How Can You Engage All Employees to Follow the New CX Strategy?
Stephen Pappas
CEO @ ExSynt Solutions | CX & KM Strategist | Author of SimpleCX | Host of ScienceOfCX.com | Helping Contact Centers Navigate the Future
You can't buy engagement. You have to build engagement.
Employees are the heart of any business, yours included. To maintain a high customer experience (CX) rate, you need to empower your employees with the right strategy. If properly motivated, there's no limit to how high your CX will grow.
Your employees are linked to your business’s CX. By catering to your employees, they, in turn, channel their energy and ideas towards improving your customers’ satisfaction. Employees can be vibrant brand ambassadors, but only if you know how to make that happen.
It's smart to experiment with innovative ideas and strategies for your business. With the world changing every year, your business needs to stay on top of the latest innovations. You can’t do this alone. This is where your employees enter the scene.
Let's find out how you can incorporate new CX strategies into your business through the employees.
Five Ways You Can Introduce Your Employees to a New CX Strategy
Below are five ways by which you can empower your employees so they can work towards improving your CX.
1. Identify Your Employees’ Needs and Fulfil Them
Your employees must have certain concerns. These concerns may be lowering their morale at work. To increase your customer satisfaction rate, you should tend to your employees. How to begin, you ask? Why not support them through incentives like a few kind words or placing them in free employee experience programs? By doing so, you're doing what your competitors aren't doing, thereby allowing you to enhance your CX.
2. Assemble a CX-EX Team
Yes, customer experience and employee experience go hand in hand. While other businesses like to separate both concepts, thereby creating a gap between both teams. Why not make the difference by assembling a team tasked with identifying customers' and employees’ needs?
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3. Let Your Business Values Resemble What the Customer Wants
Educate your employees on the importance of working with what the customer desires. Your business is a brand, and every day, it promises to be unique. To make that a reality, your employees should revise their behaviors and practices. Doing so is a step in the right direction.
4. Let Your Employees Take on the Role of a Customer
Your employees need to understand the customer to identify their problems and how to solve them. One way to do this is by having them picture themselves as customers. If they used your products or services, would they feel satisfied? Doing this creates interest in the customers and unlocks empathy.
5. Share Customer Insights with Your Employees Regularly
When you provide your employees with critical customer feedback, they know what to improve on and how to serve the customer better. It also enables them to tailor their service delivery to each customer’s preferred taste.
Final Thoughts
Your employees are just as important as the customers. When you strengthen your relationship with your employees, you encourage them to do better by working with new CX strategies. This makes the customer feel better about using your product or service.
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2 年Good read Steve. It focuses around what I think is one of the principles of successful CX which is employee experience being one of the drivers of customer experience. And, by bringing your employees in, you are breaking down the silos and exposing any barriers to success.