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Winning Through Customer Service

While winning customers may be hard, keeping them is even harder. So what do customers really want?

They want quick responses, instant information, and solutions to their problems. They want exceptional customer service. No organization can afford to lose customers because of poor service, but many do. Customers remember how they've been treated and spread the news. Studies show that they are likely never to buy from you again, even if you have exactly what hey are looking for.

In today 's high tech and demanding consumer market, customer service is mission critical. When customers are pleased, they're likely to spend more on your product or service and will call again. When customer service representatives understand their role in this, they will keep customers coming back.

Program Description
This workshop trains your sales and service personnel to present a professional image and to communicate effectively in everyday customer service transactions, as well as in difficult situations. The skills taught address the major concerns identified by over fifty organizations within the service industry and over 10 years of product field research. At the heart of this program is a step-by-step process for conducting a customer service transaction.

    Module 1: Your Role as a Professional
    Identifies characteristics associated with a professional image and examines actions which will improve each person's professional image.

    Module 2: The Essential Communication Skills
    Reviews the essential communication skills required for customer service: listening/observing, questioning, verifying, explaining, and assessing behaviors.

    Module 3: The Customer Service Transaction
    Introduces a step-by-step procedure for conducting a customer service transaction.
    Phase One: Establish a professional relationship
    Phase Two: Identify how to help the customer
    Phase Three: Provide the required assistance
    Phase Four: Complete the transaction and follow up

    Module 4: Dealing with Difficult Customer Situations
    Examines how communication skills and customer service transaction procedures are incorporated and applied when dealing with difficult customer situations.

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organizational impact:
Winning Through Customer Service will enable participants to:

  • Demonstrate professionalism on the job while building a proactive, problem-solving culture.

  • Use essential communication skills in dealings with customers.

  • Recognize characteristics of human behavioral style and opportunities to adapt to their personal style.

  • Identify and utilize a structured process/model for conducting customer service transactions.

  • Master strategies for dealing appropriately with difficult customer situations.



  • what our customers are saying:
    “We have recently taken Winning Through Customer Service on the road to our Pacific island resorts, some of which have varying levels of English language speaking abilities and comprehension. Yet, immediately after their training, our hosts abroad were putting their essential communication skills to work - and having fun doing it.”
    Ka`ipo Ho, Hospitality & Organizational Culture Consultant, Outrigger Hotels & Resorts



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