Customer Service Training Seminars:
Our customer service seminar teaches by doing with less than 15% lecture and 85% hands on
activities. Participants learn by Doing and not by being told. Exercises are
practical, realistic, fun and are skill based.
To maximize your customer
service teams effectiveness we suggest our custom, private
customer service seminars offered in house at the location of
your choice, usually in groups of 6 or more.
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us for a free consultation on how we can best service your
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Seminar Objectives:
In our Exceptional Customer Service one-day seminar
participants will:
- Understand how to handle inquiries and/or complaints in
ways that create improved, lasting relationships with your
customers or clients.
- Learn to promote positive "chemistry" between
your company and your clients by recognizing and
responding to the needs of each individual.
- Learn how to handle doubt, misunderstandings, and
objections.
- Acquire techniques for seeing issues from clients'
perspectives, creating value-adding options for clients,
and making sure clients recognize the added value they are
getting.
- Learn how to gain agreement from clients and reinforce
mutually satisfying long-term relationships.
Customer Service Training:
Customer Service Seminar - Improving Customer Service at the Head Office
Since competition is getting increasingly more intense and sophisticated, it is paramount to maximize all advantages and improvements in one's own sales organization. With this concise investigation of the company's head-offices we highlight, step-by step, the important details that make an organization stand out and being appreciated by the customers.
The first contact with our organization may be by telephone. There must be no such thing as a synthesized voice and/or recorded messages about which buttons to press and how excellent the company is in the field of customer service. After all, this is up to the caller and he may beg to differ.....
A friendly and eager voice needs to answer, starting with the correct company's name, followed by the stating of the person's name. This establishes a friendly connection at the start.
Should there be a state holiday in the location of the national office, provision needs to be made for an 'emergency' service, and that is, a person still needs to answer any phone call as it may be from interstate and unaware that there is a local holiday. Otherwise the caller may think the company had gone out of business and promptly phone a competitor.
In the customer-friendly decorated offices, we now shall turn to the most important person in the building, the customer service officer.
The customer service officer needs to be an outgoing person, with a friendly voice, sounding relaxed and yet professional. The customer service officer must have all time in the world to assist a customer and make him feel glad that he phoned this company and not a competitor.
It is always uplifting to start a conversation with a compliment. 'Nice to hear from you again!' or 'Oh, you sound cheerful today - you must be very successful!
Sometimes, a superior may judge this person by the number of phone calls they manage during the day, which is utter nonsense. This customer service officer is the company's first sales person and the company's customer satisfaction is the only criteria by which to measure her performance!
The customer service officer must be able to converse professionally about various aspects of the trade, being chatty and a source of knowledge to the caller.
The customer service officer needs to be forthright and true. When promising to ring back it must be so. 'I would like to go to the warehouse and check the stock personally and ring you back!' will always convey the feeling that things are being taken care of.
Or phoning a customer with the message that his goods he has been waiting for have just arrived in the warehouse and will be delivered tomorrow will always impress a customer.
After closing the sale and before terminating the phone call, she needs to say: 'Thank you for the order!' Remember, the customer does not have to place an order with your company.
Such a customer service officer should attend all sales meetings and sales conferences and, at business functions, mingle with the customers. She should qualify for educational overseas trips, if available, and also for sales training seminars.
The customer service officer is indeed part of the sales team and not merely a glorified clerk.
He or she should accompany the representative once in a while on his round of calls and observe him selling and promoting the company's business.
When the customer personally calls at the offices, in any matter, he should be encouraged to ask for this sales coordinator for personal customer service.
The general attitude must be one of total sales support for the representative on the road, which is total teamwork in fitting in with the customer.
Once a day, this customer service officer should ring the representative on the road for a quick business-chat about who rang the office, who placed orders, which customer aired a grief. This total sharing of team work is necessary for positive team spirit.
We must always remember, when a customer calls on the offices, it is not an interruption of your work but an opportunity to show our appreciation of his business association with you!
Only when the field forces and the customer service officer totally integrate and closely cooperate with the customer, a superior sales organization will be achieved and commercial success assured.
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