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The Employee’s Role in a Best-in-Class Service Organization

Employees play a pivotal role in building an atmosphere of trust, confidence, and loyalty among your customers. Every member of the team has an opportunity to contribute to creating a compelling customer experience, or one that fails to deliver on your brand promise.

Few would argue that staff on the front line greatly influence the customer experience, but the reality is all employees play a role in reinforcing your company’s commitment to the customer. Here are seven ways you can improve an employee's impact on the customer experience:

  1. Set clear expectations and hold employees accountable to a high standard of service
  2. Recognize success, both on a company and individual employee level
  3. Understand the factors that contribute to employee turnover
  4. Provide ongoing coaching, training, and education
  5. Track performance
  6. Communicate effectively
  7. Empower employees

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Achieving Higher Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty

Consider each individual touchpoint along your customer lifecycle. It begins when the customer first hears about your organization. It continues as long as your products or services are used or even considered by the company.

Think about all of the people that support the tools, processes, data, systems, communication, etc. for each interaction. It’s easy to see how nearly every employee plays a part in the experience a customer has with your company.

Improving the Customer Experience

To ensure employees are continuously focused on improving the customer experience, your customer-centric management philosophy must flow down forcefully from senior leadership through middle management and directly to employees.

A clear and cohesive vision communicates to employees that the customer experience is not an isolated initiative or expectation for them alone, but that the entire organization is focused on building customer loyalty. Our recommendation:

Set clear expectations and hold employees accountable to a high standard of service

Reinforce how they contribute to satisfying customers, and thus generating profits.

Recognize success, both on a company and individual employee level

When an employee does something extraordinary, use it as an opportunity to celebrate the achievement. A great way to keep your finger on the pulse of this is through customer satisfaction surveys, onboarding surveys, and net promoter surveys.

Understand the factors that contribute to employee turnover

Uncover the root cause of employee frustrations so they can be quickly addressed. To accomplish this we recommend doing employee satisfaction surveys, employee engagement surveys, employee opinion surveys, inderderpatramental surveys, and employee net promoter surveys.

Provide ongoing coaching, training, and education

Give employees the tools to make decisions that are beneficial for the company and each individual customer.

Track performance

Use metrics to measure and track both customer and employee satisfaction and retention.

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Communicate effectively

Keep your employees ‘in the loop’ when you implement any changes that stem from their feedback.

Empower employees

Give them the knowledge and resources to be successful; your customers will have a better experience because of it.

All employees need to know that customer loyalty is paramount and that customer-oriented goals should guide their actions and behaviors. Hitting on the points above will help these values become embedded in your organizational DNA, setting the tone for a customer-oriented culture.

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