What’s Holding Companies Back?
The DiJulius Group Welcomes Lisa Duran, CXCDue to our rapid growth in Customer Experience consulting, The DiJulius Group (TDG) has added another Customer Experience Consultant, Lisa Duran.
*The following is written by Lisa Duran, CXC The Hidden Obstacle Holding Companies Back From Being World-Class We’ve seen a lot of data that proves how great customer experience impacts revenue. According to the Customer Experience Index 200 (CEI) analyzing 2007 to the present, “From 2007-present, the top 200 customer service companies have outperformed the S&P 500 Index by generating a 10.7% annualized rate of return.” Clearly a case for creating a customer centric culture, but creating a culture where the customer experience is king remains a challenge in most companies. But why? |
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Most companies and customer experience consultants believe that the formula for creating a customer centric culture is as follows: All of the points in the formula are valuable and critical to the success of creating a customer experience culture.
Early in my years as a Customer Experience Consultant, I believed the same thing. I spent my first couple of years fine tuning the formula and getting buy in. I worked hard to get the return on investment for the training and although they yielded results, they were not sustainable. I had to find out why. What was missing? I surveyed over 400 participants from seminars I’ve taught in different industries about what was keeping them from significant long-term change. Upon reading the results, it became very clear what the missing link was. 73% of respondents stated there were process hurdles that were leading to service defects. The participants in the survey communicated that they loved the seminars, learned communications skills, developed a sense of purpose in what they did, and bought into changing the way they thought about serving their customer. The problem was they went back to their respective jobs where they spent a good portion of their time in inefficient systems allowing them no margin to implement what they had just enthusiastically bought into. It is a complete waste of time, if we do not address processes that lead to service defects “A bad system will beat a good person every time,” W. Edwards Deming. As pointed out in the April 2016 issue of Harvard Business Review’s article, Culture is not the Culprit, “Culture isn’t something you fix. Rather cultural change is what you get after you’ve put new processes or structures in place to tackle tough business challenges like reworking an outdated strategy or business model. The culture evolves as you do that important work.” You might be thinking, “But wait, I lead customer experience, not operations. Shouldn’t that be left to the person heading up operations in a company?” NO! It was exactly what I should have been diving into earlier in my consulting career. Helping my clients identify and solve deficiencies was critical to the success of the program. So, I started reading and researching the best ways to do this. It was at that time four years ago that I signed myself up for the Customer eXperience Executive Academy to learn from The DiJulius Group how they helped companies create a Customer Service Revolution. I’ll never forget the day that John DiJulius and his team introduced me to the Customer Experience Cycle (CEC). The CEC is all the stages of interaction your customers have with your company. The goal is to identify and solve the following:
BINGO! It was EXACTLY what I was looking for. Have you ever learned something that you knew was going to create dramatic change? This was one of those times for me. I couldn’t wait to implement the CEC with my consulting clients because I knew without a doubt that this was exactly what was needed to produce an increase in revenue and have it be sustainable. The next 4 years leading to now have been an amazing journey. I have seen businesses grow exponentially in team and customer retention. I’ve had the honor of being a part of incredible growth in businesses by focusing on the right thing, the customer and the stages of their journey. Through using the CEC with every client, team members are re-ignited for their purpose. Through collaboration during the workshop, they finally felt that their opinions and ideas mattered. I’ve seen countless of processes be solved immediately, allowing margin to focus on the customer experience. It was the ONE thing that changed everything. I am honored to now be a part of the DiJulius Group, the team that changed the course of my career by training me in their methodologies; methodologies that work. I continue to live my dream of inspiring and equipping businesses to impact customers lives. Only now I get to do it with the group that set me on fire with the teaching from the Customer eXperience Executive Academy. If I have the honor of working with you and your team, expect that I will be relentless in perfecting the Customer Experience Cycle for your Remove The Word ‘Policy’ From Your Employees’ Vocabulary Watch this one-minute video of why your employees should never use the word ‘Policy’ with any customer. |
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