Course Description
Today, customers have an increasing range of choices: choice of supplier, choice of channel, choice of products and services. Their loyalty is determined by the quality of the experience they receive. Delegates will learn effective customer-centric strategies and best practices to provide world-class customer service excellence. This dynamic, 5-day course gives customer service professionals the communication skills, technology tools, and motivation they require to build strong customer relationships and develop a customer-centric organization.
What Do Participants Learn?
- Establish the importance of setting and reviewing customer service standards
- Develop an understanding of internal and external customer expectations
- Communicate more effectively by utilizing active listening and questioning skills
- Demonstrate how to deal with difficult or demanding customers in a professional manner
- Set SMART objectives and goals to become more productive
- Utilize stress management techniques to increase job satisfaction
Who Should Attend?
- Managers
- Supervisors
- customer service representatives (CSR)
- Anyone aspiring to increase his capabilities in this area
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
Section One: The Building Blocks of a Customer-Centric Organization
- Course overview and learning objectives
- Define Customer Service Excellence
- What do you want your customer to experience?
- Practical exercise: Identify specific ways to use ‘customer service’ to enhance customer loyalty and build employee morale
- Many key steps for implementing a Customer-Centric Service Model
- Serving your internal customers
- First impressions are important – What do your customers see and hear?
- Understanding your customer’s nonverbal communication
Section Two: Developing a Top-Down Customer-centric Culture
- What do customers really want from your organization and why?
- Does the ‘customer experience’ align with your organization’s business goals and vision/mission statement?
- What do your competitors do better or differently than you do?
- Practical exercise: What are the most admired leadership traits?
- Shaping customer expectations – perception versus reality
- Little things make a big difference – ‘going the extra mile’
- The customer personality types
Section Three: Responding to the Voice of the Customer
- Best and worst rated companies for customer service
- Listen, act, and deliver on customer needs
- Re-evaluate and realign the customer experience in line with demand
- Creating favorable customer service ‘touch points’ within your company
- Practical exercise: List the ways that your organization creates positive ‘touch points’ to enhance the ‘customer experience’
- Leading and motivating others to deliver superior service levels
- The Customer Loyalty Chain
- Developing the processes that nurture customer brand loyalty
Section Four: Measuring and Monitoring Customer Satisfaction
- Why is measuring customer satisfaction important?
- Why is it critical to encourage customer complaints and feedback?
- Establishing quality customer service satisfaction measuring and monitoring standards
- Using customer centric diagnostic tools to evaluate trends, perceptions, and opportunities for performance improvement
- Best practices for recording and monitoring customer service issues
- Putting in place processes to resolve customer dissatisfaction
- Practical exercise: Customer service quality control checklist
- Strategies for working with difficult and demanding customers
Section Five: Leading the Way to Customer Service Excellence!
- The importance of attitude, teamwork, and professional development
- Developing a customer-centric training program
- Setting performance goals
- Contests and employee recognition programs
- Coaching and mentoring strategies
- Methods to empower and motivate customer service employees
- What is your Action Plan?