Customer Service Leadership Skills

Learn how the customer’s experience can be included in the organization’s customer service delivery.

• Explain the value that customer service provides in retaining customers and improving the customer experience
• Describe customer experience and how organization brand influences customer experience and service
• Identify when and where customer engagement occurs within the organization and how it relates to what the customers experience

Taking the customer’s point of view is essential in understanding what the customer needs. 

• Define the expectations and basic needs of customers
• Summarize what it means to be customer-centric and how that makes customers feel valued and important
• Discuss the benefits of adopting the customer’s point of view and client advocacy

Discover the difference between customer satisfaction and customer loyalty, their impact to the business and how to effectively use both to measure success. 

• Explain the components of customer satisfaction and customer loyalty
• Describe how to measure both customer satisfaction and customer loyalty
• Identify best practices for leveraging social media to improve customer satisfaction 

Leading a team within an organization centered on the customer’s expectations requires an alignment of team goals and mission to the needs of the customer service culture.

• Discuss how clearly defining values, the mission and leader accountability contribute to a culture of customer service excellence within the organization
• Identify the characteristics of a customer service culture, including internal customer service, and which of these features your team and organization may be lacking
• Develop a long-term plan for sustaining the organizational commitment to a customer service culture

Customer service leaders must be able to reframe a potentially negative experience and find a way to make it valuable, promising and beneficial to all. 

• Explain how to effectively recognize and handle difficult customer reactions in order to avoid a poor customer service experience
• Discuss how to successfully handle the different customer complaint types by exhibiting a solution-oriented approach
• Identify techniques for managing anger and stress in the workplace to avoid burnout

Great leaders can use various continuous improvement methods to improve both internal and external customer service. 

• Discuss how to use training and indicators to improve internal customer satisfaction and deliver continuous improvement
• Describe how to analyze the customer and create customer-focused organizational changes
• Write a plan for delivering continuous improvement in the organization by monitoring internal and external satisfaction indicators and using that knowledge to prioritize the need for training and operational changes