Walking the talk. Every world-class Customer service organization is world-class to work for. It takes world-class leadership to provide the passion, inspiration, and discipline to all employees.
How leading brands like Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, and Nestlé use this proven methodology to eliminate inconsistency, reduce customer churn, and build cultures competitors can’t copy. You’ve read the books. Attended the conferences. Highlighted the best practices. Your team is nodding along in agreement. But six months later, nothing has actually changed. Your customer experience is still… Read Full Article
How to build a customer experience strategy that creates competitive advantage through systems competitors can’t duplicate—featuring proven frameworks from companies like Starbucks, KeyBank, and Domino’s. You’ve seen it happen. A competitor launches a new app feature on Monday. By Friday, three others have rolled out something similar. Someone drops their prices, and suddenly everyone’s in… Read Full Article
Opportunity to Differentiate According to a Gallup Survey, 49% of Americans say customer service has gotten worse in the last year. Only 6% say it has improved. *CSRevolution Podcast Episode 236: How Can I Make Customer Experience A True Competitive Advantage In 2026? This Week’s Customer Experience Microlearning Watch and share this amazing 1-minute service… Read Full Article
How today’s top organizational challenge becomes your greatest competitive advantage According to recent research from Blanchard Companies, the #1 business challenge organizations face today is building leadership capabilities, surpassing concerns such as supporting agility (36%), boosting performance (31%), improving retention (23%), and managing the workforce impact of AI (21%). This confirms a truth many organizations… Read Full Article
“If you can be in a bad mood for no reason, you might as well be in a good mood for no reason,” –Alex Hormozi The Greatest Skill Any Person Can Develop I love this 30-second video clip by Alex Hormozi, in which he shares what he considers the greatest skill one can develop. I… Read Full Article
One of the Most Important New Books to Come Out Having three young adult sons and seeing how different and complicated their lives are compared to my life at the same age, I am really excited about this new book. My favorite podcaster, Scott Galloway, has just released a timely new book,Notes on Being a… Read Full Article
Customer Experience + AI “As AI gets more efficient and accessible, we will see its use skyrocket,turning it into a commodity.” –Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft Can an interaction with an AI be better than one with a human? Think about that. When I read this in a report titled “The Experience Gap: AI’s Imminent Impact on CX,”… Read Full Article
Chewy’s Legendary Above & Beyond Story Congratulations to the CXEA Class of 2025 We are thrilled to congratulate the following executives who just graduated from our Customer eXperience Executive Academy: Ty Smalstig, Director of Member Assistance at PSECU, Alicia Anderson, Human Resource and Talent Acquisition Business Partner Manager at PSECU, Steven Olson and Captain Teddy… Read Full Article
Great Employee Engagement Survey Question I love the following question to measure employee morale: On a scale of 1-10 (10 being the best), how do you feel on Friday at 6 pm? On a scale of 1-10 (10 being the best), how do you feel on Sunday at 6 pm? Obviously, it is unrealistic to… Read Full Article
The show Severance won 10 Emmys at the 2025 Emmy Awards. The concept of the wildly popular show Severance is builtaround a dystopian workplace experiment in which employees undergo a surgical procedure called “severance,” which splits their consciousness into two separate identities: “Innie,” the version of themselves that exists only at work and has no… Read Full Article
