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Next week I am participating in the Consero Customer Experience Forum with a number of other Customer Experience leaders across industries. As part of the event, I am participating in a panel discussion about the future of customer experience and related trends. We will discuss what customers want and need, and why, now and in the years to come. In preparation for the conference, I completed external research and benchmarking, looking at what customer experience experts have to say. I also considered my own personal experiences and observations. This led to the identification of the following 8 customer experience trends for 2016 and beyond, whichRead More →

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As I called out in a blog post I wrote in 2012, “5 Best Practices for Building Trust With Employees”, there is no silver bullet or quick fix that will create a positive, trusting work environment.  Leaders must deliberately set a tone of authenticity and transparency, and one of the best methods to achieve this is via consistent, ongoing and direct communication. Fast forward to 2016, I feel more passionate about this topic than ever before. Even with more than 20 years of leadership experience under my belt, I am still un-pleasantly surprised when managers attempt to leverage “forced fun” or corporate speak to connectRead More →

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When colleagues communicate with you, do they know that you are listening? A few years ago, one of my peers asked me to accompany him into a meeting with our collective boss at the time, to help support him in a difficult discussion. In short, our boss was not happy about something that occurred and my peer disagreed with his approach. In the meeting, my peer shared a bunch of professional, yet direct thoughts and opinions and our boss listened. This went on for about 15 minutes and at the end of the discussion our boss said something that was genius. “I need some timeRead More →