by Annette Franz | Mar 15, 2023 | closed-loop process, customer feedback, data, employee effort, employee experience, Uncategorized, voice of customer
Customer expectations are higher than ever, but one place those expectations haven’t changed is when it comes to their feedback. They want you to listen; they want to be heard; and they want to be assured that action will be taken on their feedback. Critical to...
by Annette Franz | Jul 20, 2022 | collaboration, communication, culture, employee effort, employee experience, employee feedback, Uncategorized
I originally wrote today’s post for Wix Answers. It appeared on their site on August 3, 2021. In March and April of 2020, when the pandemic hit hard and businesses were forced to close their doors and send employees home, the impact on contact centers was great. They...
by Annette Franz | Apr 28, 2021 | customer effort, customer experience, employee effort, ROI, Uncategorized
I originally wrote today’s post for GetFeedback. It appeared on their site on February 27, 2020. As a follow on to the post, Four Actions to Take on Customer Effort Feedback, you’re likely going to need to prove the ROI of reducing customer effort. In this post,...
by Annette Franz | Feb 17, 2021 | automation, customer effort, customer experience, employee effort, employee experience, employee productivity, Uncategorized
Back in late 2015, I wrote an article titled Work Harder or Smarter? in which I offered up some ways to help employees work more efficiently – ultimately, to work smarter. The last item on the list was automation. Fast forward five plus years, and automation is...
by Annette Franz | Nov 26, 2019 | customer effort, customer service, customer understanding, employee effort, journey map, journey mapping, keynote speaker, service blueprint, speakers, Uncategorized, understanding
I’m excited to be a keynote speaker at CCW Nashville in January. As part of our partnership, I am once again sharing some of the content created by my fellow event speakers and offered on the CCW website. In today’s post, I’m sharing a few tidbits...
by Annette Franz | Sep 18, 2019 | customer expectations, customer experience, customer service, employee effort, employee experience, employee happiness, empower employees, frontline employees, Uncategorized
As a customer experience professional, you focus a lot on the customer. You put the customer on a pedestal. You put the customer front and center. And rightly so; without customers, you have no business. But you have to remember this: in order to deliberately design a...
