The College of Call Center Excellence
On-Site Agent Training Course Curriculum 2 Day
Introduction To Call Center Soft Skills:
Day 1
- Expectations
- What is a Call Center?
- Why Do They Call?
- Caller Satisfaction
- Why Do Customers Leave?
- What The Customer Values!
- Customer Service Professionalism
- What Drives Our Actions?
- Customer Service Overview
- Customer Expects
- How Important is Tone
- How Meaning is Communicated
- Voice Quality
- Barriers to Listening
- Communication Skills
- Proper Phone Techniques
- Create a Positive Telephone Image
- Call Closing
- Negative Phrases
- Positive Phrases
- Questions Types
- Call Quality
- Two-Way Communication
- Barriers to Effective Communication
- Techniques for Effective Listening
- Putting Caller on Hold
- Transferring the Caller
- Closing Tie Downs
- Professional Phrases
- Handling Talkative Callers
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Complaint Handling
Day 2
Complaint Handling Basics
- The cause of customer complaints
- The benefits of handling complaints effectively
- The learning value of complaints
- Complaining customers can get angry
- Summary and suggestions
Active Listening
- The importance of listening
- Passive versus active listening
- Steps in active listening
- Words to encourage the other person to do most of the talking
Anger Diffusion
- Treating anger as an emotional state
- Recognizing anger
- Diffusing other people’s anger
- How to apologize without admitting guilt
- Transition from anger to diffusion
Objection Handling
- Prerequisites to handling objections
- Recognizing and objection
- Handling objections
- Moving to safer grounds
- Summary and suggestions
Mediation
- Prerequisites to mediation
- Recognizing the parties
- Define your role as a third-part solution broker
- Mediation steps
- Mediation results
- Summary and suggestions
Negotiations
- Prerequisites to negotiations
- Steps in negotiating
- Understanding bargaining chips
- Negotiation styles
- Negotiation results
- Summary and results