The 6.5 FCS-21 vaccination your business critically needs

Getting your business FCS-21 vaccinated entails executing the next six and a

half steps as rigorously as we espouse in this guide. Tried by thousands of

businesses across this world, the FCS-21 vaccine has inoculated these

businesses against the typical anemic customer experience that befuddles

corporate America, furnishing the employee with the facilities they needed to

deliver top-class customer service seamlessly.

The 6.5 FCS-21 vaccination steps include:

1. Side-by-Side Walking

2. Smart Tasking

3. Make-it-Right Power

4. What-if Arsenal

5. Bubble-Up Innovation

6. Relentless Focus

6. 5. Just Make It Happen

How about we dive into each of these vaccination procedures?

1. Side-by-Side Walking 

The saying, "only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches", is incredibly true.

It is difficult to accurately evaluate the role of your employees unless you

embark on an in-person investigative exploration of the job.

It is easy to draw the charts and graphs from your aristocratic perch far away

from the frontline) in your executive office. But only the frontline employee

knows the exhaustive specifics of each dot on that chart: the customer

temperament, customer's purchasing power, arrangement…

Immersing yourself experimentally in a specific role occupied by your employee

will give you a valuable packet of firsthand information on the everyday

experience of that frontline employee.

To achieve the side-by-side walking step, you must first have a firm

understanding of the role. Specifically document the details of that position,

spanning the objectives and KPIs, the tasks, and anticipated challenges the

employee (filling that role) should encounter.

Now get into the employees' shoes either by exclusively filling their position

momentarily) or supporting that employee in person for a specific period.

Stepping into the frontline employee's shoes may go as far as wearing their

robes: physical accouterments like their uniforms, aprons, hats…All these aim

to give you a 3D (holistic) appreciation of the role.

At the end of your investigation, compile your findings and measure them

against that role's originally documented operational blueprint. What

adaptations can you squeeze in the face of the lessons mined from that role

tour? What extra equipment do such employees need in their armory to better

handle the frontiers?

2. Smart Tasking

Flexibility is a core part of the FCS-21 vaccination. But an overdose of flexibility

in operation introduces disorder and elaborate unpredictability into the

process. While the FCS-21 vaccination espouses employees being granted

substantial space for innovation, priorities and anticipated outcomes (say

objectives) must be clearly established from the start.

With this approach, the destination (and time of arrival in the form of deadlines)

is definitively stated but the pathway taken to that destination is at the

innovative determination of the employee.

This way, the employee is no longer chained to the orthodox textbook. He is

free to juice the process with his innovative enterprise so long the anticipated

outcome is achieved within the stipulated time frame.

3. Make-it-Right Power

There are few ways as effective at economically strangulating your business in a

post-COVD corporate setting as binging on bureaucracy. Oh, you think it was

only the Orangutans that were critically endangered? Customer tolerance is too.

Customers are now incredibly impatient and will jolt out of the door at the

slightest irritation or delay. Yes, they are walking away with your dollars if you

don't speed your process up.

How better can you achieve this than by empowering your employees with the

make-it-right power? Indeed, a reasonable dose of autonomy should be 

deposited with each frontline employee to enable them to solve solutions in

real-time.

They don't need to call you in your office for approval before they smile at the

buyer. Equip them with substantial operational autonomy to provide

instantaneous and responsive solutions to the customer without having to

bureaucratically relay the information up the channels and waiting decades for

executive approval.

The policy here is simple. Leave the small fires for your frontline employees to

quench and focus on the strategic infernos.

Yes, your employees can abuse the make-it-right power. This is why even you

need to modulate the powers allocated to them with a best-practice document

that espouses a clear pack of guidelines on first-resort handling of customer

emergencies.

If this first-aid kit therapy doesn't suffice, the employee can then innovate

within the boundaries of authority allocated to him to solve that problem. This

means as you distribute power, the hierarchical boundaries must be illuminated

so that each employee is absolutely clear on what solutions fall within the ambit

of his jurisdiction and which he should pass up to his superiors.

4. What-if Arsenal

You definitely can't predict all the eventualities that could happen as your

employees execute their roles. The spectrum of possibilities in the frontline is

overwhelming even as far as the customer being in high spirits (after winning a

lottery just yesterday) or really low spirits (after having his Tinder date fail to

show up). 

However, you can do a substantial piece to mitigate the disruptive tendencies of

such operational spontaneity. This is by organizing a document that compiles

the most frequent incidences on the frontline into a standardized manual

stating the various solution mechanisms your employee can adopt if each of

these situations occurs. Yes, this is the what-if arsenal.

For example, if the customer says his budget will not suffice for A, recommend

B. If a customer says he is in a hurry to meet an appointment, do X. If a buyer

presents a fake dollar bill, activate Y…

Of course, the what-if arsenal can't be a stale or some "sacred scroll" passed

down uncompromisingly from generation to generation. No, this what-if

arsenal must be "breathing". Yes, it must be alive, dynamic, and energetically

responsive to changing scenarios in the frontline.

This means the what-if arsenal must be updated from time to time to reflect

and integrate a healthy dose of evolution in frontline experiences. Publish this

what-if arsenal and ensure to broadcast the latest edition to all your frontline

employees, keeping them up-to-date while extensively educating new hires on

the current edition of the what-if arsenal.

5. Bubble-Up Innovation

One of the most ridiculous administrative suicides you can embark on after the

pandemic is to drown in your ego enough to mistake your frontline employees

for brainless pawns moving lifelessly around at your creative leisure.

Your frontline employees are more than just boots on the ground; they are also

brains on the ground. They are not emotionless or cerebrally handicapped; they

don't just live for the orders you scream at them. They have their ideas too!

Yes, your frontline employees are best exposed to the creative juices pouring

from their direct interaction with the buyer. They have a more emphatic

appreciation of the real-life conditions at the frontline, giving them more data

than you have in your air-conditioned manager's office to make deductions or

predictions.

Once in a while, bring them to the table and hear their ideas out. The FCS-21

vaccine strongly urges establishing the administrative conduciveness for

bubble-up innovation from the frontline.

Ask them what they – from their experience of the frontier – would do if they

were in your managerial shoes to speed up service delivery, improve upsells,

accrue more positive customer reviews…

Nourish –not exterminate – ideas from the guys at the front. Yes, you have your

idea, but let them garnish it with some creative condiments fresh from the

frontline.

I always tell the managers I consult not to abort the ideas from their employees

have right at the fetal stage. As the business owner, you need excellent

administrative- midwifery in helping your employees birth these ideas and see

which can be adopted into your operational handbook.

6. Relentless Focus

The FCS-21 vaccination will lose a massive chunk of its efficacy if there is

intermittency in the focus on delivering world-class customer service. There

needs to an exhaustive and relentless consumption with providing world-class

customer service.

Premium customer service shouldn't be ceremonious, in terms of it happening

in select or unique intervals or days. No, it has to be a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week, 

52-weeks a year preoccupation. The focus isn't going on vacation once in a

while…it is a stable staple.

For all classes of recruits, for all levels of leadership, the fervent idolization of

world-class customer service must be ingrained into the company's

consciousness. Everyone must be trained to perpetually ingest and binge on

excellent customer service delivery that it becomes muscle memory.

6.5. Now Just Make It Happen

Alright, we have said a ton, but now is the time for action. Yes, it is now time

for you to put things in motion. You will agree this is the most critical phase of

all the vaccination procedures we have espoused all from the beginning. It is

that glue that gets the whole package sticking together and working

concertedly as a functional mechanism.

This enormous criticality of this last stage doesn't however discount the

essentiality of each of the aforementioned stages. You will not effectively make

it happen if you missed or wrongly executed the Side-by-Side Walking, Smart

Tasking, Make-it-Right Power, What-if Arsenal, Bubble-Up Innovation, or the

Relentless Focus.

To get it right, you must get it ALL right! Now complete your FCS-21

vaccination and watch your business exponentially thrives in a post-COVID

America.