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Listening Skills In-House Program Details

Target Audience: This active Listening Skills course can be tailored for the specific cohort whether it be the leadership team, another group of managers/team leaders or employees.

Duration: This course is available as a 1-day course or a truncated 1/2-day course.

Delivery: This course can be delivered both in-person or virtually. For virtual delivery, we can use our virtual platforms or your organisations.

Group Size: We recommend a group size of 4–10 people.

If you’ve faced an angry group, then you’ll know the importance of this training. The biggest problem with an angry group is that the anger is constant and random. It’s even more unsettling than dealing with an angry individual. This course gives you strategies to keep you safe and quell the group’s anger. So, if your people are in the position of facing an angry group, then this ‘Dealing with Angry People’ workshop is perfect.

‘Dealing with Angry People’ Workshop Nuts and Bolts:

Would you like to attend this tailored ‘Dealing with Angry People’ program? For maximum effectiveness, this course is best conducted as an in-house program.

Venue: For your convenience, you can choose to conduct this course at your workplace. Alternatively, we can provide a training venue at a small additional cost.

Duration: Each course can be tailored to suit your timeframes.

How effectively does your team manage customer complaints?

When dealt with properly, complaints can turn unsatisfied customers into loyal customers and/or devoted supporters. Developing the ability to do so has a huge impact on your organisation’s reputation and success. Tailored in-house complaint handling courses provide powerful tools to improve customer satisfaction and resolve issues effectively.

By providing your team with the necessary techniques, any interaction, regardless of the challenge, can be handled with confidence and precision. Complaint-handling on site courses are designed to train participants to respond to complaints proactively and constructively. This also leads to improved customer satisfaction and enhanced brand reputation.

Refine Your Approach with Our Complaint Handling Courses

Participants will gain insights into complaint prioritisation and learn to listen without judgement. Our training also covers essential service recovery strategies and communication techniques. Instead of simply logging complaints, training empowers your staff to uncover root causes, identify root causes and effectively communicate resolutions, leading to better service and stronger business outcomes.

Our complaint handling courses can be tailored to suit your business or industry and can include training for the following:

Our comprehensive programs are designed to improve every aspect of customer interaction and service excellence. Further training with us will ensure your team excels in both communication and customer service. To further supplement your staff’s development, we also offers courses in business report writing, communication skills, and presentation delivery.

Why Enrol in Our Professional Complaint Handling Courses?

Investing in our professional complaint-handling training provides your team with the tools necessary to effectively resolve client/customer  problems. Here’s why enrolling in our courses is a wise decision for your organisation:

  • Enhance Customer Satisfaction
    Learn how to handle concerns quickly and properly, leaving customers feeling heard and appreciated. Improved complaint management skills also mean that your team will develop stronger client relationships, resulting in long-term success.
  • Strengthen Communication Skills
    Our complaint-handling seminars provide clear and emphatic communication strategies, allowing your team to handle even the most difficult conversations with confidence and poise.
  • Improve Brand Reputation
    Efficiently handling complaints improves your brand’s reputation. By resolving concerns professionally, you demonstrate your dedication to customer service and quality.

Effective complaint handling is an essential ability that can significantly improve your leadership and management abilities. Our complaint handling courses provide your team with the strategies to resolve issues efficiently, lead with confidence, and build stronger relationships within your organisation and with clients.

Transform your approach to customer service. Explore our full range of professional development courses to enhance your team’s skills. We also offer micro-learning workshops that deliver more focused lessons designed to fit into busy schedules. Contact us today for an instant quote.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. Who should attend the Complaints Handling Training?

A. This course is ideal for customer service representatives, frontline staff, managers, and anyone responsible for managing customer complaints and feedback.

Q. What are the key learning outcomes of this course?

A. Participants will learn effective communication techniques, strategies to de-escalate conflicts, methods to identify underlying issues, and approaches to turn complaints into opportunities for improvement.

Q. Is this training available across Australia?

A. Yes, we offer the Complaints Handling Training in all major cities and regional areas across Australia, with options for in-person or virtual delivery.

Q. How long is the course?

A. The course can be tailored to your needs, with options ranging from 60-minute microlearning sessions to full-day workshops.

Building better relationships with your most profitable customers is vital. You need to start focusing better attention on your most profitable customers or somebody else will. Pareto’s principle suggests 20% of your customers are responsible for 80% of your revenue, so why treat all your customers the same.

How strong are your relationships with your most profitable customers?

Ask yourself the following:

  • I always return calls within half a day.
  • I never overpromise and/or under deliver.
  • I know the rank order of my most profitable customers.
  • My most profitable customers often refer business to me.
  • I am aware of their hobbies and interests.
  • Our conversations are value oriented, not price oriented.
  • I communicate carefully and effectively.
  • I use active listening and questioning skills.
  • I make tangible notes of conversations.
  • I record conversations in a database.
  • I know the names of their family.
  • I can deal with difficult people effectively.
  • I offer alternatives and ideas to my customers.
  • I know my customer’s personality styles.
  • I solve problems rather than create problems for my customers.
  • My customers trust me.

Your Relationship Building program can be custom designed to help participants build better relationships with your customers.

Relationship Building with Customers In-House Program Details

For maximum effectiveness, this program is best conducted as an in-house program.

  • Ideal group size: 4 –12 participants.
  • Venue: For your convenience, you can choose to conduct this program at your business premises. Alternatively, we can provide a training venue at a small additional cost.
  • Duration: Your Relationship Building Course can be modified to fit inside your timeframe.
  • Cost: Price on request.
  • Target Audience: Employees, Supervisors, Team Leaders, Senior Managers or CEO’s.

If you would like more information on this training program, please contact: Deborah Dear on 1300 323 752 or email: [email protected] or contact us online today.

Here are 7 reasons to welcome complaints as an opportunity rather than an annoyance:

  • Most customers vote with their feet and don’t even give you the chance to fix a perceived value imbalance, so be thankful they are still a customer.
  • Measuring and reducing complaints as a performance indicator is often easier than measuring ‘increased customer service levels’.
  • In marketing, there is a term known as the “bugger principle”. Every time someone says “bugger” there is a business opportunity.
  • Complaints are free. Customer satisfaction surveys are not.
  • Complaints will give you broader user perspectives. Often people are too close to their products and services and need to break free from myopic perspectives.
  • Research has proven that if you conduct a successful service recovery, you will increase customer loyalty levels.
  • Resolving complaints involves dialogue with customers. Dialogue generates new ideas and increases customer engagement levels.
“A customer who complains is my best friend.” –Leonard, Stew

Reduce Customer Complaints In-House Program Details

For maximum effectiveness, this program is best conducted as an in-house program.

Ideal group size: 4–12 participants.

Venue: For your convenience, you can choose to conduct this program at your business premises. Alternatively, we can provide a training venue at a small additional cost.

Duration: This program can be adapted to meet your requirements.

Cost: Price on request.

Target Audience: Employees, Supervisors, Team Leaders, Senior Managers or CEO’s.

If you would like more information on this training program, please contact: Deborah Dear on 1300 323 752 or email: [email protected] or contact us online today.

Would you like to attend this program?

For maximum effectiveness, this program is best conducted as an in-house program.

Ideal group size: 4 – 12 participants.

Venue: For your convenience, you can choose to conduct this program at your business premises. Alternatively, we can provide a training venue at a small additional cost

Duration: This program can be conducted as a one day or half day program

Cost: Price on request.

Target Audience: Health Managers and Staff

If you would like more information on this training program, please contact: Preferred Training Networks on 1300 323 752
Email: Deborah at [email protected]

Setting positive customer experiences is a science and is proven to boost stakeholder engagement levels and simultaneously increase brand loyalty levels. Discover innovative ways to positively change your customers experience and interaction with your organisation.

Positive customer experiences – Who does them well?

The local ice cream store – Have you noticed that delightful aroma when you walk by your ice cream store. That aroma is manufactured and deliberately pumped out as there is a link between the inhaled positive experience and increased sales.

Courier companies – Many couriers are encouraged to leave your building at a fast pace. This gives some customers an implied e is that you are so valuable that they are running to meet your expectations. Watch as the couriers get round the corner and they dramatically slow down.

Disneyworld – One of the pioneers of setting positive experiences. They’ve replaced ‘hiring’ with ‘casting’. Visitors are always referred to as ‘guests’. Every experience you have at Disneyworld is finely crafted to ensure your experience is superb. This contributes to your likelihood of being a repeat visitor in the future.

Bunnings – Now here’s an experience. The BBQ and sizzling at the entrance. The children excited at the children’s activities section and the fenced playhouse. Stores are integrated and all staff wear an apron. Who would have thought a hardware store could deliver these experiences.

And who doesn’t?

We’ve all spent time queuing and waiting for customer service. Same old straggly line. No-one in the line is very happy. What can the service providers do to improve your experience?

Make sure to ask the presenter how an airline dramatically reduced the amount of complaints from people queuing at the baggage pick up carousel despite making no improvement on the waiting time

Would you like to attend this program?

For maximum effectiveness, this program is best conducted as an in-house program.

Ideal group size: 4 – 12 participants.

Venue: For your convenience, you can choose to conduct this program at your business premises. Alternatively, we can provide a training venue at a small additional cost.

Duration: This program can be adapted to meet your requirements.

Cost: Price on request.

Target Audience: Employees, Supervisors, Team Leaders, Senior Managers or CEO’s.

If you would like more information on this training program, please contact: Deborah Dear on 1300 323 752 or email: [email protected] or contact us online today.

Plan of action

Participants will learn proven skills to build relationships with internal and external customers. Participants are often surprised how moments of truth impact both transactional and relationship based interactions. This course helps blueprint the customers experience and highlight opportunities to improve your level of service and customer relations.

This course captures the behaviours that build relationships with customers. By developing some key mentoring skills, your workplace champions will be able to embed these behaviours to your newer recruits or inexperienced representatives.

Would you like to attend this program?

  • For maximum effectiveness, this program is best conducted as an in-house program.
  • Ideal group size: 4 – 10 participants.
  • Venue: For your convenience, you can choose to conduct this program at your premises. Alternatively, we can provide a training venue at a small additional cost
  • Duration: This program can be conducted as a one day or half day program
  • Cost: Price on request.

If you would like more information on our customer relations training program, please contact: Preferred Training Networks on 1300 323 752 Email: [email protected]

Customer Relations & Mentoring 4.4 out of 5 based on 36 user ratings.

MANAGING THE PLASTICITY OF YOUR SERVICE DELIVERY
Your customers continually form perceptions of your services. The key is to make as many positive perceptions as possible through positive customer experiences. Often you can’t control the outcome for the customer but you can control the experience the customer receives.

 

For maximum effectiveness, this program is best conducted as an in-house program.

Target Audience: Public Sector Staff and Management

Cost: Price on request.

Timeframe: This course can be modified to fit with your timeframe.
Venue: For your convenience, you can choose to conduct this program at your workplace. Alternatively, we can provide a training venue at a small additional cost.

If you would like an obligation free quote, Please contact:

Preferred Training Networks on 1300 323 752

Email: Deborah at [email protected]

or visit our website today: www.preftrain.com

Customer Experience Training For The Public Sector4.6 out of 5 based on 87 user ratings.

It is critically important to deliver exceptional customer service consistently. Even when a customer’s needs cannot be met, it is crucial that their expectations be managed. Participants will also learn how to set positive experiences for customers which are proven to increase customer retention and boost loyalty levels

Common queries we hear:

How do I improve customer service? How can I make our customers more loyal? How do I deliver exceptional service to the customer? How do I stop customers from being so price sensitive?

Customer Service Skills Program Outline

Module Topics Key Learning Outcomes
Module 1: Learning Outcomes Introduction to Customer Service
  • Understand the benefits of providing quality service for the customer, organisation, and individual.
  • Recognise customer expectations.
“Moments of Truth”
  • Identify key points of customer contact and their impact.
  • Learn from the Scandinavian Airlines case study.
  • Handle enquiries, problems, and complaints across different communication mediums.
  • Differentiate between internal and external customers.
Improve Current Levels of Customer Service
  • Understand the four levels of customer service.
  • Identify current service levels within the organisation.
  • Develop strategies to provide exceptional service.
  • Align customer service with service delivery.
Module 2: Customer Loyalty and Satisfaction Customer Loyalty Drivers
  • Define excellent service and key satisfaction factors.
  • Maintain focus on every detail during customer interactions.
  • Benchmark service quality.
  • Examine customer loyalty.
Why Customers Become Dissatisfied?
  • Identify common customer frustration points.
  • Recognise key drivers of customer dissatisfaction.
  • Implement strategies to improve attitudes towards customer service.
  • Navigate systems and processes effectively.
Module 3: Communication Skills for Customer Service Active Listening Skills
  • Understand how words impact customer reactions.
  • Learn active listening techniques.
  • Identify terminology to avoid in customer interactions.
  • Improve telephone communication skills.
Questioning Skills
  • Use different question types to clarify concerns and problems.
  • Guide conversations with open and closed-ended questions.
  • Apply effective questioning techniques in various customer service scenarios.
Module 4: Handling Difficult Customer Interactions Handling Customer Complaints
  • Manage customer complaints effectively.
  • Take a proactive approach to customer concerns.
  • Utilise complaints to enhance service and feedback mechanisms.
Dealing with Difficult Customers
  • Recognise different customer behavioural styles and adapt communication.
  • Use calm and controlled responses to create win-win outcomes.
  • Focus on resolving issues rather than personal conflicts.
Committing to Behaviour Change
  • Identify specific actions to improve service.
  • Recognise signs of success.
  • Learn from the Disney case study.
  • Implement continuous improvement strategies.
  • Develop an action plan for sustained service excellence.

This program can be facilitated in-house or virtually.

‘Customer Service Skills’ Workshop Guidelines

  • Group Size: An ideal group size is 6 – 10 participants.
  • Venue: For your convenience, you can choose to conduct this program at your offices. Alternatively, we can provide a venue at a small additional cost.
  • Duration: This course can be tailored to meet your timeframes
  • Cost: Upon request.
  • Target Audience: Customer-facing staff, support teams, receptionists, and team leaders

At Preferred Training Networks, we have more comprehensive courses like: workplace resilience, strategic planning courses, and business report writing. If you have any queries pertaining to any of these courses, feel free to contact our team today.

Customer Service Skills Course4.3 out of 5 based on 98 user ratings. Download your course guide today and start building your team’s confidence in customer interactions.
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