As managers, we have an important role to play here. Our technicians must understand that this is an integral part of their role. They must recognize that these proactive conversations that they have with their customers represent a valuable and important service – as important as fixing and maintaining the customer’s equipment.
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Are your Customers Better off Having Known you?
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How Service Providers Can Stand out from the Crowd
Now, in the scheme of things, I guess you could say that the customer service representative was just doing his job. And maybe, he had nothing better to do at that time in the morning – I don’t suppose he would have been run off his feet. However, the willingness to stay on the line and guide me through the steps until everything was working the way I needed it was the best thing he could have done for me this morning. It showed that he was sensitive to my situation (empathy) and he provided the level of support he felt would suit my needs in the circumstances.
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Money isn’t Everything … for Service Companies
There is a lot of talk these days about the customer experience and how it is critical to creating today’s competitive advantage. In the service industry, the customer experience is largely created by the interaction of our customer-facing personnel with the customer. In most cases our “customer-facing personnel” are our technicians and the customer experience comes from the relationships they are able to form. It is these relationships, built on both personal and professional credibility that are critical for our success.
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Proactive Service® – Giving Customers your Hearts & your Heads
While most companies give their customers their hands (i.e. do good work), proactive service companies provide customers with their heads as well. By looking out for their customers and making helpful suggestions to allow them to be more effective at operating their facilities, they are providing the highest level of service.
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Rude Awakening to a Valuable Reminder
In a funny way, this rude awakening proved to be a valuable reminder for me. Sometimes, through our actions or words, we are teaching our teams to behave in ways which are polar opposites to the desired behaviour. We forget sometimes that as managers we are in a fish bowl and everything we do or say is analyzed by our team for consistency and often used as a model for their own behaviour.
