Would You...To Your Mother: The Make Mom Proud Standard for How to Treat Your Customers - Hardcover

Bliss, Jeanne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0735217815 ISBN 13: 9780735217812

Publisher: Portfolio, 2018

Synopsis

Customer experience pioneer Jeanne Bliss shows why Make Mom Proud companies outperform their competition. Her 5-step guide to customer experience and culture transformation makes this achievement possible.    Bliss urges companies to make business personal to earn ardent fans and admirers, by focusing on one deceptively simple question: Would you do that to your mother?    Make Mom Proud companies give customers the treatment they desire, and employees the ability to deliver it. They turn gotcha moments into we've got your back moments by rethinking business practices, and they enable employees to be part of the solution to fix customer frustrations.     Bliss scoured the marketplace seeking companies who excel at living their core values, grounded in what we all learned as kids. She offers a five-step plan for evaluating your current behaviors and implementing actions at every level of the organization.    Step 1. Be the Person I Raised You to Be  Understand how you are hiring, developing and trusting employees to bring the best version of themselves to work. Vail resorts, for example, the world's largest ski resort operator, banned the three words Our policy is... from their vocabulary, freeing employees to take spirited actions to deliver the experience of a lifetime.    Step 2. Don't Make Me Feed You Soap  Learn the eight key frustrations that bind us as customers (waiting, fear, anxiety, the black hole of no communication, etc.) and how to apply actions from companies who are delivering a seamless, frictionless and easy experience.   Step 3. Put Others Before Yourself Determine if your focus is on helping customers achieve their goals - and evaluate how that is fueling your growth. Canada's Mayfair Diagnostics, for example, spent over a year studying the emotions of patients entering an imaging clinic, so they could redesign their welcome to deliver warmth and caring over procedure and process. The newly designed clinic achieved profitability in record time.   Step 4.  Take the High Road Learn how companies who do the right thing rise above the competition. Virgin Hotels, for example, named #1 U.S. hotel by Conde Nast Reader's Choice Awards, walked away from price gouging at the mini bar, so you'll never pay more for that Snickers bar than what you'd pay at the corner market.   Step 5.  Stop the Shenanigans] Evaluate your current company behaviors and identify the key actions that you can begin immediately.      With 32 case studies and examples from more than 85 companies, this is a practical and easy to follow guide for your experience and culture transformation. Filled with comics to snapshot our experiences as customers, a mom lens to reflect continuously on your performance, and a make-mom-proud-ometer quiz - the book makes Bliss's approach accessible and approachable.   Join the movement to #MakeMomProud by applying this book across your organization. Whether you're contemplating your company's returns policy, its social media presence, or its big-picture strategy, this approach will help your company anticipate both employee and customer needs, extend patience, and show respect at all times.

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"Jeanne Bliss's book is for anyone who's serious about improving the customer experience. I loved her inspiring and practical case studies."
--Dan Heath, co-author of Made to Stick, Switch, and The Power of Moments

"An actionable, smart, and fun book everyone in hospitality should read. It gets us back to why we're in business in the first place."
--Raul Leal, CEO of Virgin Hotels

"A fun read that gets to the heart of why the best companies prosper- because they let people be the best version of themselves at work."
--Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com and author of Delivering Happiness

"Jeanne Bliss has written a masterpiece, filled with commonsense ideas that will hit you in the heart. It's a book that every employee will want to read, and every leader should."
--Colleen Barrett, president emeritus, Southwest Airlines

"Jeanne Bliss gets us to the core of designing moments that matter most to our employees and those we serve-the most brilliant strategy in any business."
--Dr. Adrienne Boissy, chief experience officer, Cleveland Clinic

"Jeanne Bliss has made the complex simple by articulating customer experience in concepts that resonate and inspire action."
--Allison Circle, chief customer experience officer, Columbus Metropolitan Library

"This is a practical real-world book that transcends business to address our lives as customers. In her straight talk and whimsical manner, Jeanne gently prods us toward behaviors that elevate companies and earn growth through customer admiration and word of mouth."
--Martin Hand, Chief Donor Officer, ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

About the Author

Jeanne Bliss is one of the foremost experts on customer-centric leadership and the role of the chief customer officer. For over 20 years, she led customer experience executive at Lands' End, Coldwell Banker, Allstate, Mazda, and Microsoft. Since 2002 she has guided customer experience transformations for major global organizations through her firm, CustomerBliss, and has inspired audiences through her keynote speeches. She is the co-founder of the Customer Experience Professional's Association and has been called the "godmother of customer experience." This is her fourth book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Portfolio
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0735217815
• ISBN 13: 9780735217812
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272