
Customer Care Excellence
How to Create an Effective Customer Focus
Sarah Cook(Author)
Kogan Page Ltd (Publisher)
6th Edition
Published on 3. November 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-7494-5705-1 (ISBN)
Description
Customer loyalty is essential to the long term financial success of your business, but with more choice then ever before, customers today have high expectations of the products and services they use. To continue to meet - and even to exceed - these high expectations, you need a top notch customer services system in place, and Customer Care Excellence will enable you to achieve just that.
In clear, practical language, this book takes you through how you can develop and sustain a customer-service focus within your company. Emphasizing both strategic and practical aspects of customer care, Customer Care Excellence explains how gaining customer commitment and motivating employees to deliver an excellent service at all your company's touch points can ensure successful results and satisfied customers.
This fully revised and updated edition includes new material examining the impact of social networking on customer behaviour and the emotional connection customers have with the brand, explaining how you can create a memorable customer experience. Author Sarah Cook takes you through the practical steps necessary to create a culture of customer focus and, crucially, shows how employee engagement leads to customer engagement.
Reviews / Votes
"Offers useful advice on maintaining loyalty within an ever more sophisticated and demanding customer base... Informative and useful for anybody involved in customer relations." -- "Business Age"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
445 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7494-5705-1 (9780749457051)
Schweitzer Classification
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Person
Author
Sarah Cook is Managing Director of the Stairway Consultancy, customer service specialists. She is the author of The Essential Guide to Employee Engagement, Change Management Excellence, Customer Care Excellence and Practical Benchmarking, all published by Kogan Page.
Content
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- Chapter - 01: An introduction to customer care;
- Chapter - 02: How managers need to drive and support a service strategy;
- Chapter - 03: Listening to customers;
- Chapter - 04: Implementing a service excellence strategy;
- Chapter - 05: Empowerment and ownership;
- Chapter - 06: The internal customer;
- Chapter - 07: Training and development for customer service;
- Chapter - 08: Communications;
- Chapter - 09: Recognition and reward;
- Chapter - 10: Sustaining a customer focus