by Annette Franz | Jun 21, 2023 | customer expectations, customer experience, employee expectations, employee experience, leadership, servant leadership, Uncategorized
Today I’m pleased to share a guest post by Frank Sonnenberg. It’s an excerpt from his latest book, Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others. If you want to WOW someone, do something unexpected rather than ordinary. After all,...
by Annette Franz | Jun 22, 2022 | employee engagement, employee experience, employee retention, leadership, servant leadership, truly human leadership, Uncategorized
I’ve written many times about the importance of the employee experience, both on its own and in connection with the customer experience. We cannot talk about (and do something about) the employee experience enough these days. It’s a mess. (Consider this:...
by Annette Franz | Feb 2, 2022 | common sense, leadership, servant leadership, trust, Uncategorized
The title of this blog post is the title of one of the last chapters in Randy Conley’s and Ken Blanchard’s new book, published this week and available on Amazon: Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust. It summarizes...
by Annette Franz | Nov 4, 2020 | core values, customer experience, customer-centric, customer-centric culture, employee experience, leadership, servant leadership, Uncategorized
I originally wrote today’s post for Shep Hyken’s blog. It appeared on his site on May 29, 2020. There’s a lot of talk about customer-centricity and customer-centric organizations, but what does that really mean? Sadly, many people think that it’s all about...
by Annette Franz | Mar 11, 2020 | employee experience, leadership, servant leadership, truly human leadership, Uncategorized
A few months ago, I wrote a detailed post about employee experience called What Exactly is Employee Experience? In that post, I shared: It’s not just about the impact on the customer experience – it’s also about the impact on employees. It’s about treating them like...
by Annette Franz | May 29, 2019 | core values, culture, customer experience, employee experience, leadership, mission, purpose, servant leadership, truly human leadership, vision
This is a modified version of a post I originally wrote for CallidusCloud. It appeared on their blog on June 14, 2018. If you want to move beyond cosmetic changes and lip service to real changes in both the employee experience and the customer experience, the first...
