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Do A.I. Customer Services Apps Provide Better and Quicker Service Than Real People?

Companies are increasingly adopting a hybrid approach to customer service, leveraging the strengths of both AI and human representatives. AI can handle straightforward, repetitive tasks, freeing up human reps to tackle more complex issues that require a personal touch.
Grant Tate
July 10, 2024
Customer Loyalty & Customer Service

Understanding Current and Future Customer Experience Expectations

To accomplish a seamless customer experience, understanding where your company stands with the needed technology, processes, and mindsets is critical.
Janice Giannini
July 10, 2024
Customer Loyalty & Customer Service

Understanding Customer Experience: Lessons from a French Anecdote

By viewing your customer journey through the lens of understanding and expectation alignment, you can create a more cohesive and satisfying experience for your clients.
Paradigm Associates LLC
July 10, 2024
Customer Loyalty & Customer Service

Flexible Leadership vs. Wishy-Washy Leadership: Understanding the Distinction

Flexible leadership involves intentionally adjusting one's leadership style to meet the demands of various situations while maintaining a consistent vision and core values. On the other hand, wishy-washy leadership is marked by indecisiveness, inconsistency, a lack of clear direction, and poor communication.
Doug Brown
May 29, 2024
Leadership & Management Effectiveness

Am I Okay with the Cost of Self-Leadership?

Leadership is complex because it requires that we confront our own fears and insecurities along the way, and sustaining that behavior for the long term is hard! ‍Leadership requires honesty in evaluating and acting in the best interest of the business's short/ mid—and long-term growth and others. 
Janice Giannini
May 29, 2024
Leadership & Management Effectiveness

Leadership's Hidden Skill

A CEO, especially in a complex, fast-changing industry, must discern a multitude of factors about the market, economic conditions, competition, technology, people, and operations. The CEO must deal with ambiguity, conflicts, and too little or too much information and be able to make decisions and set directions for the organization.
Grant Tate
May 29, 2024
Leadership & Management Effectiveness

Unraveling Value-Added vs. Adding-Value Selling

While both value-added selling and adding-value selling seek to elevate customer satisfaction, they significantly differ in application and outcome.
Doug Brown
April 17, 2024
Sales & Revenue Generation

In the Beginning, There Was Sales

Caring about the human beings who are our customers is indeed the foundation of good sales. In these days of mechanistic and mass sales techniques, the human element is more critical than ever.
Grant Tate
April 17, 2024
Sales & Revenue Generation

Architecting Success: Strategic Insights for Selecting Your Organization's Ideal Structure

Choosing an organizational structure is a complex decision that senior leaders should make with a comprehensive understanding of the organization's strategic objectives, operational needs, cultural norms, and external environment.
Doug Brown
March 6, 2024
Performance Excellence, Process Improvement & Lean Concepts

The CEO Team

Selecting and building the team is one of the essential responsibilities of the top executive. Only people who pledge to support the unifying principles should join the team. Diversity should be built on that foundation.
Grant Tate
March 6, 2024
Leadership & Management Effectiveness
Building Teams & Employee Engagement
Customer Loyalty & Customer Service
Individual Coaching & Self-improvement
Leadership & Management Effectiveness
Performance Excellence, Process Improvement & Lean Concepts
Sales & Revenue Generation
Strategic & Tactical Planning
Succession & Human Resource Planning
Technology Leadership
Time Management

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