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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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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:
Great Customer Service Seminar - Great Service Starts With Being a Great Customer

If you want great customer service, then you have to start by being a good customer. It all starts with your attitude, good or bad, happy or sad. People with positive, happy attitudes change everything. Have you ever noticed that when you meet a stranger and they smile at you, how good it makes you feel? The same is true about customer service. When we are being served or waiting to be served, try and put yourself in the customer service representative’s position. Wouldn't you like it if your customer first smiled at you and then said hello? It makes a huge difference in the way people are treated. Treat everyone the way that you would like to be treated and you will find that you will receive much better service.

Good customer service is really a license to print money. Zig Ziglar said it best. "You can have everything in life you want if you will just help other people get what they want". Great customer service comes from the heart. You have no doubt seen this a few times, where the customer service representative went overboard to satisfy and exceed your expectations. Because of the actions of this person you felt really good about the company you just did business with. In fact you would more than likely tell some of your friends about your experience, and they in turn would tell others. These actions from that customer service person resulted in word of mouth advertising, word of mouth referrals, and these referrals are like gold, businesses treasure them.

Exceptional customer service starts with good solid leadership. "You get the best efforts from others not by lighting a fire under them, but by building a fire within". Bob Nelson. "The greatest management principal in the world is the things that get rewarded and appreciated get done". Michael LeBouef. Being a customer service representative is a wonderful and rewarding profession. Everyone is a customer service representative; the only difference is how we are compensated. The professional, is the one that works for a company gets paid financially, as well as being personally rewarded and appreciated at times by their customers. The other kind of service representative, perhaps like you and me, get rewarded in a different way. If for example you are "Just a housewife" with children at home, you get your rewards in many wonderful ways. Your satisfaction comes from teaching your children social skills, how to do things for themselves, keeping your home nice, shopping, washing clothes, preparing meals, and the list goes on. You cannot find a more important customer service representative than this person. If you are a single mother or father, your job is incredibly difficult, but still can be very rewarding. Of course it helps if you have a spouse that can assist with some of the chores. People helping people are really doing them a service. Often most people who volunteer their services for free, get their rewards from their inner feelings, it just feels good helping others. It's the right thing to do and it feels really good.

At the end of the day, if you have not enjoyed the time you have spent, if you are not happy, what's the point? It's your life. You are responsible for the results. If you want to be a happier person, start with the right attitude, smile and treat people properly. We are all customers and we are all service representatives. You can make a difference, but it has to start with you. "Its not where you start...it's where you finish that counts". Zig Ziglar

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