The Customer Experience ‘7 Year Itch’! A frank and honest assessment of the CX profession

As we approach the end of another calendar year, it is always appropriate for bloggers, writers, thought leaders and professionals in general, to reflect on what has passed, as well as what is to come in the future. As a prolific writer on the subject of Customer Experience, I feel as though every article I [...]

Customer Experience 2017 Reality Check – Evolution or Revolution?

This post is part of the Customer Experience Professionals Association’s Blog Carnival celebrating customer experience. It’s part of a broader celebration of Customer Experience Day 2017. Check out posts from other bloggers at the blog carnival. And learn more about CX Day at: http://cxday.org On the 3rd October 2017, the world will once again celebrate [...]

What does it really mean to be a Customer Experience Professional?

This post is part of the Customer Experience Professionals Association’s Blog Carnival celebrating customer experience. It’s part of a broader celebration of Customer Experience Day 2017. Check out posts from other bloggers at the blog carnival. And learn more about CX Day at: http://cxday.org Last week I had the honour of being a judge at [...]

By |2017-10-02T12:46:10+01:00October 2nd, 2017|CX Leadership, CX Professionals|2 Comments

Inspiration, Dedication, Perspiration – welcome to the mind of the Customer Experience Professional!

  Last week I was afforded the undeniable pleasure of spending two whole days with Diane Magers, CEO of the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA). A career Customer Experience (CX) Professional, Diane recently spent three years with responsibility for the 'Office of the Customer and Customer Experience Strategy' at telco giant, AT&T. One passionate CX Professional [...]

By |2017-03-13T10:49:23+00:00March 13th, 2017|CX Leadership, CX Professionals|1 Comment

CX = V! Customer Experience is not a job… it’s a vocation!

A few days ago I published an interview I recently conducted with a company called ReachForce. The very first question they asked me was "How did you become so passionate about customer experience management?". It is a question that I do not recall ever being asked before. My response was as follows: In reality, I think [...]

By |2016-04-06T05:09:38+01:00April 6th, 2016|CX Professionals|4 Comments

CX makes the world go around! Why customer experience is a global challenge

This article was originally written for my exclusive column on mycustomer.com - a hugely valuable and rich resource of information, expertise and inspiration for CX Professionals. You can find the original article here. I want to start my inaugural exclusive column for MyCustomer by stating how very proud I am to call myself a customer experience [...]

By |2016-02-03T11:21:33+00:00February 3rd, 2016|CX Professionals, People|0 Comments

Customer Experience – Fact or Fiction?

Over the last few years, many experienced business people all over the world have been working hard to create, nurture and develop a brand new profession. Whilst organisations have always delivered experiences, it is only now that most are starting to recognise the importance of them. However…there is usually one of those…there are still A [...]

By |2016-01-15T12:14:21+00:00January 15th, 2016|CX Professionals, Uncategorized|3 Comments

Customer Experience Design: 3 essential (design) skills for creating a great customer experience

  One of the six competencies required in the armory of all Customer Experience Professionals is defined by the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) as 'Experience Improvement & Design'. To become a Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP), you will need to have knowledge of the following: Design thinking and customer co-creation approaches Process improvement methodologies [...]

Transformational Leadership – the key to unlocking the competencies of Customer Experience Professionals

If you have followed my writing for a while, you will be very much aware that I am very proud and passionate Customer Experience Professional (CXP). One of a growing number of ‘specialists’ in the newly recognised professional field, this group of skilled, experienced practitioners is growing in number on a weekly basis. Over the [...]

Leveraging the soft and fluffy: how important are soft skills in delivering Customer Experiences?

Yesterday I had the enormous pleasure of co-chairing the first ever Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) Members Insight Exchange to be held outside of the US. The gathering of Customer Experience Professionals (CXPs) from across Europe was as inspiring an occasion as I hoped it would be. I have always said that when you put [...]

By |2015-04-13T15:15:48+01:00February 11th, 2015|CX Professionals, People|3 Comments
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