Customer Empathy
A Radical Intervention in
Customer Experience Management and Design
Start leveraging the most under-utilised and powerful human resource in business today — Customer Empathy.
Global performance reports show that current customer experience (CX) practices are failing organisations and their customers.
Two time author and leading authority on Customer Experience, Alex Allwood asks why, with so many organisations investing vast amounts of energy and effort into customer experience excellence, is there at best, only incremental gain?
As it stands, customer experience management and design is overdue for radical intervention.
Customer Empathy is a powerful human resource for positively impacting customer experience excellence. Alex Allwood outlines her customer-centric framework, methods and tools to switch on and scale customer empathy that can be used to solve the common customer experience management problems of low organisational commitment, poor alignment of cross-functional teams, and competing agendas and priorities.
Customer empathy helps leaders and employees to see the customer’s world differently. Doubling down on CX practices by switching on customer empathy to create deeper understanding, more meaningful connection, align and unite teams and enrich decision making to benefit customers, employees and the business.
Author, Alex Allwood features In…
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Latest Book, Customer Empathy
“A profound concept, simply and succinctly communicated. Don’t be limited by the title - this is a book that should be read and adopted as a manifesto by anyone who wants to connect with and serve others in a meaningful way.”
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“Alex Allwood opened my eyes to a new perspective on how we should view the customer experience and more importantly our relationship and the impact”
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“A profound concept, simply and succinctly communicated. Don’t be limited by the title - this is a book that should be read and adopted as a manifesto by anyone who wants to connect with and serve others in a meaningful way.”
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“A well researched and easy read. Quickly calls out why many organisations are missing the mark when it comes to executing their customer strategy.”
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“A must read for all who participate in designing customer experiences and interested in nailing it. Highly recommend this book.”
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6 Key Learnings In Customer Empathy
Customer experience management and design is overdue for radical intervention.
Customer Empathy humanises current approaches to customer experience management and design. The ability to empathise enables us to see the customer’s world differently. Through understanding their perspective we create more meaningful connections, align and unite teams and enrich our decision making to make a difference in customers’ lives—and in doing so, deliver customer experience excellence.
Customer Empathy is profitable.
“The top 10 empathy performers generated 50% more earnings than the bottom 10… We see year-on-year market capitalization growth soaring at 23.3%, compared to an average 5.2% across the Index as a whole.” – 2015 Global Empathy Index Report.
Globally, the returns from investing in customer experience excellence are not being fully realised.
Global performance reports reflect current customer experience (CX) practices are failing organisations and their customers. Forrester’s CX Index showed again this year, that “81% of brand scores stagnated; most industry front-runners were repeats; many gains too minor to render them statistically significant.”
With so many organisations investing vast amounts into customer experience excellence, WHY is there at best, only incremental gain?
The Customer Empathy deficit present in organisational culture is keeping customers at arm’s length. Data now represents customers that are out of view, who are seen as numbers on a spreadsheet and CX scores rather than human beings. Alex Allwood discusses how to change this status quo.
Empathy is fundamental to customer centricity.
Customer Empathy is fundamental to customer centricity; putting customers’ needs at the centre of thinking, problem solving and decision making to deliver customer experience excellence.
Alex Allwood discusses how to switch on, strengthen and scale Customer Empathy across your business to provide a new lens through which to see the customer’s world differently.
Understanding the customer’s perspective, feeling what they’re experiencing and considering this in designing and delivering experiences.
Ideal for VP's and executive leaders, customer experience professionals, CMO, CCO, CXO, senior leaders in customer roles, sales and marketing and customer service.
Written with the purpose of inspiring and empowering leaders with new possibilities and to provide teams with customer-centric frameworks, methods and tools.
Learn how to leverage the most under-utilised and powerful human resource in business today – Customer Empathy.
About the author – Alex Allwood
Alex Allwood is the founder and Principal Consultant of the customer experience management consultancy, All Work Together.
Alex works with leading Australian and international organisations to connect customer and culture; empowering leaders and employee teams to work together to enhance customer value and drive customer-centric growth.
Alex also teaches people in business how to develop and strengthen customer empathy skills to improve their customer experience capabilities.
Customer Empathy is Alex’s second book. You can find more of her writing in local and international publications including, BRW Magazine, CMO Australia, CustomerThink, Marketing Magazine, Smarter CX and more.
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Book Details
Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: All Work Together Pty Ltd
Published: November 2019
Language: English
ISBN: I978-1-925921-65-6
Dimensions: 198x11x129mm
Weight: 150 grams
Publisher information and contact details
Customer Empathy
A Radical Intervention in Customer Experience Management and Design
First published in Australia in 2019 by All Work Together (Australia) Pty Ltd
Level 8, 99 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Contact us here
Web: allworktogether.com.au
Phone: +612 9211 5575
How do I place a bulk order?
If you'd like to buy multiple copies of Customer Empathy for your next conference, team or customers, contact Alex through the publisher, All Work Together–there are discounts for bulk orders and Alex will personally sign each book!
Booking Alex for a conference keynote
Alex Allwood is a two time author and regarded as one of Australia’s leading authorities on Customer Experience. Inspiring audiences to harness the power of customer centricity she has had the privilege of sharing her knowledge and expertise with hundreds of business leaders at conferences, seminars, retreats and events. To discuss your next event contact Alex through the publisher, All Work Together.
Customer Empathy 'learn-by-doing' training workshops
Alex's signature 'learn-by-doing' training workshops are ideal for organisations looking to switch on customer empathy and develop employees' customer-centric capabilities. Contact Alex through the publisher, All Work Together.
Read more of Alex's published articles
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Bridging Organizational Silos With Customer Empathy
The reality is, siloed functions and a siloed mindset are entrenched in our organizational DNA.
In my experience, the most effective enabler in changing the silo status quo is helping people across the business develop their customer empathy skills.
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Are You Using Empathy Nudges?
What does your team discuss in their daily stand-up?
This got me thinking. How often are we really discussing our customers’ needs in our daily stand-up meetings, ELT meetings and project meetings, etc.? We know what we should be doing but how is this translating into enterprise wide, customer-centric behaviour; our small, day-to-day actions?
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Why your company has a customer empathy deficit
Organisations face a seemingly insurmountable challenge in transitioning to a customer-centric culture.
Executives and employees alike have lost their human connection with customers. They have lost a propensity to understand customers—to perspective-take, to step into their customers’ world and experience their lives from the customer’s point of view; to understand how their customers think, feel and experience.