Sarah Lubbe

Grant Ansell, new CEO of Smoke Customer Intelligence

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SmokeCI Announces New Leadership Appointment

[Johannesburg April 2024] Smoke Customer Intelligence, a leading provider of Customer Experience and Employee Engagement solutions, today announced a restructuring of its operations, resulting in the formation of distinct companies under the...

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The Ripple Effect of Non-monetary recognition of Your Employees

As a CEO or owner of a company, you understand the importance of recognizing your employees for their hard work and dedication. But oftentimes, it...

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Manager sitting at desk under pressure

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Common Day-to-Day Mistakes That Leaders Make And How to Avoid Them

In today's fast-paced business world, it can be tempting for leaders and managers to focus on the big picture and overlook the importance of small,...

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Micromanaging boss with unhappy staff

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Micromanagement Versus Empowerment: Finding Balance As a Manager

As a manager or team leader, it can be challenging to strike the right balance between micromanaging and empowering your team. On one hand, you want...

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The trend of hyper personalisation in CX

As part of our 11 part trend series, we examine hyper personalisation as a trend that continues to impact customer experience.

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Embracing Upskilling: A Strategic Imperative for Managers

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations are faced with the ongoing challenge of keeping up with technological advancements,...

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Engaged employees

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Your employee engagement strategy depends on how you enable career growth in your business

Employee engagement has become a key priority for HR executives in recent years. While there are many factors that can contribute to employee...

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How Committed Employees Drive Quality Work

Committed employees are an invaluable asset to any organization. Their unwavering dedication, passion, and drive have a direct impact on the quality...

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Keep Jobs Interesting and Exciting: Balancing Engagement and Performance

As managers and team leaders, it is essential to create an environment where employees find their jobs interesting and exciting. When employees are...

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4 Key CX Stats you need to know for 2022

Customer experience has become far more than a buzzword – it is a proven competitive advantage when looking to attract and retain customers for the...

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CX in financial services (and what you should be doing)

It’s hardly a surprise that organisations across industries are prioritising Customer Experience (CX) as key to their strategies in the coming years....

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Five Customer Experience lessons learnt during 2021

2021 has been another year full of strangeness, loss, and a new way of working, living, and interacting with others. As a new COVID-19 variant rears...

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Operationalising customer feedback in your contact centre

The contact centre is the heart of most businesses – often handling more customer interactions than any other touchpoint in your business. Much...

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Man looking at statistics with a VR headset with their female manager next to him.

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If your agents are cherry-picking customers to survey, you have a human behaviour problem, not a technology problem.

Often, your contact centre is your most prominent point of contact for your customers. It is the area of your business that handles everything from...

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How to overcome the obstacles facing your VOC programme

We have all seen the articles and research declaring that the ROI of customer experience being quite staggering – brands with superior customer...

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Customer Experience at arm’s length. It’s all about your intermediaries.

For many, creating customer experience is not as simple as delivering great service to the end customer making a purchase. Today's interconnected and...

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Don't let the Grinch steal Christmas. A complete guide to Detractors.

There are few Christmas stories more iconic than Dr Seuss's "The Grinch who stole Christmas" that was first published in 1957. The story written in...

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Employee Engagement The Santa Way

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Employee Engagement the Santa way. Why the Elves are happy at work.

The story goes that Santa employs a large workforce of elves, who spend the majority of the year in production lines building all sorts of toys. As...

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Planning Journey

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No idea how to build a Customer Journey Map? Here are our top tips

Customer experience is undoubtedly invaluable for any brand wanting to stand out from its competitors, but great customer experience is not...

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The black sheep no more. B2B Customer Experience finding its place

For many years, CX and Customer Feedback has found a firm place within the B2C environment, with many B2B organisations eschewing formalised feedback...

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