--- name: customer-experience-coaching-guide-builder description: "Builds a complete customer experience coaching guide for retail floor teams — including a CX principle framework, moment-by-moment service scripts, coaching conversation structures, role-play scenarios, and observation scorecards calibrated to a specific brand's voice and product category. Use when building or refreshing in-store CX training, onboarding new sales associates, standardizing service across locations, or coaching a team to improve customer interaction quality." argument-hint: "[brand-type] [store-format]" allowed-tools: ["Read"] --- # Customer Experience Coaching Guide Builder ## Purpose Produce a ready-to-use coaching guide that translates a brand's CX principles into concrete floor behaviors, scripts, and observable coaching moments — so store managers can train, observe, and improve associate service quality consistently instead of relying on vague "be more welcoming" feedback. ## When to Use Invoke this skill when the user asks to: - Build a CX or service training guide for a retail store team - Create coaching scripts aligned to brand values or service standards - Onboard new sales associates or beauty advisors with consistent service behaviors - Standardize the customer experience across multiple store locations - Create role-play scenarios or observation checklists for floor coaching - Fix inconsistent or transactional in-store service ## Inputs Required Before starting, collect: - **Brand type**: Category and positioning (e.g., prestige beauty, mass cosmetics, apparel, home goods) - **Store format**: Boutique / department store counter / standalone flagship / mall footprint - **Brand CX principles**: Existing service values, mission words, or voice guidelines (if any) - **Customer profile**: Who shops here and what they expect - **Current service gaps**: What's going wrong today (rushed, robotic, inconsistent, low attach rate, etc.) - **Team experience level**: Mostly new hires / mixed tenure / mostly experienced - **Key products or services to feature**: Consultations, samples, add-ons, loyalty enrollment If brand CX principles are not provided, derive 4–5 principles from the brand type and positioning, and note them as proposed. ## Instructions ### Step 1: Establish the CX Principle Framework Convert the brand's values into 4–5 named service principles. Each principle must be: - A short memorable phrase (2–4 words) associates can recall on the floor - Paired with a one-sentence behavioral definition ("what this looks like in action") - Paired with one clear anti-pattern ("what this is NOT") If principles are provided, translate them into behavioral terms. If not, generate them from positioning (e.g., prestige beauty → "Unhurried Attention," "Educated Confidence," "Personal Ritual"). ### Step 2: Map the Customer Journey Moments Break the in-store experience into 5–7 sequential moments, each with a script and a coaching note: - **The Greeting** — how associates open without hovering - **The Discovery** — questions that surface needs, not just wants - **The Demonstration/Consultation** — showing product tied to the customer's stated need - **The Recommendation & Add-On** — how to suggest complementary products naturally - **The Objection Moment** — handling price, hesitation, or "just looking" - **The Close & Loyalty** — completing the sale and enrolling/inviting back - **The Farewell** — ending so the customer wants to return For each moment provide: a 2–4 line sample script in the brand voice, the CX principle it reinforces, and one common mistake to coach against. ### Step 3: Build Coaching Conversation Structures Provide 3 coaching conversation templates managers use with associates: - **The GROW-style Development Conversation** (Goal → Reality → Options → Will) — for building a skill over time - **The In-the-Moment Correction** — a 3-step, low-friction script for redirecting behavior on the floor without embarrassing the associate - **The Recognition Conversation** — a specific-praise structure that reinforces the exact behavior you want repeated Each template includes sample manager phrasing, not just labels. ### Step 4: Write Role-Play Scenarios Create 5 practice scenarios covering common difficult situations: - The rushed customer who "just needs one thing" - The overwhelmed first-time customer who doesn't know what they want - The price-sensitive customer comparing to a competitor - The returning loyal customer who expects to be recognized - The browsing customer who resists engagement Each scenario includes: the setup, the customer's opening line, the associate objective, and 2–3 "look for" behaviors the coach evaluates. ### Step 5: Create the Observation Scorecard Build a scorecard managers use during floor observations: - 8–12 observable behaviors mapped to the CX principles from Step 1 - A simple rating scale (Consistently / Sometimes / Not Yet) - Space for one strength and one coaching focus per observation Behaviors must be observable and specific ("Asked at least two discovery questions before recommending"), never subjective ("Was friendly"). ## Output Format - **Structure**: Guide document with clearly labeled sections in the order of the instruction steps - **Length**: 1,400–1,900 words - **Format**: Structured document mixing short framing prose, scripts (indented/quoted), and a scorecard table - **Sections**: CX Principle Framework → Customer Journey Moments (with scripts) → Coaching Conversation Structures → Role-Play Scenarios → Observation Scorecard - **Tone**: Practical, encouraging, and floor-ready — written for a manager to hand to a team, not a corporate policy document ## Quality Checklist Before delivering output, verify: - [ ] Exactly 4–5 named CX principles, each with a behavior definition and an anti-pattern - [ ] 5–7 journey moments, each with a script, a linked principle, and a coaching note - [ ] All 3 coaching conversation templates include actual sample manager phrasing - [ ] Exactly 5 role-play scenarios, each with a customer opening line and "look for" behaviors - [ ] Scorecard has 8–12 observable behaviors — none subjective, all mapped to a principle - [ ] Every script uses the brand voice implied by the inputs, not generic retail language ## Notes - The most common failure in retail CX training is coaching to attitude instead of behavior — keep every observation concrete and countable - Scripts should be starting points, not word-for-word mandates; note that associates should sound like themselves within the framework - If the brand is prestige/luxury, slow the pacing of the greeting and discovery moments; if it's high-traffic mass retail, tighten scripts for speed without losing warmth - Re-run this skill per season or per launch to refresh scripts around featured products and promotions --- ## How to use this skill This file is a Claude Code skill in [Anthropic's standard format](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/skills) — markdown with YAML frontmatter at the top. **Installing in Claude Code:** - `~/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads in every session anywhere on your machine (recommended for skills you'll use across multiple projects) - `/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads only when working in that project (recommended for project-specific skills) Restart Claude Code or open a new session to register. **Using in Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Gemini, or other AI tools:** 1. 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