Well adopting NPS will change nothing by itself. It’s what you do around it.<\/strong><\/p>\nI guess the other part of your question is the execution, and in our journey, initially, there were a number of things that were significant items around systems or processes that we needed to do centrally. And we got some good wins that got us from the +14 to the +30s. But when we hit the +30s, what we found was that the central programs to improve customer experience were actually becoming increasingly counter-productive. Despite all the goodwill. And I believe the reason for that is, as the customer experience starts becoming very strong, as it is at +30, because the scale is -100 to +100 so you’re well above the norm. Often the levers you deal with centrally in a significant corporate, what you prove with one hand you kind of have an impact somewhere you haven’t fully appreciated that actually takes the experience down somewhere else. And in fact the dials become more finer, and you need to tune them more carefully. And it’s very hard to do that centrally. So what we found is that the people who really took us from the 30s to the 50s to the 60s, have in fact been the front line staff and the immediate managers, who can change those dials, who can change the way we interact with customers, can change the empowerment and the decision process around small things that often are quite impactful on the experience. And that’s what’s got us to the next level. But the only way you can do that of course is with having very high sample rates.<\/p>\n
On the sample rates, I know that’s a conversation that we’ve had before. Have you got some top tips about fixing people’s low sample rate? \nThere’s a few ways of doing it, certainly transparency helps enormously because they quickly realise that if they don’t have a high sample rate, one or two scores for individuals can sway the outcomes. So they quickly work out that it’s in their best interests to have a good sample rate.<\/p>\n
Also, the key is to not rely on email surveys. It’s important to sample immediately after the experience is over, not even a few hours later. Customers just move on. The interaction they had with you is only a small part of their lives and if it’s not particularly bad or good, most customers don’t bother responding thinking it wasn’t a noteworthy enough experience.<\/p>\n
The single most important thing is if you do the phone call back within 24 hours from the supervisor to the customer who scored us poorly (so 0-6 out of 10 in the “would you recommend” question). If you call them back within 24 hours, even though you’re calling them back on something that didn’t go well, it has an incredibly reinforcing experience that you really do care about what they think. And if it’s a real life person who is genuinely interested in why they give the score without any sort of judgement or trying to convince them to change their mind. The customer thinks “wow, they really care”. And I think what a lot of companies forget is that when they do those anonymised surveys after the event, the person responds and they send back one of those trite sort of “we value your feedback” type responses, it just says to this the customer “they don’t value my feedback”. And they hear no more. And they won’t do the survey again, because they feel it’s pointless, and their voice hasn’t been heard by the organisation. But when someone calls so quickly and is genuinely interested and ask open questions to understand why, that’s got a really powerful reinforcing effect.<\/p>\n
If we could turn to the other thing that you guys do which I haven’t see anybody else doing the same way, it’s that interplay of onshore vs offshore and graduates and millennials and fixed term contracts. Tell me more about the hub. \nWell I guess for us, it’s part of our brand, because we saw ourselves as doing the opposite to our competitors. Where they zig, we zag, in our industry, both in the Telecom businesses as well as the IT industry. Tens of thousands of jobs being sent offshore to India and elsewhere for customer service, and we saw an opportunity to do the opposite of our competitors. We were inspired by what we saw, in a very small number of examples, of what could be done onshore. But you had to do exceptionally well, because you have, after all, a cost base probably three times for an employee what it would be if the same role had been overseas. \nWe spent a lot of time understanding what a young person in their early twenties, mid twenties, maybe late twenties and some cases, who’s just finished their undergraduate degree, wants. What kind of role they would value, and what their expectations were. It was fascinating. One of the things we found was that when I graduated from university, you always looked for a career. Not a job for life (that was probably more the post-war generation). But you still wanted a career, and you wanted a good job that would lead to another good job in time. But what we’ve found in our research is that the current generation are not looking for that sort of play, they’re actually interested in a role that they’ll have excellent training and development, that they see the role as a time frame more like 2 years. Although it varies of course, some people think of it as a year and a bit, and others might see it as a 3 or 4 year role. But typically 2 years is about the time frame, and they want to do more things in their life. And quite often their thinking is “I’ll do this role for a period and then I’ll travel. Then I’ll do something completely different outside of the workforce, maybe something to do with the community. Or I might have a career. I’ll see how it turns out”.<\/p>\n
What we’ve done is with all our new graduate trainees (although we don’t call them that, we call them customer service professionals), with their undergraduate degrees, we say to them “you have a two year contract, we commit to a level of training for them over that 2 year period”. But they also commit to actually doing the training and passing exams. We give them automatic pay rises when they pass exams, and that idea of continual development, of continual reward and recognition, and then an end date to this role, has been very powerful both in terms of getting the right sort of people on board in the first place. People like to learn and people like to grow. But also it’s had the effect of saying to them “you know what, at that the end of two years, I will graduate professionally from this role and at the end of 2 years I can then go and do what I want to do next; be it travel, or work. And our experience is about a third of our staff leave after 2 years, they travel or something. We thought about a third would probably leave and go to a competitor, which we’re totally fine with (after the 2 year period). But we’ve probably found that only a significant portion (about half of them) end up moving to a different role inside Macquarie after the 2 years.<\/p>\n
Does the program attract the best graduates? I mean, did it at the beginning? Does it now? Have you built some reputation in Sydney around the program. \nWe’ve got two programs, and there’s a slight difference between them; ones for more technical people, and one’s for people with non-technical degrees. And the technical degree program probably does attract the ones who’ve got stronger technical backgrounds, because they’re quite excited about working for a company that does have real career paths in technology. But what we’re looking for more than grades at university, is we’re looking for people who have a genuine customer service gene inside them. Who generally like serving other people. Enjoy it. And it’s a bit like in your own family and friends circle. It’s not someone who knows how to fix problems with laptops or software. It’s also people that have a style, and an approach, where you actually enjoy interacting with them after they’ve helped you with your laptop or your software. It’s actually a pleasure, and you feel good afterwards. Whether the program was a complex one that you really needed them for, or something embarrassingly simple that you probably could have solved for yourself if you had have known how.<\/p>\n
It’s the ones where you come away from that experience feeling like it was a good one. And that’s the sort of person we’re looking for, in their early or mid twenties.<\/p>\n
Thank you very much David. Can I ask you one more question? What’s the one thing that you believe that most people don’t? \nI think one of the most important pieces is, and it’s often talked about, and it’s the idea of an employee value proposition. And I’ve certainly spent a lot of time looking at it. I think you do have a unique opportunity when people start out, to really craft that. And to track people who believe in that value proposition, as opposed to try to sell it to people who have already come on board with some other sets. People have become, I think, a bit skeptical sometimes of EVPs, they’re just things created by the HR department, they sit on websites. I actually have seen that they’re very effective, like with our graduate recruitment I’ve spoken about, you just attract the people who actually want to be there. And yes it does mean you miss out on some people that otherwise you would have hired, but what you get is a completely aligned organisation. And I’ve seen that at times where there’s been some bumps along the road, you’ve created such a strong culture and such a strong commonality of purpose and expectations that that team of people just carry through that bump without any impact on service or staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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