by Annette Franz | Oct 8, 2019 | candidate experience, core values, culture, employee experience, Uncategorized, workplace
Is hiring for culture fit a good idea? In the last several weeks, I’ve seen a couple articles – in reputable publications like Harvard Business Review and The Wall Street Journal – about the “dangers of hiring for culture fit.” They cited...
by Annette Franz | Oct 2, 2019 | customer experience, customer understanding, customer-centric, customer-centric culture, employee experience, employee-centric, employees, people-centric, Uncategorized
My new book is ultimately about how to develop a customer-centric culture by bringing the customer and her voice into the organization. I was honored to recently join Shep Hyken on his Amazing Business Radio podcast to talk about my book. It was my third time on the...
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...
by Annette Franz | Sep 11, 2019 | culture, customer experience, customer-centric, customer-centric culture, employee experience, leadership
Today’s post originally appeared in Forbes on December 21, 2018. How can companies ensure that they are ready to put the customer at the center of all they do? Customer-centric companies put the customer at the center of all they do; they ensure that they make...
by Annette Franz | Aug 28, 2019 | chief customer officer, customer expectations, customer experience, employee experience, employees, purpose, Uncategorized
It all starts with CEO commitment. Customer experience professionals got an early Christmas present last week in the form of a revised statement on the “purpose of a corporation.” Well, it was a revision for the CEOs at the Business Roundtable, but many of...
by Annette Franz | Aug 21, 2019 | core values, culture, employee experience, leadership, Uncategorized, values
I write about organizational culture and core values quite often. One of my most recent articles on this topic was about whether or not employees believe in their companies’ core values. In that post, I shared this statistic from Gallup: only 23% of U.S....
