- A clear service strategy of what constitutes superior service should be communicated to all employees at every level.
- Concrete standards of excellent service quality should be established and regularly measured.
- Service skills should be paramount when people are selected (particularly those in the front line), and should be coached carefully and extensively so that they have the knowledge and skills to achieve the service standards and are empowered to work on behalf of customers.
- Customer service responses and feedback must be heard, understood, and the organization should respond – often in unique and creative ways – to their evolving needs and constantly shifting expectations.
- Customer serving processes and systems should be widely understood and consistently improved by motivated and enthusiastic teams of employees across the organization.
- Employees are fully empowered to give what it takes to give excellent customer service, and recognized for their service accomplishments
The Enterprise Pulse™ -Customer Service Survey assumes that an effective or high performance service focused culture should be looking to create high levels of efficiency and effectiveness in all 6 key factors. The Customer Service Survey supports this assumption with greater depth and clarity by dividing the 6 key factors into a set of 12 sub-factors.