This course gives you a foundation for overcoming
one of the costliest and most frustrating problems in the service industry,
today: customer confusion. We're going to look at how to:
- Identify the effects of customer confusion:
Understand just how costly this is,
so you can help your customer understand just how costly it is. Learn
how to describe and quantify the costs of not knowing and applying
testing principles.
- Identify the causes of customer confusion:
Understand the customer perspective
and why the customer may place a lower value than warranted on testing.
- Cure customer confusion:
Know how to counter customer misconceptions,
apply facts appropriately, and persuade the customer to take the appropriate
actions.
- Apply the principles consistently:
Understand how to implement a program
that drives repeat business.
This course approaches the customer confusion issue
from the perspective of businesses that provide trade services, as opposed
to professional services. But, the course is valuable to both camps.
Trade services involve specialized skills and knowledge,
but not state licensing and board certification. Trades usually use
tools. Professionals, by definition, have specialized training, state
licensing and board certification; and they do not use tools.
There are just a few professions—attorney, accountant,
doctor, nurse, and clergy are the more prominent ones. Professions have
less of a problem than other businesses do with customer confusion.
The reason is state licensing regulates professions to such an extent
that customers don’t have to choose between a low-priced, unqualified
provider and a high-priced qualified one. Still, even professionals
can benefit from this course because customers often don’t comply with
recommendations and instructions. Further, professionals face legal
dangers non-professionals usually don’t worry about.
So, a professional taking this course can apply
the principles but must simply translate them to his/her own situation.
Anyone else taking this course will have a more direct route to understanding. |