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Enhance customer service skills, handle objections, improve team dynamics, and exceed client expectations. Learn proactive strategies, empathy, and teamwork to ensure quality service and customer satisfaction.
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M.J.D. Customer Service Consultants Customer Service Owned by Matt Bandoni
Objectives • Practice and learn to handle difficult objections • Shorten the customer cycle for first time callers • Gain valuable insights into client concerns and relationships
Objectives • Learn to be proactive rather than reactive • Learn to show empathy • Gain agreement from unhappy clients Work as a team when dealing with customer concerns
Agenda • Introduction • Program objectives/agenda review • What is customer service? • Implementing a fully integrated customer service system • Keeping your customers satisfied • Customer service versus football
Agenda Cont…. • Teamwork in a customer’s world • Developing and setting high standards • Positive and negative customer experiences • Customer expectations
Why Is Customer Service So Crucial? • Today’s customers are highly intelligent and have extremely high expectations • Many products all stores can get, service levels are what separate great organizations from the competitors
How Does the Company Benefit? • Employees that are better equipped to handle customer service have less turnover and higher job satisfaction
Define Quality? • qual·i·ty (kw l -t ) KEY • An inherent or distinguishing characteristic; a property. • A personal trait, especially a character trait: "The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence" (George S. Patton). • Everyone will have their own definition
How Do Some Companies Solve This Problem • Invest tens of thousands of dollars to study the problem, when we already know what needs to be done • Practice apathy and ignore all problems • Continue to lose more business daily
What Should M.J.B. Consultants Do About This? • We need to take action to help improve the quality of service that you deliver
What Happens When There Is a Gap Between What the Customer Expects, and What They Receive • A study conducted by BenchmarkPortal found: • 96% of unsatisfied customers do not directly complain • 90% will not return to the establishment • 1 unhappy customer can tell 10 more • 13% will tell at least 20 people
What Is Customer Service? • Research, sales, marketing and public relations applied at the most basic level. • The basis for one-to-one customer relationship building. • An avenue for future and current profitability.
Customer Service • Customers are the life-blood of any business -so providing great customer service is critically important.
Customer Service • Customers expect the same quality that you would expect to receive. • Keeping the customer satisfied needs to be the goal of everyone in the organization.Memory Activity • Remember all Pictues
How Does Dramaturgical Theory Apply to Customer Service? • Dramaturgical theory suggests that a person's identity is not a stable and independent psychological entity • But is constantly remade as the person interacts with others.
Implementing a Fully Integrated Customer Service System • Quality customer service begins when management’s customer service values are reflected through front line staff.
Even Online Customer Support Is Falling Short. A study conducted by BenchmarkPortal found: • 51% of companies did not respond to inquiries at all • Of those that did respond, 70% failed to respond within 24 hours • 79% responded with an inaccurate and/or incomplete answer
Keeping Your Customers Satisfied • The more employees that know about the goals of the company as a whole, the better they feel about their job
Keeping Your Customers Satisfied • Internal customer relations is designed to build and maintain the critical skills necessary to be a dynamic and successful service professional
Football Compared to Customer Service • One way a football quarterback enables his team to execute successful plays is by making sure every player understands what his teammates are doing in the play
Football Cont…. • Members of a football team do not advance the ball by keeping their plans secret from one another. Colleagues in a company do not advance their plans by withholding information or assistance from one another
Dealing With the Difficult Customer • Identify the forces that compel people to be difficult • Examine and practice essential communication skills • Turn conflict into cooperation, emotion into reason, and hidden agendas into honest dialogue
Dealing With the Difficult Customer • Develop strategies for dealing with the 10 most difficult customer behaviors • Identify and alter their own difficult behavior
You and Your Inside Customer • Identify personal behavioral tendencies • Assess opportunity areas for skill development • Determine factors that create internal customer dissatisfaction • Practice techniques to improve active listening skills
The End • Thank you for trusting us!