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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:
Radical Customer Service Seminars

I was jetlagged at yet another airport. It was night three of my important, multi-city business trip. With this new client, everything had to be just right. I checked my luggage on a puddle jumper not realizing that I was supposed to pick up my bag plane-side. I showed the gate agent my red ticket stub as I was boarding the next flight. She got the "uh oh" look on her face, and my stomach lurched. My suit and supplies were in that suitcase, and my class began at 8:00am the next morning. The customer service gate agent saw my look of panic, and I could tell she cared. That's customer service.

When it comes to our own customers, how do we create this kind of customer service compassion? You could take a customer service class, read a book, write a script, or memorize a formula. These may or may not work. My suggestion is simpler. You can put it into practice right away, and its fun to boot. Are You ready?

Focus on your happiness. That's right. Develop your own joy. There's a real connection between how you feel and how you treat others. When you are in an uplifted mood, it's easier to care about how others are doing. Haven't you spotted this in yourself? When you're happy and you ask someone how they are, you actually care what they say in return. You look at the person deeper, and the conversation transforms from small talk to a moment of depth.

It's a wonderful paradox that self care can be the best thing you can do for your customer. I'm not suggesting that you throw your papers during a client meeting and take the first flight to Hawaii. I am suggesting that you to give yourself simple, day-to-day moments of fun. You could turn off all electronics for ten minutes and do absolutely nothing. Or go out for sushi. Or maybe buy a bunch of daisies for your office or invest a few minutes to puzzle out a crossword.

As I took my boarding pass back from the customer service gate agent, I thought I saw a fleeting, wild look on her face, the kind of look that made me think: she's going to try to pull a miracle for me. Whether or not she delivers a miracle doesn't matter. She wanted to. That's customer service. I was given the challenge to write one hundred things that I liked to do. After I got the first few down and my mind drew a blank, I needed to get creative. That's how blowing bubble gum, picking berries, splashing in waterfalls, reading historical fiction, talking to my friend Tina, and salsa dancing have made it to the list. I was amazed that it took me until #76 to remember kissing!

The hotel phone woke me at 1am. My luggage had arrived, could they bring it up? Yes! I said and shouted to the ceiling - thank you airline lady! I was never able to thank my miracle worker personally. I hope she knows that her customer service had an effect on this one customer. And that it mattered. That's customer service.

Are you ready to make a list? What are your one hundred things? We can improve customer service one joyful moment at a time.

Source: Jean Franzblau: link

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