
Explore how service marketing differs due to intangibility, perishability, heterogeneity, and inseparability, and learn to build a strong service brand with a brand book, visual identity, and testimonials.
Emphasize post-purchase follow-up and customer participation as drivers of co-produced service marketing. Train staff, deploy technology, and enable self-service to reduce variability and enhance the customer experience.
Master managing difficult customers with empathy, respect, and consistency, handling angry and non angry patrons by applying the diffuse six golden rules and proactive service recovery.
Identify and resolve complaints expeditiously to recover service and build loyalty. Plan recovery procedures, learn from the recovery experience, and apply moments of truth with procedural, interaction, and outcome justice.
Discover how service guarantees align delivery with customer expectations, define standards, reveal failure costs, and guide recovery while identifying and overcoming potential failure points and managing difficult customers (j customers).
Service Excellence Practitioners and Scholars alike have argued that a complaint is a gift. Complaining Customers are usually giving institutions opportunities to rectify bad service situations and do better in the future. This course on Service Management and Complaint Handling is a middle to Senior Level course targeted at Masters level and advanced level undegraduate students working in any area of business. It is also an excellent executive training module for busy executives seeking a refresher course on topics like:
1. Service Management
2. Managing Difficult Customers
3. Complaint Handling and Service Recovery
Every CEO or Institutional Leader should be interested in taking this course to the extent that customer complaints are a constant part of any Institutional enterprise. Complaints that are poorly managed could go a long way to destroy the future profitability of any enterprise.