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Home | What Do Quality Customers Experience? Part 2: Responsiveness

What Do Quality Customers Experience? Part 2: Responsiveness

The five dimensions of customer experience are Attitude, Responsiveness, Personalization, Expertise and Insights. Your company will consistently deliver Helpful Expertise by getting better in these areas.

Jim Stein
Published Date: July 7, 2023

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Responsiveness
Responsiveness is the perceived time it takes for your team to act on promised and implied commitments. By definition, these implied commitments are unspoken and often assumed by custom, like returning a phone call within two days. Since there’s no official rule of response times per channel between company and customer, unless you specifically set a response commitment, each customer judges your responsiveness subjectively based on their individual sense of what the standard should be for the channel of communication and the nature of the commitment. As examples, a customer expects a faster response for a text than a mailed letter and an act perceived to be simple (checking to see if a part is in stock) than for a more complex commitment (the creation of a custom design). So, your customer’s expectations of your response time are greatly affected by the channel you use and the perceived complexity of the act you’re committing for them.

 

Explicitly setting a response commitment is a good solution because you’ve created a clear standard to be judged against. Then, you’ll need to meet or beat your declared standard even if it’s quite fast. If a customer was promised a phone call back in 15 minutes and receives a call back in two hours, they won’t be happy, whereas if they were promised a call back the next day and receive their call on the same day, they’ll judge you very responsive.

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