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Level 3 Diploma in Business Management

Exceeding expectations and driving satisfaction

BM304 · Customer Service — Week 5 of 16

CourseBM304
Week5 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Exceeding expectations and driving satisfaction

  1. Kano model of customer satisfaction
  2. Personalisation strategies
  3. Value-added service delivery
  4. Factors driving customer delight
  5. 13 Managing Services: Value Delivery and Customer Satisfaction
  6. Lecture - 16 : Kano Model and Analysis

What you will be able to do

  • 3.1 Explain how to exceed customer expectations.
  • 3.3 Explain different factors which increase customer satisfaction.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain how to exceed customer expectations.

Study materials

Videos

  • 13 Managing Services: Value Delivery and Customer Satisfaction · YouTube · Marketing Insights · 6 min · for registered students
  • Customer Service Innovations | McDonald's Examples · YouTube · Two Teachers · 4 min · for registered students
  • How to Build Customer Relationships: Crash Course Entrepreneurship #10 · YouTube · CrashCourse · 11 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Empirical research on Kano's model and customer satisfaction · Reading · Reading, article · for registered students
  • Principles of Marketing, ch. 14: Customer Satisfaction, Loyalty, and Empowerment · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 443–483 · for registered students
  • Quality of airline service attributes: satisfiers and dissatisfiers · Reading · Reading, article · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Customer service fundamentals and regulation
  • Week 2: Product and service quality standards
  • Week 3: Customer types and behavioural influences
  • Week 4: Monitoring and assessing service quality
  • Week 5: Exceeding expectations and driving satisfaction
  • Week 6: Relationship building and retention strategies
  • Week 7: Negotiation skills and commercial balance
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Interpersonal communication in customer service
  • Week 10: Handling complaints and service recovery
  • Week 11: Teamwork and collaborative service delivery
  • Week 12: Applying Customer Service in practice: case studies
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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