Course Outline

Day 1: Introducing Quality Management and Customer Services

  • Introduction to Quality Management
  • The history of Quality in business
  • Basic Quality concepts
  • What is it that Customers want?
  • How can we calculate the total cost of Quality?
  • Customer satisfaction is a perception and can be managed
  • Setting customer expectations
  • Changing internal perceptions
  • Getting closer to customers, understanding value
  • Understanding customer needs and expectations
  • Commitment starts at the top of the organisation

Day 2: Service Quality Tools & Techniques

  • Five steps to Effective Quality Management
  • Beginning with measurement
  • Then we need methods of Control
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Service Quality Tools and Techniques
  • Tools and approach to be used to include
  • Integrated Quality Management Systems
  • ISO
  • Balanced Scorecard
  • Six Sigma
  • Questionnaires
  • Pareto Analysis
  • Nominal Group Technique
  • Cause and Effect Analysis
  • Solution Effect Analysis
  • Selection Grid

Day 3: Managing Customer Expectations

  • Exceeding customer expectations every time
  • Determining how to exceed expectations
  • It’s the little things that matter – increased satisfaction at minimal cost
  • Asking for feedback on performance
  • Ongoing evaluation of effectiveness to ensure satisfaction
  • Maximise the value you deliver
  • Understanding different customer styles

Day 4: People Skills to Deliver Excellent Customer Service

  • Back to basics – communicating with our customers
  • Identify Listening Styles for you and your customer
  • Building Rapport
  • Influencing skills
  • Persuasion techniques
  • Dealing with Difficult Customers
  • Understanding Customer Behaviours
  • Understanding where Anger comes from
  • Developing Emotional Intelligence

Day 5: Operating Virtually & Making it Happen

  • Best Practices in using Social Media
  • Search Engine Optimization Masterclass
  • Using the tools, models and techniques discussed so far in 2 case studies
  • A Real-Life case study (in small teams)
  • Your own work situation (in same-company groups or alone)
  • Producing a Plan of Action to take back to the office
  • How to improve customer satisfaction in 5 quick steps

Requirements

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 35 Hours

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