Decoding Customer Needs | Jeanne Bliss | Engati Engage

Jeanne Bliss is a leadership and customer experience advisor and keynote speaker who motivates and guides the worlds’ most beloved companies to become unforgettable; earning growth and admiration through their elevated business practices and the humanity of their people.

She is the Founder and CEO of Customer Bliss and Co-founder of the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA).

As a strategic advisor, she’s guided over 20,000 leaders on using her 5-competency framework proven to achieve customer-driven growth.

As a keynote speaker, 1,500 of the world’s largest companies have asked her to address their audiences on how to elevate their position with customers and in the marketplace.

Decoding Customer Needs- A Video with Jeanne Bliss

Decoding Customer Needs

This section will contain a summary of our interview with Jeanne Bliss on understanding customer requirements. However, if you’d rather hear her speak, we have our Spotify Podcast embedded below.

Could you walk us through the 5 competency framework?

The 5 competencies revolving around understanding customers to drive your growth.

The 1st competency is to honour and manage customers as the asset of your business.

That’s all about doing simple customer math that’s united across the organization. It asks the organization whether the experience delivered earned them the right to grow.

It connects the experience to the financials of the business.

The 2nd competency gives your leaders a frame to drive accountability based on customers’ goals.

A lot of people talk about Journey Mapping, but Jeanne talks about Goal Mapping here.

It’s about understanding customers goals, the metrics that drive them and how you listen to your customers.

The 3rd competency is uniting multiple sources of information to listen to your customers.

Surveys are not the only way to understand customers. You want to scrape social media , understand complaint trending and even send your leaders to do a bit of experiential listening .

The 4th competency is what she calls the Revenue Erosion Early Warning System.

It’s about tracking the metrics that customers cared the most about.

Are we tracking and rewarding ourselves for tracking and achieving the goals that the customers care about or are we only concerning ourselves with internal goals?

Finally, the 5th Competency is about leaders enabling people to thrive.

It’s about leaders having a common language , uniting the organization and rewarding people.

Learn more about The 5 Competencies here.

How can AI and technology improve customer experiences?

It comes back to listening here.

Think of AI as another piece of machinery around your Early Warning Detection System.

The company Stichfix blends AI with High Touch . It takes information collected from consumers with the help of AI and hands it over to a team of 4000+ stylists who then customize it in a human way, guided by the data.

In essence, it’s all got to be blended and used together to achieve customer goals.

How can chatbots be used to improve customer service? Which industries have got a head start in this game?

The key with chatbots is to be clear of the appropriateness of it and when a customer can opt out of it.

But you need to give your bot a personality.

Unless you give your bot a personality, it will sound exactly like every other bot out there.

So, think about your brand’s personality and tone and let your bot reflect this. Let the interactions be enjoyable.

You also need to be using your bot in collaboration with humans.

Once again, it all needs to blend together.

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Did you like the thoughts and knowledge shared? Curious to read the whole interview?

Here is the link to the whole interview.