What’s the tone of your customer experience?

Posted by Colin Shaw on January 24, 2011

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Alex Lickerman, M.D. has written a great piece on The Importance of Tone over at Psychology Today. The tone your organisation communicates can be vital at all levels of the customer experience. From the copy on the direct mail to the supervisor at the call centre; the manner, and not just the words, in which you communicate is vital to the shaping of your customer experience. There is the famous finding from John Borg that only 7% of communication consists of words themselves, with the other 93% made up of body language and paralinguistic cues.

I think the final piece of advice from Alex Lickerman can be true for organisations as well as individuals:

If you haven’t ever watched yourself interact with others in your daily life on video when you weren’t focused on being filmed or even aware of it, I highly recommend it. It might be a painful experience as mine was, but if you’re willing to be honest with yourself and recognize the truth of what you see—and more importantly the truth of what you hear—you can use it as a springboard for outstanding personal growth.

When did you last do an in-depth honest assessment of your organisations customer experience? We have previously done extensive work with clients providing this service, read more about it on our Assessing the Organization Customer Experience Orientation page

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Colin Shaw

Colin Shaw is founder & CEO of Beyond Philosophy, one of world's first organizations devoted to customer experience. Colin is a best-selling international author of four best-selling books. Beyond Philosophy has a proven track record in helping organizations improve their Customer Experience through providing consulting, specialised research & training services from Atlanta, Georgia and London, England.

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