One Week Course

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Our one week course includes everything in the one day course. In addition, it includes the following.

 

What is good customer service?  How can it go from good to great? What are the pitfalls that many people experience when trying to deliver customer service?  Does attitude count?  What is the best way to handle difficult customers?  What techniques can be used to reduce customer-service stress?  Find out the answers to these and other important customer-service questions during this information-packed 5 day course.  Participants will learn what exceptional service is, how to project a customer-friendly image, how to handle demanding customers, and more. 

 

Get Ready to Serve: Where Excellence Starts

Knowledge goes a long way toward the delivery of exceptional customer service. The introductory lesson looks at the factors that make service outstanding and those that send customers to a business's competitors. 

Stand and Deliver: Know the Nine Expectations

Delivery of a product or service alone will not guarantee repeat business. Another portion of the program explores nine expectations customers have of their service providers and explains how these expectations can be met.

The Communication Jungle: Understanding Different Communication Styles

Customers have varied behavioral styles. Learning how to adjust to each improves customer service and communication. Using Business Training Works' signature diagnostic tool, The Communication Jungle, participants will learn to identify their own behavioral styles and those of their clients and customers in order to adjust to each for better communication. This unit is beneficial to all who wish to provide exceptional customer service to a variety of people.

It's Not What You Say: Rephrasing for Better Relationships

The lesson in the saying "it's not what you say but how you say it" is one that takes some people years to learn. In this component, participants will learn how to use language to its best advantage during customer interactions. Special emphasis is placed on learning to say "no" in ways that reduce conflict and eliminating phrases such as "that's not my job" and "I don't know."

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Dealing with Difficult Customers

Not all customers are easy to deal with. Using real-world case studies, participants will learn in this discussion how to interact effectively with angry customers, complaining customers, customers who try to take advantage of organizations, and other troublesome people. 

Tools of the Trade: Voicemail, Email, Memos, and More

When used poorly, certain office communication tools designed to improve business communication and customer service do the exact opposite. Anyone who has ever sent a misinterpreted email can attest to this fact. From writing style and grammar to telephone etiquette, this component reviews customer-service communication tools and how to use them for maximum effectiveness.

The Clinic: What We Can Do Better

This action-oriented section looks at an organization's current customer-service practices and asks participants to list the things that they personally and as a group could do immediately, within a few weeks, and within a few months to improve customer service.

Customer-Service Stress: 15-Minute Mini Spa

Dealing with customers' needs, wants, and frustrations can lead to unnecessary stress. The course concludes with stress-management techniques to ensure the providers stay refreshed and alert and that the service they deliver is the best it can be.

(Copyright: David Robinson 2010)