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Optimizing Employee and Customer Engagement to Drive SuccessEngagement to Drive Success
John H. Fleming, Ph.D., Principal
Chief Scientist, Customer Engagement & HumanSigma
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What Are Your Vital Signs?
� Heart Rate
� Respiration
� Blood Pressure
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What Are Your Company’s Vital Signs?
� Heart Rate
� Respiration
� Customer
Engagement
� Employee
Engagement
� Blood Pressure
Engagement
� Financial and
Operational
Effectiveness
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What Is Engagement Optimization?
� An holistic approach to “optimizing” your company’s vital signs.
– The behavioral economics of the employee-customer encounter
� Like Six Sigma, focus on reducing variability in performance and
improving organizational effectiveness.
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� Unlike Six Sigma, focus on the human aspects of organizational
performance to drive profitability and growth.
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In manufacturing, value is
created on the factory floor when
a product is made available for
sale
The Employee-Customer Encounter
But in the service economy, value is
created when an employee meets – and
interacts with – a customer
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To achieve meaningful operational and financial improvements, the employee-
customer encounter must be
The Employee-Customer Encounter
customer encounter must be
Measured, Managed, and
Optimized.
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Engagement Optimization
� The EO approach is based on five “new rules” that our research
and experience have found facilitate the effective management
of the employee-customer encounter.
� The 10 companies (1,979 business units) from our research who
applied these principles outperformed their 5 largest peers
during a recent one-year period by:during a recent one-year period by:
– 26% in gross margin and
– 85% in sales growth.
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Engagement Optimization | The “New Rules”
1. Like vital signs, the employee-customer encounter must be
conceptualized and managed holistically.
2. The employee-customer encounter is fundamentally emotional.
3. The employee-customer encounter must be measured and
managed locally.
4. The effectiveness of the employee-customer encounter can be
quantified and summarized in a single performance metric – the quantified and summarized in a single performance metric – the
Optimization metric – that is powerfully related to financial
performance.
5. Optimizing local performance requires attention to a
combination of “transactional” and “transformational”
intervention activities.
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Optimization Rule #1 | E Pluribus Unum
1. Like vital signs, the employee-customer encounter must be
conceptualized and managed holistically.
Because value creation in the service economy flows from the
interaction between employees and customers, both sides of
the employee-customer encounter must be viewed as
interrelated and mutually-dependent systems that should be
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interrelated and mutually-dependent systems that should be
measured and managed as a coherent whole, not as
independent activities housed within separate organizational
entities.
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Optimization Rule #2 | Feelings Are Facts
2. The employee-customer encounter is fundamentally emotional.
Because both employees and customers are human agents, the
measurement and management of the employee-customer
encounter must acknowledge and incorporate the critical
emotional infrastructure of human behavior and decision-
making, yielding a concept that extends well beyond traditional
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making, yielding a concept that extends well beyond traditional
considerations of employee and customer “satisfaction” – a
concept we refer to as engagement.
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Employee Engagement
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U.S. Engagement Scores 2008
29%51%
Actively
20%
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EngagedNot EngagedActively
Disengaged
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Employee Engagement Hierarchy
Growth
Teamwork
How canwe grow?
Do I belong?
100%
Financial Outcomes
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IndividualContribution
Basic Needs
What do I give?
What do I get?
0%
What Does Employee Disengagement Look Like?
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The 12 Elements of Great Managing
THE FIRST ELEMENT
Knowing What’s Expected
THE SECOND ELEMENT
Materials and Equipment
THE THIRD ELEMENT
The Opportunity to Do What I Do Best
THE SEVENTH ELEMENT
My Opinions Seem to Count
THE EIGHTH ELEMENT
A Connection with the Mission of the Company
THE NINTH ELEMENT
Coworkers Committed to Doing Quality Work
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THE FOURTH ELEMENT
Recognition and Praise
THE FIFTH ELEMENT
Someone at Work Cares About Me as a Person
THE SIXTH ELEMENT
Someone at Work Encourages My Development
THE TENTH ELEMENT
A Best Friend at Work
THE ELEVENTH ELEMENT
Talking About Progress
THE TWELFTH ELEMENT
Opportunities to Learn and Grow
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Employee Engagement and Performance
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Note: Differences are between top and bottom quartile workgroups. Absenteeism statistic is the difference between engaged and actively disengaged employees.
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Employee Engagement and EPS
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2.6x Higher Growth Rate for
High-Engagement Companies
Note: Based on analysis of data from 89 publicly traded companies.
Engagement data collected from 2002 to 2004. Comparables averaged 7.3 competitors per company.
Customer Engagement
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“Not everything that can
be counted counts.” be counted counts.” -Albert Einstein
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Understanding Customer Engagement
� Customers are not strictly rational – healthy, engaged customer
relationships have a significant emotional dimension which must
be measured and managed.
– “When it comes to customers, feelings are facts.”Simon Cooper, President & COO, Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company LLC.
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� Simply satisfying customers on a rational basis is not enough to
drive financial performance.
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Satisfaction Is Not Enough | Three Kinds of “Satisfaction”
Dissatisfied
“1-4”
Emotionally
“5”“5”
Rationally
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1 2 3 4 5
Not at all satisfied
Extremely satisfied
DissatisfiedSatisfiedSatisfied
Satisfaction Is Not Enough
Retail Banking
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Surgeons
Customer Engagement Hierarchy
Can’t imagine a world without
Perfect company for people like me
Treats me with respect
Feel proud to be a customer
Fair resolution of any problems
Your company is irreplaceable to
me. I feel passionate about you.
Your company is prestigious. It
is part of who I am.
When we have a problem,
Passion
Pride
Integrity
Increased Financial & Operational Effectiveness
Fair resolution of any problems
Always treats me fairly
Always delivers on promise
Name I can always trust
When we have a problem,
you always treat me fairly.
I can safely assume that
you will always keep
your promises.
Integrity
Confidence
Rational Foundation
Overall Satisfaction
Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Continue
Your company executes
and fulfills my basic
expectations.
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Customer Engagement Drives Financial Performance
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Optimization Rule #3 | Think Globally, Act Locally
3. The employee-customer encounter must be measured and
managed locally.
While other kinds of organizational activities may be managed
effectively from the top down, the employee-customer encounter
is an intensely local phenomenon whose effectiveness varies
considerably from location to location within the same company.
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considerably from location to location within the same company.
Because of this variability in local effectiveness, its
measurement and management must be focused locally.
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Local Performance Variation Is the Scourge of High Performance
Average Performance
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Range of Performance
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Variation = Danger
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Optimization Rule #4 | The One Number You Need To Grow
4. The effectiveness of the employee-customer encounter can be
quantified and summarized in a single performance metric – the
Optimization metric – that is powerfully related to financial
performance.
Our research has revealed that the two sides of the employee-
customer encounter potentiate one another and can be
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customer encounter potentiate one another and can be
quantified into a single Optimization metric. The interactive
effects of employee and customer engagement at the local unit
level exponentially drive operational and financial performance
and growth.
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Optimization | Bringing It All Together
� The Engagement Optimization Model arose from a set of
unexpected findings.
� Business units that had high levels of Employee and Customer
Engagement exponentially out-performed units in which one, or
both, of these critical vital signs were at sub-optimal levels.
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� These top performers are “optimized.”
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Q III Q I
“Optimized”
Engagement Optimization Quadrants
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Q IV Q II
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1.73.4
“Optimized”
70%
boost240%
boost
Engagement Optimization Quadrants
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1.71.0
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70%
boost
Engagement Optimization Bands
3.8x
5.2x
4.5x
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1.8x
2.5x
1.0
5. Optimizing local performance requires attention to a
combination of “transactional” and “transformational”
intervention activities.
Transactional activities, such as action planning and training,
are cyclical interventions that tend to be more topical and short-
term in focus, but recur regularly. Transformational activities, on
Engagement Optimization Rule #5 | If You Pray for Potatoes, You Better Grab a Hoe
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term in focus, but recur regularly. Transformational activities, on
the other hand, are structural interventions that focus on how
companies select employees, select and promote managers,
pay and appraise employees, do succession planning, and
recognize and develop employees. Transformational activities
are focused on creating an organizational infrastructure that
supports Engagement Optimization.
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Transactional Interventions
Performance
Measurement &
Accountability
Learning, Adjustment,
& Alignment
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Education &
Dialogue
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…these must be
all managed.
To reliably
influence these...
Transformational Interventions
Engagement Optimization
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all managed.
Transformational
Interventions
treme Optimization at Bank SX
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What have been the results? | Bank S
� Revenue up 25% year over year.
� Stock price up 35% over past three years.
� Assets up 27%.
� Bank has moved up from #4 to #3 bank in region overall.
– #1 in net profit, ROE, and ROA.
– #1 in market cap.
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– #1 in market cap.
� Market cap of USD 6 billion.
– #1 in retail outlets.
� 850 branch locations (+400).
� 4,000 ATMs (+2,000).
– #1 in credit cards issued.
– #3 in total assets.
Optimization Summary | The “New Rules”
1. Like vital signs, the employee-customer encounter must be conceptualized and managed holistically.
2. The employee-customer encounter is fundamentally emotional.
3. The employee-customer encounter must be measured and managed locally.
4. The effectiveness of the employee-customer encounter can be
quantified and summarized in a single performance metric – the
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quantified and summarized in a single performance metric – the Optimization metric – that is powerfully related to financial
performance.
5. Optimizing local performance requires attention to a combination of “transactional” and “transformational” intervention activities.
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Q12® Employee Engagement
� I know what is expected of me at work.
� I have the materials and equipment I need to do my work right.
� At work, I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day.
� In the last seven days, I have received recognition or praise for doing good work.
� My supervisor, or someone at work, seems to care about me as a person.
� There is someone at work who encourages my development.
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� At work, my opinions seem to count.
� The mission/purpose of my company makes me feel my job is important.
� My associates (fellow employees) are committed to doing quality work.
� I have a best friend at work.
� In the last six months, someone at work has talked to me about my progress.
� This last year, I have had opportunities at work to learn and grow.
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CE11® Customer Engagement
Passion
Pride
Integrity
� I can’t imagine a world without [Brand].
� [Brand] is the perfect [company/product] for people like me.
� [Brand] always treats me with respect.
� I feel proud to be a [Brand] customer.
� If a problem arises, I can always count on [Brand] to reach a
fair and satisfactory resolution.
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Integrity
Confidence
Rational Foundation
� Overall, how satisfied are you with [Brand]?
� How likely are you to continue to choose/repurchase [Brand]?
� How likely are you to recommend [Brand] to a friend/associate?
� [Brand] always treats me fairly.
� [Brand] always delivers on what they promise.
� [Brand] is a name I can always trust.