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Becoming a customer-centric organization doesn’t mean your employees have to take a backseat. When you involve the entire organization in your business and digital transformation goals, everyone can benefit. Delivering customer-centric experiences should be a culture-wide initiative, says Denise Lee Yohn of the Harvard Business Review.
Research from the Temkin Group reveals that employee engagement and customer experience go hand in hand. Companies with above-average customer experiences boast 1.5 times more engaged employees than companies that don’t focus on achieving a customer-centric mindset.
Greater Customer-Centricity Starts from Within
Here are five ways to get your employees excited and involved in creating a customer-centric experience:
Host brainstorm sessions
Bring departments together to discuss possible ways to achieve a more customer-centric approach to your overall business strategy. Ideally, you want them to come up with ideas for putting the customer first that will tie into their own work.
Explain how employees’ contributions directly support the organization’s goals of becoming more customer-centric. For employees to buy into this culture adjustment, your leaders and middle managers will need to completely commit to regular reinforcement of the initiative.
Encourage direct interactions with customers
Sure, your front-line employees interact with customers on a daily basis and can understand their pain points. But what about your accounting department and administrative staff?
To ensure everyone understands the crucial role they can play, arrange for all employees to have a chance to sit in on sales calls, attend customer visits and participate in ride-alongs or industry conferences alongside customers. Make sure your employees who directly interact with customers know they have the space and tools to resolve customer issues on the spot. Encourage employees to think beyond the typical company protocol to deliver above-and-beyond solutions.
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