It’s time to make Customer Experience fun again! In this challenging year, we’ve all learned we need to have fun just to stay sane. Your Customer Experience program needs a little humor to thrive too. In my recent blog, Using Humor to Create Unexpected Customer Experience, I share how a Charlotte hardware chain uses humor to engage its customers. I also provide some guidelines for using humor in your Customer Experience program.
Why is humor so important to your customers? I found a blog by Joseph A. Michelli, Ph.D., “No jokes! The Role of Humor in Customer Experience,” that clearly answers this question:
- Minimize distorted perceptions of danger
- Help manage anger, thereby reducing conflict
- Provide breathing room for constructive decision-making
- Assist in communicating difficult feelings
- Enhance feelings of well-being
- Augment creativity
- Strengthen social relationships
- Abate the physical impact of stress
- Create an engaging work environment
For some additional tips to help you incorporate humor in your customer experience, I recommend Hubspot’s, “6 Reasons You Need Humor in Customer Service.”
What about your organization? How are you using humor? We’d love to know so we can share! Enjoy the signs.
Lynn Daniel
CEO
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