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Step #5 – New Article – Customer Obsession:

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And for now, review this:

Your definition of Customer Experience is/may be wrong (3-minute video) http://bit.ly/CXDefined

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It’s been an honour and privilege to participate and attend the ACX-M course, It was an eye-opener and quite a revelation for me, I became conscious of these important concepts and aspects of customer experience, Thank you for showing us the way.
Product Specialist at Laerdal Medical, India

Thank you Steve for the high quality & insightful training you delivered
Your innovative approach, critical thinking & up to date case studies facilitated this achievement 👍
Muath Al-Azzam, Principal Services & Operations Specialist at Dubai Municipality

I have to say, every day since I left Denver, I have been able to apply some bit of learning that I got during the ACXM event into not only my job, but my personal life as well. Thank you so much for everything that you’ve done to advance the field of customer experience!
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Edwin De Lange, South Africa

Thanks again for four great and inspiring days.
Christian Becker, Germany

It’s been great training with lots of new tools that we will be able to implement soon I hope. Super interesting information, I am looking forward to reading your book as well. I really appreciated your energy and enthusiasm throughout the training.
Silvia Fernandez Calvo, Spain

Let me take this opportunity to thank Mr. Steve. Your teachings are timeless and they stick perfectly and forever in our minds. We shall never forget you wherever we find ourselves on this planet. Thank you so much, Steve 🙏
Benignus Otmar, Tanzania

Thank you, the experience was enlightening, empowering, educating, encouraging, and engaging.
Natasha Doren, South Africa

Thank you, Steve, I have never enjoyed anything more than the CX course, The weight of knowledge I gained and the enlightenment that I got is indescribable.
Reem Elsadig, Sudan

Thanks, Steve for such an excellent program, the dedicated manner you use to share with us your wonderful knowledge and wisdom in CX, and the time to respond to all our questions! God bless you, thanks a lot!
Yanese Angeles, Dominican Republic

You started me out on this journey my friend. Thanks for letting me live out my passion!
Molly Redenbaugh, Iowa, United States

Thank you! It’s been an amazing journey and you have been a great mentor.
It was an honor taking your class, I am now a confident CPP Master🙏🏾
Masele Masudi Msita, Tanzania

Thank you Steve for your high-quality wonderful Master. I thought the course was brilliant. Thank you for everything.
Ashraf Mohamed, Philadelphia, USA

Thanks again, Steve. Not only have you been a fantastic mentor to me but you have taught me how to mentor others. Thanks for being so supportive and getting me through.
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Another fantastic learning, personal and professional development experience with you!
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Do you want to embrace advanced Customer Centric thinking and become Outside-In?

How You Can become ‘Outside-In’… https://bit.ly/WhyOutsideIn

Start here and follow these simple steps:

Step #1 – Get The Book: Outside-In The Secret *FREE* | https://bit.ly/OI2021now

Step #2 – Get the Software (FREE):

Step #3 – Connect With The Community:

Step #4 – Keep Pace with Change:

Recent Interview | http://bit.ly/STInnovation

Step #5 – New Article – Customer Obsession:

LinkedIn (3 minute read) | https://lnkd.in/dHeCJhN

And for now, review this:

Your definition of Customer Experience is/may be wrong (3-minute video) http://bit.ly/CXDefined

🏭 Industrial Era Outputs To Successful Outcomes – it’s Not Rocket Science! 🚀

You may have seen the recent posts discussing the difference between inside-out (industrial era) and Outside-In (Customer Age) thinking and practice. At the heart of the difference is the contrast between Outputs and Outcomes.

In the Industrial Age Outputs were king in the form of cars made, factories built, pizzas delivered, and so on. It was simply good enough to improve efficiency and productivity to deliver success. Not so in the Customer Age where Outcomes delivered has become the thing.

It really has become a differentiator between those who are succeeding, despite the pandemic, and those who are struggling.

Since I wrote the book ‘Outside-In The Secret’ in 2010 I have had so many conversations at all levels in global companies describing the huge difference in this mindset of delivering successful business and customer outcomes in contrast to old industrial age outputs.

Unfortunately people who should know better are still confused. In this article we will:

Define the seismic difference between Outputs and Outcomes
Provide recent examples
Share useful resources

Let’s start with definitions:

An Output is what we produce, what we make.
Say a completed car.

A Business Outcome is a result of what we make. In the car example, it would be Revenue.

But wait, in the Customer Age there’s more…

A Customer Outcome is what we deliver for the Customer. For the new purchase, it could be Joy at buying the nice bright shiny new car.

The problem and the confusion.

Most businesses have inherited a legacy of measurement systems focused on outputs. So say for instance in a customer contact center we would have metrics like calls handled, abandoned calls, average handle times, first-time response, customer satisfaction stats, net promoter scores, and so on. But these are all output measures.

Another example might be in the Program Management Office where measures may include things like the number of projects underway, the progress against budgets, and achievement of the deliverables.

*Outputs should be explicitly connected to Business and Successful Customer Outcomes*

Now here’s the rub. If you connect the achievement of these outputs with rewards systems you will potentially fail big time. And if in the contact center people aren’t caring about the outcomes (the results of the outputs) we might get really good at doing dumb things. In the Program Office if the deliverables aren’t aligned with Successful Customer Outcomes we may become really efficient at delivering the wrong things.

And another thing people familiar with outputs often argue the case that Outcomes are less quantifiable. Not so. Business Outcomes include things like Revenue, Cost Optimization, Service Delivery, Effective compliance, and so on. You can’t get any more quantifiable than that. Now with Successful Customer Outcomes, we may have a description of what that feels like – BMW’s ‘Joy’ for instance or Hallmark Cards ‘Expression’.

Connecting the Dots
Over the last two decades, a model has emerged that literally links Outputs to Outcomes. There is a hierarchy that connects Tasks to Activities to Outputs to Business Outcomes and ultimately Successful Customer Outcomes.

We will review that model and thinking in the next article.

For now look at your metrics. Are your measures of success outputs or outcomes?

Do you want to embrace advanced Customer Centric thinking and become Outside-In?

How You Can become ‘Outside-In’… https://bit.ly/WhyOutsideIn

Start here and follow these simple steps:

Step #1 – Get The Book: Outside-In The Secret *FREE* | https://bit.ly/OI2021now

Step #2 – Get the Software (FREE):

Step #3 – Connect With The Community:

Step #4 – Keep Pace with Change:

Recent Interview | http://bit.ly/STInnovation

Step #5 – New Article – Customer Obsession:

LinkedIn (3 minute read) | https://lnkd.in/dHeCJhN

And for now, review this:

Your definition of Customer Experience is/may be wrong (3-minute video) http://bit.ly/CXDefined

Results-Oriented Communications are Now Emerging.

Results-Oriented Communications Are Now Emerging

Jim Sinur says
“It is becoming painfully evident that traditional communication channels are just not making the grade in these days of group innovation and fast-moving change.

Organizations are dealing with communication challenges that are accelerating in today’s demanding world.

If you have ever had to manage, influence, guide, or participate in or with groups of various people inside or outside your organization, you know how severe communication issues can be.

These issues can only be solved by communications focused on results while all participating can be moving towards results in synchronization. The shift from messages only to include pertinent data tracked to results is the best way to find the straightest line to desired outcomes….” continue at … https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jimsinur_results-oriented-communications-are-now-emerging-activity-6820707535306276864-cYXQ

Do you want to embrace advanced Customer Centric thinking and become Outside-In?

How You Can become ‘Outside-In’… https://bit.ly/WhyOutsideIn

Start here and follow these simple steps:

Step #1 – Get The Book: Outside-In The Secret *FREE* | https://bit.ly/OI2021now

Step #2 – Get the Software (FREE):

Step #3 – Connect With The Community:

Step #4 – Keep Pace with Change:

Recent Interview | http://bit.ly/STInnovation

Step #5 – New Article – Customer Obsession:

LinkedIn (3 minute read) | https://lnkd.in/dHeCJhN

And for now, review this:

Your definition of Customer Experience is/may be wrong (3-minute video) http://bit.ly/CXDefined

5 Steps to Being the Richest guy on Planet Earth 🌏

How did Jeff Bezos do it? Another ‘start in the garage’ superpower? In this short interview, Jeff Bezos shares his wisdom as he prepares to rocket off to new pastures (well new orbits).

Download the Transcript: https://bit.ly/JeffBezos5Things

Do you want to embrace advanced Customer Centric thinking and become Outside-In?

How You Can become ‘Outside-In’… https://bit.ly/WhyOutsideIn

Start here and follow these simple steps:

Step #1 – Get The Book: Outside-In The Secret *FREE* | https://bit.ly/OI2021now

Step #2 – Get the Software (FREE):

Step #3 – Connect With The Community:

Step #4 – Keep Pace with Change:

Recent Interview | http://bit.ly/STInnovation

Step #5 – New Article – Customer Obsession:

LinkedIn (3 minute read) | https://lnkd.in/dHeCJhN

And for now, review this:

Your definition of Customer Experience is/may be wrong (3-minute video) http://bit.ly/CXDefined

Is Your Call Centre killing Great Customer Experiences? (Part 2 of 3)

Contact center metrics may be crippling you

Part Two. In Part One we reviewed how poor metrics drive bad behaviours. Lets dig deeper with a typical scenario…

And if you think this experience is unusual grab a coffee and google ‘poor customer experiences’.

Leadership Delusion

The leadership team can talk until they are blue in the face about customer centricity but if they insist on metrics designed for running factories everyone suffers. Here’s another typical conversation:

In all three instances the customer did not achieve a Successful Outcome.
In fact there is now more effort required by the customer, and also more cost and time to be incurred for the organisation if the customer does follow through. If the customer doesn’t bother that is more potential revenue lost.

So how does this organisation look to the browsing customer?
Pretty awful to say the least.

We know why this is so. Organisations like this are focused on measuring Outputs, rather than measures of Successful Customer Outcomes. If it is so obvious why is it so many persist in this Failure-Demand cycle?

Because they are measuring the wrong things.
And guess what? Yes, they will have automated those measurements and put them on fancy management dashboards so everyone can feel happy. Except the customer of course. But what does that matter?

In Part Three – a big reveal. A couple of techniques that will help shape Successful Customer Outcomes brought to you from companies like Amazon, Zara, Zappos and Emirates.

Now, please remember if you pay people to do dumb stuff they will get really smart at it.

Join our upcoming Coaching and Accreditation sessions online, LIVE & Interactive

Do you want to embrace advanced Customer Centric thinking and become Outside-In?

How You Can become ‘Outside-In’… https://bit.ly/WhyOutsideIn

Start here and follow these simple steps:

Step #1 – Get The Book: Outside-In The Secret *FREE* | https://bit.ly/OI2021now

Step #2 – Get the Software (FREE):

Step #3 – Connect With The Community:

Step #4 – Keep Pace with Change:

Recent Interview | http://bit.ly/STInnovation

Step #5 – New Article – Customer Obsession:

LinkedIn (3 minute read) | https://lnkd.in/dHeCJhN

And for now, review this:

Your definition of Customer Experience is/may be wrong (3-minute video) http://bit.ly/CXDefined

The Crazy Secret of the Worlds Top Five…

Hey Hey!

I just wanted to reach out, so you don’t miss out on this limited time offer on my new book Outside-In The Secret of the 21^st c. leading companies.

You might be thinking, what is Outside-In?

To sum it up, ‘Outside-In The Secret’ reveals the fundamental difference between the top-performing companies and the failing also-rans. It is a massive shift in perspective that revolutionizes work forever.

The insights shared are based on my work and research with companies like BMW, Emirates, Zara, Zappos, and Amazon over the last two decades.

But hey, don’t just hear it from me…

So, I have codified the learning and the ‘Secret’ approaches, tips, tricks, and hacks to make them accessible to all. Initially published in 2010 and it is now wholly updated as Edition 10!

My colleague and BP Group co-founder says this…

Why You Should Read Outside-In The Secret

You may be wondering why you should invest your precious time reading this book. With all the pressures of the current business climate, why will this investment be worthwhile?

I’d like you for a moment to think of ‘high jumping.’ This is a sport that has been pursued actively from the Ancient Greeks in the original Olympics to modern times. And for nearly 3,000 years, people jumped using similar techniques. Then an innovator, Dick Fosbery, thought of a new approach that was incredibly simple and yet at the same time delivered ‘breakthrough performance’ levels enabling him to win the gold medal in the 1968 Olympic high jump bar. He leaped over the bar backward, overturning thousands of years of ‘best practice.’

So I would like you to give yourself permission to consider that you, too, can achieve ‘breakthrough performance’ in your own business endeavors. In this book, ‘Outside-In,’ Steve Towers will introduce you to some remarkable concepts that at first seem simple and obvious, and yet when applied, will allow you to win the gold medal in your own field of business.
John Corr, Director, Alix Partners, London, England.

And Guess What? Do you want something special?

It is FREE for a short period of time…

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First — go to this website and let him know where to ship it to (you’ll have to pay a tiny shipping fee):

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This book will be sold retail in 2021 at $30, but you can get it FREE now.

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But you MUST get your copy of this book now. The last time I made an offer like this, I ran out of books within a week ….

So go get your copy now:

To Your Success!

P.S. — this book is the real deal. James Dodkins said that it’s: “the map that will allow you to turn your specialized knowledge, talents, and abilities coupled with this new perspective into a way of working that transforms you and your company! This is one of the shortcuts of the New Stellar Performers.” — and TODAY, you can get it for free, right here: