Introduction
Welcome to the unit Deliver and monitor a service to customers (BSBCUS301A).
Work through the information to learn about: * keeping an eye on customer needs * delivering service to customers * monitoring the quality of service that employees deliver to customers * reviewing customers' satisfaction and suggesting ways to improve the quality of service.
Knowing your customers
Customers can be described as external and internal customers. Your organisation may have corporate customers and individual members of the public – external customers.
In a courier business, external customers are the people who request the delivery of their goods and the people who are receiving the delivered goods.
Internal customers may be
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Provide prompt service
Excellent customer service is achieved when employees combine their good interpersonal skills with good product, policy and systems knowledge.
In today's business world, customers expect prompt service. The speedy provision of customer service is essential in attending to customers' needs.
Customers may understand they need to wait if they can see that you are busy serving someone else. However, this understanding does not extend to you chatting to other staff, continuing with an unrelated task or dealing with, for example, one of your sales representatives.
Your organisation will have policies and procedures that impact your delivery of service to customers.
Pricing and discount policy
Your organisation may have a policy on pricing and discount that will help you answer customers' questions about the price of a product. This policy can guide you when a customer has a different view to your organisation about what they think the price or discount of a product or service should be.
You can refer to the policy and be confident that your explanation to the customer is fair, reasonable and is stated company policy.
Pricing varies in different situations, for example, recommended retail price (RRP), trade-ins, special promotions.
Discounts may include, discounts for cash, prompt payment discounts, concession
3. For your current organisation (or one that you are familiar with), describe the policies and procedures that relate to customer service. Why is it important to follow these policies and procedures?
The customer service personnel should be in a position to acknowledge their clients and pay attention well to whatever they say and put into practice active listening. They should also give a chance to the customers to respond to the services the company offers perhaps through the enterprise’s website. For any company to prosper, good customer relation is paramount in building a loyal
Customer service is the most important aspect of any business. Without an adequate relationship with its consumer base, a company is at an enormous disadvantage.
However it is not just external customers you should give a positive impression to; all people will respond better to positivity and so it is also important to give a positive impression to internal customers who will usually be colleges from outside your work team but within the same business. Giving a positive impression to them will in turn make themselves want to give a positive impression internal and external customers, it will also help to build better internal relations which will benefit the business by allowing better communication which will then allow the business to operative smoothly and effectively.
External customers are individuals or businesses who do not work for you but buy goods or services from you. As a manufacturer you may purchase your components parts from other companies and become their external customer. You then produce your product which you sell on to your own external customers. This can also apply to services, like hiring booking services as opposed to employing someone, you then become the bookkeepers external customer.
Internal customers are staff members of NBC. This can range from the Chief Exec, Leader of the Council and Councillors, to neighbourhood wardens, customer facing staff and admin assistants.
Section 1 – Understand the factors that affect an organisation and the customer service role
Customer service must satisfy the needs of the customers to ensure a service companies’ quality is maintained.
3. For your current organisation (or one that you are familiar with), describe the policies and procedures that relate to customer service. Why is it important to follow these policies and procedures?
Since we’re living in a technological time of high expectation, the same applies to customer service. People want to see how their needs are being taken care right away. I know this isn’t always possible, but at least we should try to find a balance between the client’s hurriedness and the office responsibilities. Therefore, as one of my goals is the patrons to feel their questions are taking care as soon as they mailed to us. I quick message lets them know that we receive their request, and to wait for
We will always deal with a variety of different personalities and behaviours here. I speak to most customers on the phone and they could be calling for any number of reasons for example, an issue has risen with one of the windows we installed, or perhaps they are looking for a quotation. I have to be able to deal with a variety of
Customers want to be treated in a friendly manner with honest, straightforward information and responses. They appreciate a customer service representative who is willing to admit mistakes and work to correct them. Customers who believe they have been misled stop doing business with the company. These ‘critical incidents’ are experiences that make the customer walk away and never return. They don’t complain, they just leave and share the negative service experience with others. The bad news spreads, leading the organisation to lose more customers and deterring prospective customers. Critical incidents can include broken promises that annoy and anger customers. Customers expect to be informed if a promise cannot be fulfilled. Finally, customers expect understanding and empathy from a customer service representative who is willing to see things from their point of view, especially when there is a problem.
3. 10:30am – 10:50am: Research on features of excellent customer service:Effective announcing in consumer service depends upon a thorough tolerant of the wants and attitudes of consumers, thus, what is significant figure to them and their apprehensions in terms of assistances, manufacture quality or announcing and take the way of through. Many organizations carrying on surveys to conclude what users believe strongly and how well they are achievement at meeting those presumption.
1.Identify the sources of internal and external data for all three (3) types of customers.