Complaints Masterclass for Staff, Board Members and Councillors

Involving your customers in the complaints process...

Join Tpas and The Housing Ombudsman for a complaints masterclass

With the effective resolution of complaints featuring significantly in the Green paper, Tpas is pleased to announce that it is teaming up with the Housing Ombudsman to deliver this timely and practical masterclass.

The day will cover:

Delivered by the Housing Ombudsman’s and Tpas’s expert trainers, it will focus on how landlords can successfully engage with residents to deliver better complaint handling and outcomes.

It will  not only draw on the specialist skills and knowledge of the Ombudsman and Tpas, but will also include the experiences of Landlords who have opened up their complaints processes to their residents with some impressive results.

You will also have the opportunity to network and share best practice with participants from other landlords.

Outcomes

• Explore what makes an effective complaints process
• Explore how complaints escalate and examine the common areas of customer frustration.
• Time, Action and Communication principles.
• Identify options for resident involvement in the complaints framework including
• Cold case review sessions
• Independent complaints panels
• Complaint monitoring groups
• Designing a customer focused complaints process

Hear about the improvements and outcomes that have been made as a result of customer engagement

Programme

10.30am: Welcome and Introductions

10.40am: What makes an effective complaints process

11.00am: Common areas of customer frustration

11.10am: Time, Action and Communication principles

11.30am:  Dispute resolution principles – what are they and what do they mean in practical terms?  Case studies

11.50am:  Options for involving customers in complaints

12.30pm:  Lunch and Networking

12.45pm:   Case studies, good practice tips and open questions session

2.30pm:     Close

Audience

This workshop is aimed at staff, board members and Councillors.

Other dates

7th February 2019 - Gateshead

Testimonials

Here's what the attendees of our recent events said about the day...

• A good opportunity to showcase, learn, listen and share best practice.  Some very thought provoking ideas to take away.
• A good insight into designated person role for tenants groups
• It has been interesting to get an overview of complaints processes in relation to the bigger picture, i.e how this relates to the Ombudsman.
• Very useful and a good refresher.