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Customer Service, Customer Experience, Employee Experience, Employee Engagement, Stephen Spencer, The Motivation Agency.

Customer Experience: From Britain’s Iceberg to Britain’s Lifeboat

In June 2015 I wrote an article for the Tourism Society Journal entitled Customer Service: Britain's Tourism Iceberg, in which I reflected on the sad reality that, while Britain's image overseas then ranked three in the world as a "nation brand" (behind Germany and the USA), for "quality of welcome" we were limping in 13th place. As I wrote at the time, “Whilst London 2012 unsurprisingly boosted our ranking, we have now fallen back to where we were in those dark, pessimistic, pre-Olympics days.” I argued that our failure to provide a world-class welcome threatened our long-term competitiveness as a major tourism destination - hence, the iceberg analogy.

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Customer Service, Customer Experience, Employee Experience, Employee Engagement, Middle Management, The Motivation Agency.

Stuck In The Middle With You

It feels like every time a major business has a restructure, it becomes a cull on middle management. Clearly, middle management are expendable.

More than once, I have heard Directors moan that their middle managers are a blocker to innovation and change. Clearly, middle management are stuck in the mud.

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Perfection over progress Perfectionism

How Much Are We Striving For Perfection Over Progress?

We put a lot of pressure on ourselves to do things perfectly and get things right first time. But do we really learn anything by achieving perfection on our first attempt? Or is learning by making progress – having a go, reflecting on the outcomes, adapting the approach and trying again more effective?

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Leadership, Integrity, Self-awareness Compassion, Collaboration, Trust, Support and Empowerment of others.

New Leadership

As our frustrations of the pandemic finally start to lift there is a sense of excitement and panic as restaurants find themselves fully booked for the next year, holiday apartments sold out, people booking flights to foreign countries… and business leaders scrabble to “hit the ground running.”

And I fear we have learned nothing.

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