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As someone who has been heavily involved facilitating strategic planning processes with organizations during the last 15+ years Draymond Green USA Jersey , I often find it somewhat amusing how people answer the questions I pose.


For example, if I ask people, ?What is your unique differentiation in the marketplace?? or ?What does your organization really excel at?? They will almost always reply, ?It has to be our client service.? Almost no one will admit to being 'lousy? in client service, any more than they will talk about living in an average town with average kids. Instead I see the ?Lake Woebegone Syndrome.? In Lake Woebegone it seems all the women are pretty Derrick Rose USA Jersey , all the men are handsome, and all the kids are well above average.


If while getting to know someone's agency or company, I ask the question, ?If I hauled you into a court of law and accused you of being a ?world class? client service provider, would there be enough evidence to convict you?? Many times Deron Williams USA Jersey , unfortunately, their answer is, ?Probably not.?


Therefore, if so many people think client service and satisfaction is so critical to the success of the vision and the execution of the strategic plan, why is it not usually monitored with the same intensity as the financials? After all DeMarcus Cousins USA Jersey , financials are a lagging indicator (telling what happened after the fact) while client satisfaction may be a leading indicator (it can be predicting what may happen in the future).


Many organizations go through all sorts of trial and error and purchase various software programs to keep their finger on the pulse of dollars and cents because they want to know where they are and minimize opportunity for loss. For years it has been known that ?what gets measured gets done.?


If that is the case, why is it that many organizations choose to almost ignore measuring client satisfaction? By doing so, they run the risk of losing established clients to the competition.


Client Service as Overarching Philosophy In 1960, Professor Theodore Leavitt wrote the groundbreaking article, ?Marketing Myopia DeMar DeRozan USA Jersey ,? in the Harvard Business Review. To paraphrase, he basically concluded that the purpose of all business is to attract and maintain customers while generating adequate profitability today and improved profitability in the future. That balancing act still holds true today. How many organizations do you know that are masters at bringing business in the front door only to lose it out the back door just as quickly? We have also dealt with organizations that service their existing business so well that the owners and principals ?never get around to developing new business.?


Those organizations and agencies that see customer or client service as simply a department to be managed rather than a point of strategic differentiation may be looking at the business through the lens of short-term focus. So many people that we talk with have never calculated the lifetime value of a typical insured and even those that have usually aren't communicating that number to their staff at every level of the organization on a regular basis. Knowing that number can provide a framework to make decisions for the long haul and maintain the client relationship rather than looking at it from a 'transactional? basis.


To calculate the lifetime value, take the number of years that a clientinsured usually stays with the agency multiplied by the estimated net profit per line of business (auto, P&C, E&O DeAndre Jordan USA Jersey , DB, etc). The total dollars can give you some idea of what is at risk in the future if you under serve your client base.


For example, if a typical insured stays with your agency 15 years and has 3 different policies with you each generating $200year in profit, each new insured is worth approximately $9000 going forward (15yrs x $200policy x 3 policies = $9000) if they are treated so well that they won't even consider moving to someone else. Now ask yourself, how cavalierly would you treat a check written to your agency for $9000? Would you do the equivalent of going into your back yard David Robinson USA Jersey , digging a hole, burying it there and walking away from it forever? In essence that is what happens when clients are taken for granted. The cause can either be by default ie. not paying attention, understaffing by design, allowing a lack of systemic follow-up and follow-through, or it can be attributed to a management team with so strong a focus on short-term results that they become almost greedy. Does your organization have a client service strategy? If you examine your strategic plan Clyde Drexler USA Jersey , it's necessary to differentiate the agency strategy and plan from the client service strategy. They are not identical. Organizations need to implement a ?Client Bill of Rights.?


Leaders in organizations need to ask themselves if they are willing to pay the price for excellent client service vs. good client service. Excellence costs, but it also pays off. Being even a little better than the competitor pays huge dividends. Yet many organizations are not willing to pay that price. Instead they are content with processes, technology and staff who are ?good enough.?


As mentioned before, ?what gets measured, gets done.? Client expectation measurements are important as are ways to monitor them. It is necessary for organizations to take the time to discover why a client has signed on with you and not the competition. It's also necessary to determine what they really want to have happen as part of the client experience. It is then up to you to make sure you are delivering what your client wants. Failure to do so most likely will result in the loss of that client to your competitor.


Once you determine what it is your client really desires Christian Laettner USA Jersey , make sure you match those expectations in terms of pricing and service. Make sure you are not trying to sell a champagne policy to someone with a beer budget and vice versa. It's necessary to have processes in place to support excellent client service from beginning