Activities to Improve Customer Service
Customer Service ActivityCustomer Service is a very complex area. To get it right organisations need to have appropriate operating systems and procedures that enable them to meet customers’ needs, but this is not enough. The staff who run these systems must understand that their route to success is through establishing and meeting their customers’ needs whilst meeting their own business targets.
It is not practical to reflect all of this complexity in one learning activity, but several of MTa’s activities introduce and develop some of the key concepts. These include:
  • The processes needed to establish, focus on, and meet customer needs
  • The personal attitudes that support customer service
  • Core personal behaviours like questioning and listening that enable individuals to work effectively with others.
MTa’s packages enable facilitators and trainers to introduce these concepts and behaviours experientially into their workshops. Our activities engage participants in tasks that reflect these customer service issues. On completion of the task carefully designed review processes focus participants’ attention on the key concepts the activity was designed to highlight before taking people though a step by step approach to personal learning and development.

 

MTa Kando Lean™
MTa Kando Lean: Think Customer!
  • Time:90 mins to 6 hours
  • Level: Introductory to Intermediate
  • Participants: 3-15

MTa KanDo Lean is an activity based learning pack which focuses on customer service through Lean processing.

It is a table top activity for anyone in the office, factory or supply chain who needs to understand, do, or influence the way jobs can be done to best effect.

The activity introduces emphasises the importance of focussing all activities on meeting defined customer needs as efficiently and effectively as possible. KanDo Lean introduces concepts like 'pull systems', 'balancing workloads' and 'continuous flow'.

 

MTa Team KIT™
MTa Team KIT activities help participants develop the attitudes and skills that support effective customer service
  • Time:10 mins to 4 hours
  • Level: Introductory to Advanced
  • Participants: 3-24

Customer Service demands a wide range of skills combined with appropriate attitudes. One MTa KIT activity in particular (Over the Bridge) is particularly well suited to developing customer service: the participants' brief is incomplete, so participants have to question the customer carefully. This proves very difficult as it is so enticing for them to get on with the task, working to their own ideas, rather than finding out what is really required. Customer service....what's that? !!!

 

MTa Insights™
Many of the attitudes, approaches and skills that lead to good customer service are picked up in MTa Insights
  • Time:15 mins to 60 minutes
  • Level: Introductory to Advanced
  • Participants: 3-24

Although none of the 50 plus MTa Insights activities have a 'customer service' title many of them pick up on the attitudes and behaviours that lead to customer service, e.g. flexibility, concern for others, questioning, success orientation.

Most of these activites can be found in the volume 'Business Priorities'.