Category: Employee Experience

Getting Britain’s youth and over 50s back to work

Recruitment company Blue Arrow has two new partners as part of its goal to help Britain get back to work. Both learndirect and the Peter Jones Enterprise Academy will work with Blue Arrow to deliver pre-employment and entrepreneurial skills training respectively...

BridgeTalks

When driving a successful business, focus should be on employee engagement, creative leadership and culture management as this can lead to impressive and unprecedented returns on investment. Bridge Training and Events have developed a new event series called BridgeTalks to allow...

Questback working to transform customer and employee experience

A menu of Questback’s feedback solutions are now available to the public sector via G-Cloud 5. G-Cloud allows the public sector to buy cloud-based services off the shelf, avoiding lock-in to expensive contracts with single suppliers, and encouraging cost-effective, innovative solutions....

Wowcher customers given the ‘wow’ factor

Wowcher, the UK’s second largest daily deals website, has transformed its customer experience with NewVoiceMedia’s true cloud contact centre solution ContactWorld for Service. The company is using the technology to successfully resolve over 150,000 inbound and 40,000 outbound calls a year,...

Don't just crunch the numbers- there’s more to customer experience than data…Culture Matters!

It’s the craze everyone is into, in nine out of 10 organisations, senior leadership teams are grappling with the challenge of trying to become more “service orientated” or “customer-centric”. They are embracing the customer agenda to improve profitability and to...

Take Me To The Cauliflower! – A customer service parable

We have a saying in the office “Take me to the cauliflower” – it wasn’t introduced as a conscious part of our culture but it’s very much alive and I think it’s here to stay! Customer service is a primary focus...

How Real-time feedback can build real-time staff morale

“Employee Engagement” is a real buzz phrase at the moment as more and more companies begin to see the tangible benefits of ensuring your employees are HAPPY. As we break out of the recession and more jobs become available, it’s up...

Apple’s Customer Experience Geniuses: Finding New Ways to Facilitate Empathy?

Apple is considering taking their empathy approach to customer experience to the next level with a patent on an application that would read your facial expression and heart rate before choosing which ad to show you. While certainly a little...

Where the ‘E’ side meets the ‘C’ side

How the Employee experience at Butlins drives the Customer experience More and more businesses see the correlation between happy, inspired employees and increased profitability. Butlins, bought by Bourne Leisure in 2000, have been committed to utilising the power of the workforce...

Employee Morale Does Create Customer Experiences

It’s often been said that customer contact employees are key to creating great customer experiences. There is a lot of validity to this statement as customers depend upon the person with whom they interact to provide a high level of...