Delivering excellent service
Description
- Providing the best quality service to external and internal clients
- Building genuine and open long-term relationships in order to drive up service standards
Self
- Resolving problems quickly in a cheerful, friendly manner
- Ensuring systems and processes are kept up to date
- Delivering what you promise
- Setting appropriate boundaries and managing expectations
- Being clear about where you can be flexible and where you cannot and why
- Being up to date with best client service practice in the sector
- Engaging positively with quality assessment processes
Others
- Seeing things from your clients’ viewpoint
- Listening, questioning and clarifying in order to understand your clients’ needs
- Using client feedback to drive improvements
- Tailoring communication to meet clients’ needs
- Fostering a continuous improvement philosophy
- Delivering consistent service standards
Organisation
- Defining excellent service
- Interpreting rules and regulations flexibly to balance client and organisational needs
- Consistently giving positive messages about the organisation
Behaviours indicating further development needs
- Using too much organisational jargon
- Adopting a ‘one size fits all’ approach
- Hiding behind rules and regulations
- Providing anonymous service by withholding name or contact details