanzo’s first CEO Alon Mor and his team in the early days of their brand development, the focus was not on the product handoff but the arrival experience.

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Brands Hotels Magazine Leadership 45

Michelli Experience

JANUARY 22, 2018

Customer Experience Design Strategies. For me, my “go to” strategies for product development or experience innovation involve components from my “empathic design” toolkit. is a professional speaker and chief experience officer at The Michelli Experience. Michelli, Ph.D.

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Culture Consulting Customer Experience Design Article 58

Michelli Experience

OCTOBER 12, 2016

I’ve been doing customer experience design for a long, long time. In the old days, I would have read about some intriguing customer innovation and assumed that the attempted breakthrough was crafted on a firm foundation of customer listening and data analysis.

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Airlines Travel Customer Experience Design Innovation 89

Michelli Experience

AUGUST 22, 2017

United, however, has become emblematic of an industry viewed as operationally challenged, uncaring, and not customer-centric. Given the time I spend on planes traveling to speak and consult, I have a fairly positive view of the airline industry. is a professional speaker and chief experience officer at The Michelli Experience.

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 22, 2018

Customer Experience Design Strategies. For me, my “go to” strategies for product development or experience innovation involve components from my “empathetic design” toolkit. is a professional speaker and chief experience officer at The Michelli Experience. Michelli, Ph.D.

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Culture Consulting Customer Experience Design Article 55

Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 6, 2017

is a professional speaker and chief experience officer at The Michelli Experience. A New York Times #1 bestselling author, Dr. Michelli and his team consult with some of the world’s best customer experience companies. Michelli, Ph.D. Follow on Twitter: @josephmichelli.

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 17, 2018

is a professional speaker and chief experience officer at The Michelli Experience. A New York Times #1 bestselling author, Dr. Michelli and his team consult with some of the world’s best customer experience companies. Michelli, Ph.D. Follow on Twitter: @josephmichelli.

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Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

is a professional speaker and chief experience officer at The Michelli Experience. A New York Times #1 bestselling author, Dr. Michelli and his team consult with some of the world’s best customer experience companies. Michelli, Ph.D. Follow on Twitter: @josephmichelli.

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Michelli Experience

JULY 4, 2017

is a professional speaker and chief experience officer at The Michelli Experience. A New York Times #1 bestselling author, Dr. Michelli and his team consult with some of the world’s best customer experience companies. Michelli, Ph.D. Follow on Twitter: @josephmichelli.

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Consulting Customers Customer Experience Customer Experience Design 45

Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

I carry that evaluation process through every touch point with a brand including if/how they solicit feedback from me about their service delivery.

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 7, 2018

is a professional speaker and chief experience officer at The Michelli Experience. A New York Times #1 bestselling author, Dr. Michelli and his team consult with some of the world’s best customer experience companies. The post Strategic Positioning Infographic | Is Your Customer Experience Agile Enough?

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Michelli Experience

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

is a professional speaker and chief experience officer at The Michelli Experience. A New York Times #1 bestselling author, Dr. Michelli and his team consult with some of the world’s best customer experience companies. Michelli, Ph.D. Follow on Twitter: @josephmichelli.

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Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 20, 2017

is a professional speaker and chief experience officer at The Michelli Experience. A New York Times #1 bestselling author, Dr. Michelli and his team consult with some of the world’s best customer experience companies. Michelli, Ph.D. Follow on Twitter: @josephmichelli.

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Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

is a professional speaker and chief experience officer at The Michelli Experience. A New York Times #1 bestselling author, Dr. Michelli and his team consult with some of the world’s best customer experience companies. Michelli, Ph.D. Follow on Twitter: @josephmichelli.

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Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 6, 2017

is a professional speaker and chief experience officer at The Michelli Experience. A New York Times #1 bestselling author, Dr. Michelli and his team consult with some of the world’s best customer experience companies. Michelli, Ph.D. Follow on Twitter: @josephmichelli.

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Michelli Experience

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

As a customer experience consultant, I find myself working with leaders across the globe and across business sectors on some very familiar themes; needs fulfillment, customer effort reduction, surprise and delight, etc. One of those bedrock issues in daily consulting includes “responsiveness.” Responsiveness.

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Stella Connect

JANUARY 4, 2022

Customer service coaching refers to the practice of ongoing communication between the agent and their manager to hone in on how to improve on specific skills, achieve specific goals, and develop their craft so they can handle even the most difficult customer interactions. Coaching Customer Service Agents for Individual Growth.

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Michelli Experience

OCTOBER 4, 2017

is a professional speaker and chief experience officer at The Michelli Experience. A New York Times #1 bestselling author, Dr. Michelli and his team consult with some of the world’s best customer experience companies. Michelli, Ph.D. Follow on Twitter: @josephmichelli.

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