McTimothy Associates

Customer Complaints System: A Tool for Customer Service Improvement

Why Attend

This specialized course tackles the issue of customer complaints by focusing on its two components: the behavioral aspect related to the individual employee who deals face to face with the complainant and the systems or procedural aspect related to how the organization should process a complaint, every step of the way, from the moment it is raised to its conclusion. In addition, the course also covers the necessary preparations an organization must go through in terms of cultural development and openness before it can hope to benefit from complaints, recover complaining customers, improve internal processes, and achieve new heights in customer satisfaction.

265,000.0000 VAT

Event Date: 06/10/2025 – 09/10/2025

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26/03/2025 – 29/03/2025

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05/06/2025 – 08/06/2025

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Course Outline

  • Introduction to understanding your customers
    • Interesting facts and figures
    • Customer retention
    • The principal foundation of retaining and developing our customer base
    • The ‘PRIDE’ model for understanding customer needs
    • Service mix elements
    • The service quality model and service gaps
    • Managing customer expectations
  • Introduction to complaints management
    • ‘Customer complaint’ definition
    • The importance of complaints
    • Customer satisfaction and customer loyalty
    • The ‘Kano’ model
    • The danger of ignoring complaints
    • Levels of complaints
    • Complaints handling: process and behavior
    • Sources of customer complaints
    • Dealing with customer complaints
  • Complaints management standards and Complaints Handling Process (CHP)
    • Complaints management standards – background
    • ISO 9001 process model
    • ISO 9001 and requirements for complaints management
    • Essential elements of a complaints management system
    • ISO 10002:2008 guidelines for CHP
    • Scope and guiding principles
    • The complaints handling policy
    • Responsibility and authority
      • Top management
      • Management representative
      • Other managers
      • All personnel in contact with customers
      • All other personnel
    • Planning and design
      • Objectives
      • Customer satisfaction, linkages, and alignment
      • Resource requirements
      • Competency requirements
    • Operation and communication
      • Essential elements
      • Receiving, recording, and tracking
      • Assessing, investigating, and closing
    • Maintenance and improvement
      • Collection of information
      • Satisfaction with CHP
      • Monitoring the CHP
      • Auditing the CHP
      • Management review
    • Assessing and monitoring a complaints management system
      • Quotes on measures
      • Metrics, measures and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
      • Where do KPIs come from
      • Some organizational Key Result Areas (KRAs)
      • Criteria for ‘good’ KPIs
      • Analysis of complaints: root cause analysis
      • Prioritizing problems
      • Finding effective and efficient solutions

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