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Mercer Management Consulting Services: your specialists in customer focus

Do you need assistance and advice in better managing and servicing your customers to ensure their loyalty to your products and services?

Jillian Mercer is the lead consultant for Mercer Management Consulting Services which is a general management consultancy specialising in:

  • Customer Focus (including auditing businesses, surveying customers, conducting focus sessions, customer complaints management, process and systems, training and the © Nine Rules of Good Customer Service and the 54 supporting  ©SPIs [Service Performance Indicators])
  • Facilitation of Groups (achieving accelerated consensus in decision-making)
  • Independent Review (efficiency and effectiveness of processes, congruence of programs with guiding documentation [such as the international standard on complaints-handling] ; evaluation, customer focus).

BOOKINGS FOR 2010

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PO Box 478, North Perth WA 6906, Australia
Phone: +61 8 92278055
Fax: +61 8 92289055
Contact: Jillian Mercer

Contact us now to find out how we can help you help your customers to improve your business...

Your Principal Consultant

JILLIAN MERCER
(B.A., B.Ed., M.Ed.)
Jillian has worked extensively in the private and public sectors, both in Australia and overseas. She is acknowledged as an expert and is a published author on the topic of customer focus.  She is passionate about helping businesses better understand and improve all aspects of their service transactions with each and every customer and service user.

As a Masters Degree level educator, her work with organisations is well known for building knowledge and capacity with the groups with which she works, and so to achieve demonstrable, observable, measurable and actionable change in operational and organisational behavior.

CURRENT PROJECTS

 Current projects include:

  • University of Western Australia  -  ongoing project assisting and advising on change management for implementation of new International Standard on Complaints- Handling.
  • Master Class series delivery at two days each (Singapore delivery): Excellence in Higher Education Benchmarking Complaints-Handling Processes with ISO 10002:2004; and, Voice of Student (VoS) Management : Surveying Students: Collecting, Correcting and Connecting; and for delivery in Kuala Lumpur, Effective Rakyat (Public Sector) Complaint Management: Quantum leaping from good to great  -  Benchmarking critical processes with ISO10002.
  • Authoring book: Recession-Busting Customer Service.

RECENT PROJECTS

Recent projects include:

  • Redress (WA)  - extensive project,  process Improvement review, consultation, implementation of re-engineered and  error-proofed core  business processes and systems.
  • Department of Education and Training  -  2009, Evaluation of  Teacher and Schools of the Year Award program (ongoing from 2008 project of developing judging criteria for 2008 Awards).
  • EQUATE Petrochemical Company, Kuwait  -  delivery of two day Human Resources Voice of the Customer (HRVoC) program, June 2008.
  • Education and Training International  -  Process Improvement Review and consultation, completed June 2008.
  • Department of Education and Training  -  2008 Teacher and Schools of the Year judging criteria program.
  • Minerals Drilling Association of Australia Inc. (WA)   -  Industry Voice of the Customer  (VoC) feedback project, May 2008.
  • Baking Industry Employers’ Association – Membership feedback and Consultation for futures planning completion July 2008.

CUSTOMER LIST

Jillian Mercer has consulted with, assisted and advised, and conducted knowledge-building seminars for the following businesses in both Australia and overseas:

PRIVATE SECTOR

  • Alcoa Australia
  • BETTA Electrical Australia (electrical/household good retailers)
  • Brightwater Aged Care Group
  • Coca Cola Amatil
  • CPS Purchasing Services (wholesaler electrical/household goods) amongst others.
  • CSC Australia
  • David Evans Real Estate
  • Elders WA Ltd
  • EQUATE Petrochemical Company, Kuwait (2002, 2005, 2007)
  • Facilitated major Customer
    Complaints Management (CCM) conference seminars for Frontiers in
    Knowledge International (FiK), for Asian-based, large private and
    public-sector organisations all industries, (Singapore, India,
    Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and China and United Arab Emirates,
    Kuwait, Indonesia)
  • Holywood Senior Citizan's Village of the Salvation Army
  • iiNet (ISP)
  • Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators (WA Chapter)
  • Real Estate Institute of WA (Eastern suburbs chapter)
  • Jesters, the Pie Factory (fast food)
  • New Horizons Holidays (travel wholesaler)
  • Schwarzkopf Australia
  • SNAP (printing)
  • Westnet (ISP)
  • Woodville Torrens Real Estate

CONFERENCES

  • SOCAP Australia Conference 2005: Eyes Wide Open - Building your Brand with Every Customer Contact, paper title From Rage to Recovery on Complaints-handling
  • Qualcon 2005 Conference: Leadership, Quality and Excellence, paper title The Role of Customer Focus in Business Excellence: Measuring with Service performance Indicators (SPIs)
  • Frontiers in Knowledge
    International, Conferences 2005 on Complaints Management, and Gaining
    Customer Feedback, Thailand, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Singapore,Hong Kong,
    Mumbai.
  • Intercoiffure Congress 2005, paper title: Hair Today/Gone Tomorrow! Building Trust with Your Customers
  • Real Estate Institute of Western Australia Property Management Chapter 2005 Convention: The Winds of Change, paper title, The Nine Rules of great Customer Service
  • IBC Informa Asia Conference Customer Complaints Par Excellence, Beijing
  • Maslio International Voice of the Customer: Beyond Satisfaction Surveys, Kuwait
  • Qualcon 2004 Conference: Quality, the Key to Organisational Prosperity.
  • 2000 National Australian Customer Service Summit
  • Financial Review CRM Conference on Developing Excellence in Customer Relationship anagement; amongst others
  • IDP International Education Conferences across Australia
  • IIP Company Secretaries' Conference
  • International Qualcon 2000 Conference, Reach for the Stars
  • Western Australian Internet Association Conference
  • Western Australian State Schools Registrars' Association Inc.

GOVERNMENT SECTOR

  • AirFreight Export Council of Western Australia
  • Australia Day Council
  • Bandyup Women's Prison
  • Battye Library of Western Australian History
  • Central College of TAFE (Technical and Further Education)
  • Community Justices Services Division
  • Curtin University School of Business
  • Department for Community Development
  • Department of Premier and Cabinet, Office of the Centenary of Federation
  • Disability Services Commission
  • Divisions of Ministry of Justice
    (including Aboriginal Policy and Services, Community-Based Services, HR
    and Metropolitan Prisons and Juvenile Custodial Services; Wheatbelt
    Regional Management; Family Court of Western Australia; the Drug Court)

     

  • Fremantle Ports
  • Functional Review Implementation Team (FRIT)
  • Government Employees Superannuation Board (GESB)
  • Government of the Philippines
  • Great Southern College of TAFE
  • Grove Library Services (Cottesloe, Peppermint Grove, Mosman Park)
  • Hakea Maximum Security Prison
  • Indian Government
  • James Cook University School of Tropical Diseases & Health
  • Midland College of TAFE
  • Murdoch University Senate
  • Office Director General Transport
  • Office of Children and Young People
  • Office of Multicultural Interests
  • Office of Public Sector Standards
  • Office of Public Sector Standards and Merit Protection
  • Office of Seniors' Interests
  • Ports Operations Task Force
  • Rangeview Remand Centre
  • Road Safety Council Main Roads Department
  • Sea Freight Council of Western Australia
  • South West Area Health Service
  • Transport Infrastructure and Urban Planning
  • Various schools of Edith Cowan University
  • Western Power
  • Westrail Urban Rail Division

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

  • Aged Care Standards Accreditation Agency
  • Australian Competition and Consumer Commission