Customer Service Training: Essential Skills for Service Desks


Course Delivery

Live Instructor-Led Training

Course Description

Effective IT customer service can define how both internal and external clients see your organization. In today’s challenging workplace, good IT customer service can increase productivity and can motivate staff to go beyond the strict essentials or their job. In the same way, bad customer service can lead to a loss of productivity that can affect every aspect of an organization’s operations. The course Essential Skills for Service Desks (Customer Service Training) equips the service desk professional with best in class methodologies and practices in the art and science of customer service. Give your staff the skills they need to manage incidents and troubleshoot problems with this eminently practical SETC certified course.

Course Dates and Pricing


Nov 18 - 19, 2024$1,500.00Jan 20 - 21, 2025$1,500.00Feb 17 - 18, 2025$1,500.00Mar 17 - 18, 2025$1,500.00Apr 21 - 22, 2025$1,500.00May 19 - 20, 2025$1,500.00Jun 16 - 17, 2025$1,500.00Jul 21 - 22, 2025$1,500.00

Course Outline

Introducing Customer Service

Common Mistakes in Providing Customer Service
Developing a Customer Focussed Philosophy
Who are our Clients?
Internal Clients versus External Clients
What goes into Good Customer Service?
The Cost of Bad Customer Service

Understanding Personality Types

Towards a Common Vision
Understanding Yourself: Personality Types
Understanding our Assets: Knowledge and Skills
Rewards and Consequences

Essential Skills for Customer Service

Emotional Management
How to Provide Service
The Art of Communication and the Sharing of Knowledge
Challenges of a Multicultural and Multilingual Workplace
The Keys to Effective Team Work

Strategies

Striking a Balance between Operations and Management
About Managing Stress
About Managing Time
Striking a Balance in your Personal and Professional Life

Dealing with Difficult Clients

About Conflict
The Categories of Conflict
Managing Anger
Managing Difficult Behaviours
Mastering the Difficult Client
Concrete Techniques for Managing Difficult Behaviours

Essential ITIL Concepts for IT Professionals

Core Definitions
The ITIL Lifecycle
Integrating Processes, Products, People and Partners
The Service Desk and its Responsibilities
How to Manage Incidents
When an Incident becomes a Problem
How to Manage Problems
About Service Provision and Improvement
The Art of Troubleshooting

Standards in Practice

About Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
Understanding the Role of a SLA
A Discussion on Service Quality
How to Continually Improve Service Quality

Course Locations

  • Ottawa

  • Montreal

  • Toronto

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