Customer Experience University - Winning Loyalty & Engagement One Customer at a Time

In this episode, Dr. Michelli shares four tips for gaining a competitive advantage through brazen customer experience, based on his work with Starbucks and his books, The Starbucks Experience and Leading the Starbucks Way. Learn how Starbucks partners create emotional connections with customers, co-create experiences based on customer input, think beyond products, services, and profits, and inspir...

In this episode, Dr. Michelli outlines the service recovery process he writes about in detail in his book titled The New Gold Standard: 5 Leadership Principles for Creating a Legendary Customer Experience Courtesy of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company This four-step process can be the difference between average and outstanding service recovery. 

In this episode, Dr. Michelli borrows from his two books about Starbucks ( The Starbucks Experience and Leading the Starbucks Way ) to share tips on personal and memorable frontline service.

In this episode, Dr. Michelli contrasts four business strategies and explores global factors related to the effectiveness of each.  He also offers a way to evaluate your strategy and a method for improving execution. 

In this episode, Dr. Michelli looks at the role of gratitude in customer experience success.  He also explains how gratitude can and must go beyond words and live in the culture and actions of your business.

In this episode, Dr. Michelli contrasts the customer experience strengths of Artificial Intelligence and humans.  He also offers an approach for blending the best of technology with the best of humanity.

This is the final installment in Dr. Michelli's four-part series on leading through VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity).  In this episode, Dr. Michelli provides tips for navigating business Ambiguity.

This is the third in Dr. Michelli's four-part series on leading through VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity).  In this episode, Dr. Michelli offers skills for reducing business Complexity.

Dr. Michelli continues his four-part series on leading through VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) by providing skills for taming Uncertainty.

Leveraging his experience as a clinical and systems psychologist, Dr. Michelli explains the VUCA framework (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) and offers tools for managing business/personal challenges related to VUCA.  This episode is the first in a four-part series looking at each letter in VUCA.  Specifically, this podcast focuses on volatility. 

Dr. Michelli explores 2023 US Gallup Customer Experience findings and offers five ways to buck a downward trend. 

Dr. Michelli provides three guidelines for evaluating partnership opportunities.  Emphasizing the importance of partnerships, he shares helpful ways to ensure due diligence and mutual benefit. 

Using Zappos as an example, Dr. Michelli outlines four characteristics shared by iconic service brands and guides listeners on evaluating themselves against that criteria.

Building on concepts from James Autry's Love and Profit book, Dr. Michelli explores business applications for trust and love.  He also outlines key elements for translating customer love into profitability.

Leveraging the work of Dr. Michelli's friend, Karl Mecklenburg, Pro Bowl player for the Denver Broncos, Joseph shares 6 key elements for leading success in customer experience transformation and beyond. 

Integrating the perspective of various authors, Dr. Michelli champions the importance of crafting and posting a legacy statement.

Using research from the Verde Group, Dr. Michelli outlines five elements that contribute to customer delight. 

Dr. Michelli explores the importance of providing "undivided attention" and Ritz-Carlton's Three Steps of Service to every customer interaction. 

Leveraging insights from research on "learning agility," Dr. Michelli offers 9 dimensions to consider for organizational growth in 2023.

Dr. Michelli demonstrates the current power of AI technology in response to an inquiry he made concerning 2023 customer experience trends. 

Dr. Michelli offers several reminders for getting the most out of this holiday season.

In this episode, Dr. Michelli outlines research on the "service recovery paradox" and provides tips for relationship restoration and relationship enhancement through service recovery behaviors. 

With inflation and market-tightening interest rates, customer experience (CX) is more important than ever.  Dr. Michelli offers four steps to deliver outcomes critical to your CX success in our current economy. 

In the context of the US Thanksgiving Holiday, this episode expresses gratitude for your listenership and provides four tips for maximizing team member and customer appreciation.

Recent research shows many people and organizations are struggling to "bounce back" from crises and adversity.  In this episode, Dr. Michelli offers four research-proven strategies for positioning your organization to emerge Stronger Through Adversity.