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Engage employees with the vision

Engage employees with the vision

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Engage employees with the vision

- When we talk about getting employees to be customer-focused, we're really talking about employee engagement. Employee engagement is the extent to which an employee is deliberately contributing to organizational success. When you think about this definition, you may notice, we need two things. First, employees need to know how organizational success is defined, in other words, they need to know the customer service vision. Second, engaged employees make a commitment to help fulfill the vision with the customers they serve. There are three questions you can use to evaluate employee engagement in a customer-focused organization. The first is what is the customer service vision? Employees need to know it exists and be able to point to it, whether it's in a handbook, on a poster, or in some other location. Next, what does the customer service vision mean? We want employees to do more than just memorize a statement. They should be able to describe its meaning in their own words. And…

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