Customer Service: How to Manage Your Customer Queues
56mBeginner2023-03-13
Authors

Brad Cleveland
Customer Strategy, Management, and Omnichannel Services Expert
Course details
Efficient customer queues are imperative for serving customers well and meeting expectations, but supply chain challenges, the “great resignation,” and other developments in the economy have led to long wait times and frustration for many customers. The good news is that, as you train your employees on the nature of queues and how to manage them, you can avoid subpar customer service and burned-out employees. In this course, customer strategy expert Brad Cleveland empowers you as a manager, as well as your team, to navigate and respond effectively to customer queues. Learn about the variables involved in customer queues and in a customer service team. Find out how to build an escalation plan for responding to customer queues that are building. Plus, explore effective practices you can use, individually and as a team, to serve customers in a dynamic environment.
Skills covered
Customer Service SkillsCustomer ServiceDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Queues - The doorways to your organization
1. The Nature of Customer Queues
- 02 - Limited or scalable capacity
- 03 - Two common customer arrival patterns
- 04 - Visible and invisible queues
- 05 - Immediate and deferred work
- 06 - You don t need to know everything about queuing theory
- 07 - The seven factors of customer tolerance
2. Customer Queues - Planning Ahead
- 08 - Establishing wait time objectives
- 09 - Forecasting the work
- 10 - Stories from the field - Give your forecast more attention
- 11 - Staffing for random arrival
- 12 - Staffing for peaked arrival and deferred work
- 13 - Organizing your teams' schedules
3. Managing Queues in Real-Time
- 14 - Monitoring customer queues
- 15 - Stories from the field - Are your wait times fine
- 16 - Establishing an escalation plan
- 17 - Empowering your team
- 18 - Managing perceptions when capacity is limited
4. Building a Stronger Approach
- 19 - A cultural commitment
- 20 - The power of one
- 21 - Service level and quality
- 22 - Ten tips for better queue management
- 23 - Stories from the field - Tackle the busiest days
- 24 - Leading-edge queue management