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Public Works: Building a Customer-Centric Culture

Selected through a competitive RFP, Moran helped the public works and engineering department of a large city (population 2.3 million) build a service culture and increase constituent satisfaction across water, construction, traffic, roads and bridges, billing and collections.

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4,000+staff trained
850+leaders trained
−25%time to access FEMA funds

A customer service initiative declared a national “model practice.”

The Challenge

What the department was facing

The goal was to apply organizational development practices to build a service culture and increase constituent satisfaction.

✓No customer-centric vision or service priority across the agency
✓A poor image in the community
✓Strong silos that hurt external service levels
✓An urgent need to build engagement and pride in work
✓Little internal or external communication, so feedback went unaddressed
The Approach

What Moran did

01

Internal service standards

Designed and implemented standards with frontline staff and leaders, plus employee surveys to measure progress.

02

Service Essentials™ for Everyone

Customer service training for all 4,000+ staff.

03

Service Essentials™ for Leaders

Training for all 850+ leaders on creating an environment of service excellence.

04

Train-the-trainer

Facilitator kits and train-the-trainer delivery for the operational roll-out.

Results

What changed

−25%processing time for access to FEMA flood funds
Nationalaccreditation; the initiative was declared a “model practice” nationwide
4,000+employees sharing one set of service standards

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