by Colin Shaw | Mar 1, 2017 | Blogs, Customer Experience
On his first day on the job as U.S. Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson stood before a crowd of State Department employees and introduced himself. “Hi, I’m the new guy.” The humble comment brought laughs because, until recently, Tillerson was CEO of ExxonMobil, one of...
by Colin Shaw | Feb 28, 2017 | Blogs, Customer Experience
Hotel giant Hilton recently dropped the H from its rewards program, replacing the linguistically puzzling Hilton HHonors with an easier to pronounce version, Hilton Honors. The change is more than cosmetic. The new rewards program will be the first in the industry to...
by Colin Shaw | Feb 21, 2017 | Blogs, Customer Experience
Tennis great Jimmy Connors famously said, “I hate to lose more than I love to win.” His aversion to loss isn’t limited to elite athletes. Distaste for losing motivates politicians, gamblers, businesspeople and importantly, ordinary consumers. And unless you recognize...
by Colin Shaw | Feb 16, 2017 | Blogs, Customer Experience
Childhood bullying gets a lot of attention these days, but bullying and other bad behavior can be just as destructive in the workplace as on the playground. Over the years, I’ve seen people with poor social and interpersonal skills unnecessarily make life miserable –...
by Colin Shaw | Feb 14, 2017 | Blogs, Customer Experience
Some people love to tip and others do, but begrudgingly. However, it appears that nowadays everyone is expecting a tip even if they are just serving you at the checkout! When you see a tip jar by the cash register what do you think? To me, the tip jar says “I deserve...
by Colin Shaw | Feb 9, 2017 | Blogs, Customer Experience
In our customer experience consultancy, we find there’s one thing that consistently prevents companies from adopting a more customer-centric approach. It’s not (as you might guess) cost! Instead, the problem is priorities, and specifically the priorities of people who...
