Last week while at work I encountered a conflict with one of my client’s whose business is transitioning. The company will be transitioning from being part of one company to its own standalone company and this requires a great deal of preparation. Since I am doing the preparation work, one of the steps is to make sure that all of this client’s direct customer base has set up their new vendor id numbers for the new standalone company. I am responsible for making sure that each customer will receive the information that they need to set this vendor id up by providing the customer managers with all of this information to send to their customer. Before the customer could set up their vendor id numbers they needed to be notified that they would have to start sending their purchase orders for batteries and purchase orders for health and beauty care on separate purchase orders. This would need to start happening by August 1st. The reason for this is because in a couple of months battery orders will begin to ship by themselves on dedicated trucks and health and beauty care products would no longer be shipping with batteries as before. I did in fact send notification of these changes to each customer manager so that they could transmit this information to their direct customer. Well unfortunately one of the customers didn’t receive this notification because the customer manager was transferring into another position and didn’t do his due diligence to make sure that the customer
You can de-escalate a tense situation with ease and grace—working through a tough issue or bug with an upset customer not only doesn’t scare you, it’s a challenge you’re eager to take
Question 5How did you go above and beyond the call of duty when dealing with a customer?
In working in the work force I have come up close and personal with situations with customers that need to be resolved in a professional way. Situations with customers handled properly and resolved hastily leads customers with a good feeling ;so that they will continue to come to your area of business. For example, when I was working at Hobby Lobby I became upon a very distraught and upset customer. The Customer wanted to make a return on merchandise but was missing her receipt. The customer began to yell at me and said that she just wanted to easily make the return and go on with their day. The person was unhappy because the product did work the way she expected it to for her project. I looked at the merchandise and it was worth more than twenty dollars meaning without the receipt the customer had only two options. One was exchange the product for a product that wasn’t defective like this one, or I could give the person store credit.
If I were Dinah, after talking to my manager and getting a response that he/she was not going to do something about the matter, I would have gone to another manager in the company regarding the issue. This would have allowed them to come up with a strategy to communicate the error to the customer, have a plan on how they could fix the problem and keep the relationship with the customer in tact while also not affecting the existing customer base.
When you have all the details about the complaint, ask the customer how they would like it to be resolved.
It has recently been brought to my attention that a percentage of our sales representatives have been failing to log reports of their client calls in our electronic customer file each and every
While working on my first sales job with Verizon Wireless, I learned plenty of valuable information about the art of actively listening. I acquired some business accounts from the previous sales rep, unbeknownst to me, they were extremely dissatisfied with the lack of service they had received in the past months. In order for me to attempt to keep their business, I needed to assuage their complaints and simultaneously attempt to move forward in earning their business back to the firm. In my territory, I had two major business accounts that were disgruntled and I needed to re-build rapport and attempt to make them happy with again Verizon. However, this would be a enormous task, since the decision maker of the company and the previous sales
Acchione advised he could not wait until 10/17/16 for his package to arrive and requested a week’s worth of medication on an overnight shipment. The mail order representative requested an order to be sent out to the member. Later, on 10/12/16, Mail Order customer service received a call from the plan inquiring about Mr. Acchione order that he never received. The mail order representative advised that both medications Allopurinol and Omeprazole was shipped out on 9/29/16 and according to the tracking number was estimated to deliver on 10/3/16. The plan connected Mr. Acchione on the call with mail order and the member advised the mail order representative that an overnight delivery request was made earlier on 10/12/16. The mail order representative researched the request for an overnight delivery, but advised the shipping information was not yet available. The mail order representative advised the member an interim fill for a 10 day supply at a retail pharmacy until the member received his order delivery on 10/17/16. The mail order representative confirmed with the pharmacist that a 10 supply could be processed on 10/13/16 and a reshipment request can be placed on 10/18/16. The member requested to have his medication filled at a retail pharmacy because the reshipment of a full supply could not be completed until 10/18/16. A 10 day supply request was placed at a local pharmacy on behalf of the member. I hope that the member no longer experiences any more issues going
I’ve mentioned before that communication between us is the most important thing. Regarding the existing customers, I have to admit that it was 100% our mistake not to provide you with as much information as we could. My question is, if you’ve called the existing customers before (this was the second or third time you were calling the existing customers) what exactly did you ask them on the phone if you were not aware of the project (for example what did you ask Kingsleigh Primary School as more or less you didn’t have any kind of information in your system).
When you have all the details about the complaint, ask the customer how they would like it to be resolved
“Brad is a production engineer at a bicycle company and part of his job includes inspecting broken bikes and drafting the design repairs for their repair” (Bartlett). Brad is considering replacing a broken brake cable with a more durable material, even though the customer did not request it in their order and specifically requested that “No aesthetic changes be made to the bike” (Bartlett). Brad’s manager suggests that his considered actions would go against the company’s policy of “The customer is always right.” Should Brad disobey the manager and the customer to possibly lose his job or go along with
It is not a customer service problem because this is service associated with the distributors. The distributors are not in house. They are not part of the
There is very poor customer satisfaction, service and focus. The client realised that the project was in trouble and requested that the division general manager and his entire staff visit the customer’s plant for progress and a ‘get well’ report. Instead the division general manager sent Reichart, the project manager, and four line managers to visit the customer. The situation deteriorated to such an extent that the customer assigned a representative to Reichart’s department to be ‘on site’ and provide constant updates and problem identifications.
Complaints also tell you that the customer still wants to do business with you —Most customers don’t complain — they just take their business elsewhere, because they’ve given up hope of getting what they need from you.