Some years back, Nancy Friedman phoned her insurance agent and told him, “Cancel all my policies!” She was upset after experiencing repeated episodes of poor service from the agency’s staff. Normally, the story would have ended there. Instead, this insurance agent invited Nancy to teach his staff how to improve their telephone skills. Combining the service techniques pioneered at an earlier start-up business with the presentation skills acquired from a background in professional theatre, Nancy’s phone skills and customer service training program proved to be extremely popular. The word soon spread. After a series of Fortune 500 corporations repeatedly hired her to conduct training sessions, a company was formed to market these skills and techniques. Using a trademarked presentation style known as EnterTraining®, Nancy began delivering workshops to corporations and associations across North America. Soon after a local TV producer helped create a short training video featuring these techniques. This video was the genesis of The Complete DVD Training Library and eventually led to the production of over 500 video-based, instructor-led and eLearning training courses.
About Telephone Doctor®
Customer Service Training
Background
A Trusted Training Brand
Today, ServiceSkills and Telephone Doctor® are both respected brands in the corporate learning space. We’ve helped over 30,000 organizations improve the Customer Satisfaction Scores (CSat) of their Customer Service Reps, Help Desk Staff, Call Center Agents, Tech Support Staff and other team members.
Give your team the tools to master these communication concepts:
- 4 steps to handle & defuse angry, upset and irate customers
- Recognize & capture cross-selling opportunities
- How to compose an effective customer service email
- Business communication for phone, email, face-to-face & chat
- How the power of attitude helps resolve challenging situations
- Essential office etiquette & workplace manners strategies
- Effectively managing differences between the generations
- Replacing Five Forbidden Phrases® w/ Positive Alternatives
- Best practices for email subject lines and address fields
- Handling ethical dilemmas the moment they appear
- The six cardinal rules of customer retention and loyalty
- The importance of delivering Business Friendly℠ service
- How to respect & communicate effectively with co-workers
- Contrasts between passive, average & proactive service
- 6 ways to improve listening skills and deliver better service
- The personal philosophies of six service superstars
- How service after the sale builds customers for life
- When to use open-ended, closed-ended, probing & echo questions
- Deploying the Power of You during interviews & appraisals
- Why bringing an ‘observable level of enthusiasm’ is so important
- The distinction between features and benefits
- To be truly sensitive and empathetic to customer needs
- Management skills to better lead, coach and mentor others
- How to conduct more effective & engaging meetings
- Avoiding weak, wimpy words in business communication
- The relationship between internal & external customer service
- plus hundreds more skills, strategies & techniques!