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What you will learn - Provide Excellent Service That Will Have Customers Coming Back
  • Know the different venues for customer support
  • Learn different applications
  • Know proper forms of documentation
  • Demonstrate a customer service approach
  • Make a choice to provide customer service
  • Cultivate a positive attitude
  • Manage internal and external stress
  • Understand how to perform a SWOT analysis
Get BIG Savings with our Customer Support Online Bundle, 5 Certificate Courses
  1.  Customer Support Online Certificate Course
  2.  Customer Service Training: Critical Elements of Customer Service Online Certificate Course
  3.  Managing Customer Service Online Certificate Course
  4.  Handling a Difficult Customer Online Certificate Course
  5.  Marketing and Sales Online Certificate Course
1. Customer Support Online Certificate Course: Provide Excellent Service That Will Have Customers Coming Back

Customer support used to mean a face-to-face conversation with a customer, or a phone call. Today, technology has changed how we approach customer support. It now encompasses the internet, websites, webchats, and even smart phone apps. The customer experience begins long before the purchase is made.

With our “Non-Telephone Customer Support” course, your participants will discover the new opportunities in customer support services via the internet, but also how to use these opportunities to their advantage.

Key Learning Objectives:

  • Define customer support
  • Know the different venues for customer support
  • Recognize challenges of customer support
  • Learn different applications
  • Know proper forms of documentation
  • Learning to be proactive in customer support
2. Customer Service Training: Critical Elements of Customer Service Online Certificate Course: Learn The Critical Elements Of Customer Service

Today, customers expect more from companies than ever before. This course is designed around six critical elements of customer service that create a unique experience for the people purchasing your products.

This course is all about the critical elements of customer service: a customer service focus that is defined within, and given life by, your organization. In order to be successful, this focus must be reinforced every day, measured, and improved upon.

Key Learning Objectives:

  • Demonstrate a customer service approach.
  • Understand how your own behavior affects the behavior of others.
  • Demonstrate confidence and skill as a problem solver.
  • Apply techniques to deal with difficult customers.
  • Make a choice to provide customer service.
3. Managing Customer Service Online Certificate Course: Learn about the six critical elements of customer service

Like all business values, a customer service focus must be demonstrated from the top down. Customer service leaders have a responsibility to demonstrate good leadership practices as well as good customer service practices. This course will share several leadership models that you can use to successfully lead a customer service team.

Key Learning Objectives:

  • How to identify ways to establish links between excellence in customer service and their business practices and policies
  • How to develop the skills and practices that are essential elements of a customer-focused manager
  • How to recognize what employees are looking for to be truly engaged
  • How to recognize who the customers are and what they are looking for
  • How to develop strategies for creating engaged employees and satisfied customers in whatever business units you manage
4. Handling a Difficult Customer Online Certificate Course: Learn How to Deal with Difficult Customers and Situations

Handling difficult customers may seem like a thankless job. Fortunately, you can develop skills to adapt to the challenges difficult customers pose and extend these skills to handling difficult people and situations throughout your daily life. By improving the focus of your thoughts and feelings, how you manage stress and how well you listen to and empathize with others, you will be better able to meet the challenges other people pose in both your professional and personal life.

Key Learning Objectives:

  • Cultivate a positive attitude
  • Manage internal and external stress
  • Develop abilities to listen actively and empathize
  • Build a rapport with customers in person and over the phone
  • Understand the diverse challenges posed by customers
  • Develop strategies to adapt to challenging circumstances
5. Marketing and Sales Online Certificate Course: Marketing and Sales Online Certificate Course

A small marketing budget doesn’t mean you can’t meet your goals and business objectives. This course will share some creative marketing tactics that will work for any budget.

With this Marketing and Sales Online Courses, you will learn effective, low-cost, and non-cost strategies to improve sales, develop your company’s image, and build your bottom line.

Key Learning Objectives:

  • Recognize what we mean by the term “marketing.”
  • Discover how to use low-cost publicity to get your name known.
  • Know how to develop a marketing plan and a marketing campaign.
  • Use your time rather than your money to market your company effectively.
  • Understand how to perform a SWOT analysis

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The Customer Support Online Bundle, 5 Certificate Courses include the following courses, below is a summary of each course: 

Course 1 - Customer Support Online Certificate Course

Module One: Getting Started

  • Course Objectives

Module Two: What Is Customer Service?

  • Support vs. Service
  • Who Participates?
  • Metrics
  • Trends
  • Case Study

Module Three: Challenges

  • Customer Challenges
  • Crisis
  • Ticket Backlogs
  • End Relationship with Customer
  • Case Study

Module Four: Email

  • Formal Yet Conversational Style
  • Scripted Yet Authentic
  • Explain Information Carefully
  • Results
  • Case Study

Module Five: SMS

  • Convenience of Texting
  • Apps and Software Available
  • Information to Communicate
  • Professional Communication Through Text
  • Case Study

Module Six: Webchat

  • Personalize
  • Apps and Software Available
  • Real Time Support
  • Etiquette
  • Case Study

Module Seven: Multi-Channel Apps

  • Different Multi-Channel Apps
  • Pros
  • Cons
  • Making a Decision
  • Case Study

Module Eight: Support Ticket Apps

  • Different Support Ticket Apps
  • Pros
  • Cons
  • Making a Decision
  • Case Study

Module Nine: Documentation

  • What to Document
  • Using Tools
  • Prepare Documentation
  • Retain
  • Case Study

Module Ten: Feedback

  • Surveys
  • Boxes
  • Analytics
  • Usability
  • Case Study

Module Eleven: Be Proactive

  • Research Analytics
  • Discover Opportunities
  • Prevent Problems
  • Provide Support Before People Know They Need It
  • Case Study

Module Twelve: Wrapping Up

  • Words from the Wise

Course 2 - Customer Service Training: Critical Elements of Customer Service Online Certificate Course

Session 1: Course Overview

  • Learning Objectives
  • Pre-Assignment

 Session 2: What is Customer Service?

  • What is Customer Service?
  • The Critical Elements of Customer Service
  • A Customer Service Focus
  • Service is a Philosophy
  • Service Means Meeting Customer Expectations
  • Service is Not Always Natural

 Session 3: Who Are Your Customers?

  • Types of Customers
  • Internal and External Customers
  • VIP Customers
  • What Customers Need

 Session 4: Meeting Expectations

  • Meeting Expectations
  • Six Ways to Meet Customers’ Expectations

 Session 5: Pre-Assignment Review

  • Pre-Assignment Answers

 Session 6: Setting Goals

  • Creating a Personal Vision Statement
  • Step One: Identify Your Values
  • Step Two: Define Your Values
  • Step Three: Put It All Together
  • Identifying Dreams and Setting Goals
  • Identifying Your Dreams
  • SPIRIT
  • My Dreams and Goals

 Session 7: The Second Critical Element – Defined in Your Organization

  • Our Standards
  • Sample Standards

 Session 8: The Third Critical Element – Given Life by the Employees

  • What Do You Think?
  • Suggested Answers

 Session 9: Communication Skills

  • The Importance of Empathy
  • About Rephrasing
  • Dangerous Misconceptions
  • Defining Communication
  • Body Language Basics
  • Voice
  • Open and Closed Questions
  • Customer-Focused Questions

 Session 10: Telephone Techniques

  • It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It
  • Your Initial Greeting
  • Personalizing Service
  • Addressing a Person
  • Your Telephone Voice
  • Your Listening Ear
  • Your Format for Closing
  • Handling Everyday Requests
  • Transferring Telephone Calls
  • Putting Callers on Hold
  • Taking a Message
  • Taking Messages Accurately and Completely
  • What to Record When Taking a Message
  • Other Tips for Taking a Message
  • Do’s and Don’t’s
  • Phrases to Avoid Using
  • Sentences That Damage Your Image or Lose Goodwill

 Session 11: Dealing With Difficult Customers

  • Abrupt Customers
  • Abusive Customers
  • Angry Customers
  • Arrogant Customers
  • Bully/Bossy Customers
  • Closed-Minded Customers

 Session 12: Dealing With Challenges Assertively

  • About Assertiveness
  • An Assertiveness Formula
  • Making Connections

 Session 13: Dealing With Difficult People

  • Getting to the Heart of the Matter
  • What’s Missing?
  • Getting to the Big Picture
  • The Three F’s
  • Types of Difficult People
  • The Stubborn One
  • The Quiet One
  • The Jester
  • Yakety-Yak
  • Off Base
  • Bigger Issues
  • The Chatterbox
  • The Know-It-All
  • The Whiner

 Session 14: The Fourth Critical Element – Be a Problem Solver

  • Reducing Conflict
  • Blending
  • Blending Examples
  • Redirecting
  • Identify Positive Intent
  • Identify Highly Valued Criteria
  • When Discussions Degenerate Into Conflict
  • An Action Plan for Angry, Aggressive People
  • Problem Solving in Six Steps
  • Making Connections

 Session 15: Seven Steps to Customer Problem Solving

  • The Process
  • Making Connections
  • The Recovery Process
  •  Session 16: The Fifth Critical Element – Measure It
  • Tools to Use
  • Critical Evaluation
  • Informal Surveys
  • Focus Groups
  • Fishbone (Cause and Effect, or Root Cause)
  • Brainstorming
  • Benchmarking
  • Measurement in Practice

 Session 17: The Sixth Critical Element – Reinforce It

  • Keeping Momentum
  • Developing and Maintaining Relationships
  • Recognizing the Power of Your Behavior
  • Likeability Works
  • Phrases for Customer Service Success
  • How to Feel Powerful in Your Position
  • Project Positive Expectations
  • Give Credit Where It’s Due
  • Rebound from Failure
  • Accept Responsibility

 Session 18: Dealing With Stress

  • About Stress
  • Deep Breathing
  • Visualize
  • Music
  • Acupressure and Massage
  • Laughter
  • Replace Worry with Problem Solving
  • Meditation
  • Resilience

 Session 19: A Personal Action Plan

  • Starting Point
  • Where I Want to Go
  • How I Will Get There

Course 3 - Managing Customer Service Online Certificate Course

Session One: Course Overview

Session Two: Six Critical Elements

  • Element One: A Customer Service Focus
  • Element Two: Defined in Your Organization
  • Element Three: Given Life by the Employees
  • Element Four: Problem Solving
  • Role Play
  • Element Five: Measure It
  • Element Six: Reinforce It
  • Measurement in Practice

Session Three: Understanding Leadership

  • About Leadership
  • Understanding Your Comfort Zone
  • Managing Performance
  • Servant Leadership
  • Onboarding and Orientation

Session Four: Five Practices of Leadership

  • Challenging, Inspiring, and Enabling
  • Modeling and Heart
  • Practices in Practice
  • Pre-Assignment Review
  • Recommended Reading List
  • Post-Course Assessment
  • Pre- and Post-Assessment Answer Keys
  • Personal Action Plan

Course 4 - Handling a Difficult Customer Online Certificate Course

Module One: Getting Started

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Cultivate a positive attitude
  • Manage internal and external stress
  • Develop abilities to listen actively and empathize
  • Build a rapport with customers in person and over the phone
  • Understand the diverse challenges posed by customers
  • Develop strategies to adapt to challenging circumstances

Module Two: The Right Attitude Starts with You

  • Be Grateful
  • Make Gratitude a Habit
  • Keep Your Body Healthy
  • Invoke Inner Peace

Module Three: Stress Management (Internal Stressors)

  • Irritability
  • Unhappiness With Your Job
  • Feeling Underappreciated
  • Not Well Rested

Module Four: Stress Management (External Stressors)

  • Manage Your Work Space
  • Loud Work Environment
  • Co-Worker Relations
  • Demanding Supervisor

Module Five: Transactional Analysis

  • What is Transactional Analysis
  • Parent
  • Child
  • Adult

Module Six: Why are Some Customers Difficult

  • They Have Truly Had a Bad Experience and Want to Vent
  • Want Someone to be Held Accountable
  • They Have Truly Had a Bad Experience and Want Resolution
  • They are Generally Unhappy

Module Seven: Dealing with the Customer Over the Phone

  • Listen to the Customer’s Complaint
  • Build Rapport
  • Do Not Respond with Negative Words or Emotion
  • Offer a Verbal Solution to Your Customer

Module Eight: Dealing with the Customer In Person

  • Listen to the Customer’s Concerns
  • Build Rapport
  • Respond with Positive Words and Body Language
  • Aside from Words

Module Nine: Sensitivity in Dealing with Customers

  • Customers who are Angry
  • Customers who are Rude
  • Customers with Different Cultural Values
  • Customers who Cannot be Satisfied

Module Ten: Scenarios of Dealing with a Difficult Customer

  • Angry Customer
  • Rude Customer
  • A Customer from Another Culture
  • An Impossible to Please Customer

Module Eleven: Following up With a Customer Once You Have Addressed Their Issue

  • Call the Customer
  • Send the Customer an Email
  • Mail the Customer a Small Token
  • Snail-Mail a Handwritten or Typed Letter

Module Twelve: Wrapping Up

Course 5 - Marketing and Sales Online Certificate Course

Session 1: Course Overview

  • Learning Objectives
  • Pre-Assignment
  • Pre-Course Assessment

 Session 2: Pre-Assignment Review

  • Pre-Assignment Review

 Session 3: Defining Marketing

  • What is Marketing? What is Sales?
  • The Best Marketing
  • Glossary of Terms

 Session 4: Recognizing Trends

  • Trends and Fads
  • Making Connections

 Session 5: Doing Market Research

  • Why Research is Important
  • The Ten Questions
  • The Cyclical Nature of Business
  • Primary Research
  • Primary Research, Part Two
  • Secondary Research

 Session 6: Strategies for Success

  • Top Ten Strategies for Success
  • Identifying the Strategies
  • Strategy Descriptions
  • Analyzing the Strategies
  • Identifying Opportunities (Part One)
  • Identifying Opportunities (Part Two)

 Session 7: Mission Statements

  • The Personal Touch
  • Mission Statement
  • Sample Mission Statements
  • A Personal Mission Statement

 Session 8: Brochures

  • Making Connections

 Session 9: Trade Shows

  • Why Attend a Trade Show?
  • Preparing for a Trade Show

 Session 10: Developing a Marketing Plan

  • The Ps of Marketing
  • Bringing it All Together
  • Bringing it All Together, Part Two
  • SWOT Analysis
  • Sample SWOT
  • A Simple Marketing Plan for Small Budgets
  • The Big Marketing Budget

 Session 12: Increasing Business

  • The Basic Formulas
  • Making Connections

 Session 14: Saying No to New Business

  • Saying No to New Business
  • Making Connections

 Session 13: Advertising Myths

  • Advertising Myths
  • Creating Desire

 Session 14: Networking Tips

  • The Right Approach
  • Getting to the Decision Makers
  • Networking Tips to Consider
  • Making Connections

 Session 15: A Personal Action Plan

  • Starting Point
  • Where I Want to Go
  • How I Will Get There
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Computer requirements

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Microsoft Windows XP, or laterModern and up to date Browser (Internet Explorer 8 or later, Firefox, Chrome, Safari)

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Internet bandwidth of 1Mb or fasterFlash player or a browser with HTML5 video capabilities(Currently Internet Explorer 9, Firefox, Chrome, Safari)

Students will also need access the following applications:

Adobe Acrobat Reader

Requirements

Entry requirements:

Students must have basic literacy and numeracy skills.


Minimum education:

Open entry. Previous schooling and academic achievements are not required for entry into this course.


Device requirements:

Students will need access to a computer/any device and the internet.

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  • Delivery: Online
  • Access: Unlimited Lifetime
  • Time: Study at your own pace
  • Duration: 6 to 8 hours per course
  • Assessments: Yes
  • Qualification: Certificate
About This Course
What you will learn - Provide Excellent Service That Will Have Customers Coming Back
  • Know the different venues for customer support
  • Learn different applications
  • Know proper forms of documentation
  • Demonstrate a customer service approach
  • Make a choice to provide customer service
  • Cultivate a positive attitude
  • Manage internal and external stress
  • Understand how to perform a SWOT analysis
Get BIG Savings with our Customer Support Online Bundle, 5 Certificate Courses
  1.  Customer Support Online Certificate Course
  2.  Customer Service Training: Critical Elements of Customer Service Online Certificate Course
  3.  Managing Customer Service Online Certificate Course
  4.  Handling a Difficult Customer Online Certificate Course
  5.  Marketing and Sales Online Certificate Course
1. Customer Support Online Certificate Course: Provide Excellent Service That Will Have Customers Coming Back

Customer support used to mean a face-to-face conversation with a customer, or a phone call. Today, technology has changed how we approach customer support. It now encompasses the internet, websites, webchats, and even smart phone apps. The customer experience begins long before the purchase is made.

With our “Non-Telephone Customer Support” course, your participants will discover the new opportunities in customer support services via the internet, but also how to use these opportunities to their advantage.

Key Learning Objectives:

  • Define customer support
  • Know the different venues for customer support
  • Recognize challenges of customer support
  • Learn different applications
  • Know proper forms of documentation
  • Learning to be proactive in customer support
2. Customer Service Training: Critical Elements of Customer Service Online Certificate Course: Learn The Critical Elements Of Customer Service

Today, customers expect more from companies than ever before. This course is designed around six critical elements of customer service that create a unique experience for the people purchasing your products.

This course is all about the critical elements of customer service: a customer service focus that is defined within, and given life by, your organization. In order to be successful, this focus must be reinforced every day, measured, and improved upon.

Key Learning Objectives:

  • Demonstrate a customer service approach.
  • Understand how your own behavior affects the behavior of others.
  • Demonstrate confidence and skill as a problem solver.
  • Apply techniques to deal with difficult customers.
  • Make a choice to provide customer service.
3. Managing Customer Service Online Certificate Course: Learn about the six critical elements of customer service

Like all business values, a customer service focus must be demonstrated from the top down. Customer service leaders have a responsibility to demonstrate good leadership practices as well as good customer service practices. This course will share several leadership models that you can use to successfully lead a customer service team.

Key Learning Objectives:

  • How to identify ways to establish links between excellence in customer service and their business practices and policies
  • How to develop the skills and practices that are essential elements of a customer-focused manager
  • How to recognize what employees are looking for to be truly engaged
  • How to recognize who the customers are and what they are looking for
  • How to develop strategies for creating engaged employees and satisfied customers in whatever business units you manage
4. Handling a Difficult Customer Online Certificate Course: Learn How to Deal with Difficult Customers and Situations

Handling difficult customers may seem like a thankless job. Fortunately, you can develop skills to adapt to the challenges difficult customers pose and extend these skills to handling difficult people and situations throughout your daily life. By improving the focus of your thoughts and feelings, how you manage stress and how well you listen to and empathize with others, you will be better able to meet the challenges other people pose in both your professional and personal life.

Key Learning Objectives:

  • Cultivate a positive attitude
  • Manage internal and external stress
  • Develop abilities to listen actively and empathize
  • Build a rapport with customers in person and over the phone
  • Understand the diverse challenges posed by customers
  • Develop strategies to adapt to challenging circumstances
5. Marketing and Sales Online Certificate Course: Marketing and Sales Online Certificate Course

A small marketing budget doesn’t mean you can’t meet your goals and business objectives. This course will share some creative marketing tactics that will work for any budget.

With this Marketing and Sales Online Courses, you will learn effective, low-cost, and non-cost strategies to improve sales, develop your company’s image, and build your bottom line.

Key Learning Objectives:

  • Recognize what we mean by the term “marketing.”
  • Discover how to use low-cost publicity to get your name known.
  • Know how to develop a marketing plan and a marketing campaign.
  • Use your time rather than your money to market your company effectively.
  • Understand how to perform a SWOT analysis

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The Customer Support Online Bundle, 5 Certificate Courses include the following courses, below is a summary of each course: 

Course 1 - Customer Support Online Certificate Course

Module One: Getting Started

  • Course Objectives

Module Two: What Is Customer Service?

  • Support vs. Service
  • Who Participates?
  • Metrics
  • Trends
  • Case Study

Module Three: Challenges

  • Customer Challenges
  • Crisis
  • Ticket Backlogs
  • End Relationship with Customer
  • Case Study

Module Four: Email

  • Formal Yet Conversational Style
  • Scripted Yet Authentic
  • Explain Information Carefully
  • Results
  • Case Study

Module Five: SMS

  • Convenience of Texting
  • Apps and Software Available
  • Information to Communicate
  • Professional Communication Through Text
  • Case Study

Module Six: Webchat

  • Personalize
  • Apps and Software Available
  • Real Time Support
  • Etiquette
  • Case Study

Module Seven: Multi-Channel Apps

  • Different Multi-Channel Apps
  • Pros
  • Cons
  • Making a Decision
  • Case Study

Module Eight: Support Ticket Apps

  • Different Support Ticket Apps
  • Pros
  • Cons
  • Making a Decision
  • Case Study

Module Nine: Documentation

  • What to Document
  • Using Tools
  • Prepare Documentation
  • Retain
  • Case Study

Module Ten: Feedback

  • Surveys
  • Boxes
  • Analytics
  • Usability
  • Case Study

Module Eleven: Be Proactive

  • Research Analytics
  • Discover Opportunities
  • Prevent Problems
  • Provide Support Before People Know They Need It
  • Case Study

Module Twelve: Wrapping Up

  • Words from the Wise

Course 2 - Customer Service Training: Critical Elements of Customer Service Online Certificate Course

Session 1: Course Overview

  • Learning Objectives
  • Pre-Assignment

 Session 2: What is Customer Service?

  • What is Customer Service?
  • The Critical Elements of Customer Service
  • A Customer Service Focus
  • Service is a Philosophy
  • Service Means Meeting Customer Expectations
  • Service is Not Always Natural

 Session 3: Who Are Your Customers?

  • Types of Customers
  • Internal and External Customers
  • VIP Customers
  • What Customers Need

 Session 4: Meeting Expectations

  • Meeting Expectations
  • Six Ways to Meet Customers’ Expectations

 Session 5: Pre-Assignment Review

  • Pre-Assignment Answers

 Session 6: Setting Goals

  • Creating a Personal Vision Statement
  • Step One: Identify Your Values
  • Step Two: Define Your Values
  • Step Three: Put It All Together
  • Identifying Dreams and Setting Goals
  • Identifying Your Dreams
  • SPIRIT
  • My Dreams and Goals

 Session 7: The Second Critical Element – Defined in Your Organization

  • Our Standards
  • Sample Standards

 Session 8: The Third Critical Element – Given Life by the Employees

  • What Do You Think?
  • Suggested Answers

 Session 9: Communication Skills

  • The Importance of Empathy
  • About Rephrasing
  • Dangerous Misconceptions
  • Defining Communication
  • Body Language Basics
  • Voice
  • Open and Closed Questions
  • Customer-Focused Questions

 Session 10: Telephone Techniques

  • It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It
  • Your Initial Greeting
  • Personalizing Service
  • Addressing a Person
  • Your Telephone Voice
  • Your Listening Ear
  • Your Format for Closing
  • Handling Everyday Requests
  • Transferring Telephone Calls
  • Putting Callers on Hold
  • Taking a Message
  • Taking Messages Accurately and Completely
  • What to Record When Taking a Message
  • Other Tips for Taking a Message
  • Do’s and Don’t’s
  • Phrases to Avoid Using
  • Sentences That Damage Your Image or Lose Goodwill

 Session 11: Dealing With Difficult Customers

  • Abrupt Customers
  • Abusive Customers
  • Angry Customers
  • Arrogant Customers
  • Bully/Bossy Customers
  • Closed-Minded Customers

 Session 12: Dealing With Challenges Assertively

  • About Assertiveness
  • An Assertiveness Formula
  • Making Connections

 Session 13: Dealing With Difficult People

  • Getting to the Heart of the Matter
  • What’s Missing?
  • Getting to the Big Picture
  • The Three F’s
  • Types of Difficult People
  • The Stubborn One
  • The Quiet One
  • The Jester
  • Yakety-Yak
  • Off Base
  • Bigger Issues
  • The Chatterbox
  • The Know-It-All
  • The Whiner

 Session 14: The Fourth Critical Element – Be a Problem Solver

  • Reducing Conflict
  • Blending
  • Blending Examples
  • Redirecting
  • Identify Positive Intent
  • Identify Highly Valued Criteria
  • When Discussions Degenerate Into Conflict
  • An Action Plan for Angry, Aggressive People
  • Problem Solving in Six Steps
  • Making Connections

 Session 15: Seven Steps to Customer Problem Solving

  • The Process
  • Making Connections
  • The Recovery Process
  •  Session 16: The Fifth Critical Element – Measure It
  • Tools to Use
  • Critical Evaluation
  • Informal Surveys
  • Focus Groups
  • Fishbone (Cause and Effect, or Root Cause)
  • Brainstorming
  • Benchmarking
  • Measurement in Practice

 Session 17: The Sixth Critical Element – Reinforce It

  • Keeping Momentum
  • Developing and Maintaining Relationships
  • Recognizing the Power of Your Behavior
  • Likeability Works
  • Phrases for Customer Service Success
  • How to Feel Powerful in Your Position
  • Project Positive Expectations
  • Give Credit Where It’s Due
  • Rebound from Failure
  • Accept Responsibility

 Session 18: Dealing With Stress

  • About Stress
  • Deep Breathing
  • Visualize
  • Music
  • Acupressure and Massage
  • Laughter
  • Replace Worry with Problem Solving
  • Meditation
  • Resilience

 Session 19: A Personal Action Plan

  • Starting Point
  • Where I Want to Go
  • How I Will Get There

Course 3 - Managing Customer Service Online Certificate Course

Session One: Course Overview

Session Two: Six Critical Elements

  • Element One: A Customer Service Focus
  • Element Two: Defined in Your Organization
  • Element Three: Given Life by the Employees
  • Element Four: Problem Solving
  • Role Play
  • Element Five: Measure It
  • Element Six: Reinforce It
  • Measurement in Practice

Session Three: Understanding Leadership

  • About Leadership
  • Understanding Your Comfort Zone
  • Managing Performance
  • Servant Leadership
  • Onboarding and Orientation

Session Four: Five Practices of Leadership

  • Challenging, Inspiring, and Enabling
  • Modeling and Heart
  • Practices in Practice
  • Pre-Assignment Review
  • Recommended Reading List
  • Post-Course Assessment
  • Pre- and Post-Assessment Answer Keys
  • Personal Action Plan

Course 4 - Handling a Difficult Customer Online Certificate Course

Module One: Getting Started

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Cultivate a positive attitude
  • Manage internal and external stress
  • Develop abilities to listen actively and empathize
  • Build a rapport with customers in person and over the phone
  • Understand the diverse challenges posed by customers
  • Develop strategies to adapt to challenging circumstances

Module Two: The Right Attitude Starts with You

  • Be Grateful
  • Make Gratitude a Habit
  • Keep Your Body Healthy
  • Invoke Inner Peace

Module Three: Stress Management (Internal Stressors)

  • Irritability
  • Unhappiness With Your Job
  • Feeling Underappreciated
  • Not Well Rested

Module Four: Stress Management (External Stressors)

  • Manage Your Work Space
  • Loud Work Environment
  • Co-Worker Relations
  • Demanding Supervisor

Module Five: Transactional Analysis

  • What is Transactional Analysis
  • Parent
  • Child
  • Adult

Module Six: Why are Some Customers Difficult

  • They Have Truly Had a Bad Experience and Want to Vent
  • Want Someone to be Held Accountable
  • They Have Truly Had a Bad Experience and Want Resolution
  • They are Generally Unhappy

Module Seven: Dealing with the Customer Over the Phone

  • Listen to the Customer’s Complaint
  • Build Rapport
  • Do Not Respond with Negative Words or Emotion
  • Offer a Verbal Solution to Your Customer

Module Eight: Dealing with the Customer In Person

  • Listen to the Customer’s Concerns
  • Build Rapport
  • Respond with Positive Words and Body Language
  • Aside from Words

Module Nine: Sensitivity in Dealing with Customers

  • Customers who are Angry
  • Customers who are Rude
  • Customers with Different Cultural Values
  • Customers who Cannot be Satisfied

Module Ten: Scenarios of Dealing with a Difficult Customer

  • Angry Customer
  • Rude Customer
  • A Customer from Another Culture
  • An Impossible to Please Customer

Module Eleven: Following up With a Customer Once You Have Addressed Their Issue

  • Call the Customer
  • Send the Customer an Email
  • Mail the Customer a Small Token
  • Snail-Mail a Handwritten or Typed Letter

Module Twelve: Wrapping Up

Course 5 - Marketing and Sales Online Certificate Course

Session 1: Course Overview

  • Learning Objectives
  • Pre-Assignment
  • Pre-Course Assessment

 Session 2: Pre-Assignment Review

  • Pre-Assignment Review

 Session 3: Defining Marketing

  • What is Marketing? What is Sales?
  • The Best Marketing
  • Glossary of Terms

 Session 4: Recognizing Trends

  • Trends and Fads
  • Making Connections

 Session 5: Doing Market Research

  • Why Research is Important
  • The Ten Questions
  • The Cyclical Nature of Business
  • Primary Research
  • Primary Research, Part Two
  • Secondary Research

 Session 6: Strategies for Success

  • Top Ten Strategies for Success
  • Identifying the Strategies
  • Strategy Descriptions
  • Analyzing the Strategies
  • Identifying Opportunities (Part One)
  • Identifying Opportunities (Part Two)

 Session 7: Mission Statements

  • The Personal Touch
  • Mission Statement
  • Sample Mission Statements
  • A Personal Mission Statement

 Session 8: Brochures

  • Making Connections

 Session 9: Trade Shows

  • Why Attend a Trade Show?
  • Preparing for a Trade Show

 Session 10: Developing a Marketing Plan

  • The Ps of Marketing
  • Bringing it All Together
  • Bringing it All Together, Part Two
  • SWOT Analysis
  • Sample SWOT
  • A Simple Marketing Plan for Small Budgets
  • The Big Marketing Budget

 Session 12: Increasing Business

  • The Basic Formulas
  • Making Connections

 Session 14: Saying No to New Business

  • Saying No to New Business
  • Making Connections

 Session 13: Advertising Myths

  • Advertising Myths
  • Creating Desire

 Session 14: Networking Tips

  • The Right Approach
  • Getting to the Decision Makers
  • Networking Tips to Consider
  • Making Connections

 Session 15: A Personal Action Plan

  • Starting Point
  • Where I Want to Go
  • How I Will Get There
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Computer requirements

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Microsoft Windows XP, or laterModern and up to date Browser (Internet Explorer 8 or later, Firefox, Chrome, Safari)

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All systems

Internet bandwidth of 1Mb or fasterFlash player or a browser with HTML5 video capabilities(Currently Internet Explorer 9, Firefox, Chrome, Safari)

Students will also need access the following applications:

Adobe Acrobat Reader

Requirements

Entry requirements:

Students must have basic literacy and numeracy skills.


Minimum education:

Open entry. Previous schooling and academic achievements are not required for entry into this course.


Device requirements:

Students will need access to a computer/any device and the internet.

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