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Customer Focused FM (Code 807CUST)

8th July 2008 (9:00AM)

Location Central London
Contact Teresa Mulligan
Email info@bifm-training.co.uk
Tel 020 7404 4440
Website www.bifm-training.com
Details Developing a Customer Focused FM Service

Aim
To give Facilities managers the knowledge and skills to develop a customer focused facilities management service.

Objectives

By the end of this course you will be able to describe:

How to manage the interface between your role and the services your customers need to support their activities

How to be customer-focused, and to balance the need to be cost-effective with your customers’ service requirements and expectations

Key issues that define the service culture and the responsibility we have to our customers

The ways in which customer relationships can be managed, evaluated and improved

How to assess customer requirements and satisfaction levels

The use of Key Performance Indicators KPI’s

The need to develop effective Service Level Agreements (SLA’s)

Ways to monitor staff and contractors to ensure that service levels are achieved

The importance of some sensitive soft issues where inappropriate management can cause problems with customers


Institute of Leadership and Management Endorsed Award

This course has been endorsed by the Institute of Leadership and Management, and delegates can take a short assessment at the end of the day, for which successful candidates will receive an ILM Endorsed Award Certificate

Description

As facilities managers, our role is to manage the interface between our customers and the functions and services which they need to support their core business or activities. This means we need to be customer-focused, concentrating on balancing our own drive for cost-effectiveness with our customers’ service requirements.

This course covers understanding the service culture; delivering a customer focused service; assessing customer requirements and satisfaction levels; and the importance of soft issues.
 

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