Our favourite CX Rockstar James Dodkins tells you about the launch of the new program…
And you can register here:
DUBAI – ICELAND – BRATISLAVA
ACX Specialist Launches
Author: steve.towers@bpgroup.org
Customer Centricity Awards North America
I am proud to officially announce my participation as one of the judges at the “North American Customer Centricity Awards” organised by Arcet Global.
Hosted in Dallas, Texas, this event showcases the best in customer experience and leadership across North America. Sharing ‘next’ practice, case studies and learning from each other’s success across a wide range of sectors.
I will be joining several senior judges and very much excited and looking forward to assessing the submissions from some of the worlds leading customer-centric companies.
https://customercentricityawards.com/awards/
#judge #awards #innovation #customerexperience #ARCETGlobal #customercentricity #dallas #texas
Releasing your full potential
Life is not in compartments. Our personal lives flow into our work lives and affect everything we think, feel and do. We need blends in our life, approaches which are holistic and help us progress through challenging times as well as expand our own personal growth and awareness.
That got me to formally offer up a service which is more than just business or life coaching.
If you need help business and personal, emotional or whatever let’s chat with a no-obligation discussion.
That’s what EAGLEMELD* is all about.
Your needs as they are now and how you wish to develop over these coming times. My ethos is to focus on your specific needs/challenges e.g. people or things and ambitions and help you develop the immediate techniques and far sight to see where you want to go and achieve those objectives joyously.
Collins English Dictionary:
* A meld of things is a mixture or combination of them that is useful or pleasant
I have been mentoring folks for more than twenty years and drawing on my array of business and life experience. Our session will be focussed specifically on your unique situation and we may apply a range of techniques and approaches to help achieve your objectives.
My qualifications for helping include:
Business
A 40-year business career with leading companies around the planet.
Awards in Customer Service, Customer Experience, Lifetime Achievement, Business Process Management and Enterprise Architecture.
Best selling book author (eight books).
Lifeskills
More than 25 years of therapeutic experience.
Accreditations as a Master Hypnotist, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Master Neuro-Linguistic Practitioner, Reiki Master and latterly Coming to Wholeness Practitioner.
Holistic
Integration of several approaches aligned to YOUR needs.
What is your North Star? We will discover that and help you to accomplish all you desire.
If you need guidance in business and personal relationships, emotional or whatever just give me a no-obligation call.
Let’s Fly together!
30 Minute exploration
Thirty-minute no obligation discussion –
You can connect and choose on your Calendar here. https://calendly.com/eaglemeld/30mins
60 Minute, one session
One-off session Just the One Session –USD $500
This is great for the ‘one and done’ fix it experience
https://calendly.com/eaglemeld/just-the-one-sessionSix sessions program
6 sessions x 60 Minutes
Six sessions over an agreed period-of-time – USD $2,800
(First full session FREE)
https://calendly.com/eaglemeld/60min
I am very much looking forward to getting together with you!
All the Best,
Steve
Time to Upgrade your skills
It seems that the only consistent thing today is change. With that in mind, how are you keeping up with the seismic shifts in doing business?
We upgrade our homes, our cars and our lifestyles as a matter of course. When was the last time you upgraded YOU? No, I don’t mean a fancy new pair of shoes or those nice looking jeans what I am talking about is the way you think and do. At a fundamental level, we need to be able to lead change and enable those around us to embrace and welcome all aspects of this volatile world, which as I have already suggested isn’t going away anytime soon.
All things considered, that is what our coaching, mentoring and training programs are all about. Not only incorporating the latest innovations in business change but reframing the way you think.
The Experience Manager
In this last twelve months, the approaches we use have upgraded to include a new platform that redefines process and customer experience deployment and includes the capture, analysis, ideation and implementation of experiences from the front-line to the board room.
Now some may think they have done all the growth they need to do and rely on those traditional tools for the daily work. That is, however, the way of the dinosaur, almost waiting for the asteroid to strike and wishing they would survive its impact. We know what happened there.
So is time to refresh and retool?
If so there’s a series of courses from one-dayers to a week across the planet led by been there and done it mentors who spend the majority of their time helping organisations embrace this brave new world. Come and get the benefits of their latest learnings as we codify together, hands-on, the means for you to upgrade and retool.
Case studies are great, but…
I will be blunt (nothing new there then) I abhor the talking heads know it all theoretical claptrap courses where learning is stifled and it is a listen and do as I say dirge. Hence anyone who has experienced our programs will tell you how exciting, invigorating and enabling the hands-on learning is. Even to the extent of using your own challenges and working them through the sessions in association with teammates and colleagues. Yes, case studies help but how much better is fixing your own stuff and learning how to integrate the tools and techniques directly?
That underpins our programs, learning by doing.
In fact, the relationships you forge in the fires of embracing the CEMMethod will become a part of the new you on your return to the office.
Find out more…
We are running open courses across the planet in 116 countries with over 100,000 professionals now qualified. Our inhouse courses, where we customise the material to your industry and current dramas, are also popular and we are proud to talk of the thousands of companies who have embraced the learnings. Either way, open or inhouse, you will have a fantastic time so have a look, delve a bit, and sign-up soon.
Your upgrade is waiting!
| CPP Master | Johannesburg | October 7 – 10 |
| ACX Specialist | Manchester | October 14 – 16 |
| CPP Master | Detroit | November 4 – 7 |
| ACX Master | Johannesburg | November 11 – 14 |
| ACX/CPP Champion | Johannesburg | November 25 – 28 |
| CPP Master | Cape Town | December 2 – 5 |
| CPP Champion | Washington DC | December 16 – 18 |
| INHOUSE | By Request | Your choice |
Is your Customer Experience initiative working for you?
CX Obsessed or just playing at it?
Upskill you or your team find out more to learn how others have become successful with a Customer Obsession strategy
CX is a FAD
I think we should all pay attention to this. You know #CX is in trouble when you need to explain it over, and over again!
Join us soon at an event in a City near you!
| CPP Master | Joburg | Oct 7-10 | https://joburg44thcppmasters.eventbrite.com |
| ACX Specialist | Manchester, UK | Oct 14-16 | http://bit.ly/JamesMan |
| CPP Master | Detroit, US | Nov 4-7 | https://detroit_cppmasters_2019.eventbrite.com |
| ACX Master | Joburg, SA | Nov 11-14 | https://joburgacxm.eventbrite.com |
| ACX/CPP Champ | Joburg, SA | Nov 25-28 | https://joburgchamps.eventbrite.com |
| CPP Master | Cape Town, SA | Dec 2-5 | http://bit.ly/CapeTownMasters |
| CPP Champions | Washington DC, US | Dec 16-18 | https://championsindc.eventbrite.com |
What do you think? Fad, fantasy or Fact?
Let me know…
Customer Obsession v. Customer Focused
Jeff Bezos encourages us to become Customer Obsessed (see video snippet) however Netflix’s journey to CX Obsession is less well known.
Here is an extract from a great article (link below):
From Gibson Biddle, former VP at Netflix and CPO at Chegg
In 2005, as I joined Netflix as VP of Product, I asked Reed Hastings, the CEO, what he hoped his legacy would be. His answer: “Consumer science.” He explained, “Leaders like Steve Jobs have a sense of style and what customers seek, but I don’t. We need consumer science to get there.”
Reed’s aspiration was that the Netflix team would discover what delights customers through the scientific process. Forming hypotheses through existing data, qualitative, and surveys, and then A/B testing these ideas to see what works. His vision was that product leaders at Netflix would develop remarkable consumer insight, fueled by results and learning from thousands of experiments.
During my time at Netflix, and later at my next startup, Chegg, I learned to move from customer focus to customer obsession. In doing so embraced Reed’s notion of consumer science. Here’s how I think about the transition:
The full article here is great testimony to moving away from the soft and fluffy version of Customer Experience.
Let’s get more scientific about Customer Experience.
Contact Gibson here.
Is your Customer Experience initiative working for you?
CX Obsessed or just playing at it?
Upskill you or your team find out more to learn how others have become successful with a Customer Obsession strategy
Steve Towers Masterclass comes to Denver
Online pre and post Masterclass meets
I will be in the room for you every step of the way. Whether you signup for the one or two day option there is a preliminary video and optional signup Zoom meeting. Post-session we schedule an online meet to review progress and answer questions.
How learning by doing with real case studies is central to the Masterclass
With genuine case studies you will apply your own challenges in the session to actually take away not just the HOW but the WHAT you do.
Calling wannabe CPP Masters™ in Detroit
Everyone needs to keep pace with the changes happening in and around business these days. Gone are the times when attending a talking heads training course was good enough when the need is to return to work with a proven and tested approach that simply works immediately.
That is what the Certified Process Professional Masters (CPP-Master™) program is all about. With over 100,000 qualified professionals across 118 countries and established across 90% of the fortune 400 companies this training has a great pedigree. Review the detail for the upcoming Detroit session: https://detroit_cppmasters_2019.eventbrite.com
Here’s a nice testimonial:
Review the program detail for the upcoming session: https://detroit_cppmasters_2019.eventbrite.com
or go ahead and buy your tickets here…
CEMMethod™
www.cemmethod.com
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The Need for Experience Management
The rules today incent organizations to pay people for doing tasks and activities. We have to change that.
If we incent people to achieve Successful Outcomes then we win for the employees, customer, shareholders, in fact, everyone except the competitors! This is what The Experience Manager enables.
Access The Experience Manager:
The worlds first Outside-in platform.
https://www.theexperiencemanager.com
Join us at an upcoming workshop/session: https://www.bpgroup.org/training.html
Outside-In The Secret (book on this theme from 2010)
www.outsideinthesecret.com
CEMMethod™
www.cemmethod.com
Connect with me on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevetowers/
The pioneer of all things Outside-In?
Who started #customerexperience ? Well, there has always been a customer experience, however, it is only in the last 20 years that companies have realized the need to get scientific about shaping and innovating #CX. Who was the pioneer that did that first? And in doing so shifted the emphasis from Industrial Age thinking to Outside-In practice. Let’s jump into the time machine and rediscover Steve Jobs back in 1997.
Moving from Product to Customer-Centric
Back then it wasn’t understood that designing Customer Experiences and delivering Successful Customer Outcomes went way beyond being product-centric. Steve Jobs anticipated this shift towards customer-centricity, and evolved Apples approach to rapidly shift to Outside-In strategy and operations.
Many of the concepts we accept, such as defining the customer experience from the customers perspective, and not the organizations, were developed in the cauldrons of Apple mountain. In fact, one of the key techniques within the CEMMethod™ was initially referred to as the ‘Apple Innovation Approach’.
Why so many still get it wrong
Here’s a great mini video explaining the difference in viewpoint Inside-Out v. Outside-In.
James Dodkins aka CX Rockstar has many similar takes over at rockstar.cx
We saw that at work in Outside-In design of products like the original iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Now taken for granted the last century was a mish mesh of competing chunks of technology (think the early MP3 players) that often required an MSc to understand the menu system and driver updates.
It isn’t what they want, it is what they NEED
Nowadays the major consumer product companies understand the requirement to articulates the needs of customers, and only then design products that meet those needs. That is Outside-In in action.
You would be right in saying he was the pioneer of Outside-In.
If you would like to dig deeper I talked about the difference in approaches of Industrial Age v. Customer Age/Outside-In in this article.
This item has caused quite a stir over at LinkedIn, you can join that discussion here.