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Category Archives: Best Practice
Homeworking and Social Media Best Practice with the CCMA.
May 16th 2017, location: The Brewery EC1 Members of the CCMA arrived to a surprisingly sunny London to enjoy the Q2 Seminar on Homeworking and Social Media best practice.
Posted in Analytics, Automated Customer Service, Best Practice, Candidate Experience, Chatbots, Contact Centre Industry, Customer Experience, customer insight, Customer Service Industry, Digital, Homeworking, Robotics, Self-Management, social media
Tagged ann-marie Stagg, Call Centre Management Association, CCMA, CCMA UK, Contact Centre Awards, Contact Centre Best Practice, Harveys Furniture, Ibot, Martin Kemp, NHS professionals, Plantronics, Social Media, The brewery, The Met Police, Tobi, UK National Contact Centre Awards 2017, Vodafone, Vodafone Chatbot
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‘Releasing Potential’ Customer Strategy and Planning 2017
It’s that time of year again and this year to Harrogate, home of the famous Betty’s Tea Rooms and Turkish Baths for the Customer Strategy and Planning conference from the Forum, held at the grandly named Majestic Hotel. Chris Rainsforth … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Analytics Recruitment, Awards, Best Practice, business intelligence, Business Planning, callcentrehelper, Contact Centre Industry, Customer Contact, Customer Strategy, Douglas Jackson, Resource Planning Industry, Robotics
Tagged Aegon, Albert Einstein, BT, Chris Rainsforth, Ember Services, FCA, Harrogate, HSBC, IFDS, Jonathan George, Legal and General, Mike Harvard, Nicola Callan, Phil Andrerson, Qstory, RAC, Richard Abdy., Shop Direct, Sky Bet, Staples, The English Spa, The Forum, The Majestic Hotel, Three Ireland, Uri Hasson
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Are Your Leaders Hiring the Right Person?
How confident are you, or your leaders, when it comes to hiring the right person for your business? Following a recent business survey, The Recruiting Times found that 55% of business leaders believe their lack of recruitment credentials, process, or … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics Recruitment, Behavioural Assessment Tools, Behavioural Profiling, Best Practice, Contact Centre Industry, Douglas Jackson, Employee Engagement, Executive Search, Hiring, Interviews, Leadership, Recruitment Agency, Retained Recruitment, Retained Search, Retention, Social Recruitment
Tagged Assessing the right candidate, Behavioural profiling recruitment tools, Best Recruitment solutions, Better Hiring, Better retention of new hires, douglas jackson recruitment, Douglas Jackson Search, Executive Search for Customer Experience, Executive Search for Customer Operations, Executive Search for Customer Service, Executive Search Tools, hiring better people, How to hire the right person, Mcquaig behavioural profiling, psychometric job evaluation, Recruitment Agency, recruitment assessment tools, Recruitment tools
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It’s Magic – The National Data Analytics & Insight Conference
Last week we were back at The National Data, Analytics & Insight Conference 2016, hosted by The Forum, which, once again proved to be a great success. The Forum gave an overview of where our industry is right now which … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Analytics Recruitment, Behavioural Assessment Tools, Behavioural Profiling, Best Practice, business intelligence, Business Planning, Contact Centre Industry, customer insight, financial services, Interviews, Recruitment, Reporting, Resource Planning Industry
Tagged Analytics, Anglian Water, Business Analytics, Business Inteligence, Christmas Party, Customer Experience, customer insight, Customer Intelligence, Data, Data Analytics, Environment Agency, Geoban, Magic, Management Information, Myers Briggs, Presentation of Data, Quality, Reporting, Resource Planning, Royal Sun alliance, Sainsburys Bank, Stakeholder Interactions, The Forum
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UK Customer Experience Awards 2016
Last week we were back at the Park Plaza, Westminster Bridge for the 2016 UK Customer Experience Awards. With one of the best views from a hotel lobby in London,(in our opinion), this event just gets bigger each year, with … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, Best Practice, Contact Centre Industry, Customer Contact, Customer Experience, Customer Experience ROI, customer service, Customer Service Industry, Customer Strategy, Customers, Growth of Customer Experience, Leadership
Tagged Affinity Water, British Gas, Close Brothers, customer centricity, customer experience awards, Customer Experience best practice, Direct Line, EPOS now, Financial Services Customer Experience, Findel Education, FM outsource, four Seasons Healthcare, HSS Hire, Insurance Customer Experience, Logistics Customer Experience, Microsoft, My Home Move, New Look, Now TV, OCADO, Old Mutual Wealth, Pelican Business Services, Reach Contact, Retail Customer Experience, RHP, Royal London, Scottish Water, SWR waste Management, Thames Water, TSB Customer Experience, UCAS, Utilities Customer Experience, vita student
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CCMA Seminar and UK National Contact Centre Awards 2016
Last week we headed to the CCMA Quarterly Seminar and UK National Contact Centre Awards at The Brewery in London in London. The Seminar featured a number of speakers from across the industry; first up was Richard Kenny, Head of … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics Recruitment, Automated Customer Service, Awards, Best Practice, business intelligence, Contact Centre Industry, Customer Contact, customer service, Customer Service Industry, Customers, Data, multi channel customer experience, Robotics, Social Customer Service, Speech Analytics
Tagged Awards, Awards best practice, Call Centre Management Association, CCMA, Contact Centre Seminar, Customer analytics, Customer Automation, customer contact, Customer Experience, Customer First, customer insight, Customer Service, Customer Strategy, Digital Customer Service, Endsleigh Insurance, Homeserve, Plantronics, Richard Kenny, Robotics, Self-Serve, UK National Contact Centre Awards, Verint, WebhelpUK
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Customer Strategy & Planning 2016 – All The World’s a Stage
This year, Customer Strategy and Planning headed to Stratford-upon-Avon on the weekend of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, so the conference was full of inspiration and quotes from one of our greatest ever writers. This year’s conference ‘Breakthrough … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics Recruitment, Awards, Best Practice, Business Planning, Contact Centre Industry, Customer Strategy, Customers, Digital Experience, Douglas Jackson, multi channel customer experience, omni-channel, Performance, Resource Planning Industry
Tagged Analytics, Autoglass, back to basics, Co-operative banking, Customer Experience, customer service simplicity, Customer Strategy and Planning 2016, dimension data, direct line group, Douglas Jackson, EE, Geoban, Innovation, Intercall, Luke Sykwalker, Motability, North East Ambulance Service, Red Funnell, Resource Planning, RS Components, RSA, Severn Trent Water, Shakespeare 400, Star Wars, Stratford Upon Avon, The Forum, The Method, voice of the Customer
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Winning with Customer Experience 2016
A few weeks ago I headed to London to attend the Winning with Customer Experience conference. On arriving at the American Square Conference Centre the venue was impressive and I was greeted with a smile and guided to the conference, just in … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, Best Practice, Contact Centre Industry, Customer Contact, Customer Experience, Douglas Jackson, Employee Engagement, multi channel customer experience
Tagged American Square Conference Centre, Bristol and Wessex Water, Contact Centre, Cranfield University, Customer Experience, customer experience awards, Customer Service, Direct Line, Douglas Jackson, Employee engagement, Ericsson, Financial Services Customer Experience, Firstource, Insurance Customer Experience, LV, Nationwide Building Society, Northern Gas, Standard Life, Utilities Customer Experience, waitrose, Winning with Customer Experience, Winning with CX
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We Can’t Live Without Them so Why Do We Hate Them So?
Mobile Phones, Broadband, TV and WIFI, we just can’t live without them. So why, oh why do we dislike our telecommunications, or network providers so little?
Posted in Best Practice, Contact Centre Industry, Customer Experience, customer service, Customer Service Industry, Customer Strategy, Growth of Customer Experience, multi channel customer experience, telecommunications
Tagged Apple, Best brands for customer service, BT, CSI Index, Customer Experience, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Service, Douglas Jackson, EE, First Direct, Google, Institute of Customer Services, Lovefilm, LV, Most Trusted brands, NAtionwide, Ovo Energy, Sainsburys, Sky, The Game of Thrones, TSB, Virgin Media, Vodafone, Walking Dead, Worst Customer Service
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Reach for the Stars
It is a big space theme this week; with the release of Star Wars, the Force Awakens and the first ‘official’ British Astronaut, Major Tim Peake to blast off to the International Space Station. Over 40 years ago, I doubt Tim Peake’s … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practice, Candidates, Career Development, Interviews, Motivation, Personal Development
Tagged Astronaut, Bruce Almighty, Give me a Sign, International Space Station, Major Tim Peake, Motivation, Opportunity, Reach for the Stars, Star Wars the Force Awakens, The Independent, Zig Ziglar Quote
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Top Tips for a Successful Interview Preparation
This subject, alongside CV Advice, is where the team at Douglas Jackson spend a great deal of time, helping and supporting our customers (candidates) to prepare for that potentially, life changing meeting. Here we we share our Top-Tips for a Successful … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practice, Contact Centre Industry, Customer Experience, Customer Service Industry, Douglas Jackson, Interviews, Jobs, Recruitment, Resource Planning Industry
Tagged Douglas Jackson, Interview Advice, interview preparation, Interview Questions, Interview Research, Interview Testing, Interview Tips, Preparation for Interview, Pschometric Testing, Top Tips for Interview
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My Experience – Judging the UK Financial Experience Awards 2015
As a specialist executive recruiter in the customer experience space, and experienced Digital Experience Awards judge, I thought that it would be really beneficial for me to get involved in the first of the Financial Services Experience Awards. I took … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, Best Practice, Customer Experience, customer service, financial services
Tagged #ukfxa, #ukfxawards, Awards, Banking Customer Experience, Customer Experience, Customer Service Recruitment in Banking, CX, Digital Experience, Direct Line, Douglas Jackson, DX, Financial Services Customer Experience, FXA, Hannah-Louise Cox, Nationwide Building Society, UK financial Experience Awards, Virgin Money, Zuto
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