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MKG-121 Building a Customer Focus – Contact Center Strategies & Management

Description

*This course is also available as a live distance learning course*

A 5-day training course to equip participants with the knowledge, methodologies and strategies to build customer focus in contact centers and to manage contact center activities.

Objectives

  • Understand the concepts which are essential to providing customer service which is customer focused
  • Show how to use contact center technology and management tools to set service levels/metrics and analyze reports so as to ensure a customer focus
  • Practice essential skills required to deal effectively with customers
  • Analyze and be able to apply key strategies and tactics for managing human resources within a contact center
  • Show the link between quality of service and customer satisfaction
  • Identify the customer service information requirements of executives

Topics

Customer service with a customer focus

  • Definition
  • Importance
  • Cost of acquiring new customers
  • Benefits of effective customer service
  • Creating a customer care culture
  • Sales negotiation
  • Going the extra mile
  • Ten golden rules of customer care

Customer service management

    • Setting service levels
    • Achieving service levels
    • Analyzing reports

    Contact center technology

      • Service and information technology
      • Call load and staffing
      • Call-handling strategies and tools
      • Employee monitoring tools

      Contact center management

        • Effective tools, methods, and techniques
        • Queuing concepts and managing a queue
        • Process management principles
        • Strategic vs. tactical decision-making
        • Metrics required for running a contact center at optimal performance
        • Benchmarking and best practices

        Customer management

          • Understanding customer requirements
          • Creating a customer vision
          • Dealing effectively with customers
          • Customer retention: Practical customer skills
          • Effective listening and questioning techniques
          • Handling irate and confused customers

          Customer satisfaction and quality of service in a competitive environment

            • Customer satisfaction
            • Quality of service
            • Quality assurance
            • Service Level Agreement (SLA)

            Human resources in contact centers

              • Recruitment of the right employees
              • Psychometric evaluation tools
              • Communication with employees
              • Training W5 (Who, What, When, Where, Why)
              • Employee motivation
              • Stress management
              • Employee performance evaluation
              • Turnover reduction

              Communicating customer service information to executives

                • Information requirement of executives
                • Parameters and benchmarks
                • Communication with executives

                Target audience

                • Customer service and contact center senior managers and executives and seeking to acquire knowledge on how to successfully build a customer focus and manage contact center operations
                • Managers looking to complement their skill-set by gaining a good understanding of customer service and contact center management

                Methodology

                A combination of engaging activities and dynamic presentations to stimulate and maximize participants' learning.

                Methodology

                Location

                A selection of Neotelis' training courses is held in various cities around the world. Please contact us at training@neotelis.com for the complete Yearly Training Calendar.

                Locations




                Neotelis can also deliver in-house sessions of this course specifically for your organization. Please contact us at training@neotelis.com for more information and a Proposal.



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