To ensure that quality of service is maintained competency in the core 'technical' skills of any role that falls within the customer relationship is no longer enough. Without the appropriate skills to enable staff to handle customers professionally – customers will label service as poor and seek to transfer loyalty to organizations, which are perceived to be genuinely concerned on their behalf. No two organizations are the same, and in line with our flexible cost effective approach to training has developed a series of customer service modules from which organizations can 'pick and mix'. This enables you to form the perfect customer service training solution for the requirement you currently face.
By the end of this course, delegates will be able to:
- Recognize why customer care and effective communication are paramount as a driving strategic parameter in today’s business world.
- Develop a complaints handling procedure that strengthens the bond between the organization and the customers.
- Be able to deliver a demand-led approach to business that recognises the poor standards of a supply-led approach to customer service
- Turn complaints into opportunities to delight customers and so grow customer loyalty.
- Develop assertiveness and good service mindsets and skill sets
Introduction:
- Underpin practical tools and collaborative, practical nature of the day. Emphasis on application of tools and interactive, participatory nature of the day (not a lecture)
- Why we need effective customer care & communication skills
- Why customer service matters
- What do our customers expect from us?
- How does your organization shape up against customer service expectations?
Why we need Demand-Led Customer Service:
- Demand-led ‘v’ Supply-led approaches to Customer Service
Excellence & Quality in Customer Service:
- What do we mean by ‘excellence’ and ‘quality’ of service?
- Placed within the Organizational Context.
- Quality & Attention to detail
- Tangible & intangibles of quality approach
Benchmarking:
- EFQM as a benchmark. How FM staff fit into the matrix.
- Customer-facing roles and stakeholder mapping exercise to know my ‘customers’
Stakeholder Mapping:
- Identifying all our stakeholders.
- Determining their expectations.
- Implications on exceeding expectations.
- Customer relationship management
Customer Service Team Cohesion:
- Belbin Team roles…..what is my role(s)?
- Team Task Exercise (Helicopter Model Build).
- Controlled exercise and team debrief.
Forum Theatre & Case Study:
- Forum Theatre (role play)
- Case Study around client facing interaction. Facilitator plays role of customer / stakeholder and groups experiment in forum theatre style interacting with character played by facilitator using CRM techniques from earlier in the sessions.
Seven reasons for Failure:
- Understand why change is difficult to implement & what to avoid when moving the team towards a customer service change approach (reference for delegates)
Overcoming Resistance:
- Understand what motivates people and how to overcome inevitable team member resistance to customer service change. Managing staff through the change curve.
Road to Success:
- Tool for leading their teams through CRM change and building sustainability into the process for better improved service support
CRM Tools:
- Overcoming cognitive dissonance among clients and customers
- Measuring customer satisfaction using qualitative / quantitative metrics (Moments of Truth).
Listening to Customers:
- 80: 20 Ratio
- Active Listening Skills – 3 x Levels of listening
- Building relationships
- Diagnostic Listening
Effective Customer Communicating:
- Effective written communications to customers
- The Readability Index
Assertiveness and Good Service:
- Dealing with customer complaints
- Diffusing anger and creating damage limitation
- Team leaders
- Managers
- Technical managers and specialists
- Senior technical administration staff responsible for business development and marketing support