Service Communication & Influencing Skills
Tailored customer service training

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At PSL we work with our customers.
Our training and coaching is:
Tailored to Your Business: We take the time to understand your industry, your customers and your team’s specific challenges to create a training program that fits like a glove.
Examples of service skills we can help your team develop
- Adapting to different customer personalities and situations - agility
- Avoiding the black hole experience, when customers do not know what's happening by when
- Becoming the trusted adviser
- Clear communication, explaining solutions or needs simply and effectively
- Closing the loop to make customers feel valued
- Conflict resolution, de-escalating tense situations diplomatically
- Creating a positive first and last impression
- Empathy, demonstrating genuine care and understanding
- Fast and effective
- High self-awareness
- Following-up to ensure customer engagement, perception of value and satisfaction
- Identifying and understanding customer needs, and what could be sales opportunities
- Keeping customers informed
- Maintaining your customer's perception of value
- Making things easy for customers
- Managing the effects of unintended consequence
- Not allowing faults, errors or mistakes to distract you from the value of your product / service
- Patience, handling complaints, challenging people and situations calmly and professionally
- Positive attitude, maintaining a friendly, helpful can-do approach
- Problem-solving, quickly finding ways to make progress and deliver solutions
- Producing what your customers value
- Trust-building, being reliable and honest in all interactions
- Understanding customer needs, taking ownership, using problem solving tactics UTU
- Rules and tools for gaining excellent feedback from your customers
Examples of communication skills we can help your team develop
- Active listening and asking the right questions at the right time, being curious, interested
- Adapting to the needs of different audiences, people and their personalities
- AI tools - the benefits and risks to manage
- Asking clarifying questions
- Assertiveness, how to be assertive and what to avoid
- Avoiding assumptions
- Avoiding interrupting customers
- Body language - understanding facial expressions, eye contact, posture, gestures, personal space
- Building self-confidence to help employees to become their best at communication
- Building trust - understanding empathy and rapport
- Communicating clearly and confidently
- Communicating in ways that make it easier for your customers / audience
- Compelling proposals, selling your ideas, ways to get buy-in
- Delegating clearly and effectively
- Does it need to be said, said now, said by me? (a conflict management tool)
- Encouraging open dialogue
- Emails, using this tool effectively, ways to avoid mistakes and manage the costs and risk of cc
- Engaging story telling skills to improve communication
- Giving and receiving feedback
- Handling challenging questions
- Helping introverts and extroverts to become their best
- Knowing how to get people onside
- Less is more, being concise
- Managing stress, frustration, nervousness or excitement
- Managing unconscious bias
- Negotiation skills
- Persuasion and influence techniques
- Public speaking / presentation skills
- Reading between the lines, identifying signals and intent
- Recognising and adapting to Speaker thinkers and Thinker speakers
- Reporting - using reports to demonstrate and add value
- Resolving misunderstandings
- Respecting different communication styles, opinions, cultures
- Structuring a clear message, clear presentation
- Summarising and confirming
- Taking notes
- Team collaboration, being open, receptive, flexible and when necessary calmly assertive
- Understanding and being able to use effective leadership skills
- Understanding the power and effects of tone in voice and writing
- Understanding why people behave in certain ways and emotional intelligence
- Video conference, on-line meeting etiquette and professionalism
- Ways to communicate at the right level
- Ways to say 'no' politely
- Rules and tools for effective communication
What You’ll Gain
- Tailored training: a program, course or workshop that really fits your needs and works.
Ready to Elevate Your Customer Service?
Don’t settle for generic training programs that don’t address your unique needs. Let us create a customised customer service training solution that delivers real results.
Contact us today to schedule your free consultation and take the first step toward transforming your customer service experience.
