Training program Customer Care Telephone Skills 1
Duration: 2 days consecutive
Timing: 09.00 a.m. - 05.00 p.m.
Objectives:
After the course participants will be able to:
· Build rapport on the telephone
· Communicate effectively through excellent questioning and listening
· Consult with people effectively on the phone
· Demonstrate professional telephone skills at all times
· Deal with difficult customers
· Handle objections and complaints
· Give bad news effectively
· Avoid all telephone communication pitfalls
Indicative program:
· Objectives goals
· Communication, rapport
· Listening, summarizing, deeper questioning
· Telephone skills, advantages and disadvantages of communicating by phone
· Telephone procedures
§ In- and outbound calls, putting on hold and putting through, taking messages and making appointments for colleagues
· Exercise “customer service”
· Am I “phonogenic”
· Handling complaints, handling objections
· Ice cream exercise
· Role-play case from their praxis
· Dealing with difficult customers
· Managing expectations
· Giving “bad news”
· Knowledge, power and control
· Telephone pitfalls
§ Listening techniques
§ To propose solutions and actions in a customer friendly way
· Closing the call, hanging up
· Barriers to excellent customer service
· Circle of influence
· Action plan