The measurement method you choose can make makes a difference to the results obtained. Your motivation for measuring customer satisfaction will drive both your methodology for collecting the data, and what you do with it.

Client satisfaction data can be collected for:

• Accountability

• To use to influence or justify

• Continuous improvement

Be clear about why you are collecting satisfaction data; to deliver a good report card (a primary motivation of units in a large corporation or public sector entity, or for businesses which are required to meet certain standards), or to diagnose and manage continuous improvement.

For a good report card, measure general satisfaction using a once-a-year survey. Every business wants a good report card, but that will not help you improve your performance. To obtain useful data you need to measure client satisfaction with specific attributes of your service at the time of the transaction.

Some tips:

• As a psychological construct satisfaction is peculiar - results are always negatively skewed. The good news is that more people report being satisfied than dissatisfied. The bad news is that if you’re getting less than a 95-98% satisfaction rate, you need to investigate, identify and fix the problem. And there’s always the possibility that high satisfaction may indicate low expectation. Are your customers satisfied more because your competition delivers poor service and thus anyone who provides pretty ordinary service will get good customer satisfaction feedback?

• The method you use for collecting satisfaction data can influence the results
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  nce to the results obtained. Your motivation for measuring customer satisfaction will drive both your methodology for collecting the data, and what you do with it.

  Client satisfaction data can be collected for:

  • Accountability

  • To use to influence or justify

  • Continuous improvement

  Be clear about why you are collecting satisfaction data; to deliver a good report card (a primary motivation of units in a large corporation or public sector entity, or for businesses which are required to meet certain standards), or to diagnose and manage continuous improvement.

  For a good report card, measure general satisfaction using a once-a-year survey. Every business wants a good report card, but that will not help you improve your performance. To obtain useful data you need to measure client satisfaction with specific attributes of your service at the time of the transaction.

  Some tips:

  • As a psychological construct satisfaction is peculiar - results are always negatively skewed. The good news is that more people report being satisfied than dissatisfied. The bad news is that if you’re getting less than a 95-98% satisfaction rate, you need to investigate, identify and fix the problem. And there’s always the possibility that high satisfaction may indicate low expectation. Are your customers satisfied more because your competition delivers poor service and thus anyone who provides pretty ordinary service will get good customer satisfaction feedback?

  • The method you use for collecting satisfaction data can influence the results
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    report card (a primary motivation of units in a large corporation or public sector entity, or for businesses which are required to meet certain standards), or to diagnose and manage continuous improvement.

    For a good report card, measure general satisfaction using a once-a-year survey. Every business wants a good report card, but that will not help you improve your performance. To obtain useful data you need to measure client satisfaction with specific attributes of your service at the time of the transaction.

    Some tips:

    • As a psychological construct satisfaction is peculiar - results are always negatively skewed. The good news is that more people report being satisfied than dissatisfied. The bad news is that if you’re getting less than a 95-98% satisfaction rate, you need to investigate, identify and fix the problem. And there’s always the possibility that high satisfaction may indicate low expectation. Are your customers satisfied more because your competition delivers poor service and thus anyone who provides pretty ordinary service will get good customer satisfaction feedback?

    • The method you use for collecting satisfaction data can influence the results
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      data you need to measure client satisfaction with specific attributes of your service at the time of the transaction.

      Some tips:

      • As a psychological construct satisfaction is peculiar - results are always negatively skewed. The good news is that more people report being satisfied than dissatisfied. The bad news is that if you’re getting less than a 95-98% satisfaction rate, you need to investigate, identify and fix the problem. And there’s always the possibility that high satisfaction may indicate low expectation. Are your customers satisfied more because your competition delivers poor service and thus anyone who provides pretty ordinary service will get good customer satisfaction feedback?

      • The method you use for collecting satisfaction data can influence the results
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        to investigate, identify and fix the problem. And there’s always the possibility that high satisfaction may indicate low expectation. Are your customers satisfied more because your competition delivers poor service and thus anyone who provides pretty ordinary service will get good customer satisfaction feedback?

      • The method you use for collecting satisfaction data can influence the results

      • Oral administration of satisfaction questions “improves” satisfaction by as much as 12% compared with written questionnaires – wonderful if you’re looking for a good report, but something to watch out for if you’re looking for information about in what areas you need to lift your game

      • Clients report higher levels of satisfaction if you frame the question positively than if you frame the same question negatively

      • Measurement at the time a service is delivered more accurately, reflects level of satisfaction and avoids the halo effect of one particularly good or spectacularly bad experience

      • Interviews deliver more complete and revealing answers but are expensive and dependent on interviewer skill and impartiality

      • Focus groups may not accurately represent the entire customer group

      Finally, never forget that emphasis on satisfaction of current customer demands can inhibit the development of innovations that can meet the future, or current, but unstated, demands of those same customers. That’s why you need to keep talking to them.

      Try the one question survey: pick a question for a period of time and include it in every conversation you have with a client.