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The Challenge of Customer / Client Care on the Telephone

(Depending on the skills level of delegates, this is a one- or two-day programme)

This programme is ideal for personnel who are new to Client / Customer Care as well as experienced staff who wish to up-grade existing skills. The programme is skills-based, practical and adapted to suit the requirements of each delegate and company.

Role-plays and role-modelling exercises concentrate on situations expected to be encountered in a Client / Customer Care division or in any front-office and product-specific examples of effective answers to objections or difficult calls are incorporated. The objective of the training is to prepare delegates to be able to use the practical communication skills in the work environment even when working under pressure.

Programme Content:

  • Why are specialised Client / Customer Care skills required for any company to prosper and what are these skills?

  • A look at what caller's demand whenever they are in contact with your company.

  • How to take control of the conversation quickly and immediately establish what the caller requires.

  • Dynamic vocabulary and techniques that will ensure that customers/clients feel that they are receiving service excellence during every telephone encounter with you and how to use a positive and motivated voice tone at all times.

  • A look at what solution-seeking techniques you are already successfully using and what additional skills are essential to increase your success rate.

  • Skills that will assist you to quickly build a positive relationship with your customers/clients on the telephone.

  • Why it is necessary to practice effective communication skills and monitor your performance to ensure that you are utilising the most productive techniques during every conversation.

  • Probing skills and how to build effective questions into your conversation so that you can quickly establish the customer/client's needs and guide the customer/client closer to accepting your suggested solution.

  • How to keep your conversations short and concise yet warm, productive and positive.

  • Dealing with objections, complaints and challenging calls.

  • How to turn conflict into an opportunity to build positive long-term relationships with customers/clients.

  • How to say "no" or give the caller "bad news" and still build a positive relationship.

  • Some advanced service excellence and sales orientated techniques that you can offer to both your internal and external customers/clients during every contact.

  • How to decide when to take messages and how to refer queries in the most efficient manner to other divisions in your company or to management.

  • Stress management skills and some tips that will assist you to become or remain self-motivated even when you are having a less successful day or the pressure is mounting.

  • A strategy for you to implement to eliminate the factors that are preventing you from being as effective as you can be when dealing with customers/clients.

  • A strategy to ensure that your skills measure up after training to the high standard that is demanded by the modern customer/client.

Programme Originator: Renett Estelle Grové


For further information, please contact:
Renett Grové

Tel: (011) 792-4084 or Email renett@dynamiclt.co.za
International +27 11 792-4084

Randburg Johannesburg South Africa

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Last modified: 09 June 2008