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Synopsis
Customer Service: Building a Department provides users with an overview of creating a Customer Service department and hiring talented customer service people.

Audience
This course is for anyone who wants to learn about creating and maintaining good customer service.

Time
4 hours

Product Code: CUSC04
After completing Customer Service: Building a Department, the user should be able to:

Create a customer service organization
Build teams
Hire the right personalities for customer service
Motivate customer service people
Educate and improve customer service people
Set up a good organizational environment
Equip customer service for international relations

Forming a Customer Service Organization
Seeking the perfect structure
Working with the company's management, geographic, and cultural needs

Building Teams
Encouraging teamwork
Creating self-managed teams
Making cross-functional teams work

Hiring Service Pros
Finding good people
Hiring for personality
Assessing job candidates
Hiring givers

Motivating Service People
Motivating through responsibility
Motivating through recognition
Motivating through reward

Helping the Good Get Better
Enabling great performance
Terminating non-performance

Creating a Productive Environment
Dialing for dollars
Feeling so good; environmental issues

Getting Help to Customer Service
Outsourcing as a resource
Helping with a Help Desk
Sharing information

Good Service for Your Employees
Treating employees as customers
Surveying employees
Acting on poll results
Keeping perspective on internal service

International Customer Service
Understanding our global village
Preparing for worldwide service
Communicating with international customers
Keeping from offending customers abroad

A typical course has the following features:

Exercises that allow users to explore how a course topic applies to their own real-world situations
A file containing the text of the exercises
Simulations that allow users to practice course skills, even if they don't have access to the real application
A course index
A glossary
A Skill Assessment


 

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