Turning your company leaders into customer experience superheroes

It’s often said that to succeed, Customer Experience practitioners need a unique blend of resilience, patience and resourcefulness with a good dose of empathy. To fulfil an organisation goal of being customer centric and for your CX strategy to succeed, you will likely need to overcome the problem of organisational silos, where c-level executives and …

NPS and CSAT do not measure customer happiness

Customer happiness and customer retention are closely intertwined. NPS and CSAT are two of the most important CX metrics we use to assess what customers think about our organisations. Unfortunately, neither, on their own, allows brands to be truly objective in their understanding about customer happiness. The difference between happiness and satisfaction A dissatisfied customer …

Putting customers first means putting employees first

Most executives will readily say ‘our people’ are vital to the success of the business. Yet so many Australian organisations have inadequate employee engagement strategies in place. The coronavirus pandemic will be a defining moment in most people’s careers. How brands respond in the coming months will have a lasting impact on employee engagement, productivity …

What to buy when shopping for Customer Experience Management (CEM) technology

Over the last decade numerous technology vendors have hitched their wagons to the term Customer Experience Management (CEM or CXM). As a software or technology category the term is fairly elastic. It can mean many different things to many different people. Deciding which technology is best for your CX initiative can be a mammoth and …

Automation helps customer support teams meet escalating demand

For many customer support teams, volume has skyrocketed over the past few weeks, making it harder to answer questions at scale. And though automation has always been an incredibly useful tool for support teams prior to this year, COVID-19 has made it an almost mandatory solution for teams to get back on top of demand. …

Look after your people – Jo Kelly, Chief Customer Officer for Good2Give

Jo Kelly, Chief Customer Officer for Good2Give, explains how great employee experiences create great customer experiences. Good2Give is a digital platform that facilitates charitable giving between corporations and charities. Good2Give’s customers are segmented into three levels of corporate clients, donors, and charities. They help companies run their workplace giving programs, manage employee donations and provide …