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 |
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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 |
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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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