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Customer Service Training Courses:

Our customer service course 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 courses offered in house at the location of your choice, usually in groups of 6 or more.

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Course Objectives:

In our Exceptional Customer Service one-day course 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:
How to Outshine the Competition with a Customer Service Training Course

One of the most important things that can set you apart from your competition is giving better customer service. Better customer service means that you have a genuine customer-friendly attitude and you are focused on customer service. You view your customers as the most important part of your customer service job, and you sincerely respect them and appreciate their choosing to do business with you. A customer-friendly attitude means that communicating and establishing customer relationships are really the essence of your customer service job. You can make a customer a friend or an enemy for life in just a few minutes. Every moment of customer contact is vitally important.

One of the most important parts of customer service is your telephone response and personal contact. When a customer calls your company on the phone and the telephone rings ten times before someone picks it up, your company has already made a bad impression before any business was transacted. These contacts are simple and quick, and they are moments of truth for the customer. Customer contacts are opportunities to create positive impressions and they include the following:

1. Answer the phone with a greeting before identifying yourself or your company. Start the contact the right way and create a good first impression.

2. Be aware of your facial expression when a customer approaches you. Always smile to give customers the impression that you are delighted to see and to help them when they approach you.

3. Never take a customer complaint personally. Rather, think of a complaint as an opportunity to get valuable feedback from your customers and improve your relationship with them.

4. Always offer options if you cannot give customers exactly what they want. Customers can accept a "no" if it is softened by alternative recommendations.

5. Never transfer a customer to another extension until you are sure that the other person is available and will give full assistance to the customer. Always stay on the line until you are certain that the customer's needs are being handled and questions are being answered.

Customers love the companies that treat them the way they like to be treated every time they have contact with the company. Customers will choose these customer service focused companies over competitors even if they have to pay more to obtain their products or services. Be sure that every customer service employee that has customer contact is well-trained in the best ways to provide excellent customer service.

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