• Customers are paying for their own experience, not the employees'.
• Employee mindset directly impacts customer experience.
• Leaders should not blame younger generations for work ethic issues.
• Service aptitude is crucial for exceeding customer expectations.
• Training should focus more on soft skills than just operational processes.
• Previous life experiences shape service aptitude significantly.
• Current work experiences are essential for developing service aptitude.
• Companies must invest in customer experience training.
• Removing personal interpretations is key to consistent service.
• Leadership is responsible for cultivating high service aptitude.

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Takeaways:

• The DiJulius Group was founded on the principles of customer service.
• Leadership development is crucial for maintaining a strong team.
• Empathy is a learned skill that can be taught.
• Investing in employee development leads to better retention and satisfaction.
• Community building is essential for a successful business.
• The challenges of entrepreneurship require emotional resilience.
• Younger generations face unique challenges in developing people skills.
• Training and development should extend beyond the first six months of employment.
• Creating a culture of recognition enhances employee engagement.
• The future of work will require adaptability and continuous learning.

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The Soul of a Startup

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• John always had an entrepreneurial spirit.
• Their salon was created to improve the industry.
• Customer service was the key differentiator.
• Hiring inexperienced staff was a bold strategy.
• Transitioning to speaking was unexpected but rewarding.
• The importance of mentorship and learning from others.
• Building a strong company culture is essential.
• How The DiJulius Group evolved from speaking to consulting.
• Lessons learned shaped future business strategies.

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The Soul of a Startup

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This week, John sits down with his managing partner, Denise Thompson, to discuss her evolution at The DiJulius Group, and what advice she has those who work alongside entrepreneurs.

In this episode, we focus on rolling new content out to staff, and our guest is Brenda Larson is the Manager of Learning and Organizational Development for The Community Blood Center. The Community Blood Center is a blood donation center based in Appleton, WI, serving over 40 hospitals and holding over 100 blood drives monthly. With over 200 employees working across multiple locations and shifts, rolling out new content to the entire team was a challenge!

Brenda discusses how she created a 90-minute training/overview that she conducted over 39 sessions to ensure all team members learned and understood the new content. She also discusses the pros and cons of holding multiple sessions, with an emphasis on the many pros she realized from this effort.

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How to build your Personal Brand

Chief Revolution Officer, John DiJulius sits down with Rory Vaden, who is the New York Times bestselling author of Take the Stairs. His insights have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN, Entrepreneur, Inc, on Fox News national television and in several other major media outlets. As a world-renowned speaker, His Tedx talk has been viewed over 2 million times, he is a 2x World Champion of Public Speaking Finalist and he was recently named as one of the top 100 leadership speakers in the world by Inc Magazine. He is also the Co-Founder of Brand Builders Group where he teaches people to build and monetize a rock solid reputation™.

Learn:

·      What is a personal brand?

·      How a personal brand applies to experts, entrepreneurs, & executives.

·      What the three E’s of content creation are.

·      The best ways to build your credibility in your area of expertise.

·      Is it better to be a generalist or specialist?

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Learn more about Rory Vaden & Brand Builders

This week's guest host is Dave Murray.

The DiJulius Group’s Vice President of Consulting and co-author of The Employee Experience Revolution,  Dave is a master at helping companies create real change that sticks.  He excels at communication and easily bridges the gap between your corporate leaders and front-line team members.  His passion for building ideal environments can lead your team -as it has his previous clients- toward attaining award-winning customer satisfaction, best place to work achievements and record-breaking profits. He has over 30 years of experience in customer service.   His background in the sports and entertainment industry gives him an uncommon understanding of marketplace competition and high expectations.  Unflappable and highly respected, Dave Murray is one of today’s leading customer experience strategists.

This episode was recorded from a webinar.

Learn:

• Negative Cues: Spot and remove cues that create negative perceptions of your brand.
• Service Defects: Fix the most common places where your company drops the ball.
• Recovery Systems: Develop recovery processes to handle inevitable service breakdowns, ensuring your customers leave satisfied even when things go wrong.
• Consistent Complaints Handling: Equip your team with the tools to manage difficult customer interactions smoothly and confidently.
• Never & Always: Define your non-negotiable service standards. This leads to eliminating service defects, ensuring your customers know what to expect every time, and building trust with consistent delivery.

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The DiJulius Group Chief Revolution Officer John DiJulius talks with Leslie Shreve Founder and CEO Productive Day® Workload Management and Productivity Expert, Creator of Taskology® The Science of Getting Things Done.

Leslie shows executives how to increase efficiency and productivity by up to 300% in as little as 4 weeks, gain 1-2 hours back in their workday—EVERY day, spend up to 50% LESS time in their email Inbox, and make more powerful progress—WITHOUT working nights and weekends.

Learn: 

• What’s missing from today’s typical workday strategy and why it will make or break your productivity.
• How to gain 1-2 hours BACK in your workday—EVERY day—so you can use it more effectively.
• How to get more accomplished in less time with less stress—no matter how busy you are.
• How to plan, prioritize, and accomplish tasks faster and easier—without missing, losing, or forgetting anything.
• The 3 unsuspecting places where time is hiding in the workday and how to get it back.
• How to get to ZERO in the Inbox and spend up to 50% LESS time on email every day.
• Why the latest tips, tools, tactics, short cuts, apps, and hacks are holding you back—and what to do about it.

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Chief Revolution Officer John DiJulius discusses how today customers are suffering from survey fatigue. There may be better ways to measure your customer satisfaction than surveys. John shares the best KPI’s and how every business should have an ROX (Return on eXperience)Dashboard.

Learn:  

• What’s wrong with customer surveys
• Why customer surveys are not the most important thing a company should be measuring
• What are the top CX metrics you should measure and hold everyone accountable for
• How to create a ROX (Return on Experience) Dashboard
• When to use customer surveys

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Employee Experience Executive Academy

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Today’s episode is from a live Q&A with The DiJulius Group Chief Revolution Officer John DiJulius, during which he answered questions from business leaders on how to be more effective leaders.

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