SFLSOP008 — Provide quality service to floristry customers
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What an assessment for SFLSOP008 must cover
50 assessable components: 5 elements (22 performance criteria), 13 performance evidence and 11 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 4 foundation skills. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.
Elements & performance criteria
1 Communicate with internal and external customers.
- 1.1Communicate with customers in a polite, professional and friendly manner.
- 1.2Use appropriate language and tone in both written and spoken communication.
- 1.3Use appropriate non-verbal communication.
- 1.4Observe and respond to non-verbal communication of customers.
- 1.5Show sensitivity to cultural and social diversity.
- 1.6Use active listening and questioning to facilitate effective two way communication.
- 1.7Select and use medium of communication appropriate for audience and situation.
2 Maintain personal presentation standards.
- 2.1Identify appropriate personal presentation in line with organisational policy, customer expectations, work location and activities.
- 2.2Practise high standards of personal presentation and hygiene.
3 Identify and meet customer needs
- 3.1Establish rapport with customers to promote goodwill and trust.
- 3.2Identify customer needs and expectations including customers with special needs.
- 3.3Meet all reasonable customer needs and requests promptly.
- 3.4Provide relay services to customers and meet special requests.
- 3.5Identify and act on opportunities to enhance service quality.
4 Develop a customer relationship.
- 4.1Maintain contact with customers until orders are complete.
- 4.2Develop rapport, provide empathy and special assistance to customers with special circumstances.
- 4.3Promote repeat business through offer of promotional services
5 Respond to customer complaints.
- 5.1Recognise customer dissatisfaction and take swift action to avoid escalation to a complaint.
- 5.2Respond to customer complaints and seek solutions in consultation with the customer.
- 5.3Resolve complaints according to level of individual responsibility and organisational policy.
- 5.4Refer complex service issues to relevant staff for action.
- 5.5Maintain a positive and cooperative manner at all times.
Performance evidence
- communicate effectively and provide quality customer service to these customer types:
- one walk-in customer purchasing a general product
- those with special needs:
- one aged customer
- one customer with language or cultural needs
- those with special circumstances:
- one customer purchasing floristry products for a funeral
- one customer purchasing floristry products for a special occasion
- across those customer interactions, cover:
- face-to-face communications
- communications via written media
- communications via the telephone
- resolution of complaints
Knowledge evidence
- principles of quality customer service and positive communication
- essential features, conventions and usage of these types of communication media: telephone, email, letters
- appropriate: voice tonality and volume, body language
- floristry industry expectations of service personnel: professional service standards, attitudes to work with customers, ethics of professional behaviour, personal presentation and hygiene standards
- floristry industry and organisational: types of internal and external customers; their service and communication expectations especially for customers with special service needs
- customer service policies and procedures including those for complaint handling
- procedures for the provision of relay services
- key features of promotional services: customer loyalty programs, discount vouchers, gift vouchers, newsletters
- general characteristics of the main social and cultural groups in Australian society and key aspects of their cultural and religious protocols and preferences for service and communication
- basic aspects of stresses faced by customers with special circumstances and communication techniques to manage these types of customers: people purchasing floristry products for a funeral, people purchasing floristry products for a special occasion
- techniques to identify and resolve customer dissatisfaction and complaints
Foundation skills
- Reading skills: interpret: messages, notes, emails, letters, online communications of varying complexity; detailed organisational customer service policies and procedures.
- Writing skills: produce clear and concise customer messages, notes, emails, letters and online communications.
- Planning and organising skills: deal with customer enquiries in a logical sequence so that customers are served effectively.
- Technology skills: operate telephone equipment and use electronic communication media.
Unit content sourced from training.gov.au — © Commonwealth of Australia, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Auditori is not affiliated with the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations.
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Questions about assessing SFLSOP008
What does an assessment tool for SFLSOP008 need to cover?
To satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, an assessment for SFLSOP008 needs to address all 50 unit components: 5 elements with 22 performance criteria, 13 performance evidence requirements, 11 knowledge evidence requirements, and the foundation skills. A coverage matrix mapping each question and task to these components is what an auditor looks for.
How does Auditori generate an assessment tool for SFLSOP008?
Auditori pulls the current release of SFLSOP008 from training.gov.au and generates a complete package: candidate assessment, assessor guide with model answers and observation criteria, and a coverage matrix mapping every component. A suitably qualified person then reviews and approves the draft in a built-in workflow — consistent with ASQA's guidance on AI use in VET — before export as branded PDF and editable Word.
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Related units
- SFLSOP001 — Source information on floristry products and services
- SFLSOP002 — Work effectively in the floristry industry
- SFLSOP003 — Recognise flower and plant materials
- SFLSOP004 — Receive and store floristry stock
- SFLSOP005 — Prepare and care for floristry stock
- SFLSOP006 — Display and merchandise floristry products
- SFLSOP007 — Interact with floristry customers
- SFLSOP009 — Sell floristry products
- SFLSOP010 — Prepare quotations for floristry products
- SFLSOP011 — Develop a floristry product range
- SFLSOP012 — Maintain and order floristry stock
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