Professional customer service academy

Professional customer service academy

The aim of customer service nowadays is to build long-term relations based on mutual understanding, respect and acceptance of client’s needs, values and dreams, including dreams of good service. Customer relations resemble a tree - each tree needs strong roots and proper care to be able to grow its crown and in turn to fruit.

Professional customer care academy is a series of workshops perfecting techniques of building long-term and satisfactory customer relations, basic and advanced sales tools as well as methods of coping with difficult situations involving external and internal customers. This training project aims at perfecting customer relations building skills and, in consequence, sales growth.

Training objectives
  • Learning practical professional customer service skills.
  • Developing skills of building and maintaining customer relations.
  • Raising communication effectiveness in customer service.
  • Improving self-confidence and controlling stress.
  • Building positive company image with proper attitude and behavior.
  • Acquiring basic negotiation skills and learning methods of protection against manipulation.
Professional customer service academy
Customer service should not be a department, customer service is everyone’s job. [Ken Blanchard]

IMPROVING COMPANY IMAGE
IMPROVING COMPANY IMAGE
Thanks to building a customer-oriented culture both customers and employees will become brand ambassadors, which will strengthen the company's positive image of a good business partner and employer.
INCREASE IN EFFICIENCY
INCREASE IN EFFICIENCY
Increasing customer satisfaction will in consequence improve sales performance. Optimization of one's own potential will raise individual effectiveness in key performance indicators.
ENGAGEMENT DEEPENING
ENGAGEMENT DEEPENING
Work comfort will improve, thanks to better communication skills self-confidence will increase and the amount of stress will fall. Engagement and work satisfaction will deepen.
BETTER RELATIONS
BETTER RELATIONS
Chances of establishing long-term business relations will rise thanks to better customer relations skills. Increased service satisfaction will strengthen current client’s loyalty, which will contribute to gaining new brand ambassadors.

Core topics – content of training cycle

Power of relations

  • Proper attitude is key (customer-oriented attitude, benefits coming from customer service, restocking positive energy supplies).
  • Self-presentation as a face, not a mask (the art of building a professional sales representative image, appearance and first impression, social influence mechanisms and techniques).
  • The essence of perfect interpersonal communication (communication barriers, communication mistakes – how not to make them, communication models).
  • Building customer relations (preparing to succeed in sales, customer acquisition, gaining trust, matching in sales dance’, customer personality typology, complimenting, appreciating).
  • Empathetic map of a customer (needs analysis, asking questions, active listening, clarifying, paraphrasing).

Sales psychology

  • Selling without pushing (I’m a person, not a machine, standards, habits vs fighting routine, automaticity, creativity, innovative approach, offer uniqueness).
  • ‘Sales dance’ (presenting offers, solving customer’s problems/ailing his ‘pain’, relating to needs, language of benefits, persuasive narrations, storytelling in sales).
  • Contracting arrangements (analysing opinions, coping with objections with ‘negative inversion’ strategy, strengthening decision validity, increasing contract’s value, tying, cross-selling and up-selling)
  • Negotiating mutual benefits (using interpersonal skills in conflict resolution, perfecting cooperation and negotiation skills according to the win-win concept).
  • After-sales service (closing the contract, mobilising indecisive customers, prompting to contact again, asking for recommendation, after-sales contact).

Overcoming difficulties

  • How to make lemonade out of lemons? (turning failures into successes, developing emotional intelligence, confronting unpleasant emotions, analyzing own mistakes and drawing lessons for the future from them).
  • Changing emotional reactions into rational ones (building new thinking habits, managing own emotions, effective goal visualisation, implementation plan).
  • Mental resilience (self motivation, how to use the power of stress to make it your ally, not your enemy, relaxation techniques).
  • How to cope in difficult situations involving customers? (establishing procedures of coping with customers who are demanding, aggressive or under the influence of psychoactive substances).
  • Assertive self-expression and setting boundaries (assertiveness doesn’t only mean saying no, accepting and giving constructive feedback, feedback grid, I-message, assertiveness as a right, not an obligation).

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  • Leadership and team management
  • Communication and conflict resolution
  • Emotion management in business
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  • Team-building – smart integration
  • Personal effectiveness training
  • Business coaching – designing a growth path