Application
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to manage and ensure the delivery of customer service standards and work with team members to improve customer experiences.
It applies to individuals working in customer service management roles in a diverse range of industry sectors and business contexts. They operate independently with some responsibility for others and decision making, and within established organisational policies and procedures.
No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
Elements and Performance Criteria
ELEMENTS | PERFORMANCE CRITERIA |
Elements describe the essential outcomes. | Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. |
1. Promote a customer focused culture. | 1.1.Ensure team understanding of and commitment to providing quality customer service and enhancing the customer’s experience. 1.2.Promote customer service standards within the team and encourage ownership over delivery of service standards. 1.3.Act as a positive role model displaying customer centric behaviours and consistently delivering on customer service standards. |
2. Foster the customer culture. | 2.1.Ensure adequate team resourcing to ensure delivery on customer service standards. 2.2.Monitor customer service and take action when standards are not met. 2.3.Provide feedback to team on their ability to meet customer service standards. 2.4.Provide coaching to team members to enhance customer service delivery. |
3. Monitor and adjust customer service. | 3.1.Seek feedback from team and customers on customer service standards. 3.2.Review customer trends and demands and seek opportunities to enhance customer experience based on findings. 3.3.Develop and document customer service improvement plans in consultation with the team. |
Evidence of Performance
Evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit in the context of the job role, and:
monitor and review customer service standards, on three different occasions, and document a plan to improve customer service standards based on observations
demonstrate the following approaches to promoting a customer-centric culture:
role-modelling customer service standards
observing standard of customer service delivery
coaching team members towards improvement
identifying and rectifying customer service delivery issues.
Evidence of Knowledge
Demonstrated knowledge required to complete the tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit:
principles of quality customer service:
customer expectations
enhancing customer experience
techniques for:
coaching others
providing performance feedback
seeking feedback
monitoring and reviewing customer services standards
improving customer service standards
organisational customer services standards:
professional service standards
designated response times
customer service procedures
resources required to deliver on customer service standards
commercial impact of:
quality customer service
poor customer service
positive and negative customer reviews
value and role of customer feedback in improving service delivery.
Assessment Conditions
Skills must be demonstrated in a services industry environment. This can be:
an industry workplace
a simulated industry environment.
Assessment must ensure access to:
organisational customer service standards:
professional service standards
designated response times
customer service procedures
resources required to deliver on customer service standards
team members and customers; these can be:
individuals in an industry workplace, or
individuals who participate in role plays or simulated activities, set up for the purpose of assessment, in a simulated industry environment.
Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations’ requirements for assessors.
Foundation Skills
Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.
Sectors
Cross-Sector
Competency Field
Customer Engagement