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Customer Service Excellence and Culture Change Programmes

We provide practical guidance and expert advice to help organisations ensure that the culture and climate of their business are focused on the customer.

Good Customer Service will grow your business.

We offer customer service training and consultancy services in all aspects of service excellence and creating and sustaining a customer focus.

The approach that we take is a tailored one.  The messages and medium which we use are aligned to your culture and values.  We work in partnership with you in a consultative and collaborative way.

Our philosophy is holistic.  We believe that the investment in a customer service excellence and customer care strategy is a long-term one.  Its philosophy needs to be endorsed from the top.  We work with you to ensure that management and staff at all levels have a full understanding and commitment to caring for both internal and external customers and that this translates to their actions and behaviours.

Our experience in customer service shows that what happens inside the organisation in terms of leadership, internal service quality, employee satisfaction and retention translates into outstanding customer satisfaction, retention, profit and value.

Consultancy in Customer Service Excellence and Culture Change

In order to bring about a culture of customer service excellence, there are a number of steps that organisations need to ensure are in place, as illustrated in the diagram.

For more information on the customer service consultancy services we offer, see below:

Business Imperatives for Customer Service
Top Team Clarity for Customer Service
Customer Service Measurement
Customer Service Driven Process 
People Development in Customer Service
Communication in Customer Service
Sustaining Culture Change in Customer Service
Reward and Recognition in Customer Service
Brand Alignment and Vision and Values for Customer Service
Customer Service in a Recession




Training Courses in Customer Service and Service Excellence

We offer a wide range of customer service training courses for managers and team members in all aspects of customer service. This includes:
Arranging and running a successful customer focus group for Customer Service
Benchmarking tools and techniques for Customer Service
Creative problem solving in Customer Service
Customer Service on the telephone 
Customer service relationship management
Customer service and selling skills
Dealing with difficult situations in Customer Service
Delivering excellent customer service face to face
Delivering excellent customer service through people
Effective business writing - Customer Service
Effective Communication Skills - Customer Service
Emotional intelligence at work - Customer Service
Handling complaints effectively in Customer Service
Institute of Customer Service First impressions
Managing change effectively in Customer Service
Measuring customer satisfaction in Customer Service
Service leadership - Customer Service
Setting customer service standards & customer service level agreements
Selling in a customer service environment
Understanding customer types - Customer Service


Customer Service Video Podcasts

Watch the latest Stairway podcasts to discover practical tips on how to ensure customer satisfaction in a recession and how to delight your customers.

 

 

Customer Service Material and Publications

We are published authors of a variety of customer service and service excellence books, activities and materials.  The Stairway Consultancy can design tailor made customer service activities to suit your specific needs.

Our published materials include:









20 Training Workshops for Customer Care
Change Management Excellence
Compendium of Customer Service Questionnaires and Inventories
Compendium of Customer Service Questionnaires and Inventories - Vol 1&2 DVD
Creative Problem Solving
Customer Care Excellence Introductory chapter
Customer Service Skills Toolkit ustomer Service Skills DVD
Facilitation Skills
Measuring Customer Service Effectiveness
Perfect Empowerment
Practical Benchmarking
Process Improvement
Secret Service making Customer Service Work - Video
The Essential Guide to Employee Engagement
The Manager as Service Provider - Video
The Manager as Problem Solver - Video



Customer Service Articles

5 tips for delivering excellent customer service 

Creating a customer focused organisation

Advice to a Call Centre Manager - Customer Service
Change Management at Midlands Cooperative Society - Customer Service
Change Management Excellence - Start of Introductory Chapter
Creating a High Performance Culture through Effective Feedback
Creating a Customer-Orientated Culture in Customer Service
Customer Focussed Leaders - Customer Service
Customer Care Excellence - start of introductory chapter
Customer Service in a Recession

 

 

Developing a Powerful Vision and Values to Help Bring about Change
Developing Strategy
Does your Organisation have a Customer Focus?
Driving Growth Through Customer Service
E-service Recovery
Effective Strategy in a Recession - Customer Service
If Customer Service is so Important, how come it's done so badly?
Is your Customer Service Training Missing its Mark
Keeping the Best: Employee Retention in a Customer Service Environment
Listen and Learn - Customer Service
Managing Conflict in a Customer Service Environment
Outsourcing your Services - Customer Service

Rewarding Customer Service Success
Rewarding, Recognising and Motivating Customer Service Staff
Running Effective Customer Focus Groups
Customer Service Standards and Customer Service Level Agreements
Strategy in an Upside Down World
Twenty ways to Recognise and Reward Customer Service Excellence
Understanding Organisational Culture for Customer Service
 Using Emotional Intelligence to Serve the Customer
 
X-Ray your Organisation - How to Conduct a Customer Centric Health Check
                                         



Free Diagnostic:

Does your organisation have a Customer Focus?
Use the free Stairway diagnostics to assess your strengths and areas for improvment in customer service:

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