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2 Ways Internal Client Experiences are key to External CXs

August 9, 2018 by Babette Ten Haken Leave a Comment

internal client experiencesWhat is the role of internal client experiences in creating extraordinary external client experiences (CX)?

Customer experience seems to be on everyone’s mind these days. Paying lip service and talking the talk is different than consistently walking the walk.

With all the attention focused on acquiring and retaining customers, often the unsung heroes and heroines of this quest are located internally, within the organization. The impact of the quality of their experiences – as internal customers – is key in executing CX strategy to external customers.

Are internal client experiences integrated and cross-functional? Or are internal teams still operating in departmental silos, each having its own set of mutually-exclusive KPIs?

Customer Experience Update Best ArticleOtherwise, everyone becomes very busy, working full-time, on externally-focused, disconnected CX initiatives. At the end of the day, internal assets perform at half the capacity of what is possible.

When everyone has a different key for connecting CX puzzle pieces, what is the impact of separated tactical execution on organizational productivity and the overall profitability of customer experience?

The difference between good and great external client experiences reflects the depth of interaction, service and interoperability between the internal teams serving them. Although enterprises such as the Disney Institute excel at delivering on this CX model, most organizations avoid undertaking this model.

Why? Because organizations wrestle with leveraging and integrating the two variables impacting how external client experiences reflect internal cultural experiences.

First, companies remain reluctant to clean up their cultures. I’m not talking about an “out with the old, in with the new” thorough house cleaning, either. Small cultural changes, when done well, have big impacts on organizational health. And how cultural well-being is reflected in delivery of extraordinary customer experiences.

Gazing externally, rather than taking a 360-degree look internally, is more organizationally gratifying. However, focusing internally uncovers not only what can be done better within an organization. Also, organizations uncover internal employee innovators who become intrapreneurs, catalyzing innovative product and process improvement.

Next,  it is easier for organizations to act based on a single aggregate CX score. Not only that. Leaders and managers interpret external customer experience scores as the barometer of whether internal customer experiences are great, as well. As long as that CX score is solid, why rock the boat?

When company leadership engages in external customer experience score-chasing, they can become complacent. Why do the work? And ask internal customers about their experiences in executing CX strategy for external clients? Yet, how can organizations understand the root causes behind the few outlier scores contributing to the overall measurement, if voice of internal customers is not gleaned?

Customers continue to anticipate delivery of products and services which become better and better over the duration of that customer’s relationship with the organization.

Companies targeting greater productivity and profitability connect the voices of external customer experiences to the voices of internal customer experiences. Otherwise, organizations run the risk of becoming predictable to customers. Rather than providing a compelling reason for continuing to do business with them.

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Babette Ten Haken | Change Catalyst | Purpose-Driven Professional Innovation | Cross-Functional Team Leadership | Trust-Based Client Retention | In Person & Virtual Speaker, Consultant, Coach, Author |

Babette Ten Haken, Founder & President of One Millimeter Mindset™ Speaking & Consulting, catalyzes trust-based, purpose-driven, cross-functional leadership. She leverages Voice of the Customer and storytelling to translate across communication and collaboration disconnects impacting successful business outcomes across people and professional disciplines. Babette is a cross-functional business-oriented STEM professional, qualitative Voice of the Customer facilitator, and Six Sigma Green Belt (Quality). She is a member of the ASQ, SHRM, PMI, the National Speakers Association. Her playbook of cross-functional collaboration, Do YOU Mean Business? is available on Amazon.com. Contact Babette here. Image source: Adobe Stock.

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