Assignment task:
Carefully read the following scenario.
The new customer service officer has now been with IPSO Hospitality Group for three months. She confides with you (a fellow customer service officer) that she is feeling stressed and hasn't been sleeping well because she doesn't feel that she has had enough training to do her job and sometimes when customers call with issues, she is just not sure how to respond.
Q1. Briefly explain why the issue identified in the scenario is an issue that needs to be resolved.
Q2. In around a paragraph, describe what good stress is and what bad stress is.
Q3. Who should the stressed customer service officer speak to?
Q4. In around a paragraph, describe what the stressed customer service could ask for in terms of changes that would address their situation.
Q5. Who, outside the organisation, could the stressed customer service officer ask to assist them with this issue should the staff member not be satisfied with their employer's response?
Q6. Describe at least five steps that the new customer service officer could take to assist in dealing with workplace stress.
Q7. Send an email to your assessor. The text of the email should be in grammatically correct English, written in an appropriate (polite, business-like) style.