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Your Company May Be Running At Loss Due To The Front Desk!

Bad Reception

By Osei AgyemangPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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The principal goal of every business is it’s total income or cash flow minus their expenditure, which is the profits. Most organizations in the wake of noticing they’re always running at a loss or perhaps breaking even, keep asking where the problem could be emanating from.

Could it be bad promoting system, awful information passage or poor administrations?

In fact, the organization starts to contemplate what the general problem is by all accounts originating from. Interestingly, they overlook that one of the spots that can destroy the income of any business is the front counter (reception).

Since it’s an entity, people will go through the front counter to get to any department within the company. Numerous directors of companies have for a long time, overlooked the intensity of the front counter since it’s likely the last thing that will strike their brains as one of the significant places that drives away clients.

Obviously, a couple of supervisors know about this, therefore employ hired candidates through that procedure for that position. Numerous clients have quit visiting most organizations essentially in light of awful reception given them the first time.

Besides, some clients of Telecommunication networks have also quit using the system’s SIM card because of bad attitude showed them via telephone by call operators. What about the shopping centers? Many people have one way or the other stopped shopping at specific commercial centers, due to several reasons including bad reception.

There are episodes where people respectfully join queues to be offered an assistance. After that long wait, these people are denied the best of service, presumably on the grounds that they know nobody there, they are too aggressive or whatever the case may be. Interestingly, when you begin to complain, you’re asked to leave the premises. Meanwhile, the service being offered may not for free.

In different occasions, when you go for window shopping at different commercial centers, some venders tend not to be happy on the grounds that, they feel you ought to by all means purchase an item rather than just window shopping. This usually happens mostly in some parts of Africa.

Therefore, they show terrible frame of attitude towards you. Some go the degree of guiding you to leave in case you’re not purchasing anything. At the end of a bookkeeping year, directors of such organizations gets befuddled with respect to why they didn’t make enough income; forgetting where the issue could be coming from (Bad Reception).

There are several stories connected to this issue where clients are 'dealt with' severely for no good reason. But some organizations expertly create a decent ‘air’ around their office to the degree that, any misconduct with respect to any of the receptionist calls for dismissal. The mentality of such a significant number of receptionists have enormously affected numerous organizations in differing ways.

Contracts have been ended abruptly, clients have stopped shopping and accounting statements have been at a loss. Furthermore, a few related impacts have been realized because of terrible reception. It’s time this office be taken serious and managed well. Well prepared and resourced staffs are to be procured, since it is the first passage to any organization.

In Africa, this issue is by all accounts a significant problem as certain people care less about customer relations. They regurgitate ‘trash’ whenever and at any rate, thinking they are doing th customer a favour. The next moment, you hear them deploring that conditions are hard for them. The client is in every case right!!

In authenticity, regardless of what the client does, the vender should control the ego so not to hit back unpredictably. Obviously, once in a while some of these clients are very problematic but the best thing to do is to disregard all that and close your deals.

Everybody deserves a nice reception regardless of social status or any circumstances. Furthermore, remember that the best receptionist breeds best outcomes for any organization.

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Osei Agyemang

https://www.oseiagyemang.com:

A passionate writer who creates exciting and innovative contents. Osei Agyemang is also a tourism fan who loves to travel around the world. He has studied Psychology and Journalism.



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