Customer Service

Customer Service Certificate Program

Length of Program: 6 Month Program Overview

 

This customer service course will: 

Highlight the importance of service standards and their impact on a customer’s experience. 
Help your team to think in a customer-centric way. 
Explain service language and its importance in communicating with customers. 
Prepare your group to handle demanding customers and difficult situations. 
Lay the groundwork to align behaviors to your organization’s expectations of its custom service staff.    

Offer suggestions for measuring service levels.

 

Course Outcomes/Objectives:

Describe exceptional customer service.

•    Identify the benefits of great customer service.

•    Recognize barriers to the delivery of outstanding customer service. •    Adapt to specific customer behavior styles.

•    Demonstrate how to measure customer-satisfaction levels and take corrective action if needed.

•    Use techniques for dealing with angry or upset customers.

•    Develop a personal action plan to improve customer-service skills

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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.

 

At the program's conclusion, participants will have an understanding of what makes a good customer-service experience, how to deliver excellent customer service, how to deal with difficult customers, and how to take care of themselves while taking care of others.