Course Objectives
The Customer Complaint System: A Tool for Customer Service Improvement
Course Methodology
In addition to short presentations by the consultant and the resulting written or oral questions that are debated by the group, this course relies on case studies, exercises and the design of procedures and forms by work teams as well as role plays.
Course Objectives
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
- Formulate relevant key performance indicators to assess and audit complaint systems
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
- Systems judgement
- Organized workplace
- Quality orientation
Course Outline
- 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
- Assessing and monitoring a complaints management system
- Quotes on measures
- Where do KPIs come from
- Metrics, measures and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Some organizational Key Result Areas (KRAs)
- Criteria for ‘good’ KPIs
- Analysis of complaints: root cause analysis
- Prioritizing problems
- Finding effective and efficient solutions