Category: Employee Experience

When employee engagement delivers great customer service

It’s central London. It’s 9.05 am and it’s busy. I have arrived at Victoria station via the tube. My meeting starts at 10.00 am. I have time to kill and I need a coffee. I want to tune in to my...

Egg Freezing – a better deal for who?

This week, technology giants Apple and Facebook controversially announced plans to provide female employees the opportunity to cryopreserve (freeze) their eggs. Facebook has already started this program and Apple will soon implement its program in January 2015.  The egg freezing perk...

Employee Engagement is “Business Critical”, finds Confirmit Conference

The need to radically improve employee engagement as part of a successful forward-looking customer experience programme was one of the key messages to arise from the recent Confirmit Community Conference 2014 (CCC’14) in San Francisco. Attendees were advised to consider employee...

UK Employees cite good relationships with colleagues and good work-life balance as the key when it comes to workplace satisfaction!

Last week we caught sight of a press release revealing London as the number one city of choice for workers worldwide, putting London above New York and Paris, with nearly one in six people wanting to work in the UK’s...

UK employees confess to feeling “addicted” to work

As university fees rise and the availability of full-time work plummets, it’s little wonder that the UK’s workforce feels compelled to go the extra mile when they find employment. Headlines are filled with stories of mass-unemployment, and with tens of...

Why you must unify feedback from customers and employees to improve the experience

By Paul Barnes, UK Country Manager, QuestBack 83% of companies that link customer experience and employee engagement feedback believe it leads to an improved customer experience. This is one of the top findings of the QuestBack Enterprise Feedback Study, a survey...

Call centre culture change: 6 ways to boost employee morale

The role of a call centre operator can often be stereotyped as monotonous and requiring little skill. Yet, most call centre operatives are very adept, simultaneously controlling complicated computer systems and delivering excellent customer service. Call centres have one of the...

How Your Front Line Impacts on your Bottom Line

A critical driver of outstanding customer experiences are engaged employees. Many organisations that top the league tables for customer experience are also in the top 100 companies to work for. It’s not just a great product and customer driven processes...

What We Can Learn from Google’s Empowered Culture

In 2014, Google topped the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work for list, a place that they have been happy to occupy every year since 2012. But it’s hardly a surprise, because Googlers are an empowered team. The empowered culture...

Focus on the Employee Experience to Get a Better Customer Experience—and a Better Bottom Line. Here’s how….

If you are responsible for leading a customer experience effort at your brand, you may have already felt how daunting those first steps are. Everyone wants a clear line of sight to a successful finish—a measurably better customer experience. However,...