Category: Employee Experience

Top ten qualities of a winning Employee Experience story

So you have implemented a people strategy or initiative that has improved your employee experience and you think you deserve recognition for all the hard work and the results you have achieved. It may well be that your project is...

Improving the Employee Experience in the Call Centre

There are a number of ways you can improve your employees’ experience in the short term. Competitions, prizes and treats are a quick way to increase happiness and productivity – but what about in the long run? Stefan Captijn, Solution...

Sometimes, you just need to talk…

In the customer service industry, mechanised answering calls (also known as interactive voice responses, or IVRs) are ubiquitous. For many companies who have to deal with numerous customer calls each day, they seem ideal: they cut costs, direct incoming calls...

Get Tw’rking – Maybe more business should get Tw’rking

Now don’t worry I am not suggesting that you down tools and ask your colleagues to start sticking their bums out with a little shake – although that may improve colleague engagement. What I am talking about is ‘Teleworking’! Giving...

Making the leap from employee surveys to strategic employee engagement

The concept of measuring the relationship between employees’ attitudes to work and overall business success is not new. A quick search of the web will show that there are examples of industrial leaders measuring (albeit crudely) the impact of employee...

Investing in Employees a must

So, the UK Customer Experience Awards are now behind us and what a great day it was. I feel rather honoured to have been involved, chairing one of the judging panels and presenting an award. More than anything else, I was...

BPA singing under a new roof!

A company that has doubled in size over the last two years has introduced their existing 120 staff to brand new offices in Exeter with an innovative singing workshop. BPA, a world-wide customer service quality monitoring company, who have been trading...

Salaries on the rise

Advertised salaries appear to be on the rise for the first time since the financial crisis, according to the jobs search engine Adzuna. The average advertised salary in July 2014 rose to £33,873 – a 0.9% advance on the previous year....

Matching world class brands with world class service

Petra Krivinskas, Head of Customer Service Centre Operations for Volkswagen Group UK tells Customer Experience Magazine about her role, and how she ensures her team is the lifeblood of the business. For the past 15 years Petra Krivinskas has been digging...

Hiring Customer-Ready Employees

In the last two weeks, I have been consulting clients on how they can improve their Customer Experience and hire people who are emotionally intelligent and Customer-ready. Hiring the right people for your position is a priority for most organizations,...