The role of a customer service practitioner is to deliver high quality
products and services to the customers of their organisation. Your core
responsibility will be to provide a high-quality service to customers which will
be delivered from the workplace, digitally, or through going out into the
customer’s own locality. These may be one-off or routine contacts and include
dealing with orders, payments, offering advice, guidance and support, meet and
greet, sales, fixing problems, after care, service recovery or gaining insight
through measuring customer satisfaction. You may be the first point of contact
and work in any sector or organisation type. Your actions will influence the
customer experience and their satisfaction with your organisation. You will
demonstrate excellent customer service skills and behaviours as well as product
and/or service knowledge when delivering to your customers. You will provide
service in line with the organisations customer service standards and strategy
and within appropriate regulatory requirements. Your customer interactions must
cover a wide range of situations and must include; face-to-face or telephone,
email or text and social media.
Knowledge
- Knowing your customers
- Understanding the organisation
- Meeting regulations and legislation
- Systems and resources
- Your role and responsibility
- Customer experience
- Product and service knowledge
Skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Communication
- Influencing skills
- Personal organisation
- Dealing with customer conflict
Behaviours
- Developing self
- Being open to feedback
- Team working
- Equality
- Presentation
- Right first time