Handling Difficult and Demanding Customers

This is a 2-day customer service training skill improvement program that focuses on handling difficult and demanding customers. It includes understanding customer needs and expectations, handling customers on the phone and complaints, psychology of customer complaints, solving customer’s problems and more. All employees that deal with customers are encouraged to attend this training. 

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Course Objectives

After attending this one-day customer service training program, participants will be able to learn:

• Improve their customer service skills
• Use some of the techniques to achieve excellence in customer service
• Work on improving their relationships with other employees
• Understand their customer needs and expectations
• Understand effective ways to handle customers’ complaints
• Improve their problem-solving skills
• Understand the important roles they play in their respective organizations

Day 1 Customer service philosophy

• Defining customer service
• The two most important criteria in customer service
• The elements of good customer service
• Three great ways to satisfy customers
• Who does it involve
• The great poem of customer service

Customer Service as A Culture

• Defining culture in the service industry
• The vision of your organization
• Threshold values & Differentiator culture

Elements of quality customer service

• Defining quality in customer service
• 2 vital attributes of quality customer service
• 5 attributes to great service

Managing yourself and shaping your attitude

• What is attitude
• What shapes your attitude in service delivery
• 5 important things about human attitude
• 4 golden rules to keep our attitude in check

The internal & external customer

• Where do your customers come from
• Determining the internal & external customer
• The process that relates the internal & external customers

Understanding customer needs & expectations

• Who are your customers
• The customer – supplier chain in your organization
• How do you rate your current customer – supplier relationship

Day 2 Assessing the customer’s behavior triggers

• What actually make customers behave the way they do
• 12 important needs that motivate customers
• 3 golden techniques to gauge these customer needs

Handling customers on the phone

• Positive versus negative elements
• Building goodwill and trust
• The 4 step formula of telling the simple truth

The psychology of complaints and anger

• What research has proven on complaining customers
• The complaining and whining caller
• 5 types of typical complaints calls

Handling of complaints

• 6 steps to control a complaining caller
• Dealing with difficult situations
• 8 rules to avoid customer service errors
• How to stop the abusive caller

Calming yourself and the customer

• 5 steps to calm yourself and the customer
• 5 forbidden points when attending to a complaint

Problem solving skills

• Simple problems solving techniques
• Stimulating the mind to be creative in solving problems on the spot.

Self assessment on customer service

• How well do you know your organization
• How well do you know your role as a customer service provider