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Have you ever visited one of those palatial buffet restaurants with dozens of assorted fresh dishes in self-serve stations, with the crowds and people walking (seemingly) aimlessly with their plates in search of the pasta or the dessert cart? Raise your hand if you appreciate a good buffet — I certainly do! Classic Trap Like lots of fellow foodies, I sometimes have…

Customer Experience (CX) is the new mantra for growing topline. In part 1 of the blog we looked at the economic value of CX and how contact centers can play a pivotal role in the transformation journey. In part 2 of the blog, we looked at some of the basics when it comes driving organization-wide CX transformation. Now,…

At MAPFRE Insurance, a global research insurance group with more than 36,000 employees, supervisors have flipped the script: Instead of using performance management to home in on employee flaws and correct them with managers, supervisors focus their efforts on rewarding what employees are doing right.

When your customers are willing to recommend your company to friends and family members, you definitely are doing something right. And when the percentage of customer “recommenders” (aka promoters) greatly outweighs the percentage of detractors, that’s a big win. This is the basic concept behind Net Promoter Score® (NPS), which has been adopted widely as an indication of whether a company…

Consumers today expect to interact with companies via a variety of digital channels. In fact, 91% of consumers want seamless omnichannel across messaging and real-time voice and chat. Unfortunately, a digital divide exists today. While consumers have embraced messaging and a digital first world, companies have failed to deliver. As consumers, we’re very comfortable messaging with friends and families from our always accessible phones….

If you’re part of a team responsible for driving growth, you know how difficult it is to achieve a very challenging revenue goal only to start over the next quarter or year. But simply starting over would be easier if you also didn’t have to exceed the target you just bloodied yourself to achieve! That’s why smart leaders look for “growth…

When it comes to sense of direction, I’ll admit I’m closer to “can’t find her way out of a paper bag” than “has a strong internal compass.” So you can understand that GPS navigation is riding shotgun when I’m on the road and is in my top-five most frequently used apps. As I slogged along the 101 here…