Customer Service over the Phone

Overview/Description
Can you hear a smile over the phone? When you're providing customer service over the phone – without the benefits of face-to-face interaction with your customer – it can be challenging to establish the right relationship for excellent service. Just like for face-to-face customer service, there are many techniques for service over the phone that can help you to consistently deliver the best customer service. This course covers the basic rules for answering a customer call including greeting the customer and offering your assistance. It includes information on how to make a good impression by listening and using questions to probe for more information, using your tone, and being able to empathize and be sincere with the customer. This course also describes ways of reflecting or adapting to your customer's style. In the end, customer service should focus on how to better serve and benefit the customer. Materials designed to support blended learning activities aligned with this course are available from the Resources Page.

Target Audience
All levels of individuals that want to develop or refresh their customer service skills

Expected Duration (hours)
1.0

Lesson Objectives

Customer Service over the Phone

identify basic telephone etiquette rules

match strategies for providing outstanding telephone customer service with examples

provide excellent telephone customer service in a scenario