Excellent Customer Care - Incoming Calls

Course Code: MPDECCIC
Duration: 1 Day

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Overview

This course is available on public schedule, closed company on/off site or 1-2-1.

This excellent customer care course analyses typical customer frustrations and how to deal with awkward situations. It teaches professional telephone techniques from how to make a good first impression, to the use of correct vocabulary and paying attention to detail. Through interactive workshops and role-playing delegates will improve their customer-care skills when answering the telephone.

Prerequisites

Any person involved in taking incoming calls from customers.

Delegates will learn how to

  • Greater confidence when taking incoming calls
  • Telephone 'etiquette' when answering, holding or transferring calls
  • Understand the importance of customer care in relation to incoming calls
  • How to handle complaints in a positive way

Course Outline

  • Task 1: What Do We Hate About Calling Other Companies? (An exercise to discover delegates' personal experience of poor service.)
  • Incoming Calls - The Basics (First impressions, Answering the Telephone, The Correct Vocabulary, Keep In Touch, Details)
  • Task 2: What Do You Really Want From These Calls? (Setting out your objectives)
  • Negotiating Skills on The Telephone
  • Task 3: What Are Our Customers' Main Objections? (Delegates discuss best practice)
  • Handling Objections (Pre-handling Objections, Dealing with The Price Objection Effectively)
  • Golden Rules For Achieving Excellent Customer Care (Dealing with complaints and enquiries)
  • Summary & Action Plans Agreed