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Engaging Millennials: The Time is Now

Described as a ‘generation disrupted’, millennials are a pivotal talking point in every sphere. Deloitte’s most recent millennial survey uncovers the impact continuous change and instability has had on younger generations. Their lack of trust towards employers and business leaders...

How AI-Driven Contact Can Revolutionise Your Customer Relationships

It used to be that when someone said “AI”, images of sci-fi films came to mind. Nowadays, the effect is more prosaic: it’s become de rigeur to use AI as shorthand for “business wonder cure”. When we hear “AI”, we know we’re...

CXM Book Shelf: Employee Experience by Ben Whitter

There isn’t a lot that Ben Whitter doesn’t know about when it comes to employee engagement and getting the best out of a workforce. Known throughout the UK and further afield as Mr Employee Experience, the founder and Chief Experience Officer at...

‘Alexa, What’s the Future of Ecommerce?’

A growing number of UK customers are choosing to purchase from brands using smart speakers such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, with the devices predicted to drive the next wave of ecommerce. In a study of 2,000 adults carried out...

Warning Over UK Employees’ Digital Skills Gap

A digital skills shortage is preventing employers from filling vacancies, new research warns. The UK Consumer Digital Index, from Lloyds Bank, has been examined by Reboot Online Digital Marketing Company, which discovered that while more than half of the UK uses the internet...

Kids Causing Summertime Blues for Home Workers

Summertime may be fun for the kids when school’s out, but for home workers it can lead to days filled with noise and distractions. With an ever-growing number of the UK workforce operating from home offices, the summer holidays can be a...

Ask Ian: How do we Combine Digital and Brick-and-Mortar for the Best Customer Experience?

Customer Experience specialist Ian Golding, author of Customer What: The Honest and Practical Guide to Customer Experience, writes for Customer Experience Magazine offering expert insight to help businesses improve their CX offering.  To ask Ian a question on how to boost the...

Smarter Communication: The key to Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace

The workplace as we know it is transforming, as digital innovation creates new ways of working and many employees operate across more devices, time zones, and locations than ever before. The uptake of flexible, off-site, and remote working trends has...

Ombudsman Services Unveils new Partner Platform for Businesses

The UK’s largest independent multi-sector ombudsman, Ombudsman Services, has created a new partner platform to facilitate its communications with businesses operating in its four key sectors of energy, communications, heat, and private parking. Designed and built by digital agency Code Computerlove, the...

Absorbing Your Positive Feedback and Avoiding Negativity bias

Diana Theodores is an international women’s leadership coach. Her new book Performing As You: How to have authentic impact in every role you play is out now.   Think about a compliment you recently received from a friend or colleague and the...