Category Archives: Customer Strategy

Uncover The Impact Of Your Wellbeing Strategy

Everyone is talking about employee wellbeing but how can you make sure you uncover the impact of your organization’s wellbeing strategy and start moving beyond surface-level solutions? According to the CIPD: “Fostering employee wellbeing is good for people and the … Continue reading

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Customer Director Survey

On LinkedIn I publish a bi weekly newsletter, The Customer Director Digest. It’s been well received with over 4000 subscribers to date. One of my latest articles was asking for your thoughts and contribution to this year’s Customer Director report, … Continue reading

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Future CEOs – Your Future Pathway

New research from City & Guilds suggests that the odds are being stacked against young people’s futures and career aspirations – particularly the most disadvantaged wrote Workplace Insight. According to the report’s authors, the findings indicate that many young people … Continue reading

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The Impact Room – Jo Causon CEO Institute of Customer Service

We were delighted to see Jo Causon, Chief Executive Officer of Institute of Customer Service in the Impact Room recently. Jo joined Hannah Louise Cox to share some insight and thoughts about customer service, customer demands, ease of customer service, challenges, transparency, communications, opportunities. What … Continue reading

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What’s Next For Planning – Chief Planning Officer?

What’s Next For Planning – Chief Planning Officer? Continue reading

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Customer Director Report 2020

If you are serious about being a forward thinking customer led organisation, this report is for you and your leaders… Continue reading

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Basketball, Burgers and Resilient Leadership.

What does basketball and burgers have to do with resilient leadership? Learn more in this short article. Continue reading

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Why Job Descriptions Are A Total Waste Of Your Time

Want to attract the top tier of talent for your senior leadership roles? Stop wasting your time on job descriptions, we share what to do instead. Continue reading

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Searching For Excellence and Geisha Recruiters???

Searching for excellence; Japanese culture strives for perfection, the bullet train, the geisha, sushi chef….many people see recruitment as easy but to become an expert takes time…… Continue reading

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Emergency Measures and The Future

I have had the pleasure of talking to some great senior managers across different industries throughout the UK over the last week. Having listened to several individuals and teams which have been implementing ‘emergency measures’ across their customer functions driven … Continue reading

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Accelerated Digital Transformations

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve had some interesting conversations with senior leaders particularly those operating in the digital transformation space. A number of conversations have gravitated to the lack of ‘red tape’ during the latest digital transformation projects … Continue reading

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Personalisation Of The Customer Journey – CCMA Seminar

I attended another great CCMA seminar in London, focused on the customer journey and how personalising the approach with customers can affect productivity within the contact centre. The afternoon kicked off at the De Vere Connaught Rooms in Holborn with … Continue reading

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The Future of The Contact Centre Conference

I attended The Future of the Contact Centre conference in London last week, and I must say, I came away from the event absolutely buzzing. A big theme for me, taken from the conference, other events, and from talking to … Continue reading

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Voice Still King in Retail

I had the opportunity of attending a retail round-table event hosted by Ann-Marie Stagg and the CCMA in London last week, titled ‘The Future of Retail’. As you would expect, AI and Bots were heavily featured, although interestingly, voice was … Continue reading

Posted in AI, Analytics, Automated Customer Service, Best Practice, Chatbots, Contact Centre Industry, Customer Contact, Customer Experience, Customer Experience ROI, customer insight, customer service, Customer Service Industry, Customer Strategy, Customers, Data, Digital Experience, Recruitment, Retail, Retained Recruitment, Retained Search | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Retained Recruiter Academy

At Douglas Jackson, we are committed to keeping ourselves abreast with new and best industry practises, as well as brushing up on the more traditional ones. As a Senior Consultant within the business, and with over 8 years dedicated service, … Continue reading

Posted in Behavioural Assessment Tools, Behavioural Profiling, Best Practice, Contact Centre Industry, Customer Experience, customer service, Customer Strategy, Customer Success, Douglas Jackson, Employee Engagement, Executive Search, Recruitment, Recruitment Agency, Retained Recruitment, Retained Search, Retention | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment