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Explore a Career as a Customer Service Representative

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Explore a career as a customer service representative. In this learning path, you will learn critical skills for succeeding as a customer service representative, including building rapport with customers, managing relationships, handling angry customers, and providing great customer service in person and over the phone. 
  • Build rapport and manage relationships with customers. 
  • De-escalate conversations with angry customers.
  • Identify different customer needs.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: Customer Service Foundations
-Make your customers feel valued. Learn practical techniques for delivering outstanding customer service and increasing customer loyalty.

Course 2: Developing a Service Mindset
-Keep your customers top of mind—even if you're not in a customer-facing role. Learn how to cultivate a service mindset and connect the dots between your job and customer impact.

Course 3: Building Rapport with Customers
-In this course, learn how to effectively build rapport with your customers across channels and in all industry types.

Course 4: De-Escalating Conversations for Customer Service
-Successfully defuse intense situations with angry customers. Learn practical approaches for managing a customer's frustration, as well as your own.

Course 5: Phone-Based Customer Service
-Learn how to identify and address the unique challenges posed by serving customers over the phone.

Taught by

Jeff Toister, Lisa Earle McLeod and Myra Bryant Golden

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