The Business Bulletin Issue #15 - Focus On Operations & Resources

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The Business Bulletin

Review your operations through the lens of the customer Before, during and post-pandemic businesses should be continuously looking for opportunities to improve processes. If your business has grown rapidly or stayed the same, the way our employees and customers feel and what they expect has shifted; but do you know what that looks like?

Businesses have been impacted

Charlotte Green Specific Learning & Coaching Charlotte is a leadership and management specialist, offering coaching, training, mentoring, employee and customer insight, along with

activity and track every single step/

systems and processes, there is an

touch that your customers experience.

expectation to be able to offer high

Follow it… “through your business from

levels of service at all times, coupled

one point, to the next, to the next, to

with the expectation to retain

the end” and map it out. It’s amazing

our existing workforce, our talent

what this exercise reveals!!

that are striving to provide high levels of customer service, that are quite frankly in a world where your competitors are offering amazingly unique offers to attract new employees

associated business consultancy. She is driven by a firm belief that harnessing the input of clients, customers and employees, is a super valuable resource for every business. Charlotte is passionate about personal development, leadership resilience and customer experience and

So how do you go about reviewing your processes? One solution is to work with customer experience specialists who could

believes her clients already have great

deliver a customer audit, often

people, services and products -and it’s

referred to as a customer touchpoint

often small adjustments or adaptations, rather than massive changes that help to realise your targets. 07954 179010 charlotte@specificlc.com specificlc.com

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Review all external and internal

by a requirement to adjust internal

review or CX. A quick and dirty customer audit

Another solution to capturing insight that will enable you to make change and improve processes is to carry out a customer satisfaction survey and a more detailed employee engagement survey. Ask your customers and your employees what they think? Wouldn’t you rather be specific?

What should I expect to find out if I carry out a customer audit? 1. A detailed operations

that you could do yourself is to take

review and customer audit

a cross-section of tasks from all cross-

will establish the true

functional departments and immerse

Impact to business as usual,

yourself in every step of each and

revealing time wasted,

every possible process of when your

money being spent, and

customer touches your business.

mistakes being made


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