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Five Lifelong Career Skills Earned Working in a Call Centre

The way call centres work has evolved significantly in recent years, with the technology used becoming more sophisticated than ever. But despite these advancements, call centre managers and staff still need to be at the top of their game to meet...

Empathic CX: Making It Work

Empathetic interactions are all about seizing the countless invisible opportunities to surprise and delight customers by giving them information, engagements ,and experiences they will value at precise moments in exact places. Mobile messaging is brilliant at that. With an unrivalled reach...

Top Five Tips for Customer Service this Christmas

With the festive season upon us, shops and websites get busier, deliveries can take longer, and inevitably tempers can flare. Mandy Holford, director of customer services at Echo-U, shares her top five tips for any business preparing for Christmas on how to...

Giving it Your Best Shot: Aiming for Success

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”  —Ralph Waldo Emerson I have trained trainers and employees all over the world and have taught them to believe in themselves and their abilities.  I have...

Keeping Customers Loyal Beyond Christmas

Figures from John Lewis indicate that last year online sales grew by 11.8 percent year-on-year in the Christmas period – the six weeks leading up to the end of December. UK Christmas spending was predicted to hit record £77.56bn in 2016....

Know Customer Expectations…or no Customer Experience

Customer Experience management is a hot topic, and I would get a least one invitation a day to a CX seminar or workshop. Reflecting on the content of these events and having reviewed literature on the subject, it seems that the...

Employee Engagement to Employee Experience: Applying Existing Knowledge

Employee Experience is a relatively new area which has gained significant momentum in the last couple of years, culminating in a wide range of information being available on the subject. It has captured my interest for two key reasons. Firstly, with...

Customers Ready to Abandon Brick and Mortar Branches? Don’t Bank On It!

Customers of one of the UK’s best-known banks are fearful of a slump in service following news that many branches are to shut. RBS has announced the looming closure of 62 Royal Bank of Scotland branches, along with 197 NatWest outlets,...

CX Awards Partner Cranfield University Wins Queen’s Anniversary Prize

Cranfield University has become the first institution to win a prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize for work on soil science. The institution’s prestigious School of Management is a major partner of the UK Customer Experience Awards, the UK Digital Experience Awards, and...

CX Marks the Spot: Expert Customer Journey Mapping

The success of a business lies in its knowledge of its customers. Your product or service is targeted to a specific need of a specific customer, and naturally you consider your customer’s behaviours, thoughts, and feelings. From there, you can now...