Customer Service Recovery

Maintaining good relationships with your customers is an essential business necessity, but can be difficult when problems arise. This one-day seminar focuses on how to avoid and address conflict situations involving your customer using concepts and techniques that will maintain, and even build your relationship.

Seminar Content
Customer Service

  • The Importance of Your Customer
  • Customer Service Defined
  • What Customers Expect From Us
  • What We Expect From Our Customers
  • Defining the Customer Relationship – Proactive Conflict Avoidance
  • Moving From Managing the Customer to Managing the Customer Experience

The Five Stages of Service Recovery

  • Situation Definition
  • Situation Analysis
  • Action Analysis
  • Action Execution
  • Action Follow-up

Avoiding Conflict - Effective Listening

  • The Communication Process
  • Basics of Effective Listening
  • Understanding Your Listening Style
  • Applying Effective Listening to Customer Service Recovery Situations

Customer Conflict Management

  • Conflict Defined
  • The Unique Nature of Customer Conflicts
  • Common Causes of Customer Conflict
  • Understanding Your Customer’s Conflict Style
  • Adjusting to Your Customer’s Conflict Style
  • Listening Under Pressure
  • Applying Conflict Management
  • Strategies with Your Customer

Representing Your Company’s Interests

  • When the Customer is not Right!
  • Understanding Your Authority
  • When and How to Obtain Upper Management Assistance

Managing the Aftereffects

  • Post-conflict actions to restore and build the relationship

Who Should Attend
Managers, executives, engineers, customer service representatives, sales representatives and others directly involved in the understanding and resolution of customer problems and issues.

Each participant will receive a comprehensive manual and a Certificate of Completion at the close of the seminar.


 
   


Eastern Michigan University
Center for Quality

2000 Huron River Drive, Suite 101
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Barbara Hopkins, Director


Phone: (734) 487-2259
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