Customer Experience Strategy and Service Excellence

Overview

Introduction:

Customer Experience Strategy and Service Excellence function as strategic disciplines through which organizations govern customer perception, trust, and long-term value realization. When integrated into governance frameworks and leadership priorities, customer experience operates as a sustained source of competitive advantage rather than a reactive service activity. This training program presents structured CX strategic constructs, service excellence models, and organizational alignment mechanisms relevant to complex service environments.

Program Objectives:

At the end of this program, the participants will be able to: 

  • Explore customer experience as a strategic discipline connected to organizational governance and competitive positioning.

  • Differentiate between service excellence as an operational function and customer experience as a driver of long-term value.

  • Assess service models, customer touchpoints, and experience structures within complex service environments.

  • Review alignment between service execution, organizational priorities, and customer expectations.

  • Identify sources of service inconsistency and experience-related risk that influence competitive and reputational outcomes.

Targeted Audience:

  • Customer Experience and Service Management Professionals.

  • Contact Center and Customer Operations Leaders.

  • Team Leaders and Supervisors in Customer-Facing Roles.

  • Professionals with governance or oversight roles.

Program Outlines:

Unit 1:

Customer Experience as a Strategic Discipline:

  • Customer experience strategy within organizational and governance contexts.

  • Strategic roles shaping customer perception and value realization.

  • Leadership and governance responsibilities in CX direction and oversight.

  • Relationship between CX strategy and competitive positioning.

  • Organizational responsibilities for customer experience outcomes.

Unit 2:

Service Excellence Strategies and Operational Perspectives:

  • Service excellence strategies and operating principles.

  • Conceptual approaches supporting service consistency and quality.

  • Roles of frontline and support functions in service delivery.

  • Managing service expectations across multiple interaction channels.

  • Conceptual techniques for reducing service variability.

Unit 3:

Customer Journey Strategies and Touchpoint Perspectives:

  • Customer journey strategies across lifecycle stages.

  • Approaches to identifying and prioritizing critical touchpoints.

  • Roles involved in managing moments of interaction.

  • Coordinating digital and human experience channels.

  • Recognizing experience gaps and misalignment across journeys.

Unit 4:

Organizational Alignment and CX Governance Perspectives:

  • Organizational roles supporting customer experience alignment.

  • Governance perspectives for experience oversight and consistency.

  • Leadership accountability, escalation awareness, and role clarity.

  • Cross-functional coordination in experience governance

  • Managing experience related and reputational exposure

Unit 5:

CX Performance Strategies, Risk Techniques, and Oversight Roles:

  • CX performance and feedback perspectives at a strategic level.

  • Techniques for recognizing service inconsistency and risk.

  • Oversight roles in CX performance discussions and review forums.

  • Linking experience outcomes to competitive positioning.

  • Direction setting roles for sustained service excellence.