We are Medallia, and this is our blog about customer experience, business performance, designing improvement, and more. Visit our products and solutions site for more information.

Medallia Ideas

Filed under

McKinsey

 

How to unlock the potential of your frontline: Turn administrators into leaders

In the article "Unlocking the Potential of Frontline Managers" McKinsey makes a strong case that companies should free their frontline managers from administrative chores and dramatically increase their focus on frontline coaching.  

Frontline managers often spend up to 60% of their time on administrative tasks and meetings - and may spend as little as 10% of their time managing and coaching frontline employees.   At best-practice companies, frontline managers spend 60-70% of their time on the floor doing coaching and other activities. 

The article presents several examples of how this more empowered approach drives better results. For example, at a convenience store chain, a focus on frontline coaching increased productivity by 65%.  Using a similar approach, a bank branch found that cross-selling went up by 24% within a year.

Full article here:

About us: Medallia software enables the whole company to listen to customer feedback and systematically act to improve the customer experience:  http://medallia.com