Continuing Education Course Outlines

Advantagepoint.com Effective 21st Century Customer Service

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session you will know:

  • How to deal with customers who are wrong—the "customers from Hell"
  • How to empower your employees to make decisions
  • How to deal with customer’s complaints
  • How to give effective feedback
  • How to deliver customer service by e-mail

Workshop Overview

If you had only one rule for your business, your family, your school, or society, what would it be? Nordstrom has only one rule:

The Nordstrom handbook begins with . . .

Welcome to Nordstrom. We’re glad to have you with our company.Our number one goal is to provide outstanding customer service.

Rule #1: Use your good judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules.

This one rule, "Use good judgment," is the key to leadership, parenting, management, and life. As a leader, the best thing I can do is to give the tools that enable and empower people to use good judgment.

In our customer service workshops, we focus on how to practice good judgment when . . .

  • Dealing with challenging customers
  • Putting a customer on "hold"
  • Transferring a customer who has already been transferred three times
  • Delivering bad news
  • Working with a customer who is wrong
  • Taking the time to listen when you are under the gun to increase production
  • Sending an important message by e-mail, fax, or voice mail
  • Confronting an internal customer who is not using good judgment

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