You're navigating organizational change. How can you maintain trust and loyalty with key clients?
Curious about sailing through change? Share your strategies for keeping client trust strong during transitions.
You're navigating organizational change. How can you maintain trust and loyalty with key clients?
Curious about sailing through change? Share your strategies for keeping client trust strong during transitions.
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I do believe from a customer perspective there is nothing worse than the generic letter, personalised through transparent automation with a copy of the leaders’s signature. In a world of socials we should mobilise our client stakeholders to personally call each client explain if any impacts and why this will benefit them. From there use a targeted timely drip feed of successes and benefits via socials.
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I believe below must be kept in priority list while driving an org level change among many others: 1. Inclusion of relevant parties throughout the change 2. Timely communication of milestones and roadblocks 3. Minimise element of surprise by being proactive 4. Displaying ownership to give a sense of confidence to the clients
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To keep trust and loyalty with key clients during organizational change, it’s important to communicate openly and honestly, letting them know what’s happening and how it might affect them. Take the time to listen to their concerns and really acknowledge their feelings, this shows you care. Remind them that their success is still your top priority and that you’re committed to supporting them through this transition.
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Transparency and expediency in communication to customers is critical. Other than what’s limited by HR, I prefer to be candid about the change, the reason behind it and why it either won’t have a negative impact for them, or will likely bring them specific benefits (better coverage, more attention, better expertise, etc). I also prefer to call the key stakeholder(s) before I send out any written communication and then plan to follow up regularly in the coming weeks and months to ensure things are running smoothly after the change.
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During organizational changes you should ensure that your key clients are clearly identified and that you have either a "transition solution" to provide frictionless client support to them or that you speedup changes exactly in the field of sales and service, so that you can clearly identify how the new setup will support focus accounts and you implement the changes as soon as possible. Be sure that you are precise about your vision and objectives and give clients enough comfort (through the right amount of information shared and the most appropriate communication channels) so that they know that they are in the right hands during your transformation. Be clear about changes that affect them and take them on a journey with you.
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Ao navegar por uma mudança organizacional, a chave para manter a confiança e lealdade dos principais clientes é a comunicação clara e proativa. Eu faço questão de mantê-los informados sobre as mudanças, explicando como essas transformações visam melhorar a qualidade do serviço. Também reforço que, apesar das mudanças internas, nosso compromisso com suas necessidades permanece inabalável. Além disso, ouço suas preocupações e adapto soluções personalizadas, garantindo que eles se sintam valorizados e prioritários durante todo o processo.
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When going through organizational change it's well worth it to spend significant time to discussing how it may impact key clients, and then cater changes to ensure there are client benefits. Organizational changes are done for many reasons, a main one being financial/cost considerations, but that can't be the only reason. Close and open communication with clients allows us to share some of the financial/cost considerations so clients don't feel lied to; however, clients are in business too and don't want the "wool pulled over their eyes". Once you share some of the financial side, it's imperative that there be client benefits to follow. Generic letter/email roll-out is not the way to go, trust is multiplied via direct calls with clients.
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If you’re going through organizational change, it’s usually to improve service and efficiencies. - Be real with your customers about the changes but assure them it’s to improve their experience overall. - Communication is key with realistic timelines.
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During change, all deadlines and quality should not be compromised. One way to do that is to build a kpi to see and monitor your relationships whether they are sales or operations.
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Open and Transparent communication with clients is of utmost importance during organizational changes. The clients should be updated on changes which directly impact the operations. One should also let the clients know about the overall objective of the changes and it's possible benefit in terms of improved efficiency and cost competency. The clients always appreciate the honest and upfront communication on such critical changes.
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