Employee Experience

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...

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,...

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,...

What’s the point of Incentive Travel?

Can you really achieve true employee engagement, interaction and fulfilment for your employees through Incentive Travel? Does your Incentive Travel organically deliver a natural team bonding experience, which inherently leads to increased productivity, motivation and loyalty? Employees are becoming more demanding. They...

Happy Staff: The Recipe for Happy Customers

When it comes down to it, employee satisfaction is a cornerstone of good retail. It makes sense from every angle; when customers talk to someone that can represent their brand with a smile and a charming demeanour, that customer has...

People build success: the most engaged people have the happiest customers

Paul Smedley, Chairman & Founder, Professional Planning Forum People do amazing things when given the space, freedom and tools to do so. This article from the Professional Planning Forum builds on previous research by MacLeod, who identified four primary enablers of...