DAY 1 - The Benefits of Excellent Service
- Focus on Customer Service Success
- Understand How Customer Service Creates Revenue, Healthy Organizations, and Attractive Employee Benefits
- Appreciate How Delivering Excellent Customer Service Reduces Your Personal Stress at Work
DAY 2 - Professionalism under Pressure
- Understand How Emotions Are Created
- Develop Mental Strategies for Remaining Optimistic and Calm Under Pressure
- Use Body Language to Control Your Emotional State
- Honor Negative Emotions Positively
- Change Your Emotional State in Three Minutes to Avoid Negative Emotional Carryover
- Internal Customer Service
- Identify Internal and External Customers
- Appreciate That Internal Service Is Just as Important as External Service
- Understand the Two Levels of Customer Service
- Have Influence over Issues You Can't Control
DAY 3 - Managing Customer Expectations
- Appreciate That Customer Satisfaction Is Based on Perceptions
- Identify Your Customers' Top Two Expectations
- Recognize That You Can Save Time and Reduce Stress by Focusing on the Top Two Expectations of Customers
- Prepare Yourself to Handle Customers by Knowing How and Where They Get Their Expectations
- Managing Customer Expectations by Personality Style
- Understand Yourself and Your Own Personality Style
- Understand and Identify the Personality Styles of Others
- Avoid Taking Things Personally
- Expand Your Communication Skills to Get Along Easily with More Customers
DAY 4 - Personalized Listening Skills
- Build on Your Listening Strengths
- Reduce Your Listening Liabilities
- Identify Your Customer’s and Your Own Listening Style
- Create Rapport with Customers More Easily to Have More Influence
- Vocabulary, Telephone, and E-mail
- Appreciate the Power of Words
- Avoid Creating Negative Impressions with Words
- Use Persuasive Language Patterns
- Stand Out on the Telephone
- Write E-mail Quickly That Customers Will Read and Understand
DAY 5 - Dealing with Difficult Customers
- Recognize and Respond Effectively to Specific Customer Behaviors
- Understand the Physiology of Anger
- Listen to an Angry Customer So That They Calm Down
- Turn an Angry Customer into a Happy Repeat Customer Using a Recovery System
- Remain Calm during Interactions with Angry Customers by Applying Emotional Management Tools