There are protocols and workflows and SLAs and metrics dashboards. But what are you doing to ensure that your own internal company experience needs to match that of the customer’s? And that, is when your organisation is inching towards its Zen state. In this process, guaranteeing great customer happiness becomes natural and organic; and much easier to achieve with each employee exuding their practices naturally.
1. Whatever is the product/ service you offer, should be lapped up internally. The closer you can get to making your workflows centered around your own product/ service, the more chance of winning. This is when employees identify with customers, create ways to improve their lives and in the process become internal champion customers.
2. Distance yourself from your organization. Not fully and definitely not in a check-out mode. But stepping back from your Monday-Friday routine every once in awhile brings aha moments. A task that is redundant, a customer who can be handled differently, a new way to position your product – all of these happen in between the lines
3. Every other team is your internal customer. Treat every other functional team as your customer. When done efficiently, this will strike out those 6 hour meetings where end results are still unclear.
Customer is not necessarily the (first) king. Employees are the first consumers of your product and should believe that they are paramount. So shall we raise a toast to not fooling ourselves that someone outside needs to be our source of truth? Doing this right, by extension, the end customer begins to get a great experience.
