Handling customer complaints effectively is crucial in ITSM to maintain trust and improve service desk performance.
User complaints are valuable feedback that can reveal process gaps and areas for improvement in IT service management.
Key steps to handle user complaints include acknowledging, listening actively, confirming expectations, being transparent, involving the right people, documenting everything, and following up.
Avoid dismissing user concerns, overpromising results, blaming others, and letting tickets go dark when managing complaints.
Modern IT teams adapt by automating follow-ups, using feedback surveys, providing soft skills training, and connecting complaint data to service improvement initiatives.
Customer complaints can be opportunities to strengthen relationships by showing empathy, transparency, and enhancing confidence in the support experience.