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Greeting Telephone Callers

Greeting Telephone Callers

Office Policies and Procedures
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Purpose

In this procedure, the Receptionist greets a telephone caller and helps them to transact their business in the office. This procedure starts when the customer telephones the office. 

It ends when the Receptionist has finished the transaction or has successfully handed the customer over to another Staff Member.

Note:  Any Staff Member answering a telephone call has the role of Receptionist.

Scope

This procedure applies to all telephone callers.

Background

All visitors, including sales customers, landlords, tenants, suppliers and competing agents, will judge our firm by the telephone reception they receive.  They will then, at some stage,  pass on this initial impression to their friends and associates. 

The company partly builds its reputation on how it treats its telephone callers.

Failure to return telephone calls is a very fast way to make people see you as unprofessional.

Procedure and Rules

Mood of telephone calls

  • Conduct all telephone calls with an atmosphere of:
  • Warmth and friendliness
  • Patience and good humour
  • Interest or enthusiasm (not apathy, artificial friendliness or resentment)

Incoming telephone calls

  • Answer the telephone within three rings.
  • Use the words:
  • “Welcome to <company name>.  <your first name> speaking.  How can I help you”
  • If the call is for a specific person or role, transfer the call immediately.
  • If nobody appropriate is available to take the call, record:
  • Caller’s name
  • Caller’s contact phone number
  • (If a property is involved) Property address
  • Person or role they want to speak with
  • (If they want to be called back) Suitable time to call back
  • Message or reason for call
  • Time and date of call.
  • Contact the person called and relay the message.
  • Deliver the written message to the person called by placing it on their desk and then confirm with the person called that they received the message.
  • If you can’t get the message through to the person, ask a fellow team member or manager to follow up the call.

Returning telephone calls

  • Return all telephone calls on the same business day or within 24 hours at the latest.
  • If you know that you will not be able to return a call in that time, ask another Staff Member to call, apologise and say when you will be available.

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