Tag: Employee Engagement

Can CX learn from volunteering during the Covid-19 Pandemic?

According to recent research, engagement with volunteering has increased in younger people whilst decreasing in over 55s. This is most likely driven by the need to self-isolate and the more vulnerable needing to shield. Whilst I have experienced a general...

Gaining Customers: Securing a Positive Employee Experience

In this, the third in a five-part series on gaining and retaining clients in 2021, we spoke to Nick Lygo-Baker, Founding Director of Paradigm CX, who help optimise the engagement experience to enrich the lives of customers and employees!What is any organisation...

Gamification: employee retention strategies in customer service

It’s no secret that employee retention is one of the largest operational issues facing companies around the world. From profitability to workplace morale and service quality, a high staff turnover rate can be detrimental to all aspects of a business.As...

The True Cost of Putting Your People Second

“We are in unprecedented times!” That is the declaration that I have heard over and over for several months now, and it is usually the start of an announcement about cutbacks, site closures, and redundancies. In many aspects, we are in unprecedented...

Applying emotional intelligence in CX: An interview with Sandra Thompson

Applying empathy became a practice to understand and connect with customers. While it is beneficial to put in the effort to satisfy your customers’ needs, what is more, important is to have them coming back. Exceeding customer expectations is one...

Diversity and inclusion in CX

A lot is written about diversity and inclusion in CX in recent times, but not merely enough. In my opinion, there are two sides to the diversity ‘coin’ and, when it comes to the contact centre, inclusion is equally important –...

Tips for Perfecting Your Virtual Recruitment Process

Hannah Louise Cox is Executive Search Consultant at Douglas Jackson and a Judge at the UK Digital Experience Awards 2020. Read about Hannah’s experience at last year’s UK DXA. Times have certainly changed in these last few months and we are living...

Half of employees feel neglected by bosses, new research shows

The findings of research done by MHR reveal that 53 percent of all employees believe their employer is not showing concern about their mental health well-being during the current lockdown. The research involved 5,000 UK employees, two-thirds of which (66 percent)...

Can We Really Be Productive In the Comfort of our Own Home?

All it takes is one major event or natural disaster to disrupt the way businesses operate, which can ultimately negatively impact productivity and the bottom line. These events can often prevent us from working in our corporate offices, conducting business...

The Future of IVRs is No IVR At All

IVRs were invented in the 1960s as a way for businesses to automate the previously manual process of routing calls to the relevant departments. With the introduction of touch-tone dialling, the integration of IVRs into businesses ramped up in the...