What does employee engagement really mean? How do you prevent a toxic work environment, and bad bosses from rising the ranks contributing to increased employee and customer service agent resignations?

Stacy Sherman interviews Robertson Stewart, a University teacher, and business author to provide actionable tactics to address major challenges that companies face today and for the foreseeable future.

You can AVOID high costs in terms of retention (the lack of), leading to excessive turnover, recruitment, and training expenses, and reduced productivity. By the end of the podcast, you’ll learn how to lead in optimal ways in which everyone wins: you as the manager, the employee/agent, and the customers too.

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About Robertson Stewart ~Maximizing Customer Service Agent and Employee Engagement To Deliver Customer Excellence

“My experience as an employee and manager has now stretched over a period of nearly 40 years, during which time I’ve had numerous opportunities to learn. Arriving in France in 1992 and not speaking a word of French I managed to work my way up from cleaner to General Manager of some of the biggest Luxury Hotels in Europe (three of those hotels with a thousand rooms or more).

​During the course of my career, I have led teams from a handful to several hundred. I now teach management to Masters and Bachelors’s students in both English and French at reputed management schools in Paris France. I also coach and mentor executives and managers on an individual basis. Last but certainly not least I also run a training company with my partner in Paris.

​I live in France between the west coast (Vendée) and Paris but tend to spend the majority of my time in the capital due to my various work obligations and activities. My greatest interest and passion is for people management and the way that this is evolving and what it is evolving towards.

I started writing in 2019 following a discussion (actually an argument!) that I had with various people regarding what was more important; the way that customers were treated in service industries or the way that employees were treated in those very same organizations. This discussion set me to thinking about the importance of companies taking a more employee-centric view towards the way they were running their business. In other words, being less « customer-centric » and being more involved with the way they were managing relationships with their employees. Over the last years, I have also taught a lot to my students about the importance of building internal value (for the employees) before external value for the customers (putting so to speak the « horse before the cart » and not behind it!).

​All of this is what led me to write my first book Employee Power which talks about why there is so much need today for a paradigm shift from customer to employee-centric management. In the book, I explain why it is that Employee Relationship Management (ERM) should always come before Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Not only that but I also explain in the book how to harness this power that I call employee power in order to create sustainable competitive advantage.

​My second book was released in November of 2020 and is called One to One – Managing quality time with individuals for engagement and success. My main ambition for the moment is to become a mainstream management writer and author.”

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About Stacy Sherman: Founder of Doing CX Right®‬

An award-winning certified marketing and customer experience (CX) corporate executive, speaker, author, and podcaster, known for DoingCXRight®. She created a Heart & Science™ framework that accelerates customer loyalty, referrals, and revenue, fueled by engaged employees and customer service representatives. Stacy’s been in the trenches improving experiences as a brand differentiator for 20+ years, working at companies of all sizes and industries, like Liveops, Schindler elevator, Verizon, Martha Steward Craft, AT&T++.   Stacy is on a mission to help people DOING, not just TALKING about CX, so real human connections & happiness exist. Continue reading bio >here.