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Training Course: Achieving Excellence in Customer Service - Providing a Quality Service


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16 - 20 Mar 2025

Dubai (UAE)

Cost : 4150 € Euro

Introduction

Achieving customer service excellence is not accomplished by accident, nor is it attained without effort and teamwork. It requires well–trained customer service professionals who have a passion for providing quality service. This dynamic, five-day course emphasizes the professional communication skills and actions that create the foundation for continuous improvement.

In today’s customer-oriented business environment, “people skills” are critical for career advancement and organizational effectiveness. The program emphasizes the importance of providing customer service excellence in a competitive environment, proven strategies for service recovery, and negotiation techniques for dealing with difficult customers in a professional manner.

  • Identify key components that promote customer retention and loyalty
  • Describe the practices of a world-class customer service provider and model their own performance on those practices
  • Utilize interpersonal skills as vital tools in the provision of customer service
  • Develop a customer-focused mindset for continuous improvement
  • Improved conflict resolution skills

Course Objectives of Achieving Excellence in Customer Service

  • Establish the importance of setting and reviewing customer service standards
  • Develop an understanding of internal and external customer expectations
  • Communicate more effectively by utilizing active listening and questioning skills
  • Demonstrate how to deal with difficult customers effectively
  • Set SMART objectives and goals to increase daily productivity
  • Utilize stress management techniques to reduce tension

Course Methodology of Achieving Excellence in Customer Service

This dynamic, 5-day seminar is highly interactive and encourages delegate participation through a combination of group discussion, videos, role-play exercises, case studies, and breakout sessions. This seminar will include benchmarking best practices to model world-class customer service excellence. The comprehensive course manual has been designed to be practical, easy to use, and facilitate learning. Delegates are provided a comfortable, enlightening learning experience that gives them the latest insights, techniques, and best practices to promote long-term customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Organizational Impact of Achieving Excellence in Customer Service

  • A shared organizational customer service vision
  • A streamlined customer service feedback system
  • Improved Intra/ interdepartmental communication
  • A highly motivated and focused workforce
  • Increased competency and communication skills
  • Increased customer retention and revenue growth

Personal Impact of Achieving Excellence in Customer Service

  • An increased appreciation for their role in helping their organization achieve customer service excellence
  • Up to date techniques and methods to help them provide world-class service
  • Enhanced leadership and communication skills required to excel in their career
  • Increased confidence in their abilities to work professionally with difficult or upset customers
  • The insight to adjust their own temperament style to become more versatile, adaptable and highly successful
  • Improved time management skills and increased productivity

Course Outlines of Achieving Excellence in Customer Service

DAY 1

Setting the Standards for Customer Service Excellence

  • The benefits of providing excellent customer service
  • Breakout session: How to use customer service to promote customer loyalty
  • Case study: The best and worst customer service provdiers
  • The WOW Factor: Going the extra mile…and then some!
  • The importance of managing internal and external customer expectations
  • First impressions: What do your customers see and hear?
  • Understanding and working with the four customer styles
  • Practical exercise: What is your individual personality type?

DAY 2

Communicating the Customer Service Message

  • How well does your organization communicate the importance of customer service?
  • Understanding your customer’s nonverbal communication
  • Tips for building trust and rapport quickly…face-to-face or on the telephone
  • What is your preferred learning style?
  • Developing your active listening skills to enhance communications
  • Use questioning techniques to identify a customer’s expectations and service requirements
  • Telephone tips to promote a professional image
  • The dos and don’t of written communication

DAY 3

Service Recovery: Handling Complaints and Difficult Customers

  • The importance of customer complaints and why they should be encouraged
  • Six steps to service recovery
  • Case Study: Best Practices of Scandinavian Airlines and The Disney Corporation
  • Strategies to help calm upset customers
  • Managing emotions during stressful situations
  • Empower employees to get the job done
  • Breakout session: Step-by-step process for handling a customer complaint
  • Role-play exercise: Dealing with upset customers

DAY 4

Principles of Persuasion

  • Requesting feedback from customers and colleagues
  • The art of giving and receiving feedback
  • Case study: Best practices - Xerox’ Five Pillars of Customer-focused Strategy
  • Negotiating mutually beneficial outcomes
  • Words and tones to avoid
  • The RATER Model: Five dimensions of customer service excellence
  • Best practices for call handling, documentation and quality assurance
  • Measuring and monitoring customer satisfaction

DAY 5

Getting the Right Customer Service Attitude

  • The importance of attitude and teamwork
  • Focusing on continuous improvement
  • Stress management tips to increase productivity
  • Practical exercise: What are your biggest “timewasters” that block productivity?
  • The customer service mission and vision
  • Setting personal and professional goals
  • Practical exercise: What is your Action Plan?
  • End of course review and delegate feedback

PR & Customer Service

Training Course: Achieving Excellence in Customer Service - Providing a Quality Service


Register Now
Quick Inquiry
Discount Group Download Brochure (36)

RR5008

16 - 20 Mar 2025

Dubai (UAE) -

Cost: 4150 € Euro


  About Dubai

Dubai, located on the Persian Gulf, is one of the seven United Arab Emirates and one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. The discovery of oil in the region has made Dubai extremely wealthy, allowing it to build the glittering skyscrapers that it is now famous for. That wealth is strongly in evidence in Dubai and visitors will see luxurious buildings and supercars aplenty. Perfect beaches and endless shopping opportunities are to key to Dubai's attractions. Flights to Dubai open up the city's cultural attractions to tourists, with beautiful mosques, museums and art galleries scattered throughout this ultra-modern metropolis.


  Things to do and places to visit in Dubai

Dubai's wealth has made it famous for building ever taller buildings and creating artificial islands off its shores. The city's hotels are luxurious and shoppers will love its extensive shopping malls which showcase all the world's top brands. Dubai's attractions don't end there. Dubai also caters to adventure lovers, who can jump in a 4x4 or on a board to speed over dunes outside the city. Local culture mustn't be forgotten either, and visitors have wonderful mosques to visit and old districts to explore. All that combined means that a flight to Dubai is sure to lead to an unforgettable holiday.

When visiting Dubai, be sure to:

  • Go to the observation deck of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world.
  • Admire the intricately beautiful Grand Mosque, which has the tallest minaret in the city.
  • Understand the local history and culture with a visit to the Dubai Museum.
  • Discover objects from the 6th century at Jumeirah Archaeological Site.
  • Go skiing – That's not a joke, the Mall of the Emirates houses a snowdome.
  • Go shopping at the Mall of the Emirates or the Dubai Mall.
  • Explore the desert surrounding the city – either by 4x4 or atop a camel.
  • Eat fantastic seafood at Dubai Marina.
  • Cool off at the Wild Wadi Waterpark.
  • Marvel at gorgeous Arabic calligraphy at Jumeirah Mosque, the biggest in the city.
  • Take a yacht tour around the artificial islands of Palm Jumeirah.
  • Haggle for souvenirs in one of the city's souks.
  • Wander around the traditional building in Bastakiya District.
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