I often am asked about THE POINT of Customer Service in a dental practice.
When I tell people that’s what I do, in that I teach dentists how to improve their customer service delivery systems, I often receive really strange looks.
Looks of confusion.
Looks that say to me:
“Really?”
And
“What’s the point?”
It’s as if these people believe that dental practices DO NOT need to provide Customer Service to their patients.
These looks imply that employees at dental practices DO NOT need to provide Customer Service to their patients in a similar way that employees at Land Tax Offices tend to go out of their way sometimes NOT TO BE helpful and friendly towards their customers.
Is the response of these people simply because these people believe that a visit to the dentist is such a negative experience that no amount of customer service could ever be sufficient to make it a pleasurable and memorable experience?
Well I’m here to tell you….
In the Movie “FIELD OF DREAMS” the key line is:
“If you build it, he will come”.
And in your dental practice, you have the opportunity of building the dental practice that you want, and attracting the type of patient that you want, simply by making choices.
When Matthew McConaughey accepted his Oscar for his role in “DALLAS BUYERS CLUB” he said:
“Gratitude reciprocates”.
Providing service to someone is simply the act of helping them move away from what they do not want and towards what they do want.
Sometimes the person receiving this service is unaware that the place they are being moved to is a better place than where they are.
And in so creating these moments of improvement for the people we deal with, the people we love, and the people we serve, we are able to create a “state” of improvement, a perception of something better, that has actually been instigated by our action.
What act of kindness, of service, are you willing to instigate today to improve somebody’s state of mind?
And better still, what sequence of actions, what series of processes can you implement in your business on a permanent basis that will have your customers, clients, and patients saying:
“WOW! These guys really do get it.”
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