Anticpating Customer's Needs

In a customer delivery cycle, situations are bound tohave a service oriented mind set and like interacting,
come up where in a particular individual would haveserving and helping people. The most common trait
certain amount of dissatisfaction or substantially higherrequired to be possessed by service oriented team
expectations from the current level of his experiencemembers is that they should have the requisite
while dealing with the company. Like no two individualsacumen and ability to analyze what the customers
are the same, the expectation levels also of differentexpects from them, even before the customer has
individuals for the same product would be different.started his dialogue with the individual.
One has to understand that in a service delivery cycle,The best of the lot apart from having the required trait
certain dissatisfied situations will come for sure; theof anticipating customers needs; are also able to hold
catch is that how well these situations are handled willon to their nerves and do not get flustered in tricky
be the defining difference in retaining or losing thatand demanding situations. They are able to maintain to
particular individual customer's loyalties.their composure and do not get over rawed by the
In this age of cut throat competition, losing your existingtouch situation at hand and are able to take the
customer base is a sin which companies cannotproblem head on. Customer focus and service is the
afford to commit; since winning new customers istop priority for these kinds of team members and they
twice as difficult than retaining your existing lot.can go out of their way in handling difficult and
Therefore; equal emphasis should also be givendissatisfied guests. Anticipating customer needs also
towards retention of the existing lot viz a viz creatinghelps the team members in knowing what the
or enhancing the current customer base levels.customers needs from them without the customer
Anticipating customers needs; especially in cases ofactually having to tell them and if the team member is
irate or dissatisfied customer situations more oftenable to take visible corrective steps which the
than not wins the battle and often acts as a trumpdissatisfied customer notices, will help in creating that
card which is able to convert a complaining customerWOW experience in the minds of the customer. Giving
into a loyal and happy business partner.a patient hearing to the customer's queries or
The customer interaction team involved in the servicecomplaints solves half the problem and if during such
delivery chain is the most important aspect which hasinteraction or in fact even before that one is able to
the capability of turning an out of hand odd situationinitiate certain steps aimed towards correcting the
into a satisfied, happy and favorable scenario. Specialmistake is what the customer will always remember.
emphasis should be accorded when the serviceThe most important aspect is what perception or recall
delivery team is formulated. Best efforts should bethe customer has towards a particular service, and if
made to hire people who have substantial amount ofthese situations are not dealt with utmost care; they
experience in similar fields as they are able to analyzecould more often than not turn into ugly experiences
and anticipate customer needs well. In case fresherswhich customers don't want to experience.
are required to be hired, it should be ensured that they