Introduction
In this increasingly competitive world, customers are in a position to demand ever-increasing levels of service and quality. Rather than simply react to their demands, successful companies are proactive in the way they manage quality and continuously seek to improve levels of customer satisfaction. In this program, you will:
- Learn about Customer Service and Quality Management Tools
- Learn how to improve Customer Satisfaction
- Improve your people skills
- Learn how to proactively manage and control expectations
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- All business professionals in customer-facing positions or with specific responsibilities for Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction
- Personnel new to the role, as well as more experienced officers seeking to examine and enhance their service quality and customer satisfaction skills
Course Objectives of Certified Customer Management Specialist
- Describe how to use Quality Management tools and methods
- Build strong customer relationships
- Help influence and set customer expectations
- Measure their own degree of customer focus and be able to apply a variety of methods to get closer to the customer
- Implement improved people skills to enhance customer service
- Improve service to internal customers as well as external customers
- Use skills to build effective relationships
Course Methodology of Certified Customer Management Specialist
The program will be highly participative and will include a wide range of methods including presentations, discussions, videos, case studies, and exercises. Where appropriate, these will include real issues brought to the program by delegates.
Course Summary of Certified Customer Management Specialist
After completing the program, delegates will be equipped with the tools, models, skills, and confidence to improve and enhance current practices, develop new processes, and monitor their success.
This program will help delegates become customer service champions and equip them with the appropriate confidence, skills, and tools to turn any department into a world-class service provider and the envy of all other internal customers.
Course Outlines of Certified Customer Management Specialist
DAY 1 - Introducing Quality Management and Customer Services
- Introduction to Quality Management
- The history of Quality in business
- Basic Quality concepts
- What is it that Customers want
- How can we calculate the total cost of Quality
- Customer satisfaction is a perception and can be managed
- Setting customer expectations
- Changing internal perceptions
- Getting closer to customers
- Understanding customer needs and expectations
- Commitment starts at the top of the organization
DAY 2 - Service Quality - Tools and Techniques
- Five steps to Effective Quality Management
- Beginning with measurement
- Then we need methods of Control
- Continuous Improvement
- Service Quality Tools and Techniques
- Questionnaires
- Pareto Analysis
- Nominal Group Technique
- Cause and Effect Analysis
- Solution Effect Analysis
- Selection Grid
DAY 3 - Managing Customer Expectations
- Exceeding customer expectations every time
- Determining how to exceed expectations
- It’s the little things that matter - increased satisfaction at minimal cost
- Asking for feedback on performance
- Ongoing evaluation of effectiveness to ensure satisfaction
- Maximize the value you deliver
- Understanding different customer styles
DAY 4 - People Skills to Deliver Excellent Customer Service
- Back to basics - communicating with our customers
- Identify Listening Styles for you and your customer
- Building Rapport
- Influencing skills
- Persuasion techniques
- Dealing with Difficult Customers
- Understanding Customer Behaviours
- Understanding where Anger comes from
- Developing Emotional Intelligence
DAY 5 - Making it happen
- A look at Quality Management Systems
- ISO, Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma
- Producing a Plan of Action
- Improving Customer Satisfaction in 5 quick steps
About Amsterdam
Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands, is a popular destination amongst travelers from all around the world. Once just a little fishing village, Amsterdam is now a major international city after having become an important port during the 1600s. Throughout its history, the city has had many famous residents, including artists, philosophers and other historical figures. There is much to discover along Amsterdam's quaint streets and picturesque canals. So much so that a flight to Amsterdam comes with a guarantee of cultural and historical attractions that will provide memories to last a lifetime. Amsterdam is a hotbed of culture for travelers of all ages and tastes.
Things to do and places to visit in Amsterdam
From the moment passengers step off their flight to Amsterdam, they will find it a friendly city with a lively atmosphere. Its flat geography means that it is perfect for exploring by bicycle. If you're feeling less active, it the city is also well-served by public transport. The so-called Venice of the North has something for every visitor. Culture vultures have museums, galleries and theaters to see, Families can visit the zoo or the Science Center NEMO.
When visiting Amsterdam, be sure to:
- See the picture-perfect and colorful houses of the Grachtengordel district.
- See the iconic works of one of Holland's most famous artists at the Van Gogh Museum.
- Visit the house where Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis.
- Browse through the extensive collection of fantastic art in the Rijksmusem.
- Wander through the blaze of colors that is the Singel Flower Market.
- See the city at a leisurely pace on a canal cruise.
- Marvel at one of the city's many historic churches.
- Learn about life aboard a ship at the National Maritime Museum.
- Discover the Begijnhof's well-preserved medieval architecture.
- See animals of all kinds, as well as the butterfly pavilion and aquarium, at the Artis Zoo.