Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Week 1 EOC: Great Customer Service

Good customer service is listening to customers, dealing with complaints, being helpful even when there is no profit in it, and taking the extra step to helping the customer. An example of when I experienced this was while I was working at the telephone company and I helped a customer for approximately a hour and a half and I didn't look for anything such as a tip in return of my service. I was there to provide service and I didn't mind helping them.
Customer Service is the ability to listen to people and be able to communicate with them. For example I had an elderly person come into the store one time who needed telephone service and high speed internet. She had never owned a computer but had purchased one.
So I spent about 45 min going over all of our services and going over on what she was going to use her computer for. So first we were able to get her, her telephone service and went ahead and added her high speed internet. So I gave her the equipment she needed. She said her grandson would be able to go and install her service. So she went on her way.
Well she returned the following day because they were not able to install it and she did not want to wait on a technician to go to her home. So I advised her I would be able to come over and install it for her. So after work I went over and installed the modem and made sure everything she needed to be connected to her Wi-Fi.
So I believe I did communicate well and showed good customer service.
Another example is when I worked at the call center for a retail store. I had a call from a customer very upset because they received the wrong color sofas and the wrong model. So I went over the order she placed and made sure would be able to get her, her sofa she had ordered correctly. So we placed the correct order and I made calls to the warehouse to go have the sofa picked up a.s.a.p. and take her the correct one which was sitting there at the warehouse. She was very appreciative that I listened and was able to resolve her problem.
So I do believe having good customer service s an asset and the base to any company.
Another experience I had with customer service was when I was working at Entertainment Benefit Group where I worked all by myself for a couple of hours and had to take on the extra responsibilities due to my coworker being on vacation.  While I was attending to one customer in purchasing show tickets, I was helping out other customers as well, and answering the phone in a timely manner.  My customer who bought the show tickets applauded my multitasking while still paying attention to her and answering her questions.  She said I kept my composure and handling the rudeness of interrupting customers.  She also added that she does not know if she would have been able to do what I do.  It takes lots of patience and anticipation of customer needs.
On the flip side: A difficult situation that I had with someone was when I had to complete my group project alone because my two partners were out sick. Although they were sick, they were still supposed to contribute to the project but they didn't; therefore, I took on their responsibilities as well as my own to finish our project. The outcome was a success. I did not tell our teacher because I didn't want their grade to suffer. I did what had to be done in order for me to achieve my an A on the group project.                                      

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