Course Description
Becoming customer-centric is one of the most important aims of any organization. Customer centricity refers to the orientation of a company to the needs and behaviors of its customers, rather than internal drivers such as the quest for short-term profit. Customers have high expectations and demand quality customer service from companies they choose to do business with. Providing customer service excellence gives an organization a competitive advantage in the marketplace and is the key factor that keeps customers coming back. Successful organizations understand the importance of developing a customer-centric mindset and deliberately restructure their customer service model to increase customer satisfaction and brand loyalty.
What Do Participants Learn?
By the end of this training seminar, delegates will be able to:
- Establish the importance of setting and reviewing customer service standards
- Develop an understanding of internal and external customer expectations
- Communicate more effectively by utilizing active listening and questioning skills
- Demonstrate how to deal with difficult or demanding customers in a professional manner
- Set SMART objectives and goals to become more productive
- Utilize stress management techniques to increase job satisfaction
Who Should Attend?
- Frontline Customer Service Representatives (CSR)
- Team supervisors
- Department managers
- Account managers
- Field service representatives
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
Section One
The Building Blocks of a Customer-Centric Organisation
- Course overview and learning objectives
- Define Customer Service Excellence
- What do you want your customer to experience?
- Practical exercise: Identify specific ways to use ‘customer service’ to enhance customer loyalty and build employee morale
- Five key steps for implementing a Customer-Centric Service Model
- Serving your internal customers
- First impressions are important – What do your customers see and hear?
- Understanding your customer’s nonverbal communication
Section Two
Developing a Top-Down Customer-centric Culture
- What do customers really want from your organization and why?
- Does the ‘customer experience’ align with your organization’s business goals and vision/mission statement?
- What do your competitors do better or differently than you do?
- Practical exercise: What are the most admired leadership traits?
- Shaping customer expectations – perception versus reality
- Case study: Examples of companies that provide world-class customer service
- Little things make a big difference – ‘going the extra mile’
- The four customer personality types
Section Three
Responding to the Voice of the Customer
- Case study: Best and worst rated companies for customer service
- Listen, act, and deliver on customer needs
- Re-evaluate and realign the customer experience in line with demand
- Creating favorable customer service ‘touch points’ within your company
- Practical exercise: List the ways that your organization creates positive ‘touch points’ to enhance the ‘customer experience’
- Leading and motivating others to deliver superior service levels
- The Customer Loyalty Chain
- Developing the processes that nurture customer brand loyalty
Section Four
Measuring and Monitoring Customer Satisfaction
- Why is measuring customer satisfaction important?
- Why is it critical to encourage customer complaints and feedback?
- Establishing quality customer service satisfaction measuring and monitoring standards
- Using customer centric diagnostic tools to evaluate trends, perceptions, and opportunities for performance improvement
- Best practices for recording and monitoring customer service issues
- Putting in place processes to resolve customer dissatisfaction
- Practical exercise: Customer service quality control checklist
- Strategies for working with difficult and demanding customers
Section Five
Leading the Way to Customer Service Excellence!
- The importance of attitude, teamwork, and professional development
- Developing a customer-centric training program
- Setting performance goals
- Contests and employee recognition programs
- Coaching and mentoring strategies
- Methods to empower and motivate customer service employees
- What is your Action Plan?
- Course review and feedback