Online Training Course

Mastering Goal Setting for an Exceptional Customer Experience

Start setting more measurable, meaningful, & achievable customer experience goals.

To get the most ROI and value from your customer experience initiatives, it’s critical to set yourself up for success with a goal setting process that can help you deliver the highest impact.

This course teaches you how to:

  • Identify and evaluate key CX metrics that will move your corporate strategy forward the most (and the fastest)
  • Establish precise, meaningful customer experience goals backed by a wealth of data and business intelligence
  • Critically evaluate your goal setting metrics and data
  • Strategically track goal progress and benchmark company-wide success
  • Focus your business teams on driving growth in key strategic areas
  • Increase goal buy-in and accountability across your organization

This strategic goal setting course is for you if…

  • You lead, manage, or are responsible for parts of your company’s customer experience success.
  • You want more clarity & precision in setting meaningful goals for your customer experience (CX) and CX marketing initiatives.
  • You want to allocate your resources in ways that drive more effective customer growth.
  • You know you, your team, or your company can benefit from a more structured, repeatable goal setting and progress tracking process for your customer experience objectives.
  • You wish there was a more reliable way to define and benchmark progress on your customer experience initiatives.
  • You sometimes struggle to get buy-in and drive accountability amongst stakeholders and employees for accomplishing customer growth goals.
  • You understand that setting customer experience and growth goals based on data and business intelligence is crucial for success.

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Course Description

This course is full of practical, actionable guidance for conquering the challenges and uncertainties that often accompany setting marketing and CX research goals. It offers a clear process for measuring current objective performance, evaluating potential goal setting metrics, defining and measuring goal progress, and enhancing accountability and ROI.

Module 1: Intro to Goal Setting

  • Learn the ties between marketing research metrics and strategic corporate goal setting
  • Understand the role of customer centricity in goal setting – and vice versa

Module 2: Identify the Metrics That Best Align with Your Business Strategy

  • Define the business needs and primary growth strategy you’re setting goals for, and how your customer perspective aligns with it
  • Learn how to identify, define, and leverage north star metrics, key drivers, and supporting metrics that will help drive your strategy forward the most in your goal setting

Module 3: Evaluate Your Metrics – Internal Factors

  • Critically evaluate how internal factors (investments, initiatives, past performance, customer journey pain points, etc.) will impact your potential north star and goal setting metrics from Module 2 according to structured critera
  • Conduct a historical performance review of your metrics to understand current state and benchmark future performance

Module 4: Evaluate Your Metrics – External Factors

  • Identify and assess industry and market forces (regulations, disruptions, competitor activities, etc.) that could impact your metric performance and customer perceptions
  • Conduct competitor analyses to understand where your metric performance stands compared to competitors and give you a sense of what reasonable goals might look like

Module 5: Establish Your CX North Star Metric Goals

  • Based on your evaluations in Modules 3 and 4, select your north star metric(s) and determine what level of progress, or target performance, is reasonably achievable
  • Establish a realistic goal setting timeframe and outline measurement considerations, including what parameters you will put in place to evaluate significant movement on metrics and goals and avoid setbacks

Module 6: Implement, Monitor, and Benchmark Progress on Your Goals

  • Learn how to mobilize your resources toward achieving your goals, monitor progress in meaningful ways, and generate company buy-in and accountability
  • Organize stakeholder meetings to review assumptions and hypotheses, evaluate progress, and outline future goals

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