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Exceptional customer service is providing prompt, helpful, and friendly support to customers, ensuring that their needs are met and that they leave with a positive impression of you, the department and the organization. It involves not only solving problems but also creating a smooth and satisfying experience throughout all interactions. This can apply to both external customers, those who purchase products or services, as well as internal customers, colleagues or departments within the company that rely on support from others.

Policies and procedures are essential for business operations, but they can sometimes be used as a way to focus on what can’t be done for the customer instead of highlighting what can be done. While every situation is unique, striving to find a win-win solution—even if it involves seeking approval for a policy exception—is key to building long-term customer loyalty. To achieve this, empathize with your customer, reassure them that you will do everything possible to assist, and use your best judgment to resolve the issue effectively.

YOU (the employee) make the difference in how a customer feels, not a policy, not your manager...you! The intent of this course is to show customer service staff and employees some ways of handling difficult situations so that they can effectively respond and leave the customer with a positive, memorable impression.

We all get frustrated sometimes, but we need to be positive and professional in our interactions with our customers. Taking out our frustrations on a customer could cause them to seek services from a competitor instead. As a leader in the organization, we need to make sure we are offering all of our customers the best experience possible. Without our customers, we wouldn’t have a business.

Having quality customer service is critical to any business. It's your job as a leader to set and maintain the organization's expectations when it comes to servicing customers. Those that are willing to go the extra mile for their customers will have customers for life. It is important to realize the consequences of our actions and know there is always more we can do.

New Micro-Learning! While it can be frustrating not being able to communicate easily, the reality is that everyone in the world has an accent. We only notice it when we are speaking with people who don’t share our native language. For customers who are speaking in a language that is not their native tongue, it can be extremely frustrating for them and getting upset with them won’t help the situation.

Inspire your workforce to deliver service from the heart. Based on the work of noted author and speaker, Barbara Glanz, this inspiring, best-selling program features the true story of "Johnny," a young man who made a positive choice about his personal responsibility to provide from-the-heart service and changed the culture of an entire organization. Streaming version of the "Johnny the Bagger: A True Story of Customer Service™" course.

New Micro-Learning! Good customer service is the lifeblood of any business. You can offer promotions and slash prices to bring in as many new customers as you want, but unless you can get some of those customers to come back, your business won't be profitable for long.

Thinking like the customer is one of the best ways to improve your customer service! Great for session starter, energizer and reinforcing key messages on customer service.

Creating a positive customer experience requires flexibility. To gain and maintain customer loyalty, you must focus on active listening, demonstrate a positive attitude and be ready to solve problems.

It can be overwhelming when it comes to provider the level of customer service we all want and expect. Customers deserve our undivided attention... that's a given! Being interrupted by the phone when you are dealing with a face-to-face customer can be a challenge if you don’t know the steps to take.

Calming a frustrated customer requires strong interpersonal skills. First you must be a good listener with the rapport You're on the phone with a frustrated and (rightfully so) angry customer. They have had it and want to talk to a manager... what do you do? Calming a frustrated customer requires strong interpersonal skills. First you must be a good listener with the rapport building skills and empathy necessary to influence others. Next you must be a proactive problem-solver. Last, but definitely not least, you must maintain a positive attitude.

When it comes to serving customers or clients, you will eventually experience a situation in which one or more are not happy. It's how you react in those types of situations that impacts the perception the customer has about the level of service they are experiencing.

Customers get rude or angry for a variety of reasons—some justified, some not. And it’s very likely you’ll encounter rude or angry individuals at one time or another. It’s how you respond that can make the difference between a customer who feels satisfied with the resolution and one who vows never to patronize our business again. This course explores strategies for dealing with an irate customer.

When it comes to customer service during the workday, it’s best to remember that we are ALL responsible for customer service. Our internal customers – members of our department or other departments – are just as important as our external customers.

Great customer service means putting your heart into everything you do. It’s about making customers feel valued. We all must take an active role in creating a customer-centric workplace.

By the end of this course, you will be able to identify the importance and techniques for sales opportunity management. Sales opportunity management involves creating a sales cycle and navigating the steps in the sales process to close the sale.

A territory may be geographic or it may consist of assigned accounts. By the end of this course, you will be able to identify the importance of territory planning and the techniques for territory planning.

By the end of this course, you will be able to identify the importance of outbound telephone selling Techniques and the techniques for outbound telephone selling.

Product and solution understanding is the broad and deep knowledge of common product or service problems and their associated solutions, including competitive alternatives. Understand how customers use your solutions.