Course Objectives
This specialized course tackles the issue of customer complaints by focusing on its two components: the behavioral aspect related to the individual employee who deals face to face with the complainant, and the system’s or procedural aspect related to how the organization should process a complaint, every step of the way, from the moment it is raised to its conclusion. Relying on ISO 10002 guidelines and other international best practices, the course also covers the necessary preparations an organization must go through in terms of culture development and openness before it can hope to benefit from complaints, recover complaining customers, improve internal processes and achieve new heights in customer satisfaction. By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Defend the vital role of a customer complaints management system in enhancing organizational performance
- Demonstrate how a properly trained employee handles, step-by-step, complaining customers, gains their confidence and gratitude and secures their satisfaction
- Implement a customer feedback system that will maximize customer satisfaction and retention
- Manage every phase of the complaint handling process from preparation to closing including receipt, analysis, escalation, tracking, and all internal and external communication
Content
- Introduction to understanding your customers
- Interesting facts and figures
- Customer retention
- The principal foundation of retaining and developing our customer base
- The ‘PRIDE’ model for understanding customer needs
- Service mix elements
- The service quality model and service gaps
- Managing customer expectations
- Introduction to complaints management
- The importance of complaints
- ‘Customer complaint’ definition
- Customer satisfaction and customer loyalty
- The ‘Kano’ model
- The danger of ignoring complaints
- Levels of complaints
- Sources of customer complaints
- Types of Complaints
- Complaints handling: process and behavior
- Dealing with customer complaints
- Complaints management standards and Complaints Handling Process (CHP)
- Complaints management standards – background
- Linkage to ISO 9001 process model
- ISO 9001 and requirements for complaints management
- Essential elements of a complaints management system
- ISO 10002 Structure
- Scope and guiding principles
- The complaints handling policy
- Responsibility and authority
- Top management
- Management representative
- Other managers
- All personnel in contact with customers
- All other personnel
- Planning and design
- Objectives of the CHP
- Customer satisfaction, linkages and alignment
- Resource requirements
- Competency requirements
- Operation and communication
- Essential elements
- Receiving, recording and tracking
- Assessing, investigating and closing
- Maintenance and improvement
- Collection of information
- Satisfaction with CHP
- Monitoring the CHP
- Auditing the CHP
- Management review
Course Target
Target Audience:
Customer complaint system managers and staff, customer service managers and staff, as well as managers and staff of support departments such as HR and IT, that provide services to other departments (internal customers) in the organization.
Target Competencies:
- Customer orientation
- Empathic outlook
- Emotional control
- Meeting standards
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