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How can you ensure your customer service policies are relevant and up-to-date?

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Customer service policies are the guidelines and standards that your business follows when interacting with your customers. They can cover various aspects of your service, such as communication, delivery, returns, refunds, complaints, and feedback. Having clear and consistent customer service policies can help you build trust, loyalty, and satisfaction among your customers. However, customer service policies are not static. They need to be reviewed and updated regularly to reflect the changing needs, expectations, and preferences of your customers, as well as the evolving market conditions, industry trends, and legal regulations. In this article, we will share some tips on how you can ensure your customer service policies are relevant and up-to-date.

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Lawrence Weinzimer, MPA (Retired)

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1 Assess your current policies

The first step to ensuring your customer service policies are relevant and up-to-date is to assess your current policies. You need to evaluate how well they align with your business goals, values, and vision, as well as how effective they are in meeting your customers' needs and expectations. You can use various methods to assess your current policies, such as customer feedback surveys, online reviews, social media comments, complaint analysis, mystery shopping, and service quality audits. You should also benchmark your policies against your competitors and industry standards to identify any gaps or opportunities for improvement.

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Assess current policies with a multi-departmental approach. Check and test the most utilized procedures, policies and practices for consistency and standardization. A litmus test is for compliance and legality. Prevention of liability issues should be a first and foremost consideration.

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2 Involve your stakeholders

The second step to ensuring your customer service policies are relevant and up-to-date is to involve your stakeholders. Your stakeholders are the people who are affected by or have an interest in your customer service policies, such as your customers, employees, suppliers, partners, and regulators. You should consult with your stakeholders to get their input, feedback, and suggestions on your customer service policies. You can use various channels to communicate with your stakeholders, such as focus groups, interviews, forums, surveys, and social media. By involving your stakeholders, you can ensure that your customer service policies are responsive, inclusive, and fair.

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3 Update your policies

The third step to ensuring your customer service policies are relevant and up-to-date is to update your policies. Based on the assessment and consultation, you should revise your policies to address any issues, gaps, or changes that you have identified. You should also make sure that your policies are clear, concise, and consistent, and that they comply with any relevant laws, regulations, and ethical standards. You should also document your policies and make them accessible to your customers and employees. You can use various formats to present your policies, such as web pages, brochures, posters, videos, and podcasts.

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Revising and updating policies is crucial to conducting fair play in business for employees, customers, suppliers, with current and prospective. The changes must be updated immediately in an online procedural manual and knowledge base, from when approved by shared factions in management. Transparency and trust are not just key concerns: They are paramount. Setting periodic effective dates and times for review, revision - and revisiting - should be not be merely ad-hoc. They should be planned on a regular corporate calendar basis.

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4 Train your staff

The fourth step to ensuring your customer service policies are relevant and up-to-date is to train your staff. Your staff are the ones who implement and enforce your customer service policies, so they need to be aware of and familiar with them. You should provide regular and comprehensive training to your staff on your customer service policies, as well as on the skills and behaviors that are expected of them when dealing with customers. You should also monitor and evaluate your staff's performance and provide feedback and coaching to help them improve. You should also reward and recognize your staff for delivering excellent customer service.

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5 Communicate with your customers

The fifth step to ensuring your customer service policies are relevant and up-to-date is to communicate with your customers. Your customers need to know and understand your customer service policies, as well as their rights and responsibilities when engaging with your business. You should communicate your policies to your customers in a clear, transparent, and timely manner, using various channels and platforms, such as your website, email, social media, and phone. You should also provide easy and convenient ways for your customers to contact you, ask questions, give feedback, or make complaints about your policies.

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Following training, classroom, then on-the-job, daily follow ups are necessitated. A customary, cursory 5 minute meeting at the beginning of the shift, should elucidate changes noted from correspondence to cascade to the reps. Customer Service reps must check their inbox for updates as many times as their personal device ! On occasion, a flash of an instant message or text would supplement ongoing hot issue(s). The new approaches or revisions to current procs must have the corporate knowledge base updated immediately. Make exhortation that reps should immediately report abhorrent news or anything which is out of the ordinary. Explain that it will make their job easier: You, stakeholders and line managers can facilitate policy quickly.

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6 Review and improve your policies

The sixth and final step to ensuring your customer service policies are relevant and up-to-date is to review and improve your policies. You should not treat your policies as fixed or final, but rather as dynamic and adaptable. You should regularly monitor and measure the impact and outcomes of your policies, using various indicators and metrics, such as customer satisfaction, retention, loyalty, referrals, reviews, ratings, and complaints. You should also collect and analyze customer feedback and data, using various tools and methods, such as surveys, analytics, reports, and dashboards. You should use the insights and findings to identify any areas for improvement or innovation, and to make adjustments or changes to your policies as needed.

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Make decisions, try new and uncharted - with sufficient planning, planning many contingencies. Whatever you do: Don't stand still. Static thinking along with repetitive actions is merely a task oriented response. It can easily be an organizational inhibitor, a final corporate killer, or creates a target firm environment ready for a takeover-expungement. Rational decisions for review and improvement should receive multivariate attention. Factor in data - or numerical based - but determine a hierarchy of valuation regarding surveys, opinions. Conclusively: -Consider the sources. -Estimate their credibility. -Appraise which alternatives you are best equipped to handled: With in-house knowledge of the territory and the actual budgets.

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1 Assess your current policies

2 Involve your stakeholders

3 Update your policies

4 Train your staff

5 Communicate with your customers

6 Review and improve your policies

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1 Assess your current policies

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6 Review and improve your policies

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