This is The Customer Success Pro Podcast, hosted by Anika Zubair. Customer Success is not a destination, but a a journey. Join me on this crazy CS journey as I chat to leaders, strategists and experts in customer success about their experiences and definitions of customer success and share with your their best practices on how to build and scale world class CS organization. Each interview will unlock tips, tricks and best practices to help scale your customer success career and company. I will dive into important and relevant topics to help spread knowledge about customer success in order to help companies put the customer at the center of their business. Because at the end of the day when customer are successful, so is the company.
Learn more at: thecustomersuccesspro.com
This is The Customer Success Pro Podcast, hosted by Anika Zubair. Customer Success is not a destination, but a a journey. Join me on this crazy CS journey as I chat to leaders, strategists and experts in customer success about their experiences and definitions of customer success and share with your their best practices on how to build and scale world class CS organization. Each interview will unlock tips, tricks and best practices to help scale your customer success career and company. I will dive into important and relevant topics to help spread knowledge about customer success in order to help companies put the customer at the center of their business. Because at the end of the day when customer are successful, so is the company.
Learn more at: thecustomersuccesspro.com

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In this episode of the Customer Success Pro Podcast, Anika Zubair discusses the importance of building a customer-centric culture within organizations. She highlights common mistakes companies make in their approach to customer success and outlines actionable steps to create a culture that prioritizes customer outcomes. Anika emphasizes the need for cross-departmental collaboration, operationalizing customer feedback, and empowering teams to lead in customer success initiatives. The episode concludes with a metaphor comparing the customer journey to a relay race, underscoring the importance of teamwork in achieving customer success.
Chapters
00:00 Building a Customer-Centric Culture
02:48 Common Mistakes in Customer-Centricity
06:02 Steps to Create Customer-Centricity
12:15 Empathy and Recognition in Customer Success
18:19 The Relay Race of Customer Success
21:33 Actionable Challenge for Cross-Functional Collaboration
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