Overview
Great customer service is vital within a business and perfecting your phone communication skills is one of the best ways to give a great first impression.
How an organisation handles phone calls can have a direct impact in their success, therefore, even outside call centres, it is essential to have good call handling skills.
Since telephone contact is often the first means of communicating with your customers, this experience must create an outstanding first impression. Over time, many of your clients or business connections may predominantly experience your company over the phone. Because of this, it’s important that everyone who may answer the phone knows the correct rules and protocols to represent your business in the best way.
Communication and conflict management skills can also help you to retain business and reduce the number of matters which may escalate to management.
Communication skills are crucial for people at all levels making and answering calls for their organisation. Understanding your customer’s needs, having an awareness of different personalities and how to handle conflict situations are all essential when ensuring the best customer experience.
Participants of our 1-day training course will gain a wealth of knowledge in how to communicate effectively in all situations and provide excellent customer service.
Course content
Introduction
- What is excellent customer care and why do we need it?
- Who are our customers?
- What’s in it for you?
- Understanding ownership of calls
Projecting a Professional and Competent Image
- Ansering the Phone – The basics for inbound and outbound calls
- Communicate effectively in all situations
- Verbal communication and excellent customer service
- What – no non-verbal communication?
Understanding Different Personalities
- What is your personal style? – a self-assessment
- Recognising other’s styles over the phone
- Communicating with other styles
Understanding Customer Needs
- Effective listening for customer satisfaction
- Questioning techniques and probing
- Summarising the conversation
Handling Complaints
- We need complaints!
- Ownership of complaints and problems
- Working with your customers, not against them
- Simple methods of dealing with complaints
Tough Customers
- What is conflict and how to handle it when it arises
- Staying cool under pressure – dealing with your own emotions
- Dealing with others’ emotions
- Seeking a win:win resolution
If you would like to book onto call handling training course or find out more information please fill out our contact form or call us on 01452 341869
Lead Consultants
Sally Strong
Engaging, approachable, action and results-oriented soft skills trainer and performance coach. Consistently provides practical solutions to individuals and organisations for increased productivity and improved job satisfaction. By utilising outstanding inter-personal and communication skills can build rapid rapport. Sally integrates business experience, coaching skills and psychological methodology to deliver the ultimate... Continued
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Sophie Edmond
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Louise Hemming
Louise is a highly motivated, business focused, HR & Development professional. She is a leadership coach and team facilitator. Louise has experience in designing and deploying talent & learning development programmes, organisational development, talent succession, strategic planning, acquisition integration, project management and external consultant liaison. Her key skills include networking... Continued
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Nina Goldsworthy-Griffiths
Nina specialises in creating purposeful learning solutions for organisational and people change, for business growth and customer engagement. Nina draws on 20 years’ experience in a broad range of diverse business sectors such as Loss Adjusting, Construction, Manufacturing, Rail, Road, Water, Energy, Local Authorities, Hospitality and Retail. An experienced leadership... Continued
Caroline Attwood
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Leanne Flower
Leanne has a breadth of experience in sectors including automotive, engineering, banking, and the pharmaceutical industry. She specialises in training and coaching leaders, managers and developing executives from both public and private sectors, working at all levels including Board Directors. Leanne holds a BA Hons in Business Studies, a post-graduate... Continued
John Pascall
John delivering hands-on training in MS Office applications (including VBA and SQL and Access, Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project all to Expert level), also consultancy/development/ problem-solving in MS Access and Excel. John has a huge amount of experience in developing Access databases from scratch, as well as upgrading existing databases... Continued
Simon Lambourne
Simon specialises in teaching Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access and OneNote) products using all versions up to and including Office 2016 and Office 365. An expert in OneDrive for Business, Yammer, Delve, Sway and Skype for Business. Experience in dealing with many different abilities and have travelled across... Continued
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Gary is a first class trainer with 15 years’ experience in training and consultancy. He has an innovative approach to training that not only changes his delegates’ performance in the workplace, but has helped many develop techniques that can go beyond business to create change in other areas of their... Continued
Sara (South West)
Sara is a people development specialist and a real asset to Elliott Training. Her development career has been established within leading companies including British Airways, the Woolwich Building Society, Compaq Computers and Zurich Financial Services. She has held a variety of training roles from International Sales Trainer to Head of... Continued
Duncan (SharePoint Specialist, Nationally)
Duncan qualified in 1987 as a civil engineer, and in 1994 as a project manager. He spent 9 years in the construction industry in various parts of Africa working on projects ranging from high rise buildings to bridges. He worked for Grinaker Construction – an international construction company – and... Continued
Sandy (London, South East)
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Sara (North)
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