Introduction

Service excellence is an attitude engrained in every department and it begins and ends with your people, from cashier to CEO. It requires more than a streamlined customer service department or a slogan on the lunch room wall. Excellence is a consistent, premium service at every pass set by a service oriented tone that drives your company strategy at every level. The following list are top tips that wil help you to focus on the most important elements of customer service excellence:

Always Focus on Service before anything else
Give the Best experience possible
Create a unique customer experience
Use the Customer as a marketing vehicle
Always remember that you are Selling “WOW”
Always improve on your service
Always respect your customer (time and opinion)
Measure their satisfaction and engagement
Educate, encourage and use incentives on employees to deliver service
Differentiate your Brand from competition
Know your customer base (segmentation)
Integrate your operations processes into your customer marketing strategies
Understand that Customer Satisfaction is based on loyalty, identity, values, and relationships
Special Interactions keep customers coming back
Solve problems quickly and turn complainers into advocates
Customer Service agents must have the authority to make decisions
Listen to your customers; Change their attitudes, and fix their problems
Measure your relationships, and refine your processes, and proactively solve and prevent the same mistakes from happening again. (Continuous improvement)
Improve your supplier relationships, and hold them to the same standard as your customers do
Exceed expectations and treat customers as if you would treat a guest in your own home.
Spread the word – promote your brand promise by empowering your employees to act as ambassadors
Hire good employees from the start; study your culture, and find the right fit
Always remember what your corporate values and purpose are, and set mission to that goal.
Tell the customer the truth, and love what you do
Personalize your service to meet your customers’ needs
Listen to Customers; Take appropriate action; keep it simple
“The most common thing about common sense is so uncommon”
Leaderships should stay involved in the business, and respect employees and customers
5 P’s of Customer Service Excellence – Process; Product; Presentation; Price and most importantly People!