Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 13, 2016

When asked if the training job was not available, if he would be willing take a call center manager job for a few years. Sure enough, Colin had made one of the most frequent and well-intention mistakes that so often tank a solid interview. He appeared desperate. “Well, I’m not sue about 15 years, that’s a long time.

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Cost Call Center Workshop Training 180

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

In the not-so-distant past, it was standard practice in customer service to hire only those candidates who knew how to follow scripts, were familiar with the necessary technology, and had several years' experience in another call center. But a few years ago, American Express reexamined its call-center strategy.

Call Center 15

Call Center Attrition Hotels Metrics 15

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

At Guardian, as new technology has streamlined some aspects of customer service, we launched a program to retrain call-center workers as programmers. Invest in their continuing education, and their value and loyalty will only grow. Mulligan : The first step is to invest the time and money in workers.

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Skills Company Shaw Crisis 65

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2020

For example, an employee who spends her early career in the straitlaced but excellent Member Support environment of USAA in San Antonio and then moves to Vegas to join the wild-and-woolly world of the Customer Loyalty Team at Zappos is definitely going to need an adjustment period before she feels at home. A common language.

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Airlines Mission Statement Customer Loyalty Mayo 108

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

They provide advice on the spot and can create “trouble tickets” which are then handled by subject matter experts via a network, coordinated by a 24/7 call center. There are some excellent business & corporate strategy examples of companies implementing the BoP model.

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Competitive Advantage Prahalad Blue Ocean Strategy Glocalization 154

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

We know of one retail bank that gave their call center representatives the edict to "delight" customers and permission to waive up to $150 in fees for any customer without seeking any additional authorization. TD Bank is a loyalty leader among major retail banks in North America. The result? Take TD Bank, for example.

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Customer Loyalty Loyalty Banking Call Center 15

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

At Guardian, as new technology has streamlined some aspects of customer service, we launched a program to retrain call-center workers as programmers. Invest in their continuing education, and their value and loyalty will only grow. Mulligan : The first step is to invest the time and money in workers.

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Skills Company Shaw Crisis 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

If your customer retention strategy relies on “buying” loyalty with rewards, rebates, or discounts, it is coming at a high cost. That’s because the “loyalty era” of marketing, as we’ve known it, is waning. /Getty Images.

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Loyalty Marketing Apparel Maslow 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

We know of one retail bank that gave their call center representatives the edict to "delight" customers and permission to waive up to $150 in fees for any customer without seeking any additional authorization. TD Bank is a loyalty leader among major retail banks in North America. The result? Take TD Bank, for example.

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Customer Loyalty Loyalty Banking Call Center 11

Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2014

Army: Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal courage. Developing this trust starts with loyalty. Loyalty is subjective, but its basic definition is faithfulness to the commitments you’ve made and remaining true to the obligations at hand. This loyalty I describe is behavioral.

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Development Team Loyalty Due Diligence 60

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 15, 2019

Some companies have contact center agents standing by who look up information as the caller speaks. Other services, such a cloud call center, take it a step further by integrating a slew of self-service options to direct the call to the right department. The other 20 percent are doing something right.

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Brand Media Call Center Loyalty 57

Tony Mayo

OCTOBER 13, 2010

– Alex “Sandy&# Pentland MIT Human Dynamics Lab in Harvard Business Review Another study, at a bank’s telephone call center, showed that operators who spent their breaks speaking to coworkers not only got more work done but experienced less workplace stress. © Tony Mayo except as otherwise noted For Executives.

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Mayo Executive Coaching Efficiency Handbook 146

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

History makes a compelling case that serving customers with integrity — delivering steadfast, predictable service quality — can translate into outsized loyalty and market share when the economy commits to a comeback. Let's go back to that call center. Simplify the front office.

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Airlines Call Center Retail Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

Lafley, who at the time was CEO of the world’s largest advertiser, Procter & Gamble, introduced a marketing concept he called “the moment of truth” for building brand loyalty. Every step of the way, Sephora is trying to improve the customer experience and maximize loyalty.

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Retail Supply Chain Loyalty Reis 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

If you''re not satisfied with these changes you can cancel your account by calling us," the statement said — hardly an attempt at building customer satisfaction or loyalty. Companies that play bait-and-switch not only create dissatisfied customers but generate resentment and end up with lower loyalty rates.

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Airlines Hotels Loyalty Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

The same is true for their expectations of your web site, mobile app, loyalty program, branding, and even social responsibility. Loyalty needs to be more than accumulating points for rewards. To be genuine and enduring, loyalty needs to be reciprocal. If you want their loyalty, you have to be loyal in return.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

To encourage loyalty, customers who purchase wine at the online store Yesmywine receive a stamp in the form of a “Country Medal” each time they buy a bottle. Sounds like most standard loyalty programs, right? Customers who collect 12 medals over the course of a year receive a reward, such as a free bottle of wine.

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Goal Loyalty Motivation Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

In turn, customers reward Rackspace with intense loyalty, contributing to the company’s 25% compound annual revenue growth and 48% profit growth since 2008. Call center representatives, sales specialists, field technicians, and others on the front line know intimately which aspects of the business annoy or delight customers.

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Trends Survey Outsourcing Call Center 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2012

You get to drive awareness and loyalty and other good things with a whole range of new digital tools. In addition, you get to display your responsiveness in a highly public forum, which doesn't happen in a call center. This is good news for good service and bad news for bad service. End of not-so-complicated story.

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Media Self-aware Call Center Tools 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

Many companies are busy mapping their customer experience and tracking customer activity across physical stores, call centers, e-commerce sites, and social media, gathering mountains of data from their own surveys, customer tracking systems, loyalty programs, and third-party providers.

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Retail Apparel Motivation Attrition 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2011

experience, its culture celebrating weirdness, and its 24/7 call center that will even find an open pizza shop presents a high bar. Brand loyalty. A high investment protected brands like CNN, ESPN, and Kirin's Ichiban for many years. Zappos.com with its Wow! Brand networks. Brand equity.

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Aaker Henderson Brand Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

”) Delivering a consistent experience on the most common customer journeys is an important predictor of overall customer experience and loyalty. Similarly, bills and call center script guidelines reinforce the same personal tone that’s been established.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2015

In a Fortune 500 insurance company, senior leaders visit call centers on Friday afternoons to host informal “cookie chats” with employees two to five levels below them. That’s when the call volume is the lowest.

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Health Care Call Center Participative Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

We call these people Cost Center Consumers, and they come in two flavors. They tie up your call centers, incur costly returns, and generate other costs that occur below the gross margin line, which is harder to see. Next is to figure out what to offer a Super Consumer for their loyalty and when to offer it (e.g.,

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P&L Supply Chain Retail Price 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

Loyalty restored. So it was probably just a flip of a virtual switch to restore my old thick lines.). Customer experience mission accomplished: delight over a period of time, utilizing multiple touchpoints, responding to feedback. There’s a lot going on behind the scenes to create this delightful experience.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

An interesting contrast is online shoe retailer Zappos, which wants customers to call, as the company sees that as a loyalty-builder for the brand, even if it's relatively expensive. CEO Tony Hsieh says, "We believe that forming personal, emotional connections with our customers is the best way to provide great service.".

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Insurance Retail Brand Loyalty 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Responding to customer care issues over social media can cost as little as one sixth of a call center interaction while generating higher levels of customer satisfaction. To build loyalty with and attract new customers, start thinking about how to surprise and delight your customers. The firm reduced churn in one quarter by 50%.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

They also outperform their peers across the entire customer lifecycle, are nine times more likely to enjoy superior customer loyalty, and a remarkable 23 times more likely to outperform less analytical peers on new-customer acquisition.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

We also found that the professionals we spoke with at Accenture, in offices on three continents, consistently lauded the firm for its willingness to support innovations, from Accenture Development Partnerships to professional programs for First Peoples in Canada and support for call centers in native communities.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

This will prove far more useful than today''s CRM techniques, which are conversational only in the scripted and controlling manner of call centers. Once products themselves become platforms for relationships, companies will get much better market intelligence, in addition to genuine loyalty.

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CRM CIO Marketing Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

“For every dollar spent on employee feedback, companies spend hundreds of dollars on customer feedback,” said Troy Stevenson, former vice president of customer loyalty at eBay, in a recent interview. Insight Center. Measuring Marketing Insights. Sponsored by Google Analytics 360 Suite. Turning data into action.

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Survey Retail System Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

At a call center who lost an employee, the team leader declared that only those who were arbitrarily deemed to be “close friends” could take time off to attend the funeral. “These gestures,” she said, “warrants him my loyalty for a lifetime.” But not every organization handles grief badly.

Emotional Intelligence 8

Emotional Intelligence Policies Training Open-book 8

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Although none are perfect, they operate in a way that generates engagement and fulfillment for their employees, delight and loyalty for their customers, positive contributions to their communities and to the environment, and excellent returns for their owners and investors.

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How To Simon Learning-by-Doing Organization 83

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

These can expand to include conditions for voluntary data sharing, expressing buying interests, and providing standard means for connecting with loyalty programs, call centers and other CRM (customer relationship management) systems on the vendors’ side.

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Advertising CRM Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

To open a bank account today, for instance, a typical customer embarks on a multichannel journey: researching online; downloading an application; speaking to a call center agent; linking brokerage accounts; visiting a branch; and installing the bank’s mobile app. Those steps leave a long and complex digital trail.

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Call Center Banking Analysis Knowledge Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

Samsung is trying to build brand awareness and interest, increase customer satisfaction, and deepen loyalty and retention. Many mobile marketing services offer to qualify the lead for you, using a call center service to follow up with the customer using the number they provided on the (very short) form. credit cards).

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Advertising Call Center Brand Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Retailers have stores, call centers, and e-commerce. Marketing, IT, store operations, and loyalty programs are all connected. “Our customer is in a store, then she’s reading a magazine, then she’s online. On the executive team you have marketing, sales, technology, and service. The results are impressive.

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