Measuring employee engagement and happiness: Should you be building an app for that?

When talking about measuring employee engagement, happiness or satisfaction at work many people resort to quarterly, biannual or annual surveys. Don’t get me wrong. These type of surveys can be great and very insightful when done well. However, one of the key weaknesses many of them suffer from is that they lack follow up and [...]

Employee engagement is a commitment not a campaign – Interview with Stan Phelps

Stan Phelps 9 Inch Marketing What's Your Green Goldfish

Today’s interview is with Stan Phelps an “experience architect”, author, professor and popular keynote speaker. Hat tip for the idea for this interview goes to James Lawther who recently hosted a guest post (5 Easy Ways to Increase Employee Engagement) from Stan on his blog. Stan recently published a new book: What’s Your Green Goldfish?: [...]

Customer service and the process of improving it

Today, I was thinking about writing a piece about customer service and the process of performance improvement. As part of my writing process I was looking through a bunch of materials when I found a store of quotes that I had once made. As many people that know me will attest, I am a lover [...]

Being Likeable, leadership, customer and employee engagement – Interview with Dave Kerpen

Dave Kerpen

Today’s interview is with Dave Kerpen, the cofounder and CEO of Likeable, an award-winning social media and word-of-mouth marketing firm which includes Likeable Media, Likeable Community College, and Likeable Local – a provider of social media solutions for small business using proprietary software. He is also a New York Times bestselling author and today he [...]

Improve your customer service by asking what would your Mum do – Interview with Lee Cockerell

Lee Cockerell

Today’s interview is with Lee Cockerell, who has had a hugely successful career working for Hilton Hotels, Marriott Hotels and Resorts and The Walt Disney Company. Lee now runs his own company to share what he has learned over his career and joins us today to talk about his 2nd and new book: The Customer [...]

Delight your customers and your employees by paying it forward

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I was chatting on the phone earlier today with a contact and we were talking about collaboration, working together, associate agreements, partnerships etc etc etc However, on the back of that I also found myself expressing my frustration with how much some people talk of collaboration and partnerships but then nothing happens. This, for me, [...]

Customer service, people and how caring does scale – Interview with Gary Vaynerchuk #1aDayQandA

Gary-Vaynerchuk

Today’s interview is with Gary Vaynerchuk and follows on from my recent interview: Unruly engagement, creativity and collaboration is built on two things: People and Places – Interview with Sarah Wood of Unruly Media. If you haven’t heard of Gary then suffice it to say he is a successful social media and wine entrepreneur, sought [...]

Unruly engagement, creativity and collaboration is built on two things: People and Places

Sarah Wood COO Unruly

Today’s interview is with Sarah Wood of Unruly Media and follows on from my recent interview: Social business is not just social media, it takes real transformation – Interview with Brad W Martin and Vala Afshar of Enterasys. Founded in 2006 by Scott Button, Matthew Cooke and Sarah Wood, Unruly has 120+ full time employees [...]

Social business is not just social media, it takes real transformation – Interview with Brad W Martin and Vala Afshar of Enterasys

Brad W Martin

Today’s interview is with Vala Afshar and Brad W. Martin of Enterays who have recently written a book called The Pursuit of Social Business Excellence, which charts Enterasys‘ transformation into a truly social business. This interview follows on from my recent interview with Neville Hobson in Lessons from ten years of blogging and eight years [...]

Solve customer and business problems faster through collaboration – Interview with Jacob Morgan

Jacob-Morgan The Collaborative Organisation

Today’s interview is with Jacob Morgan, the Principal & Co-Founder of Chess Media Group, a management consulting and strategic advisory firm focused on collaboration. He has also authored of The Collaborative Organization, a best-selling book on collaboration strategy. Increasing collaboration within organisations using social tools like Chatter, Yammer and Jive etc is increasingly becoming an [...]

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