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Report: Employee Engagement Competency & Maturity, 2018

Bruce Temkin, CCXP

Purchase report: Employee Engagement Competency & Maturity, 2018We just published a Temkin Group report, Employee Engagement Competency & Maturity, 2018. Here’s the executive summary of this annual review of employee engagement activities, competencies, and maturity levels for large companies:

To understand how companies are engaging their employees, we surveyed 178 large companies and compared their responses with similar studies we’ve conducted in previous years. We also asked survey respondents to complete Temkin Group’s Employee Engagement Competency & Maturity (EECM) Assessment. The EECM Assessment places companies in one of five stages of maturity and evaluates their performance across five employee engagement competencies: Inspire, Inform, Instruct, Incent, and Involve. Highlights from our analysis of their responses include:

  • Team leaders of non-customer-facing groups are the least supportive of customer-centric activities.
  • Nearly 70% of companies measure employee engagement at least annually, yet only 40% of executives consider acting on the results to be a high priority.
  • The top obstacle to employee engagement activities continues to be the lack of an employee engagement strategy.
  • While only 19% of companies are in the top two stages of employee engagement maturity, 49% are in the bottom two.
  • When we compared companies with above average employee engagement maturity to those with lower maturity, we found that employee engagement leaders have better customer experience, enjoy better financial results, have more coordinated employee engagement efforts, have more widespread support across employee groups, are more likely to act on employee feedback, and face fewer obstacles than their counterparts with less engaged workforces.
  • You can use the results of the EECM Assessment to benchmark your own employee engagement activities.

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Here’s an excerpt from two of the 19 graphics that shows the maturity levels of employee engagement efforts in large companies and their effectiveness across five employee engagement competencies:

Employee Engagement Competency & Maturity ModelEmployee Engagement Competency & Maturity Levels of Large Organizations

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Report Outline:

  • Employee Engagement Efforts Are Underway
  • Assessing Employee Engagement Competencies and Maturity
  • Employee Engagement Leaders Versus Laggards
  • Propel Your Employee Engagement Efforts

 

Figures in the Report:

  1. Importance of Employee Engagement and Customer-Centric Culture
  2. Support For Customer-Centric Activities
  3. Employee Engagement Measurement
  4. Overview of Employee Engagement Activities
  5. Employee Engagement Obstacles, 2016 to 2018
  6. Employee Engagement Competencies and Maturity Levels
  7. Employee Engagement Competency & Maturity Assessment
  8. Results From Employee Engagement Competency Assessment
  9. Results From Employee Engagement Competency AssessmentBetween 2016 and 2018
  10. Highest Performing Employee Engagement (EE) Competency Elements
  11. Lowest Performing Employee Engagement (EE) Competency Elements
  12. Customer Experience and Financial Results: Employee Engagement Leaders Versus Laggards
  13. Organizational Culture: Employee Engagement Leaders Versus Laggards
  14. Executive Priorities: Employee Engagement Leaders Versus Laggards
  15. Overview of Employee Engagement Activities: Employee Engagement Leaders Versus Laggards
  16. Employee Engagement Measurement: Employee Engagement Leaders Versus Laggards
  17. Support For Customer-Centric Activities: Employee Engagement Leaders Versus Laggards
  18. Employee Engagement Obstacles: Employee Engagement Leaders Versus Laggards
  19. Percentiles of Results From Temkin Group Employee Engagement Competency Assessment

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Report: Fan Experience Benchmark: U.S. Professional Sports

Bruce Temkin, CCXP

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We just published a Temkin Group report, Fan Experience Benchmark: U.S. Professional Sports: U.S. Consumers’ TV Preferences And In-Person Experiences For MLB, MLS, NASCAR, NBA, NFL, NHL, PGA, USTA, and WNBA.

Fan Experience Benchmark: NFL, NBA, NHL, WNBA, MLB, PGA, MLS, USTA (Customer Experience, CX)For seven years in a row, Temkin Group has tracked U.S. consumers’ preferences for watching professional sports on TV. This year, we also examined their experience when attending a live sporting event. Here are some highlights from this research:

  • NFL is the most dominate sport on TV, but MLB has the highest percentage of fans who attend its games.
  • Almost all sports lost TV viewers over the last seven years, with NFL dropping the most. Viewership has declined most dramatically for young adult males.
  • NASCAR has the highest level of promoters for its live sporting events, while the NFL has the lowest.
  • We evaluated consumer satisfaction across the nine steps that make up a live sporting event journey. Of these steps, parking received the lowest average satisfaction, and ticketing correlated most strongly with fans’ likelihood of recommending attending an event to their friends and relatives.
  • We include live event scorecards for MLB, MLS, NASCAR, NBA, NFL, NHL, and WNBA
  • Sports teams that want to improve fan experience need to build four competencies: Purposeful Leadership, Compelling Brand Values, Employee Engagement, and Customer Connectedness.

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Purchase and download Fan Experience Benchmark Report (Customer Experience, CX)Fan Experience: Consumers who watch professionals sports on TV, 2012 to 2018

Customer Experience (CX): Fan Satisfaction Across Journey Through Live In-Person Sporting Events

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Report Outline:

  • Professional Sports’ TV Fandom Is On The Decline
  • Examining The Live Sporting Experience
  • The Best And Worst Of In-Person Sporting Events
    • In-Person Scorecards for MLB, MLS, NASCAR, NBA, NFL, NHL, and WNBA
  • The Path to Fan Experience Excellence

Figures in the Report:

  1. Popularity of Sports on TV, 2012 to 2018
  2. Popularity of Sports on TV, 2012 to 2018
  3. Popularity of Sports on TV By Age and Gender, 2018
  4. Popularity of Sports on TV By Age and Gender, 2012 to 2018
  5. Consumers Who Watch and Attend Sporting Events
  6. In-Person Sports Experience
  7. Importance Of Stadium Journey Steps
  8. Experience Across The Journey Of In-Person Sports Events
  9. Satisfaction Levels Across The Fan Journey
  10. National Hockey League (NHL) Fan Experience
  11. National Football League (NFL) Fan Experience
  12. National Basketball League (NBA) Fan Experience
  13. Women’s National Basketball League (WNBA) Fan Experience
  14. Major League Baseball (MLB) Fan Experience
  15. Major League Soccer (MLS) Fan Experience
  16. NASCAR Fan Experience
  17. Customer Experience Competencies and Maturity

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Report: Infusing Culture Throughout The New Employee Journey

Bruce Temkin, CCXP

Infusing culture throughout the new employee journey reportWe just published a Temkin Group report, Infusing Culture Throughout The New Employee Journey.

Here’s the executive summary:

A company’s culture reflects the attitudes and behaviors of its employees and influences almost every aspect of the employee journey and experience. However, despite its importance, many companies fail to orient new employees to their culture during onboarding. Rather than helping new hires form long-term connections with the organization and its values, companies often use this time to teach new hires about the organization’s processes. Companies instead should use their culture as a focal point during recruiting, hiring, and onboarding and then continue to emphasize it as employees acclimate to their roles. This report:

  • Explores how companies can align new employees with their culture.
  • Describes how companies can infuse culture throughout the four stages of the new hire journey: Establish Cultural Fit, Set Behavioral Expectations, Reinforce Positive Performance, and Prioritize Sustaining Culture.
  • Shares examples of best practices from a number of companies, including Adobe, Crowe Horwath, LexisNexis, Oxford Properties, Touchpoint Support Services, and Safelite Autoglass.
  • Provides a checklist companies can use to execute their culture-focused onboarding program effectively.

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Here are the best practices described in the report:infuse culture throughout the four stages of the new hire journey

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Report Outline:

  • New Employees Need More Corporate Cultural Onboarding
    • New Hire Programs Fall Short on Culture
  • Companies Should Infuse Culture Across the Entire New Hire Journey
    • Stage 1: Establish Cultural Fit
    • Stage 2: Set Behavioral Expectations
    • Stage 3: Reinforce Positive Performance
    • Stage 4: Prioritize Sustaining Culture
  • The Path Towards A Culture-Focused Onboarding Program
    • Immediate, Near-term, and Long-term actions

 

Figures in the Report:

  1. How to Shape Culture by Impacting How Employees Think, Believe, and Act
  2. Six Areas of Culture Focus
  3. Infuse Culture Throughout the Four Stages of the New Hire Journey
  4. Examples of Culture-Focused Onboarding Across the Four Stages of the New Hire Journey
  5. LexisNexis Summer Intern Program
  6. The Oxford Commitment
  7. Safelite AutoGlass Customer Driven Model
  8. Touchpoint Services Keeps Employees Learning Through Daily LineUp Meetings
  9. Recommendations for Designing an Effective Employee Recognition Program
  10. Select TouchPoint Supportive Services Manager Training
  11. Channels for Listening to Employee Feedback
  12. Actions to Take to Strengthen Company Culture

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Report: Activating Executive Commitment to CX

Bruce Temkin, CCXP

Activating executive commitment to customer experienceWe just published a Temkin Group report, Activating Executive Commitment to CX. Here’s the executive summary:

Organizations that want to drive sustainable customer experience (CX) improvements need to have senior executives who are committed to propel change throughout the entire journey. Successful transformation efforts require senior executives to set the direction, lead communication efforts, model desired behaviors, align resources, and hold the rest of the organization accountable. However, CX leaders and their teams often struggle to obtain the commitment and involvement necessary from senior executives to ensure these change efforts succeed. In this report, we provide a model for how CX teams can effectively engage their senior leaders. Here are some highlights:

  • The blueprint includes six levers CX leaders can use to gain and strengthen senior executive commitment: Create Vision Clarity, Share Compelling Opportunities, Amplify Emotional Empathy, Feed Intrinsic Motivations, Enable First Steps, and Fuel Ongoing Confidence.
  • To illustrate how these levers work, we share examples of 24 best practices from companies including Anthem, CA Technologies, Cisco, Fidelity, Microsoft, Penske Truck Leasing, and Regions Bank.
  • We provide CX leaders with an assessment they can use to identify the commitment stage of their senior executives and offer advice on which of the six levers can have the greatest impact by stage.

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Here are the six levers for activating executive commitment:

  1. Create Vision Clarity. Many senior executives are enamored with the idea of customer experience, yet lack a clear picture of what CX really means for their organization. As a result, they aren’t able to persuasively advocate for the required changes. Therefore, CX teams should provide leaders with a clear understanding of where the CX efforts are heading.
  2. Share Compelling Opportunities. Senior leaders will only stay committed to a CX effort for as long as they remain convinced that it will help the organization succeed. That’s why CX leaders must continue to make and reinforce the CX business case to senior executives. This requires establishing a tangible business case and setting realistic expectations for the upside of action and the downside of inaction.
  3. Amplify Emotional Empathy. An executive who is emotionally committed to CX efforts provides a different level of support than one who is only intellectually bought-in. To gain this emotional commitment, the CX team should enhance executives’ natural empathy by bringing customers’ experiences to life for them.
  4. Feed Intrinsic Motivations. Executives are motivated by a myriad of different objectives, such as being seen as successful or reaching some self-defined goals. Intrinsic motivators – like meaning, choice, competence, and progress – can be particularly powerful levers for activating commitment. CX leaders should connect their efforts to the personal goals of executives and should make them feel good about the efforts underway.
  5. Enable First Steps. Even executives who are fully committed to the CX agenda may not know exactly what they can do to help propel the CX efforts forward, especially since they are often juggling many different priorities. It’s up to the CX leader to make it easy for the senior leaders to participate in the efforts by recommending specific, doable steps that they can take.
  6. Fuel Ongoing Confidence. CX teams need ongoing support from their executives; however, senior leaders are prone to distraction and doubt. To keep them on track, CX leaders need to keep executives informed of the progress and success of CX efforts and need to demonstrate to executives that resources are being used well and risks are being managed well.

Here are the best practices discussed in the report:

best practices for engaging senior leaders in customer experience

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Report Outline:

  • Without Senior Executive Involvement, CX Efforts Falter
    • Executives Must Become Purposeful Leaders
  • Six Levers For Activating Senior Executives
    • 1) Create Vision Clarity
    • 2) Share Compelling Opportunities
    • 3) Amplify Emotional Empathy
    • 4) Feed Intrinsic Motivations
    • 5) Enable First Steps
    • 6) Fuel Ongoing Confidence
  • Strategies For Different Levels of Executive Engagement

 

Figures in the Report:

  1. Senior Executives Don’t Always Demonstrate the Right Behaviors
  2. How Senior Executives Play a Critical Role in CX Efforts
  3. Blueprint for CX Leaders: Best Practices for Engaging Senior Executives across the Six Levers
  4. HR Support of Customer-Centricity, CX Leaders Versus Other Firms
  5. Sample Design Persona for an Online Travel Agency
  6. Integrating Executive Sponsors with Other Customer-Facing Roles at Oracle
  7. Disseminating Feedback to Spur Executive Action: Ciena’s Inside Out/Outside In CX Scorecard
  8. Sandy Spring Bank: Meeting in a Box
  9. CA’s Immersion Workshops
  10. Essential Elements of CX Governance
  11. Assessing Senior Executive CX Engagement
  12. Top Levers to Use with Executives by Engagement Level

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Report: Employee Engagement Competency & Maturity, 2017

Bruce Temkin, CCXP

Employee Engagement Competency and maturityWe just published a Temkin Group report, Employee Engagement Competency & Maturity, 2017. Here’s the executive summary of this annual review of employee engagement activities, competencies, and maturity levels for large companies:

Engaged employees are critical assets to their organization. It’s not surprising, therefore, that customer experience leaders have more engaged employees than their peers. To understand how companies are engaging their employees, we surveyed 169 large companies and compared their responses with similar studies we’ve conducted in previous years. We also asked survey respondents to complete Temkin Group’s Employee Engagement Competency & Maturity (EECM) Assessment. Highlights from our analysis of their responses include:

  • Front-line employees are viewed as the most highly engaged.
  • More than 70% of companies measure employee engagement at least annually, yet only 45% of executives consider taking action on the results a high priority.
  • Sixty-four percent of respondents believe that their social media tools have had a positive impact on their employee engagement activities, an increase from last year.
  • The top obstacle to employee engagement activities continues to be the lack of an employee engagement strategy.
  • While only 23% of companies are in the top two stages of employee engagement maturity, this is still an increase from last year.
  • When we compared companies with above average employee engagement maturity to those with lower maturity, we found that employee engagement leaders have better customer experience, enjoy better financial results, are more likely to take action on employee feedback, and face fewer obstacles than their counterparts with less engaged workforces.
  • You can use the results of the EECM Assessment to benchmark your own employee engagement activities.

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Here’s an excerpt from one of the 17 graphics that shows the maturity levels of employee engagement efforts in large companies and their effectiveness across five employee engagement competencies:Employee engagement competencies

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Report: The Four Customer Experience Core Competencies (Free)

Bruce Temkin, CCXP

the four customer experience core competenciesIf you are only going to read only one thing about customer experience, then this report is it. It’s the blueprint for building a customer-centric organization… and it’s free.

We just published a Temkin Group report, The Four CX Core Competencies. This blueprint to building a customer-centric organization is an update to our groundbreaking research that was originally published in 2010 and updated in 2013.

Temkin Group has conducted multiple large-scale studies demonstrating that customer experience (CX) is highly correlated with loyalty across many different industries, in both business-to-consumer and business-to-business environments. When customers have a good experience with a company, they are more likely to repurchase from the company, try its new offerings, and recommend it to others.

While many companies try to improve their CX by making superficial changes, Temkin Group has found that the only path to lasting differentiation and increased loyalty is to build a customer-centric culture. Temkin Group has studied hundreds of companies to uncover the difference between CX leaders and their less successful peers, and has identified four CX competencies that companies must master if they wish to build and sustain CX differentiation:

  1. Purposeful Leadership: Operate consistently with a clear set of values. (see video)
  2. Compelling Brand Values: Deliver on your brand promises to customers. (see video)
  3. Employee Engagement: Align employees with the goals of the organization. (see video)
  4. Customer Connectedness: Infuse customer insight across the organization. (see video)

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This whiteboard video describes the Four CX Core Competencies:

Here’s an infograhic with the best practices described in the report:the four customer experience core competencies

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Report Outline:

  • Customer Experience: The Case For A New Approach
  • The Customer Experience Core Competencies
    • Purposeful Leadership: Operate with Clear and Consistent Values
    • Compelling Brand Values: Deliver on Your Brand Promises to Customers
    • Employee Engagement: Align Employees with Goals of the Organization
    • Customer Connectedness: Infuse Customer Insight Across the Organization
  • The Journey to Customer Experience Maturity
  • Assessing Your Customer Experience Competency

 

Figures in the Report:

  1. Customer Experience Correlates To Loyalty
  2. The Four Customer Experience Core Competencies
  3. Strategies For The Four CX Core Competencies
  4. Characteristics of Strong Brand Promises
  5. Employee Engagement Virtuous Cycle
  6. Six D’s of a Successful Voice of the Customer Program
  7. Operationalize Critical Fixes: Four Closed Loops For Taking Action
  8. Design Personas
  9. Example of a Customer Journey Map
  10. The Customer Journey Mapping Pyramid
  11. Strategies For Designing Experiences Based on Human Behaviors and Biases
  12. Six Stages of Customer Experience Maturity
  13. Temkin Group’s Customer Experience Competency and Maturity Assessment

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Report: 2017 Temkin Experience Ratings, UK

Bruce Temkin, CCXP

We just published a Temkin Group report, 2017 Temkin Experience Ratings, UK. This is the same customer experience benchmark that we’ve been publishing for U.S. firms over the past seven years.

The UK Temkin Experience Ratings is a cross-industry, open-standard benchmark of customer experience. To generate these scores, we asked 5,000 UK consumers to rate their recent interactions with 157 companies across 16 industries and then evaluated their experiences across three dimensions: success, effort, and emotion.

Here are some highlights from the research:

  • Co-op, M&S Food, and Lidl earned highest overall ratings, while Audi, BMW, and Flybe earned the lowest.
  • When we compared company ratings with their industry averages, we found that Saga, Premier Inn, Vauxhall, and Volkswagen most outperformed their peers, while Audi and Bank of Scotland fell well below their competitors.
  • Take a look at a listing of all 157 companies.

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Here are the top and bottom companies and the industry averages in the 2017 Temkin Experience Ratings, UK:

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Report Outline:

  • Co-op, M&S, & Lidl Earn Top Customer Experience Ratings
    • Supermarkets Dominate Top of Ratings and Rental Cars & Transport Control the Bottom
    • Success,Effort, and EmotionExperience Ratings
  • Calculating the Temkin Experience Ratings
  • The Path to Customer Experience Excellence

 

Figures in the Report:

  1. The Temkin Experience Ratingsis Based on the Three Components of an Experience
  2. 2017 Temkin Experience RatingsEvaluates 157 Companies Across 16 Industries
  3. 2017 Temkin Experience Ratings(TxR), Top 50 Organizations
  4. 2017 Temkin Experience Ratings(TxR), Bottom 50 Organizations
  5. 2017 Temkin Experience Ratings(TxR), Range of Industry Scores
  6. 2017 Temkin Experience Ratings(TxR), Industry Leaders and Laggards
  7. 2017 Temkin Experience Ratings, Most Above and Below Industry Average
  8. Industry Component Average Scores for 2017 Temkin Experience Ratings
  9. 2017 Temkin Experience Ratings, Leaders and Laggards in Emotion Component
  10. 2017 Temkin Experience Ratings, Leaders and Laggards in Success Component
  11. 2017 Temkin Experience Ratings, Leaders and Laggards in Effort Component
  12. Calculating the Temkin Experience Ratings
  13. Customer Experience Competencies and Maturity

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Report: Employee Engagement Benchmark Study, 2017

Bruce Temkin, CCXP

We just published a Temkin Group report, Employee Engagement Benchmark Study, 2017. This is the sixth year that we’ve published the benchmark of U.S. employees. The research is based on an online survey on Q3 2016. (Take a look at our Employee Engagement Resource Page).

For the sixth year in a row, Temkin Group used the Temkin Employee Engagement Index to analyze the engagement levels of more than 5,000 U.S. employees. We found that:

  • Sixty-three percent of U.S. employees are “highly” or “moderately” engaged – the highest level we’ve seen in the six years we’ve conducted this study.
  • Companies that outperform their competitors in both financial results and customer experience have more engaged workers.
  • Compared to disengaged employees, highly engaged employees are almost five times more likely to recommend the company’s products and services, they are over four times more likely to do something that is good, yet unexpected, for the company, they are three times more likely to stay late at work if something need to be done, and they are over five times more likely to recommend an improvement at the company.
  • Companies with 501 to 1,000 employees have the highest percentage of engaged employees, while companies with 10,000 or more employees have the lowest.
  • On an individual level, our research shows that the most highly engaged employees tend to be those who regularly interact with customers, who are highly educated, who earn a high income, and who are executives.
  • Forty-nine percent of construction employees are highly engaged, the highest level of any industry. At the other end of the spectrum, only 20% of employees in public administration are highly engaged.
  • Given the significant value of engaged employees, we recommend that companies improve engagement levels by mastering our Five I’s of Employee Engagement: Inform, Inspire, Instruct, Involve, and Incent.

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Here’s what we found when we examined year-over-year results for the Temkin Employee Engagement Index:

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Report Outline:

  • Employee Engagement Is On The Rise
  • Which Employees Are Most Engaged?
  • Master the Five I’s of Employee Engagement

 

Figures in the Report:

  1. Temkin Employee Engagement Index(TEEI)
  2. Engaged Employees Are Valuable Assets
  3. Engaged Employees Try Harder
  4. Customer Experience Leaders Have More Engaged Employees
  5. Temkin Employee Engagement IndexBy Industry
  6. Temkin Employee Engagement IndexBy Industry (2014 to 2016)
  7. Temkin Employee Engagement Index(TEEI) By Sie of Company
  8. Temkin Employee Engagement Index(TEEI) BY Amount of Customer Contact and Role Within Organization
  9. Temkin Employee Engagement Index(TEEI) By Organizational Role
  10. Temkin Employee Engagement Index(TEEI) By Age
  11. Temkin Employee Engagement Index(TEEI) By Income Level
  12. Temkin Employee Engagement Index(TEEI) By Education Level
  13. Results From Employee Engagement Competency Assessment

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Here are previous employee engagement benchmark studies: 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012.

Report: Engaging A Tethered Workforce

Bruce Temkin, CCXP

1701_engagingatetheredworkforce_coverWe just published a Temkin Group report, Engaging A Tethered Workforce.  Here’s the executive summary:

Companies across a number of industries create and deliver customer experiences (CX) through a combination of traditional employees and other workers who they do not directly control – such as contractors or employees of channel partners or outsourcing partners. Despite not being directly employed by the company, these other workers – who make up what Temkin Group calls a “tethered workforce” – still play a critical role in delivering experiences that represent the company’s brand. However, tethered workers differ from typical full-time, corporate employees in ways that pose challenges to brands’ efforts to align these workers with their customer experience goals and objectives. In this report, we examine how brands are tapping into these tethered employees. Here are some highlights:

  • Companies must manage three connections: 1) Between themselves and their partners that employ the tethered workers, 2) Between their partners and the tethered employees, and 3) Between themselves and the tethered workers.
  • We share over 30 examples of best practices from across Temkin Group’s Five I’s of Employee Engagement: Inform, Inspire, Instruct, Involve, and Incent.
  • We offer brands a blueprint for engaging tethered workers with key things to think about across the three connections of tethered workforces.

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Here are the 17 best practices described in the report:

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Report Outline:

  • Delivering Experiences Through Non-Employees Is Challenging
  • Brands and Their Partners Need to Engage Tethered Workers
    • Brand and Channel or Outsourcing Partner: Collaborate for Success
    • Partner and Tethered Workers: Balance Interests
    • Brand and Tethered Workers: Forge Attachment
  • A Blueprint for Engaging Tethered Workers

 

Figures in the Report:

  1. How Tethered Workers’ Characteristics Impact the Customer Experience
  2. Engaged Employees Are Valuable Assets
  3. Employee Engagement Virtuous Cycle
  4. How Characteristics of tethered Workers Can Be Mitigated by the Five I’s of Employee Engagement
  5. Three Key Connections of Tethered Workforces
  6. 17 Practices for Engaging Tethered Workers
  7. How Partner CX Advocacy Programs Can Help
  8. Best Practices for Partners to Balance Interests
  9. Select TouchPoint Support Services Manager Training
  10. Channels for Listening to the Voice of the Employee
  11. The Oxford Commitment
  12. Oxford Properties’ Dialogue Series
  13. Recommendations for Designing an Effective Employee Recognition Program
  14. Blueprint for Engaging Tethered Workers

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Report: Translating Brand Promises into Employee Behaviors

Bruce Temkin, CCXP

1608_translatingpromisesintobehaviors_coverWe just published a Temkin Group report, Translating Brand Promises into Employee Behaviors. Here’s the executive summary:

Temkin Group has found that the companies that deliver great customer experience use their brand as a blueprint for how they treat customers, which is why Compelling Brand Values is one of our four customer experience core competencies. Too often organizations put a lot of energy into communicating the brand externally, only to fall short on connecting employees to their role in keeping brand promises. And when employees aren’t connected to these promises, they tend to be less proactive, to act inconsistently, and to care less about their work. In this report, we describe three steps that companies can use to translate their brand promises into employee behaviors: Make promises, Embrace promises, and Keep promises. To illustrate this approach, we share over 20 examples of best practices from companies including Anthem, A&W Food Services of Canada, the city of Centennial, Oklahoma City Thunder, and Quest Diagnostics. To evaluate how well your organization follows this approach, use Temkin Group’s Compelling Brand Promises Assessment.

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Here’s are two of the 15 graphics in the report:

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Report: State of Employee Engagement Maturity, 2016

Bruce Temkin, CCXP

1607_StateOfEE2016_COVERWe just published a Temkin Group report, State of Employee Engagement Maturity, 2016. Here’s the executive summary of this annual review of employee engagement activities, competencies, and maturity levels for large companies:

Engaged employees are critical assets for any customer experience effort. As engaged employees are critical assets, it’s not surprising our data shows that customer experience leaders have more engaged employees than their peers. To understand what companies are doing to engage their employees, we surveyed more than 150 large companies and compared their responses with similar studies we’ve conducted in previous years. We found that two-thirds of companies survey their employees at least once a year, but that less than half of executives consider it a high priority to act on the results of that survey. We used Temkin Group’s Employee Engagement Competency & Maturity (EECM) Assessment to gauge the maturity levels and efforts of these companies across our five competencies, called the “Five I’s of Employee Engagement:” Inform, Inspire, Instruct, Involve, and Incent. We found that only 12% of companies have reached the top two levels of maturity, Enhancing and Maximizing, which is a drop from 2015. The lack of a clear employee engagement strategy remains the number one obstacle that companies face. We also compared companies with above average employee engagement maturity to those with lower maturity and found that employee engagement leaders enjoy better financial results than their counterparts with less engaged workforces.

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The bottom line: Companies should invest more in employee engagement.

Report: The Federated Customer Experience Model

Bruce Temkin, CCXP

1603_PathtoFederation_COVERWe published a Temkin Group report, The Federated Customer Experience Model. Here’s the executive summary:

When a company starts its customer experience (CX) journey, it often establishes a centralized team to build the necessary internal capabilities and catalyze change. However, that team’s effectiveness can be limited by a number of things, including divided attention within lines of business and a lack of resources to reach across the company. In its 2012 report, The Future of Customer Experience, Temkin Group identified the need for CX efforts to become more federated. To succeed in the long-run, companies need to focus more on embedding CX capabilities across departments and functions through a federated CX model. A federated model is a structure for enabling and coordinating a distributed set of customer experience capabilities, and it operates through centers of excellence—which spread specialized expertise beyond the boundaries of the centralized team—and enterprise CX coordination—which ensures that company-wide goals and standards are in place—and distributed CX skills and mindsets—which infuses customer-centric mindset throughout the company. These centers of excellence include deep analytics, reporting and data visualization, experience design, customer-driven process improvement, and culture change management. Enterprise CX coordination oversees enterprise CX strategy and governance, insights, metrics and reporting, standard methodologies and tools, central CX storylines, and portfolio management. And distributed CX skills and mindsets encompasses CX goal alignment, customer understanding, empathy orientation, improvement focus, and organizational awareness. The path companies take to federation can include multiple phases, such as centrally driven, cross-functional participation, distributed expertise, and federated. As their companies move down this path, successful CX professionals will be the ones who learn the business, coach and advise others, embrace empowerment, and keep learning; or, alternatively, they can choose to specialize and leave the central CX team to join one of the centers of excellence.

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Here are the elements of a Federated CX Model:

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Report: Employee Engagement Benchmark Study, 2016

Bruce Temkin, CCXP

1602_EEBenchmarkStudy16_COVERWe just published a Temkin Group report, Employee Engagement Benchmark Study, 2016. This is the fifth year that we’ve published the benchmark of U.S. employees. The research is based on an online survey on Q3 2015. (Take a look at our Employee Engagement Resource Page).

Here’s the executive summary: We used the Temkin Employee Engagement Index to analyze the engagement levels of more than 5,000 U.S. employees. We found that employee engagement has stayed relatively flat since last year, but engagement levels still vary by organization, industry, and individual. Companies with stronger financial performances and better customer experience have employees who are considerably more engaged than their peers. Our research also shows that out of all the industries, the construction sector has the highest percentage of engaged employees, while the retail sector increased the most since last year. We additionally found that companies with 501 to 1,000 employees have the highest percentage of engaged employees and companies with 10,000 or more employees have the lowest level of engagement. On an individual level, our research shows that employees who are highly educated, high-income earners, executives, male, and have very good bosses tend to be the most highly engaged. Given the significant value of engaged employees, we recommend that companies improve engagement levels by mastering our Five I’s of Employee Engagement: Inform, Inspire, Instruct, Involve, and Incent.

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Here’s what we found when we examined year-over-year results for the Temkin Employee Engagement Index:

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Report: Benchmarking HR’s Support of CX and Employee Engagement

Bruce Temkin, CCXP

1602_HRinCXBenchmark_FCOVERWe published a Temkin Group report, Benchmarking HR’s Support of CX and Employee Engagement.  We surveyed 300 HR professionals from large organizations in North America and compared the results to a similar study we did in 2012. Here’s the executive summary:

Employee engagement is a critical component of customer experience (CX). To determine how effectively human resource (HR) departments support these engagement efforts, we surveyed 300 HR professionals from large companies and compared the results to a similar study we conducted in 2012. Seventy-three percent of HR professionals believe that it’s very important for their organization to become more customer-centric, but only 31% believe that HR professionals are significantly helping these efforts. The good news? That’s more than twice the level of HR support we found in 2012. Compared with 2012, companies are both measuring and acting on employee feedback more frequently, and HR professionals have more bandwidth to work on employee engagement. When we compared the companies that deliver outstanding customer experience with the companies that don’t, we found that the CX leaders have better financial performance, enjoy higher levels of engaged employees, are more customer- and mission-centric, have HR groups that are more actively involved in CX and employee engagement activities, and more frequently measure employee feedback. To improve employee engagement, companies must master the Five I’s of Employee Engagement: Inform, Inspire, Instruct, Involve and Incent.

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Here’s one of the 25 figures in the report:

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Report: B2B Customer Experience Best Practices

Bruce Temkin, CCXP

1510_B2B CX Best Practices_COVERWe published a Temkin Group report, Business-to-Business (B2B) Customer Experience Best Practices. This report provides data on the state of customer experience (CX) in B2B as well as 20 CX best practices across five critical B2B processes. Here’s the executive summary:

Temkin Group research shows that although business-to-business (B2B) organizations are raising their customer experience (CX) ambitions, they still have a way to go before achieving their goals. Despite the fact that most large B2Bs have a low level of CX maturity, our research shows that 57% of them aspire to deliver industry-leading customer experience within three years. However, to improve their CX, B2Bs must master Temkin Group’s four customer experience core competencies: Purposeful Leadership, Compelling Brand Values, Employee Engagement, and Customer Connectedness. Our research uncovered 20 practices that B2Bs can emulate when applying those competencies across these five key business processes: sales and account management, implementation/project execution, support and issue resolution, partner alignment, and product management and innovation. To assess your organization’s CX maturity, use Temkin Group’s Customer Experience Competency Assessment and compare the results to data from other large B2B firms to chart your path to improvement.

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The report examines the state of B2B CX, including the results from large companies that completed Temkin Group’s CX Competency & Maturity Assessment:

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To help B2B organizations raise their CX maturity, we identify 20 best practices for mastering Temkin Group’s four customer experience core competencies: Purposeful Leadership, Compelling Brand Values, Employee Engagement, and Customer Connectedness. These practices are aligned with five key B2B activities: sales and account management, implementation/project execution, support and issue resolution, partner alignment, and product management and innovation:

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