Create a Collaborative Team to Serve Customers

Create a company vision
Involve employees in the development of the vision.
Involvement in decision making
People work harder to implement decisions they are a part of.
Develop an internal customer process
Make sure each individual & department considers the next department or individual as in internal customer.
That means they have the responsibility to help one another create value.
Which means they will have to collaborate.

Improve collaboration skills
Teach employees to be open minded.
Encourage them to learn from one another.
Create occasions where positive interaction can take place.

Create an organization structure for serving customers
Reorganize so that a customer has one contact.
Make sure the entire organization is behind that contact, working together to fulfill the customer’s needs.

Create an infrastructure that supports collaboration
Including Physical layout, technology, communications systems, compensation systems and recognitions systems.

Take time every week to get together and discuss everyone's perceptions of your current level of customer service.  Discuss how it can be improved.  Have your people share what kind of help they need, from other people or departments, in order to improve their effectiveness.

 

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