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Customer Loyalty: Gaining Insights from Consumer Psychology and Behavioural Science

  • Innovation & Business Improvement
Next Intake: 28 Jul 2025 (Mon)
  • Basic
  • SkillsFuture
  • Short Courses
  • This module is part of Advanced Certificate in Service Strategy & Management

This programme is conducted on-campus.

Next course starts on
28 Jul 2025 (Mon) See Full Schedule
Fee
SGD2,180* (as low as SGD254 after maximum funding) Learn More
Duration

2 days
Weekdays (9 am - 6 pm)

Level
Basic

Who Should Attend

  • Managers of service quality and customer-centric initiatives
  • Professionals with work exposure to customer experience, marketing, quality assurance, operations, collaborative partnership or customer analytics

Overview

The workshop is designed for working professionals who wish to carry out evidence-based customer marketing strategies.

In organisations, managers are prone to make strategic decisions based on personal experiences and/ or organisational beliefs, in their attempts to affect consumer behaviour. The workshop will show participants why certain customer marketing strategies that may have intuitive appeal could have sub-optimal outcomes; how they can be redesigned through behavioural science methods; and, in turn, how they can be transformed into strategies with a competitive edge. 

Participants will learn about cutting-edge scientific evidence and principles, showing how people make everyday judgments and decisions, learning their application pointers in daily practice in organisations that interact with customers.


This module is available on a standalone basis.

Learning Objectives

  • Gain an understanding of how to use behavioural science to unlock customer insights to improve their business 
  • Understand how to motivate their customer and create sticky customer experiences
  • Review different types of customer expectations and how it impacts strategies in terms of naming, labels and expectations
  • Distinguish how people choose incentive options 
  • Understand customer satisfaction with transactions 
  • Identify the types of social influences affecting them and their customers

Topic/Structure

  • Introduction to Customer Insights from Behavioural Science
  • Goal Setting: How to Motivate Your Customer and Create Sticky Customer Experience
  • Naming, Labels, and Expectations: What Customer Expectations Do to Your Strategies
  • Not All Incentives are Created Equal: Why People Choose One Option over Another
  • The Meaning of Money: When Customers are Satisfied with Transactions, More or Less
  • Social Influences: How What Others Think and Do Affects You and Your Customers

Assessment

As part of the requirement for SkillsFuture Singapore, there will be an assessment conducted at the end of the course. The mode of assessment, which is up to the trainer’s discretion, may be an online quiz, a group/ individual presentation or based on classroom exercises.

Participants are required to attain a minimum of 75% attendance and pass the associated assessment in order to receive a digital Certificate of Completion issued by Singapore Management University.

Calculate Programme Fee

Click here for more infomation about SkillsFuture Credits (Not applicable for Company-sponsored participants)
For PSEA - Available only for Singapore Citizen below 31 (Not applicable for Company-sponsored participants)

Total Program Fee: SGD0.00

Fee Table

COMPANY-SPONSORED

PARTICIPANT PROFILE

SELF-SPONSORED

SME

NON-SME

Singapore Citizen < 40 years old

Permanent Resident

LTVP+

$654

(After SSG Funding 70%)

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$654

(After SSG Funding 70%)

Singapore Citizen ≥ 40 years old

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

International Participant

$2,180

(No Funding)

$2,180

(No Funding)

$2,180

(No Funding)

All prices include 9% GST

Please note that the programme fees are subject to change without prior notice.

Post Secondary Education Account (PSEA)
PSEA can be utilised for subsidised programmes eligible for SkillsFuture Credit support. Click here to find out more.

Self Sponsored

SkillsFuture Credit

Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use their SkillsFuture Credits to pay for the course fees. The credits may be used on top of existing course fee funding.

This is only applicable to self-sponsored participants. Application to utilise SkillsFuture Credits can be submitted when making payment for the course via the SMU Academy TMS Portal, and can only be made within 60 days of course start date.

Please click here for more information on the SkillsFuture Credit. For help in submitting an SFC claim, you may wish to refer to our step-by-step guide on claiming SkillsFuture Credits (Individual).

Workfare Skills Support Scheme

From 1 July 2023, the Workfare Skills Support (WSS) scheme has been enhanced. Please click here for more details.

Company Sponsored

Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS)

  • Organisation must be registered or incorporated in Singapore
  • Employment size of not more than 200 or with annual sales turnover of not more than $100 million
  • Trainees must be hired in accordance with the Employment Act and fully sponsored by their employers for the course
  • Trainees must be Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents
  • Trainees must not be a full-time national serviceman
  • Trainees are eligible for ETSS funding only if their company's SME status is approved prior to the course commencement date. To verify your SME's status, please click here. 

Please click here for more information on ETSS.

Absentee Payroll

Companies who sponsor their employees for the course may apply for Absentee Payroll here. For more information, please refer to:

AP Guide (Non-SME Companies)
Declaration Guide (SME Companies)

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Trainers

Dr Sungjong Roh
Assistant Professor of Communication Management
Lee Kong Chian School of Business
Dr Sungjong Roh
Assistant Professor of Communication Management
Lee Kong Chian School of Business
Dr Roh received his Ph.D. at Cornell University and is currently an Assistant Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University. Dr Roh has two closely related areas of research and teaching expertise: (a) behavioural decision-making—underlying mechanisms whereby consumers, managers, and investors make judgments and choices, and; (b) computational data science (using Python and R) for business problem-solving. Dr Roh has taught a wide range of courses across multiple disciplines, and workshops on computational data science, data-informed, evidence-based management practices to undergraduate and postgraduate business students, working professionals, and executives. A recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the university-wide "Most Promising Teacher Award" and Specialist Adult Educator (for Curriculum Development) by the SkillsFuture Singapore/ Institute for Adult Learning.

Testimonials

In-depth sharing and relevant examples. Very much appreciate Prof Roh's generous, engaging and enthusiastic sharing.
Ms Amanda Loh
Vice-Principal (Admin)
NorthLight School
The course facilitator encouraged us to view things from alternative perspectives and shared the relevant technical skills needed to understand online sentiments.
Ms Jeelin G
Manager, Performance Assessment
IMDA
The workshop helped me understand that asking customers directly why they made certain decisions is not enough. We cannot rely on surveys and focus groups to be objective. Need to use data science to analyse customers' decisions, views or consumption trends.
Ms Vivien Yap
Senior Operations Manager
NTUC Health Co-operative Ltd
A lot of real case examples were shared during the workshop.
Ms Chua Shu Ting
Digital Manager
Merck

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