Over the last five years, I have had the great pleasure of visiting the Gulf Region on several occasions. Even though I have never quite managed to turn my visits into vacations, I have always found the people I have met and the places I have seen, to be immensely welcoming, accommodating and interesting. From [...]
In my exclusive column for CustomerThink in October 2016, I shared my ‘top tips’ for creating the right culture to enable an organisation to become genuinely customer centric. Whilst the list of seven things is by no means exhaustive, in my experience, together they provide a remarkably solid foundation to embedding the right environment and [...]
New Years Resolutions. Three simple words - simple words that many people all around the world have uttered at some point in their lives! As we usher in a new year, it is the perfect occasion for everyone to consider what they could/should/need to do differently in the forthcoming days, weeks and months. I, like [...]
In my exclusive column for CustomerThink last month, I shared my “top tips” for creating the right culture to enable an organisation to become genuinely customer centric. Whilst the list of seven things is by no means exhaustive, in my experience, together they provide a remarkably solid foundation to embedding the right environment and supporting [...]
Thoughts on the role of HR in an integrated customer excellence strategy Steelcase, a leading designer of cutting edge office environments, invited me to a Cultural Roundtable. Steelcase has lots of research to show that well-designed workplaces can amplify the performance of people, teams and organisations, hence the eclectic mix of designers and human resource [...]
As anyone with young children will attest, the well-known TV character 'Bob the Builder' is best known for coining the phrase 'can we fix it?', followed by the cry of 'yes we can!!'. True to these words, Bob and his trusty sidekicks, Scoop, Roley and Dizzy (among others), do indeed fix things. So what (I hear you [...]
As a child growing up, no birthday party was complete without a rousing rendition of the Hokey Cokey. Also known as the 'Hokey Pokey' in some parts of the world, according to Wikipedia, it originates in a British folk dance, with variants attested as early as 1826. The song and accompanying dance peaked in popularity [...]
As customer experience has become increasingly recognised as a thing of tangibility, so has the need to adopt and embed the skills and competencies that make managing it (customer experience that is) a reality. Any ‘concept’ that becomes something requiring methodologies, approaches, tools and techniques, also requires the need for people to understand how to [...]
Ben Motteram (BM), Ian Golding (IG) and Karl Sharicz (KS) are three Customer Experience (CX) professionals living on three different continents, all members of the Customer Experience Professionals Association, (CXPA) and each possessing the passion and the tenacity to make a difference in the lives of people and businesses around the world through a disciplined approach [...]
Even the best specialists in their fields of work; the most experienced; the most decorated; will continuously look for ways to evolve their knowledge and learning. Often, a glaring sign of a leader who is unlikely to be able to successfully and sustainably lead their organisation, is the stark reality that the leader does not [...]
