Author: CXM Editorial

Matching world class brands with world class service

Petra Krivinskas, Head of Customer Service Centre Operations for Volkswagen Group UK tells Customer Experience Magazine about her role, and how she ensures her team is the lifeblood of the business. For the past 15 years Petra Krivinskas has been digging...

What’s the point of Incentive Travel?

Can you really achieve true employee engagement, interaction and fulfilment for your employees through Incentive Travel? Does your Incentive Travel organically deliver a natural team bonding experience, which inherently leads to increased productivity, motivation and loyalty? Employees are becoming more demanding. They...

Happy Staff: The Recipe for Happy Customers

When it comes down to it, employee satisfaction is a cornerstone of good retail. It makes sense from every angle; when customers talk to someone that can represent their brand with a smile and a charming demeanour, that customer has...

People build success: the most engaged people have the happiest customers

Paul Smedley, Chairman & Founder, Professional Planning Forum People do amazing things when given the space, freedom and tools to do so. This article from the Professional Planning Forum builds on previous research by MacLeod, who identified four primary enablers of...

Time to shout about your Employee Experience initiatives

How does your business retain reward and retain employees? Would you like to share your case study through the NEW UK Employee Experience Awards 2014? Organised by the operators of the success and established UK Customer Experience Awards, the UK Employee...

Six things to consider when assessing employee requests for flexible working

SUMMARY: New UK Flexible Working Regulations and Part 9 of the Children and Families Act 2014 came into force in June. As an employer, are you treating flexible working requests in a reasonable manner? On June 30th 2014, new UK Flexible...

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Brits suffer from HITS

Mobile marketing company Digitonic has discovered a new holiday phenomenon created by the smartphone era – HITS, or holiday irritable text syndrome.   New research by the Glasgow-based business has found that nearly two-thirds of people are likely to complain to friends...

Digital currency

Plans to create the world’s first digital currency issued by a central bank have been revealed by the Ecuadorean government. Central bank officials say the electronic money, as yet unnamed, will start circulating in December. The new electronic money will be used...

Back to the future: traditional mentality and modern technology can bring back self-management

The traditional British workplace is very different from what it used to be. The industrial revolution saw people use new technology to increase productivity and automate routine tasks, but they never lost the mindset of making things and then taking...