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What you will learn - Learn How To Become An Effective Employee Of A Contact Center
  • How to deal with difficult customers
  • Why peer training works
  • Identify the real objection
  • Find points of interest
  • Cultivate a positive attitude
  • Manage internal and external stress
  • Seal the deal
  • Follow up on sales
Get BIG Savings with our Contact Center Training Online Bundle, 5 Certificate Courses
  1. Contact Center Training
  2. Overcoming Sales Objections
  3. Handling a Difficult Customer
  4. Sales Fundamentals
  5. Telephone Etiquette
1. Contact Center Training: Learn How To Become An Effective Employee Of A Contact Center

For many people, the term Contact Center relates to sales calls and telemarketers.  There are so many avenues that a contact center can be of assistance within a company that do not pertain to sales calls.  A contact center can provide customer support, information technology support, and much more.  The key to having a great customer experience using a contact center is in the training.   A well trained contact center can be the difference between gaining more customers and losing customers.  Customers want a well-educated agent when they contact a business.  They want to know that the person answering their questions knows what they are talking about.  Training your staff, and giving them the information that is needed to effectively assist your customer base is paramount.

With our “Contact Center Training” course, you will discover the basic elements of being an effective employee of a contact center. 

By the end of this Contact Center Training Short Course, you will be able to:

  • How to get management involved in training.
  • Why peer training works.
  • That manners are important with a contact center.
  • How to build rapport with the callers.
  • How to deal with difficult customers.
2. Overcoming Sales Objections: Understand Objections and How To Handle Them

Experiencing a sales objection can be a disheartening event. Through this course your will learn how to eliminate the objection and push through to get that sale. Even the best quality services or items can be turned down, and learning how to overcome these denials will be of great benefit.

Overcoming Sales Objections is an essential part of the sales process, as it will open up a whole new set of opportunities. It will produce new sales and provide an ongoing relationship with new clients. Objections will always occur no matter the item being sold or presented.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Understand the factors that contribute to customer objections
  • Define different objections
  • Recognise different strategies to overcome objections
  • Identify the real objection
  • Find points of interest
  • Learn how to deflate objections and close the sale
3. Handling a Difficult Customer: Learn How to Deal with Difficult Customers and Situations

Handling difficult customers may seem like a thankless job. Fortunately, you can develop skills to adapt to the challenges difficult customers pose and extend these skills to handling difficult people and situations throughout your daily life. By improving the focus of your thoughts and feelings, how you manage stress and how well you listen to and empathize with others, you will be better able to meet the challenges other people pose in both your professional and personal life.

This course offers guidelines and examples on how to handle different types of challenging customers that you will face, along with specific approaches that can make those interactions not only less challenging, but more rewarding as well.

By the end of this Handling a Difficult Customer Online Short Course, you will be able to:

  • Cultivate a positive attitude
  • Manage internal and external stress
  • Develop abilities to listen actively and empathize
  • Build a rapport with customers in person and over the phone
  • Understand the diverse challenges posed by customers
  • Develop strategies to adapt to challenging circumstances
4. Sales Fundamentals: Learn Key Skills to Achieve Sales Targets

Although the definition of a sale is simple enough, the process of turning someone into a buyer can be very complex. It requires you to convince someone with a potential interest that there is something for them in making their interest concrete – something that merits spending some of their hard-earned money.

The Sales Fundamentals course will give you a basic sales process, plus some basic sales tools, that you can use to seal the deal, no matter what the size of the sale. You will become more confident, handle objections, and learn how to be a great closer.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Understand the language of sales
  • Prepare for a sales opportunity
  • Begin the discussion on the right foot
  • Make an effective pitch
  • Handle objections
  • Seal the deal
  • Follow up on sales
  • Set sales goals
  • Manage sales data
  • Use a prospect boar
5. Telephone Etiquette: Learn How Important it is to Develop Better Telephone Communication Skills

The meaning of Telephone Etiquette can sometimes be difficult to describe. It can be a unique attribute or characteristic that facilitates great communication, inside and outside the office. It can be the special way that you show confidence in any challenging situation. These and other events can become more easily managed with this great course.

With our Telephone Etiquette course, you will begin to see how important it is to develop better telephone communication skills. By improving how you communicate on the telephone and improve basic communication skills, you will improve on almost every aspect of their career.

By the end of this Telephone Etiquette Online Short Course, you will be able to:

  • Recognize the different aspects of telephone language
  • Properly handle inbound/outbound calls
  • Know how to handle angry or rude callers
  • Learn to receive and send phone messages
  • Know different methods of employee training

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The Contact Center Training 5 Course Bundle includes the following courses, below is a summary of each course: 

Course 1 - Contact Center Training

Module One: Getting Started

Module Two: It Starts at the Top

  • Create an Open Culture 
  • Understand Goals 
  • Understand Agents’ Responsibilities 
  • Identify Education Opportunities

Module Three: Peer Training

  • Top Performing Employees 
  • Discuss Role with Company 
  • Critique Previously Recorded Calls 
  • Cross Training

Module Four: How to Build Rapport

  • Smile in Your Voice 
  • Engage in Small Talk 
  • Listen, Acknowledge, and Empathize 
  • Be Yourself 

Module Five: Learn to Listen

  • Allow Customer to Talk 
  • Avoid Judgment 
  • Take Notes 
  • Recap the Call

Module Six: Manners Matter - Etiquette & Customer Service (I)

  • Scripting 
  • Dead Air 
  • Tone & Inflection 
  • Saying it the Right Way

Module Seven: Manners Matter - Etiquette & Customer Service (II)

  • “Reading” Your Customers 
  • Properly Transferring Calls 
  • Going the Extra Mile 
  • Limit Information

Module Eight: Handling Difficult Customers

  • Keep Calm 
  • Listen, Repeat, and 
  • Avoid Placing Blame 
  • Solve the Problem

Module Nine: Getting the Necessary Information

  • Have a Checklist 
  • Linear Thinking 
  • Open-Ended Questions 
  • Close-Ended Questions

Module Ten: Performance Evaluations

  • Consistent Service 
  • Abandoned Calls 
  • Speed of the Answer 
  • Length of Call

Module Eleven: Training Doesn’t Stop

  • Evaluate Progress 
  • Get Feedback on Training 
  • Kudos to Deserving Employees 
  • Have Monthly Meetings

Module Twelve: Wrapping Up

Course 2 - Overcoming Sales Objections

Module One - Getting Started

Module Two - Three Main Factors

  • Skepticism
  • Misunderstanding
  • Stalling

Module Three - Seeing Objections as Opportunities

  • Translating the objection to a question
  • Translating the objection to a reason to buy

Module Four - Getting to the Bottom

  • Asking appropriate questions
  • Common objections
  • Basic strategies

Module Five - Finding a Point of Agreement

  • Outlining features and benefits
  • Identifying your unique selling position
  • Agreeing with the objection to make the sale

Module Six - Have the Client Answer Their Own Objection

  • Understand the problem
  • Render it inobjectionable

Module Seven - Deflating Objections

  • Bring up common objections first
  • The inner workings of objections

Module Eight - Unvoiced Objections

  • How to dig up the "Real Reason"
  • Bringing their objections to light

Module Nine - The Five Steps

  • Expect them
  • Welcome them
  • Affirm them
  • Complete answers
  • Compensating benefits

Module Ten - Do's and Don'ts

  • Do's
  • Don'ts

Module Eleven - Sealing the Deal

  • Understanding when it's time to close
  • Powerful closing techniques
  • The power of reassurance
  • Things to remember

Module Twelve - Wrapping Up

Course 3 - Handling a Difficult Customer

Module One: Getting Started

Module Two: The Right Attitude Starts with You

  • Be Grateful
  • Make Gratitude a Habit
  • Keep Your Body Healthy
  • Invoke Inner Peace

Module Three: Stress Management (Internal Stressors)

  • Irritability
  • Unhappiness With Your Job
  • Feeling Underappreciated
  • Not Well Rested

Module Four: Stress Management (External Stressors) 

  • Manage Your Work Space
  • Loud Work Environment
  • Co-Worker Relations
  • Demanding Supervisor

Module Five: Transactional Analysis 

  • What is Transactional Analysis
  • Parent
  • Child
  • Adult

Module Six: Why are Some Customers Difficult 

  • They Have Truly Had a Bad Experience and Want to Vent
  • Want Someone to be Held Accountable
  • They Have Truly Had a Bad Experience and Want Resolution
  • They are Generally Unhappy

Module Seven: Dealing with the Customer Over the Phone 

  • Listen to the Customer’s Complaint
  • Build Rapport
  • Do Not Respond with Negative Words or Emotion
  • Offer a Verbal Solution to Your Customer

Module Eight: Dealing with the Customer In Person 

  • Listen to the Customer’s Concerns
  • Build Rapport
  • Respond with Positive Words and Body Language
  • Aside from Words

Module Nine: Sensitivity in Dealing with Customers 

  • Customers who are Angry
  • Customers who are Rude
  • Customers with Different Cultural Values
  • Customers who Cannot be Satisfied

Module Ten: Scenarios of Dealing with a Difficult Customer 

  • Angry Customer
  • Rude Customer
  • A Customer from Another Culture
  • An Impossible to Please Customer

Module Eleven: Following up With a Customer Once You Have Addressed Their Issue

  • Call the Customer
  • Send the Customer an Email
  • Mail the Customer a Small Token
  • Snail-Mail a Handwritten or Typed Letter

Module Twelve: Wrapping Up

Course 4 - Sales Fundamentals

Section One: Getting Started

  • Objectives

Section Two: Learn the Lingo

  • Types of Sales
  • More Common Sales Approaches
  • Glossary of Common Terms

Section Three: Preparing to Make the Call

  • Identifying the Right Person to Contact
  • Research and Planning
  • Creating Potential Solutions

Section Four: Make the Appointment

  • First Impressions
  • Making the Cold Call
  • Using the Referral Opening

Section Five: Pitch your Product

  • Features and Benefits
  • Outlining Your Unique Selling Position
  • What’s in it for me?

Section Six: Managing Objections

  • Common Types of Objections
  • Basic Strategies
  • Advanced Strategies

Section Seven: Closing the Sale

  • Understanding Buying Signals
  • Closing Techniques
  • Things to Remember

Section Eight: Following Up

  • Thank You Notes
  • Customer Service Issues
  • Staying in Touch

Section Nine: Setting Goals

  • The Importance of Sales Goals
  • Setting SMART Goals

Section Ten: Managing Your Data (CRM)

  • Choosing a System That Works for You
  • Using Computerized Systems
  • Using Manual Systems

Section Eleven: Using a Prospect Board

  • The Layout of a Prospect Board
  • How to use the prospect board
  • A Day in the Life of Your Board

Section Twelve: Wrapping Up

Course 5 - Telephone Etiquette

Module One : Getting Started

  • Course Objectives

Module Two : Aspects of Phone Etiquette

  • Phrasing
  • Tone of Voice
  • Speaking Clearly
  • Listen to the Caller

Module Three : Using Proper Phone Language

  • Please and Thank You
  • Do Not Use Slang
  • Avoid Using the Term “You”
  • Emphasize What You Can Do, Not What You Can’t

Module Four : Eliminate Phone Distractions

  • Avoid Eating or Drinking
  • Minimize Multi-Tasking
  • Remove Office Distractions
  • Do Not Let Others Interrupt You

Module Five: Inbound Calls

  • Avoid Long Greeting Messages
  • Introduce Yourself
  • Focus on Their Needs
  • Be Patient

Module Six: Outbound Calls

  • Be Prepared
  • Identify Yourself and Your Company
  • Give Them the Reason for the Call
  • Keep Caller Information Private

Module Seven: Handling Rude or Angry Callers

  • Stay Calm
  • Listen to Their Needs
  • Never Interrupt
  • Identify What You Can Do for Them

Module Eight: Handling Interoffice Calls

  • Transferring Calls
  • Placing Callers on Hold
  • Taking Messages
  • End the Conversation

Module Nine: Handling Voicemail Messages

  • Ensure the Voicemail Has a Proper Greeting
  • Answer Important Messages Right Away
  • Ensure Messages are Delivered to the Right Person
  • When Leaving a Message for Others

Module Ten: Methods of Training Employees

  • Group Training
  • One-on-One Training
  • Peer Training
  • Job Shadowing

Module Eleven: Correcting Poor Telephone Etiquette

  • Screening Calls
  • Employee Evaluations
  • Peer Monitoring
  • Customer Surveys

Module Twelve: Wrapping Up

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Students must have basic literacy and numeracy skills.

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Open entry. Previous schooling and academic achievements are not required for entry into this course.

Computer requirements

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Microsoft Windows XP, or laterModern and up to date Browser (Internet Explorer 8 or later, Firefox, Chrome, Safari)

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OSX/iOS 6 or laterModern and up to date Browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari)

All systems

Internet bandwidth of 1Mb or fasterFlash player or a browser with HTML5 video capabilities(Currently Internet Explorer 9, Firefox, Chrome, Safari)

Students will also need access the following applications:

Adobe Acrobat Reader

Requirements

Entry requirements:

Students must have basic literacy and numeracy skills.


Minimum education:

Open entry. Previous schooling and academic achievements are not required for entry into this course.


Device requirements:

Students will need access to a computer/any device and the internet.

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  • Delivery: Online
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  • Duration: 6 to 8 hours per course
  • Assessments: Yes
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About This Course
What you will learn - Learn How To Become An Effective Employee Of A Contact Center
  • How to deal with difficult customers
  • Why peer training works
  • Identify the real objection
  • Find points of interest
  • Cultivate a positive attitude
  • Manage internal and external stress
  • Seal the deal
  • Follow up on sales
Get BIG Savings with our Contact Center Training Online Bundle, 5 Certificate Courses
  1. Contact Center Training
  2. Overcoming Sales Objections
  3. Handling a Difficult Customer
  4. Sales Fundamentals
  5. Telephone Etiquette
1. Contact Center Training: Learn How To Become An Effective Employee Of A Contact Center

For many people, the term Contact Center relates to sales calls and telemarketers.  There are so many avenues that a contact center can be of assistance within a company that do not pertain to sales calls.  A contact center can provide customer support, information technology support, and much more.  The key to having a great customer experience using a contact center is in the training.   A well trained contact center can be the difference between gaining more customers and losing customers.  Customers want a well-educated agent when they contact a business.  They want to know that the person answering their questions knows what they are talking about.  Training your staff, and giving them the information that is needed to effectively assist your customer base is paramount.

With our “Contact Center Training” course, you will discover the basic elements of being an effective employee of a contact center. 

By the end of this Contact Center Training Short Course, you will be able to:

  • How to get management involved in training.
  • Why peer training works.
  • That manners are important with a contact center.
  • How to build rapport with the callers.
  • How to deal with difficult customers.
2. Overcoming Sales Objections: Understand Objections and How To Handle Them

Experiencing a sales objection can be a disheartening event. Through this course your will learn how to eliminate the objection and push through to get that sale. Even the best quality services or items can be turned down, and learning how to overcome these denials will be of great benefit.

Overcoming Sales Objections is an essential part of the sales process, as it will open up a whole new set of opportunities. It will produce new sales and provide an ongoing relationship with new clients. Objections will always occur no matter the item being sold or presented.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Understand the factors that contribute to customer objections
  • Define different objections
  • Recognise different strategies to overcome objections
  • Identify the real objection
  • Find points of interest
  • Learn how to deflate objections and close the sale
3. Handling a Difficult Customer: Learn How to Deal with Difficult Customers and Situations

Handling difficult customers may seem like a thankless job. Fortunately, you can develop skills to adapt to the challenges difficult customers pose and extend these skills to handling difficult people and situations throughout your daily life. By improving the focus of your thoughts and feelings, how you manage stress and how well you listen to and empathize with others, you will be better able to meet the challenges other people pose in both your professional and personal life.

This course offers guidelines and examples on how to handle different types of challenging customers that you will face, along with specific approaches that can make those interactions not only less challenging, but more rewarding as well.

By the end of this Handling a Difficult Customer Online Short Course, you will be able to:

  • Cultivate a positive attitude
  • Manage internal and external stress
  • Develop abilities to listen actively and empathize
  • Build a rapport with customers in person and over the phone
  • Understand the diverse challenges posed by customers
  • Develop strategies to adapt to challenging circumstances
4. Sales Fundamentals: Learn Key Skills to Achieve Sales Targets

Although the definition of a sale is simple enough, the process of turning someone into a buyer can be very complex. It requires you to convince someone with a potential interest that there is something for them in making their interest concrete – something that merits spending some of their hard-earned money.

The Sales Fundamentals course will give you a basic sales process, plus some basic sales tools, that you can use to seal the deal, no matter what the size of the sale. You will become more confident, handle objections, and learn how to be a great closer.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Understand the language of sales
  • Prepare for a sales opportunity
  • Begin the discussion on the right foot
  • Make an effective pitch
  • Handle objections
  • Seal the deal
  • Follow up on sales
  • Set sales goals
  • Manage sales data
  • Use a prospect boar
5. Telephone Etiquette: Learn How Important it is to Develop Better Telephone Communication Skills

The meaning of Telephone Etiquette can sometimes be difficult to describe. It can be a unique attribute or characteristic that facilitates great communication, inside and outside the office. It can be the special way that you show confidence in any challenging situation. These and other events can become more easily managed with this great course.

With our Telephone Etiquette course, you will begin to see how important it is to develop better telephone communication skills. By improving how you communicate on the telephone and improve basic communication skills, you will improve on almost every aspect of their career.

By the end of this Telephone Etiquette Online Short Course, you will be able to:

  • Recognize the different aspects of telephone language
  • Properly handle inbound/outbound calls
  • Know how to handle angry or rude callers
  • Learn to receive and send phone messages
  • Know different methods of employee training

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The Contact Center Training 5 Course Bundle includes the following courses, below is a summary of each course: 

Course 1 - Contact Center Training

Module One: Getting Started

Module Two: It Starts at the Top

  • Create an Open Culture 
  • Understand Goals 
  • Understand Agents’ Responsibilities 
  • Identify Education Opportunities

Module Three: Peer Training

  • Top Performing Employees 
  • Discuss Role with Company 
  • Critique Previously Recorded Calls 
  • Cross Training

Module Four: How to Build Rapport

  • Smile in Your Voice 
  • Engage in Small Talk 
  • Listen, Acknowledge, and Empathize 
  • Be Yourself 

Module Five: Learn to Listen

  • Allow Customer to Talk 
  • Avoid Judgment 
  • Take Notes 
  • Recap the Call

Module Six: Manners Matter - Etiquette & Customer Service (I)

  • Scripting 
  • Dead Air 
  • Tone & Inflection 
  • Saying it the Right Way

Module Seven: Manners Matter - Etiquette & Customer Service (II)

  • “Reading” Your Customers 
  • Properly Transferring Calls 
  • Going the Extra Mile 
  • Limit Information

Module Eight: Handling Difficult Customers

  • Keep Calm 
  • Listen, Repeat, and 
  • Avoid Placing Blame 
  • Solve the Problem

Module Nine: Getting the Necessary Information

  • Have a Checklist 
  • Linear Thinking 
  • Open-Ended Questions 
  • Close-Ended Questions

Module Ten: Performance Evaluations

  • Consistent Service 
  • Abandoned Calls 
  • Speed of the Answer 
  • Length of Call

Module Eleven: Training Doesn’t Stop

  • Evaluate Progress 
  • Get Feedback on Training 
  • Kudos to Deserving Employees 
  • Have Monthly Meetings

Module Twelve: Wrapping Up

Course 2 - Overcoming Sales Objections

Module One - Getting Started

Module Two - Three Main Factors

  • Skepticism
  • Misunderstanding
  • Stalling

Module Three - Seeing Objections as Opportunities

  • Translating the objection to a question
  • Translating the objection to a reason to buy

Module Four - Getting to the Bottom

  • Asking appropriate questions
  • Common objections
  • Basic strategies

Module Five - Finding a Point of Agreement

  • Outlining features and benefits
  • Identifying your unique selling position
  • Agreeing with the objection to make the sale

Module Six - Have the Client Answer Their Own Objection

  • Understand the problem
  • Render it inobjectionable

Module Seven - Deflating Objections

  • Bring up common objections first
  • The inner workings of objections

Module Eight - Unvoiced Objections

  • How to dig up the "Real Reason"
  • Bringing their objections to light

Module Nine - The Five Steps

  • Expect them
  • Welcome them
  • Affirm them
  • Complete answers
  • Compensating benefits

Module Ten - Do's and Don'ts

  • Do's
  • Don'ts

Module Eleven - Sealing the Deal

  • Understanding when it's time to close
  • Powerful closing techniques
  • The power of reassurance
  • Things to remember

Module Twelve - Wrapping Up

Course 3 - Handling a Difficult Customer

Module One: Getting Started

Module Two: The Right Attitude Starts with You

  • Be Grateful
  • Make Gratitude a Habit
  • Keep Your Body Healthy
  • Invoke Inner Peace

Module Three: Stress Management (Internal Stressors)

  • Irritability
  • Unhappiness With Your Job
  • Feeling Underappreciated
  • Not Well Rested

Module Four: Stress Management (External Stressors) 

  • Manage Your Work Space
  • Loud Work Environment
  • Co-Worker Relations
  • Demanding Supervisor

Module Five: Transactional Analysis 

  • What is Transactional Analysis
  • Parent
  • Child
  • Adult

Module Six: Why are Some Customers Difficult 

  • They Have Truly Had a Bad Experience and Want to Vent
  • Want Someone to be Held Accountable
  • They Have Truly Had a Bad Experience and Want Resolution
  • They are Generally Unhappy

Module Seven: Dealing with the Customer Over the Phone 

  • Listen to the Customer’s Complaint
  • Build Rapport
  • Do Not Respond with Negative Words or Emotion
  • Offer a Verbal Solution to Your Customer

Module Eight: Dealing with the Customer In Person 

  • Listen to the Customer’s Concerns
  • Build Rapport
  • Respond with Positive Words and Body Language
  • Aside from Words

Module Nine: Sensitivity in Dealing with Customers 

  • Customers who are Angry
  • Customers who are Rude
  • Customers with Different Cultural Values
  • Customers who Cannot be Satisfied

Module Ten: Scenarios of Dealing with a Difficult Customer 

  • Angry Customer
  • Rude Customer
  • A Customer from Another Culture
  • An Impossible to Please Customer

Module Eleven: Following up With a Customer Once You Have Addressed Their Issue

  • Call the Customer
  • Send the Customer an Email
  • Mail the Customer a Small Token
  • Snail-Mail a Handwritten or Typed Letter

Module Twelve: Wrapping Up

Course 4 - Sales Fundamentals

Section One: Getting Started

  • Objectives

Section Two: Learn the Lingo

  • Types of Sales
  • More Common Sales Approaches
  • Glossary of Common Terms

Section Three: Preparing to Make the Call

  • Identifying the Right Person to Contact
  • Research and Planning
  • Creating Potential Solutions

Section Four: Make the Appointment

  • First Impressions
  • Making the Cold Call
  • Using the Referral Opening

Section Five: Pitch your Product

  • Features and Benefits
  • Outlining Your Unique Selling Position
  • What’s in it for me?

Section Six: Managing Objections

  • Common Types of Objections
  • Basic Strategies
  • Advanced Strategies

Section Seven: Closing the Sale

  • Understanding Buying Signals
  • Closing Techniques
  • Things to Remember

Section Eight: Following Up

  • Thank You Notes
  • Customer Service Issues
  • Staying in Touch

Section Nine: Setting Goals

  • The Importance of Sales Goals
  • Setting SMART Goals

Section Ten: Managing Your Data (CRM)

  • Choosing a System That Works for You
  • Using Computerized Systems
  • Using Manual Systems

Section Eleven: Using a Prospect Board

  • The Layout of a Prospect Board
  • How to use the prospect board
  • A Day in the Life of Your Board

Section Twelve: Wrapping Up

Course 5 - Telephone Etiquette

Module One : Getting Started

  • Course Objectives

Module Two : Aspects of Phone Etiquette

  • Phrasing
  • Tone of Voice
  • Speaking Clearly
  • Listen to the Caller

Module Three : Using Proper Phone Language

  • Please and Thank You
  • Do Not Use Slang
  • Avoid Using the Term “You”
  • Emphasize What You Can Do, Not What You Can’t

Module Four : Eliminate Phone Distractions

  • Avoid Eating or Drinking
  • Minimize Multi-Tasking
  • Remove Office Distractions
  • Do Not Let Others Interrupt You

Module Five: Inbound Calls

  • Avoid Long Greeting Messages
  • Introduce Yourself
  • Focus on Their Needs
  • Be Patient

Module Six: Outbound Calls

  • Be Prepared
  • Identify Yourself and Your Company
  • Give Them the Reason for the Call
  • Keep Caller Information Private

Module Seven: Handling Rude or Angry Callers

  • Stay Calm
  • Listen to Their Needs
  • Never Interrupt
  • Identify What You Can Do for Them

Module Eight: Handling Interoffice Calls

  • Transferring Calls
  • Placing Callers on Hold
  • Taking Messages
  • End the Conversation

Module Nine: Handling Voicemail Messages

  • Ensure the Voicemail Has a Proper Greeting
  • Answer Important Messages Right Away
  • Ensure Messages are Delivered to the Right Person
  • When Leaving a Message for Others

Module Ten: Methods of Training Employees

  • Group Training
  • One-on-One Training
  • Peer Training
  • Job Shadowing

Module Eleven: Correcting Poor Telephone Etiquette

  • Screening Calls
  • Employee Evaluations
  • Peer Monitoring
  • Customer Surveys

Module Twelve: Wrapping Up

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Entry requirements

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Students will also need access the following applications:

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Requirements

Entry requirements:

Students must have basic literacy and numeracy skills.


Minimum education:

Open entry. Previous schooling and academic achievements are not required for entry into this course.


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Students will need access to a computer/any device and the internet.

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