Customer Service Essentials

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Course Overview

Customer Service is an important part of developing and maintaining client relationships, key to continuing revenue. For this reason, many companies have worked hard to increase their customer satisfaction levels.   It is primarily customer facing staff that will form customers' perceptions of the company as a whole.

A positive interaction with a trained customer service representative can mean the difference between losing or retaining a customer.  This course will equip frontline customer service staff with the skills they need to create positive experiences every time, ensuring your customers come back time after time.

The course provides plenty of opportunity to put learning into practice through role plays and other activities. By the end of the course, delegates will have improved their communication skills and confidence in dealing effectively with a wide range of different customer types and situations including the challenging area of complaint resolution.

 

Objective:

By the end of this interactive training programme, you will be able to:

  • Understand the basics of customer service
  • Communicate effectively with existing and prospective customers
  • Create a positive customer experience
  • Improve and maintain high standards of Customer Service
  • Deliver effective and efficient customer service
  • Identify and resolve customer complaints
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Course Outline

Module 1 - Overview of Customer Service

  • What is customer service?
  • Customer expectations
  • What does great service look like?

Module 2 – Why does Customer Service matter?

  • Why is quality important in terms of customer service?
  • The cost of poor customer service
  • The outcomes of great customer service
  • Evolution of customer trends and customer service

Module 3 – First Impressions

  • Creating a positive first impressions
  • PEAK performance – Personal appearance, environment, attitude, knowledge
  • Acknowledgement and greeting
  • Courtesy and respect

Module 4 – The 3 Vs of Communication

  • Words matter
  • It’s not just what you say, but how you say it – tone of voice
  • Non-verbal communication – body language, appearance and actions
  • Questioning skills
  • Listening skills

Module 5 – Building Rapport

  • Different types of customers
  • Connecting and engaging with the customer
  • Identifying customer needs
  • Commitment and ownership
  • Product knowledge and personalisation
  • Showing customers they are valued
  • Maintaining and improving existing client relationships

Module 6 – Handling customers on the telephone

  • How is the telephone different to face-to-face interactions?
  • 5 stages of telephone calls (Open, establish, explore, agree, close)
  • Telephone etiquette – greetings, tone of voice, personalisation, avoiding interruptions, avoiding dead air, hold/mute/transfer procedures, summarising

Module 6 - Objection Handling

  • What is an objection?
  • Common reasons for objections
  • Is the objection real or based on some other factor?
  • Finding solutions
  • Objection Handling Techniques

Module 7 – Resolving Complaints

  • Why do customers complain?
  • Determining the reasons for complaints
  • Difference between sympathy and empathy and how is empathy important in handling difficult and upset customers
  • Owning the customer complaints and providing assurance
  • Providing FCR – First Call Resolution and following up
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