Tag: employee experience

Empower your team to elevate your guests: what it takes to make hospitality work

Whether buying a take-away coffee, sitting down at a restaurant to eat, or travelling through an airport, it’s the people-facing staff that transform the hospitality experience from the transactional to the magical.  Global CX specialist Ian Golding summed it up: “There are...

CEOs rank their workforce as their third priority

New HR research from Gartner has found that CEOs ranked workforce as their third most important business priority for the next year. This falls behind growth and technology as business focuses. Alongside this, the research found that general workplace investments are...

Softcat and Hilton recognised as top UK employers for women

Hilton, Softcat, and Bristol Myers Squibb have been named Best Workplaces for Women 2024 in the UK. Global workplace culture firm Great Place produced the list and used its trust index employee survey and analysed the responses of more than 80,000...

Unprepared leaders put worker safety at risk

The ‘Safety Culture Maturity Report 2024’ indicates that senior leaders may not be fully prepared to handle risk, with an average score of only 44% in risk management expertise.  This discovery overlaps with data from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)...

Why XR could make a big difference to your customer and employee experience in 2024

AI, web 3.0 and the metaverse are big buzzwords these days in marketing and tech circles. Futurescoping has skyrocketed ever since Mark Zuckerberg introduced his grand metaverse plans. Industry talk has materialised into actual investment with big brands purchasing “land”...

People are your business: the new age of employee experience

In June 2023, I attended Qualtrics’ X4 event in London. It was an exciting day of product demos, panel discussions, keynote speeches, and even ended on an entertainment slot by Irish comedian Dara O’Briain! In amongst the busy day, I interviewed...

The importance of mentorship at every stage of CX career development

Being a woman in business is, more often than not, a fight. A fight to be taken seriously – to get that promotion and salary you deserve as much as your male colleagues. How difficult your path will be depends...

Can customer centric scheduling actually work in practice?

Customer centric scheduling is crafted for employees, for the benefit of customers. It’s a typical model to see adopted in retail especially, and other customer-facing roles. At first glance, it might seem like a great idea. But what about the...

The 5 trends driving CX tech innovation

Managing the customer experience is challenging and complex. There are multiple channels to manoeuvre; data and functional silos to bridge; and CX tech to orchestrate. Customers and employees are as fickle as they are demanding. Innovation can stall when day-to-day pressures...

Are you building a check-up or check-in workplace culture?

Once again, sadly, we’re entering a period of uncertainty and recession. Budgets are stretched, profit margins squeezed. People’s productivity at work matters more than ever, as we head into a stormy 2023. EX (employee experience) and CX (customer experience) strategies are being adapted accordingly. But is change being implemented in ways that won’t stir up trouble? When it comes to...