Course Overview
It is essential to accurately measure what your customers want and to develop breakthrough strategies to serve their needs. The heart of any organisation can be found beating inside the walls of its customer service department. A satisfied customer’s positive “word-of-mouth” endorsement is by far your company’s greatest asset and most effective marketing strategy.
The Service Quality & Customer Satisfaction training course gives Participants the best practices, communication skills, conflict resolution strategies, and customer satisfaction assessment tools they require to build a customer-centric organisation. Delegates will discover how to use a variety of statistical methods to collect and measure key indicators to identify service quality gaps to improve customer service satisfaction.
Course Duration
5 Days
Who Should Attend
- Customer Service Professionals
- Customer care Managers and Supervisors
- Team Leaders, Supervisors & Department Managers
- Administrators
- HR & Training Professionals
- Accounts Personnel
- Sales & Marketing Professionals
- Public Relations Personnel
Course Objectives
- At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Use comprehensive statistical measurement methods to sample and analyze customer satisfaction
- Establish the importance of setting and reviewing customer service excellence standards
- Communicate more effectively by utilizing active listening and questioning skills
- Demonstrate how to deal with demanding or aggressive customers in a professional manner
- List goal setting techniques and time management tips to increase productivity
Course Outline:
Module 1 -Factors that Build Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty
- Course overview and learning objectives
- Why is measuring customer satisfaction important?
- Breakout session: How to Use Customer Service to Increase Sales
- Using the brainstorming technique to improve customer satisfaction
- Breakout session: Brainstorming Ideas to Enhance the Customer Experience
- Case study: Benchmarking Good and Bad Customer Service Providers
- Customer service lessons from Taxi Terry
- Going the Extra Mile to deliver customer service excellence
- Your attitude makes a difference
- The importance of teamwork and cooperation
- Teambuilding and leadership exercise
Module 2 -The Voice of the Customer: Measuring and Monitoring Customer Satisfaction
- Managing customer expectations
- Common mistakes in customer satisfaction measurement
- Best practices: Advanced Customer Satisfaction Measurement Tools
- Interpreting body language gestures, eye movement, and handshake styles
- Understanding various types of customers using DISC profiting model
- Practical exercise: Determining Your DISC Profile
- Developing your listening skills
- Practical exercise: Listening Skills Survey
- Questioning skills to uncover customer expectations and service requirements
- Designing a Customer Satisfaction Measurement Survey
Module 3 - Techniques for Handling Complaints and Working with Aggressive Customers
- Best practices for recording and monitoring customer service issues
- Empowering frontline employees to better serve their customers
- Telephone tips to promote a professional image
- The supervisor’s role in conflict resolution and service recovery
- Managing emotions during stressful situations
- Principles of persuasion: Negotiating win / win outcomes
- Giving and receiving customer feedback
- Evaluate service trends for performance improvement
- Working with difficult or aggressive customers
- Developing a Step-by-Step Process for Handling Customer Complaints
Module 4 - Exceptional Customer Service: Taking Your Organisation from Good to Great!
- Benchmarking the characteristics of customer-focused organisations
- How well does your organisation communicate the importance of customer service
- Does your mission statement reflect a commitment to customer satisfaction?
- Case study: Xerox Five Pillars of Customer Focused Strategy
- Overcoming communication barriers in the workplace
- Serving internal and external customers
- Your customer service is only as good as your worst employee
- Social media and PR damage control
Module 5 - Leading the Way to Superior Customer Service Satisfaction
- Practical exercise: Developing a Plan of Action
- Goal setting for personal development
- Practical exercise: Time Management Survey
- Time management tips to overcome procrastination and maximize productivity
- The impact of stress on individual and team performance
- Stress management strategies for maintaining peak-performance
