Training Best Practices

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The 7 Critical Telephone Customer Service Skills

In order to ensure that your call center customer service training has a real impact on your CSRs and truly delivers a return on your training investment, the first step is to decide which specific skills you need to emphasize in your training effort. Many call centers make the mistake […]

Telephone Skills Training Programs

The Phone Skills Trainer® is a suite of telephone skills training resources designed to create the best possible customer experience over the telephone. Our time-tested customer service and telephone skills training resources have proven results. Your satisfaction is guaranteed, and we are confident that these training tools can help your […]

Phone Skills Training Delivery Options

Our certified Master Facilitators can deliver high-impact training onsite for your organization, focused on experiential exercises and new skill development. But for many organizations, setting aside the time (from a half day to 2 full days) can create scheduling challenges and can also be cost prohibitive. Our e-learning and DvD […]

Communicating Under Stress

Asking better questions can allow us to start thinking about the unknown, because questions focus our attention, and provide a theme for continued exploration. Effective interpersonal communication has never been more important, given the fast pace and intensified competitiveness of the modern work world. The paradox is that those same […]

How to Implement the Phone Skills Trainer Program

As you consider implementation of a Phone Skills Trainer program, it is important to keep in mind that this program is NOT designed to be delivered in a single everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink training session. This program was designed specifically to deliver brief (15 to 20 minute) sessions over the course of several […]

5 Keys to Effective Customer Service

There are no hard and fast rules that can be applied with absolute precision to every company, but here are five general guidelines to achieve and maintain consistent, high-quality service that increases customer loyalty and retention. Customer service has always been an important element of good business, but in the […]

Phone Skills Trainer Implementation

Implementation Plan As you consider implementation of a Phone Skills Trainer program, it is important to keep in mind that this program is NOT designed to be delivered in a single everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink training session. This program was designed specifically to deliver brief (15 to 20 minute) sessions over the course […]