Who Are Your Customers?
Customer Service refers to anyone with whom an employee has contact to ensure that Child Support Enforcement services are provided. Some examples of potential customers include:
Custodial Parents (CPs)
Noncustodial Parents (NCPs)
Dependents (DPs)
Employers
Courts
Other Agencies (IV–A, Sheriff’s Departments, Police Departments, Inter-agency departments, etc.)
Child Support Enforcement Workers
Training Notes
What you need to say/do
Display PowerPoint Slide 2-7: Internal Customers.
Discuss the strategies for internal customers listed on the next page.
Advise participants that it is critical to understand that our co-workers are our internal customers and, as such, they are entitled to the same respect we would extend to any other customer. Ask:
Do you know any co-workers who are very polite to the CPs and NCPs, but you personally dread asking them anything because of their negative treatment of co-workers?
This is a good place for group discussion. Solicit feedback from participants; ask if they routinely view their co-workers as customers.
Ask for a volunteer (or two) to share an experience with a co-worker that might have had a different outcome if the co-worker was treated as (or treated others as) a “customer.”
What you need to know
The treatment of co-workers is an important issue. Many Child Support Enforcement workers do not comprehend that we have internal customers and they should be treated with the same, or even more, respect.
Again, be careful to control discussions at this point, not allowing for an extended “gripe fest.”
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