: In our Customer Service Survival Skills course, students will learn how to get to the heart of customer service; a challenging but not impossible achievement. Customers expect quality service and in return will provide loyalty. Businesses today understand that customer service loyalty contributes to the success and growth of a business. This is why it is important understand the importance in learning, developing and improving the skills needed to communicate effectively in a professional manor with customers.
: This class is an independent-study course. Students will have all the resources needed to successfully complete the course within the online material. A student helpdesk is available for technical support during the course enrollment.
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Lesson 1
Customer Service Survival Skills Module 1
Understanding the Worst Case Scenarios
In this section, you will learn why you should be open to exploring worst case customer service scenarios. In addition to benefiting from understanding the worst case, you will learn tools for defusing crises in customer service.
Understanding the Moment
Leaning into Criticism
Achieving Deep Acknowledgment
Cultural Intelligence vs Other Intercultural Approaches
Safe Way to Deliver Bad News
Customer Service Survival Skills Module 2
Problem Solving and Putting into Action
During a customer service crisis, it important to choose communication styles that are the most effective for the situation. This section will help to identify techniques and actions that will lead to the effective management of any customer service crisis.
Powerful Problem Solving
Reframing Your Message
Grounding an Angry Outburst
Immune to Intimidation
Wrap-Up
Customer Service Survival Skills Module 3
Your Worst Customer Situations
In customer service with a customer crisis, it can sometimes feel like no matter what you say, it is your fault. This module will focus on identifying how to respond when a customer is in crisis and unresponsive to your attempts at meeting his or her service needs.
You’re the Boss
Don’t You Know Who I am?
The Concert that Never Was
I’ll Be Suing You
Quelling a Social Media Firestorm
Customer Service Survival Skills Module 4
Framing Your Response for a Resolution
In order to provide excellent customer service, it is important to be comfortable with the customer's as well as your own frustration. This module will provide you with some tools to successfully deal with customer frustrations and how to navigate the depth of those frustrations to provide outstanding customer service.
Just Plain Terrible
Anger Management
Not So Smart
When Talking is Not Enough
Customer Crisis to Excellence
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