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The 6 Disciplines Behind Consistently Great Customer Experiences

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Don't Become One of the Worst Places to Work

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Most of us are focused on learning and improving as leaders. Whether we've been at it for a year or 20, it is good to get some validation along the way. While that typically comes in the form of revenue or profit growth, we often look to other measures, like making certain rankings, or pride-generating awards.
But there's one list you don't want to wind up on: 24/7 Wall Street's America's Worst Companies to Work for. While most of us are not publicly-traded like those on the list (and may never aspire to be), I think there are some valuable lessons we can learn from their inclusion, besides the impact of bad publicity.
These bad companies to work for have several things in common. According to 24/7′s research, which centered on an examination of employee reviews on the job site Glassdoor.com, these companies generally rank poorly in customer satisfaction surveys, they don't offer training or development, and their employees complain about low pay as well as a lack of a promotional track or raises. In some cases, customers even complain about employee mistreatment.
The simple reminder here is that happy employees create happy customers and that is reflected in the perception of your business internally and externally.
Here's my five simple "Ps" to generate employee happiness and stay off of any worst-companies-to-work-for lists:

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and the impact of the boss.
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Cleveland Clinic"Martin Harris, MD, chief information officer of one of the
world’s most innovative hospital systems, describes how medical IT helps
providers engage consumers and cut costs."

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By Fred Strahl
So you’ve joined HubSpot and the leads are flying in. More leads than you have ever seen from cold calling, direct mailing, or conventions combined. That’s great…but now what?
Unfortunately, more leads do not always lead to more revenue. Generating leads is only the beginning.

You have to see each lead as a seed. If you want to reap the benefits of this seed, you have to nurture it.
Lead-nurturing emails can only do so much and at some point you have to pick up the phone and make contact.
Here is a list of tips to keep in mind while cultivating your leads.

• Qualify each and every lead - Find out if the lead is worth your time. Are you talking to the decision maker or an influencer? Can this company fit your product in their budget?
  
  Finding out the answers to these questions ...

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Know Your Stuff
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This is a guest post by Lavie Margolin. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines.

Have you ever conducted an internet job search and noticed a job that is the perfect fit for you?

Then when you applied, you got no response?

Was it frustrating to see the same job, that you are supremely qualified for, posted in various online outlets for months and months?

Why is this happening?

There are several reasons and it may have nothing to do with how qualified the applicants are.


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How I Use Visualization To Drive Creativity

How I Use Visualization To Drive Creativity:
This is a guest post by Mark Suster, a 2x entrepreneur turned VC.  He sold his second company to Salesforce.com, becoming VP of Product Management. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner focusing on early-stage technology companies. Read more about Suster on his blog at Bothsidesofthetable and on Twitter at @msuster.
Creativity.  I’ve always believed it’s been one of the most important attributes of business success yet something very few business leaders talk about.  So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity.

As a practitioner of creativity rather than as an instructor of it I’m certain that there are many ways to get the creative juices flowing and how to release more creativity.  The one that works best for me is visualization coupled with self talk.
Visualization is so important to help yourself & others conceptualize ideas.  It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This is a long post, so I put an executive summary here if you want to get the point without reading all the detail. If you plan to read the post you can skip the summary if you want.

• Almost all business success relies on creativity. This applies equally to VCs, startups & big company executives
• Despite the importance of creativity, there seems to be almost no focus on teaching it, encouraging it, training at it & incorporating it into our daily routines. The need for creativity extends well beyond product design.
• Many people are visual thinkers. Therefore to drive creativity people need to do visual brainstorming
• You need to find what works for you to put yourself in that environment and learn how to do “self talk,” learn how to create visual charts, learn how to test & iterate ideas and the learn how to effectively communicate results.
• For me I can only do this by myself. I think team sessions are better for testing ideas than for original thought, but that’s me. Solitude & creativity go hand-in-hand.
• I use tools to invoke my creatieve self.  One example is driving, which has an actual physiological reason it makes you creative. The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward
• One of the books that first made me aware of the “creative brain” was “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” by Betty Edwards.  It’s a book about creating art but shows how an artist’s mind gets “into the zone,” how creativity can be invoked, and why looking at what you create in a different way than the rational mind would conceive is an important part of creativity.  She literally encourages you to draw things upside down.
• Other ways I drive creativity are time pressure, showers & occasionally wine. All are known creativity drivers and are covered in the book mentioned above.  For others they swear by music.  I personally find music more distracting than helpful.
• Adding structure to creativity is not an oxymoron. It’s how you codify your ideas
• Like anything, creativity takes practice.  There’s no such thing as “not being a creative person.”  Some people are more creative than others but it’s within us all.  You just have to dedicate yourself to a wanting to tap your creative juices.
• I apply visual thinking for nearly everything I do: preparing for important phone calls (I imagine my opening lines, I imagine the responses), writing keynote presentations, deciding whether or not to invest in a company, preparing for board meetings – you name it.  These are all creative processes.
• Visualization is a well known technique in professional sports where the difference between winning & losing is often psychological more than physical.  If it can work for them, it can work for you.

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Employee Engagement infographic

Gallup Statistic on Employee Engagement and Business Success (Photo credit: BetterWorks)

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Employee Engagement infographic: High employee engagement is one of the most overlooked and underrated sources of competitive advantage.
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