Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 11th April 2024 Issue no. 1109
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BIFM publishes new guidance for FM professionals on customer experience
The British Institute of Facilities Management has this week published a new Good Practice Guide adding to its already extensive suite of useful resources for facilities management professionals at any stage in their career.
The new Good Practice Guide, Customer Experience, takes a holistic look at the entirety of the interactions and experiences that a customer encounters, from beginning to end.
Customer service references are often based around singular interactions and service delivery - and though this is incredibly important, it is only one qualifiable entity along the whole customer journey.
This Good Practice Guide is concerned with every aspect; everyone and everything a client may encounter; every individual conversation and interaction, the comfort and ambience of the environment they are in, the attention to detail, the ease of equipment, processes and communication. In essence, this guide covers how the entirety of their navigation from start to finish makes the customer feel, and what to do to improve the impression that they take away from their experience.
More than ever, businesses are seeing the value in improving the whole customer experience, whether it's for a commercial advantage or retention of both customers and employees - but it's important to note that aspects of what make a good customer experience are constantly changing and there is always something that can be improved upon.
There's a whole host of materials available to businesses to try and make their stakeholders' experiences as positive as it can be, and with such a subjective concern, it's naturally impossible to identify a single 'right' way. This guide aims to bring some of the plethora of advice that is out there together into one useful guide, whilst also finding ways to utilise that advice to map and analyse an existing customer experience and then build on it to make improvements.
"Many of us have been on customer service training courses, spent hours deliberating about ways to improve customer experience and have learnt and developed some great tools," says BIFM research and information manager, Peter Brogan. "Our challenge is to find the ways that we feel comfortable with, that we don't feel disingenuous doing and that really make a difference."
The Customer Experience Good Practice Guide is available to download at:
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