The Four Customer Experience Core Competencies

June 15, 2010 10 Comments

Go to the updated version of this report

 

Temkin Group is happy to release this new Insight Report, The Four Customer Experience Core Competencies, which you can download for free.

This report describes the four competencies that companies need to master in order to build and sustain customer experience success.

Here’s the executive summary of the report:

Organizations that want to become customer experience leaders need to master four customer experience competencies: Purposeful Leadership, Employee Engagement, Compelling Brand Values, and Customer Connectedness. Gauge how close your company is to being a Customer-Centric Organization using Temkin Group’s competency model to identify strengths and weaknesses.

I urge you to read this report, share it with others in your organization, and take the competency assessment which is shown in figure 3.

The bottom line: Start building your customer experience competencies

Filed under Chief customer officer, Compelling Brand Values, Corporate culture, Customer Connectedness, Customer experience, Customer-centric DNA, Employee Engagement, Executive leadership, Purposeful Leadership, Temkin Group Research, Voice of the customer

About Bruce Temkin, CCXP
I am a customer experience transformist, helping large organizations improve business results by changing how they deal with customers. As part of this focus, I examine strategy, culture, interaction design, customer service, branding and leadership practices. I am also a fanatical student of business, so this blog provides an outlet for sharing insights from my ongoing educational journey. Simply put, I am passionate about spotting emerging best practices and helping companies master them. And, as many people know, I love to speak about these topics in almost any forum. My “title” is Managing Partner of the Temkin Group, a customer experience research and consulting firm that helps organizations become more customer-centric. Our goal is simple: accelerate the path to delighting customers. I am also the co-founder and Emeritus Chair of the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to the success of CX professionals.

10 Responses to The Four Customer Experience Core Competencies

  1. Dawna MacLean says:
    June 16, 2010 at 11:14 am

    Your “employee experience virtuous cycle” is simple but brilliant. Not only is customer experience linked to employee experience, it is a direct reflection of it. I could not agree more that great customer experience is not sustainable without passionate employee engagement. Transforming your employees into empowered and engaged evangelists that act like owners will transcend into greater customer experience, loyal customers, decreased turnover, proud employees and strong financial results.

    I enjoyed the entire report and blogged about it on my blog today http://dawnamaclean.com/2010/06/16/how-to-be-successful-in-our-evolving-customer-centric-world/

    Great stuff Bruce, thanks for sharing!

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  9. Joe Hovancak says:
    August 13, 2010 at 12:05 pm

    Bruce,

    Great insights. I absolutely agree that your Four Customer Experience Core Competencies are essential for companies that are aspiring to become customer-centric. While all four are completely imperative, competency number two, Employee Engagement, can truly make or break this initiative. As you point out in your reports, clearly defined goals, communications, training, metrics and recognition driven by the Voice of the Customer can produce amazing results by employees. As leaders, we need to be supportive and committed to our teams and to the Voice of the Customer so that we can truly create world class customer companies. Cheers!

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