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Customer Service Skill Builders Modules Include:
Delivering Customer Focused Service Completing the Customer Agreement Dealing with Difficult Customer Situations Initiating the Outbound Call Making Customer Recommendations
Negotiating About Money       The Incoming Sales or Service Call

Delivering Customer Focused Service     02PDVM16     $99
An interactive online skill builder for customer service professionals, Delivering Customer Focused Service, gives you a chance to analyze the skills and strategies you use every day in your job, to identify the techniques that you do very well, and to develop ways for you to do your job better. During this training, you will learn guidelines for delivering customer focused serve including understanding your role as a professional, the essential skills of communication-listening, questioning, verifying, explaining, and a four-step customer service model.

Course Length: Internet/Intranet-1.5 hours
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Course Description
During this training, you will learn guidelines for delivering customer focused service including understanding your role as a professional; the essential skills of communication --listening, questioning, verifying, explaining; and a four-step customer service model.

Course Objectives
Upon completing this customer service skill builder, you will be able to:

  • Describe the importance of professionalism to a customer service professional.
  • List characteristics associated with professionalism that you can exhibit on the job.
  • Identify the professional characteristics you already exhibit on a regular basis, and the professional characteristics you need to develop or improve.
  • List action items that if achieved will improve your professionalism.
  • Describe the importance of each of the essential communication skills (listening,
  • questioning, verifying, and explaining) in customer service situations.
  • List and describe the techniques involved in correct use of each of the essential communication skills.
  • Perform the four steps of the customer service process, including proper use of the essential communication skills.
  • List the four steps of the customer service process.
  • Describe what happens at each of the steps in the customer service process.
  • Describe the use of the essential communication skills in each of the four steps of the customer service process.

Contact Information
For more information or to register contact Bismarck State College's Southwest Workforce Training program at (701) 483-2139 or email Cheryl.Templeton@bsc.nodak.edu

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Completing the Customer Agreement     02PDVM17     $99
From the moment a telesales person obtains the customer's "permission to ask questions", they've been building a chain of agreement with the customer. Now, it's time to turn that agreement into action. By the end of the recommendation process, both the telesales person and the customer have agreed that the products or services proposed will provide customer benefits by helping achieve those objectives. In this course, you will learn to obtain customer agreement to the purchase.

Course Length: Internet/Intranet-1.5 hours
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Course Description
Welcome to Completing the Customer Agreement. This course follows an interactive design geared toward increasing your skills in effectively completing the customer agreement.

Course Objectives
When you have completed this module, you will be able to move confidently and efficiently from the recommendation stage of the selling conversation to "close" the sale with a clear customer agreement.

Contact Information
For more information or to register contact Bismarck State College's Southwest Workforce Training program at (701) 483-2139 or email Cheryl.Templeton@bsc.nodak.edu

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Dealing with Difficult Customer Situations     02PDVM18     $99
Dealing with Difficult Customer Situations is an interactive online skill builder for customer service professionals to provide you with techniques for dealing with difficult customer situations. Your role as a customer service professional offers many rewards and satisfactions. But there are many frustrations inherent in the job. During this training, you will learn general guidelines for dealing with difficult customer situations, two techniques for dealing with customers in such situations: calming and focusing, and then practicing what you have learned.

Course Length: Internet/Intranet-1.5 hours
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Course Description
During this training, you will learn general guidelines for dealing with difficult customer situations, two techniques for dealing with customers in such situations: calming and focusing, and practicing what you have learned.

Course Objectives
Upon completing this training, you will be able to:

  • Demonstrate the calming and focusing techniques in a difficult customer service transaction.
  • Identify at least four clues that indicate the existence of a difficult customer situation.
  • Give two reasons why the use of calming and focusing skills is important in dealing with difficult customer situations.
  • Describe the calming technique for dealing with upset customers.
  • Describe the focusing technique for dealing with upset customers.

Contact Information
For more information or to register contact Bismarck State College's Southwest Workforce Training program at (701) 483-2139 or email Cheryl.Templeton@bsc.nodak.edu

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Initiating the Outbound Call     02PDVM19     $99
The relationship established in the first few seconds of the outbound telephone call will dictate the chances of success. But today it's getting both harder and more important to move quickly to establish a positive relationship with the customer. In this course, participants will learn how to persuade the person they're calling to spend a few minutes talking to them, so that they increase their chances of finding ways in which your organization's products or services will benefit the customer.

Course Length: Internet/Intranet-1.5 hours
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Course Description
Welcome to Initiating an Outbound Call, an interactive skill builder designed to increase your effectiveness in handling outbound calls. This course is interactive and assumes our commitment to learning how to do your job more effectively.

Course Objectives
When you have completed this module, you will know how to establish a positive relationship with the customers you have called, and you will be able to obtain customer agreement to have a conversation (including customer "permission" to ask questions).

Contact Information
For more information or to register contact Bismarck State College's Southwest Workforce Training program at (701) 483-2139 or email Cheryl.Templeton@bsc.nodak.edu

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Making Customer Recommendations     02PDVM20     $99
The recommendation begins where the discovery leaves off, with a clear consensus about the customer objectives. Their not selling products and services, their selling "solutions" that can help the customer reach his or her objectives. In this course, participants will learn the 4-step recommendation process, which is an essential part of your customer interactions.

Course Length: Internet/Intranet-1.5 hours
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Course Description
Welcome to Making Customer Recommendations, an interactive skill builder designed to increase your effectiveness in making recommendations. This course is interactive and assumes your commitment to learning how to do your job more effectively.

Course Objectives
When you have completed this module, you will be able to make clear recommendations to your customers based on the "clues" you identified during the discovery process, the agreement you and the customer have reached, and the objectives you aim to meet through the selling interaction.

Contact Information
For more information or to register contact Bismarck State College's Southwest Workforce Training program at (701) 483-2139 or email Cheryl.Templeton@bsc.nodak.edu

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Negotiating About Money     02PDVM21     $99
Many telesales people will find negotiating about money to be the most difficult part of the entire selling process. There are a lot of reasons for that. But the reality is that customers expect to pay for the products or services they purchase. Their challenge and businesslike manner. In this course, participants will learn the foundations for selling interactions in which money does not become a bone of contention. They will learn the important steps in the selling as a service process.

Course Length: Internet/Intranet-1.5 hours
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Course Description
Welcome to Negotiating About Money. This course follows an interactive design that focuses on value rather than cost and is geared toward increasing your skills in negotiating prices.

Course Objectives
When you have completed this module, you will be able to negotiate about prices in a way that focuses on value rather than cost and that demonstrates both sensitivity to customer concerns and the honesty of your organization.

Contact Information
For more information or to register contact Bismarck State College's Southwest Workforce Training program at (701) 483-2139 or email Cheryl.Templeton@bsc.nodak.edu

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The Incoming Sales or Service Call     02PDVM22     $99
The relationship telesales people establish in the first few seconds of the customer's call will dictate they're chances of success. The first words out of a telesales person's mouth are the most important part of the whole customer interaction. In this course, participants will learn what they can do to help make sure the conversation, and relationship with the customer get off to a positive start. They will also learn how they can make the transition from taking an order or providing a service, to a sales conversation.

Course Length: Internet/Intranet-1.5 hours
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Course Description
Welcome to the Incoming Sales Call, an interactive skill builder designed to increase your effectiveness in handling incoming sales calls. This course is interactive and assumes your commitment to learning how to do your job more effectively.

Course Objectives
At the conclusion of this module, you will understand how to use effective listening skills, you will be able to demonstrate the ability to identify opportunities to provide customers with additional products and services, and you will be able to make the transition from a "service" to a "selling" conversation with the customer.

Contact Information
For more information or to register contact Bismarck State College's Southwest Workforce Training program at (701) 483-2139 or email Cheryl.Templeton@bsc.nodak.edu

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