Cultivating Career Success
Customer Service Skills
If you have direct contact with the customers your employer serves, you have tremendous influence toward making a very successful business - or to move the business down the path of ruin! Likewise, good customers service skills and attitudes can be a tremendous asset for your career success.
Objectives
Here is what you’ll be able to do when you have successfully completed this module:
- Give reasons for making customer service a high priority.
- Identify routine practices and skills associated with quality customer service.
- Use a plan for handling customer complaints.
- Face angry customers with increased confidence.
- Identify issues a business must face in order to provide excellent customer service.
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Additional Resources
These optional resources can take you beyond the core of the Customer Service module.
Free Newsletters
Several firms specializing in customer service offer free newsletters to feed you with more ideas on providing excellent customer service. Here are two of them:
Customer Service Group
Customer Service Works
Just for Fun
Read how customer service happens in this Monty Python sketch, The Argument Clinic, or, even more fun, listen to the sketch in MP3.