Measuring Customer Outcomes

Just like elections or referendum polls, measuring customer satisfaction can often throw up unreliable and surprising results. The downside of believing what people say they will do and what they actually do can have many business people going in entirely the wrong direction strategically. And while the measurement fundamentals are similar for most businesses the questions to ask and the specific metrics to collate can vary dramatically.

Using a single question or number, whether it relates to a customer’s willingness to recommend or how easy they found the transaction may be mildly interesting but is sadly lacking in the kind of insight that businesses need to deliver consistent, memorable, and differentiated customer experiences – and to stay in business.

Course Description

Really understanding your customers’ needs and wants, the differences between them, and how they truly feel about your company are critical, non-negotiable elements in measuring what is important to them and their decisions to continue to do business with you.

This workshop delivers a practical and flexible approach to truly understanding customer needs and designing the questions to ask to meet them, the metrics to use and how best to action them.

Learning outcomes

What you’ll take away:

A keen sense of bringing data to life and turning insight into action to create Positive Customer Outcomes (PCO)
An introduction to the Four Principles of Customer Experiences to develop new thinking and strategy that can significantly improve insight and action
Gain insight into implementing organisational support via a cross-functional team to agree what metrics to use and why
Interaction with other delegates to share and surface new ideas and ways of working

Benefits to your business

Why you should attend

You need clarity to accurately interpret and prioritise customer needs
You need to identify where, how and why these needs aren’t being met
You need to pinpoint the cost of not meeting these needs in both financial and operational terms
You need to develop metrics that can swiftly and comprehensively provide a clear picture of the value you’re creating for your customers and any barriers to success
You need to be able to transform insight into measurable, quantifiable, and verifiable action

Course content

Clearly identify the business problems you want to solve – what do we need to measure that is most valuable to customers
The role and importance of emotion in customer feedback
Review and appraisal of your current metrics and methodology
How to determine their efficacy in customer and employee experience terms
What different metrics can and/or can’t tell you
Operational design principles for a successful feedback and insight ecosystem

About the trainer

Gerry Brown

Gerry Brown, aka The Customer Lifeguard, is on a mission to save the world from bad customer service. He helps businesses save customers at risk of expiring and breathes life into their customer service operations and customer experience strategy. Gerry has provided organizational leadership on people development, business transformation, customer engagement and technology enablement for some of the largest companies in the UK, Canada, and EMEA. These include East Sussex County Council, B3 Living, National Express, Nutricia, The Royal Albert Hall, Endsleigh Insurance, O2, Screwfix, Sage, Sky, Bell Canada and TELUS.

He is a frequent speaker, chairperson, panellist and facilitator at conferences, webinars, company events and other business gatherings, where his many years of business and customer service experience provide stimulating, thought-provoking engagement and audience participation.

He is also a published author and his new book When a Customer Wins, Nobody Loses is available on Amazon to help business leaders to create winning and memorable customer experiences. Gerry is a Member of the Professional Speaking Association (PSA), the Global Speakers Federation (GSF), the Customer Experience Professionals Association, a Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP) and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Commerce & Manufacturing (RSA).

What delegates say

“Gerry is an excellent trainer and a great communicator. Really enjoyed the session and the experiences shared by other participants.”

Upcoming Dates

Pick a date below and fill in the booking form to reserve your place and places for colleagues. We will raise an invoice, so if you need to provide a purchase order number, please do so in the form or email it to info@ccma.org.uk.