The Experience: 5 Principles of Disney Service and Relationship Excellence

The Walt Disney Company is known the world over for its quality of service. No other company is able to consistently create the magic, joy, and excitement that are characteristic of the Disney brand though many have tried. What's Disney's secret? Drawing on years of experience training Disney employees and verseeing service excellence for other renowned organizations, the authors of The Experience reveal the five-part model that has kept Disney at the top for over 60 years. This model is applicable to all organizations involved in providing service or service-oriented products. The authors show readers how to transcend basic service and create experiences that customers will remember. The foundation of The Experience is the I.C.A.R.E Customer Experience model. Authors Bruce Loeffler and Brian T. Church explain why Impressions, Connections, Attitudes, Responses, and Exceptionals are the non-negotiable principles of service excellence and business success. Unlike many framework-oriented books, The Experience remains eminently practical with Actionables at the end of each chapter. Readers can follow these concrete steps to ascend through the levels of the Experience Hierarchy. Based on their survey of over 500 businesses, the authors of The Experience found that 60% of companies are average at best, and many of those are actually delivering a ''toxic experience.'' Only 3% have achieved exceptional experiences and this same 3% are likely to thrive into the future. In today's hyperconnected marketplace, these negative customer experiences are sure to be shared, and they can be disastrous for a business's reputation. On the other hand, only outstandingly positive experiences make it onto the social radar. That's why it's important now more than ever for organizations to know how their customer and employee experiences rank. Readers of The Experience receive access to the unique, interactive Experience Quotient tool, which assesses the five I.C.A.R.E. principles and provides next steps toward creating devoted customers and brand ambassadors. In-text Quotient Questions also help in the process of reflecting on existing experience strengths and discovering places where there is room for improvement. With The Experience any service-oriented company can achieve Disney-like levels of brand loyalty by executing the experience on an exceptional level.