Service Habits: Our Flagship Customer Service Program
Small steps to strengthen the relationships with the people you serve.
It is difficult to maintain your edge in customer service and if you are reading this, chances are you know your service culture needs improving.
- Employees are looking for development, purpose, and connection.
- Customers’ expectations continue to increase and change.
- Businesses want to control costs, increase revenue, productivity, and efficiency.
We hear you, we see you, and we are here to help you. We believe that the Service Habits program is infused with magic that gives you an edge, irrespective of the competing needs of employee, customer, or business.
Service Habits is a program that will transform your service culture from the inside out, starting with people’s mindsets and habits, so that they exceed the customers’ expectations which will expand the top and bottom line of your business.
What is a successful customer service culture in the 2020s?
We define a successful customer service culture as one where you:
- Create connection and solutions for customers
- Balance the rules with the reality of a situation for a customer
- Achieve the organisation's efficiency needs while focusing on the emotional needs of the customer
To achieve this, you need highly emotionally and socially intelligent employees who can handle the people stuff in business. The new era of customer service has evolved from transactional needs to relational needs.
The learning outcomes from Service Habits are evergreen and have no expiry date, suitable for the experienced CEO through to the frontline employee, multiplying your return on investment.
Samantha McMeekin
Manager People Logistics
“ServiceQ provided a clear direction for our team, and we are already seeing results in our value structure within the business.”
David
General Manager of Food, Beverage & Retail Operations
“ServiceQ has supported our drive to embed a Service Mindset across all functions of the business and we’ve seen a considerable behavioural shift.”
Alistair McKeon
General Manager AUS & NZ
The challenges you face
- poor employee engagement
- organisational growth and/or significant change
- high employee turnover
- low team motivation
- inconsistent service delivery
- lack of direction or a fragmented vision
The impact of Service Habits
✓ Workforce with strong customer service skills
✓ Higher levels of external customer satisfaction leading to a more loyal customer base
✓ Increased return on investment
✓ Strengthened workforce with a positive culture and unified service vision
✓ Improved employee engagement and morale
✓ Lower employee turnover
✓ Reduced reputational risk
✓ Better understanding of what excellent customer service means
✓ Greater understanding of how your role impacts your internal and external customers
✓ Stronger leadership skills and ability to promote change within your team
✓ Higher emotional and social intelligence
✓ Better listening and communication skills
✓ Increased confidence in applying a service mindset to your specific role
Service Habits is an organisational culture change. The program is perfect for:
- Frontline leaders with teams
- Senior leaders and executive team
- Sales leaders and function area leaders
- Frontline employees
- Sales and customer facing roles
- Support and specialist roles
- Anyone who is part of a business that relies on strong relationships
Here’s how we do it: the 21 Service Habits
“If you pick the right small behavior and sequence it right, then you won’t have to motivate yourself to have it grow. It will just happen naturally, like a good seed planted in a good spot.” ― BJ Fogg
We use the analogy of taking small steps towards continuous improvement rather than approaching service culture transformation as big change.
Know Yourself
(Be Present)
Habit 1 to 7
Service starts with you. Before we even consider the customer, we need an awareness of how we show up.
Understand Others
(Be Connected)
Habit 8 to 14
Through the process of empathy you are able to make people feel seen, heard and understood.
Act Consciously
(Be Kind)
Habit 15 to 21
It’s knowing that your behaviours throughout the ordinary moments contribute to someone’s life.
What’s included in the program?
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Choosing the best Service Habits pathway for you and your business
Below are a series of carefully designed learning pathways and employee experiences which will suit your team’s needs and preferred journey.
Leading
Service Habits
Our Promise
The online pathway provides a blueprint for leaders to support and guide their teams in the delivery of extraordinary service. The result will be a common language and framework for leaders to promote organisational service consistency.
MOST CHOSEN
Embedding
Service Habits
Our Promise
Embedding Service Habits enables leaders and key team members to role model the habits, share and teach them with all staff so they stick. The result is the ripple effect that creates a consistent quality service to scale and is perfect for a ‘whole of business’ approach.
Mastering
Service Habits
Our Promise
Mastering Service Habits is a game changing cultural program that begins with inspiration and ends in transformation. It has the most sustainable long-term impact as it targets all levels of leadership and all employees in the organisation (top down and bottom up) The results being that the Service Habits becomes part of your cultural DNA.
Senior staff at Melbourne Airport explain the change in culture and service standards as a result of the customised ServiceQ program covering their specific values and service behaviours.
Company Values and Service Behaviours
Customisation of a service culture is all about contextualisation. We immerse deeply in your world and learn your unique market or industry, your customers specific needs and the brand promise that you deliver across all human touch points.
A strong set of company Values and Service Behaviours explicitly articulated in a business is the strongest foundation you can create prior to embarking on any service culture initiatives. Without a clear framework for employees to live by, you are leaving the consistency of service and quality of service to chance.
We would be happy to work through a diagnostic and proposal to suit your needs and share some of our customised service program case studies to inspire you further.
This is the greatest compliment to a Service Habits pathway.
If you are:
- about to revisit your company values and behaviours
- need to refresh your existing company values and behaviours
- have clear company values but no service behaviours and/or
- need a solid partner in exciting, engaging and rolling out your company values and service behaviours
...then a customised solution is for you.
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