Customer Service Best Practices For Beginners

Excel as a front-line customer service agent using problem-solving & relationship-building skills, etiquette, and more.

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.6

- Discover the impact of your role in customer service
- Differentiate between customer service
- customer experience
- and internal customer service
- Use problem solving skills to resolve customer issues with ease

What you'll learn

Discover the impact of your role in customer service
Differentiate between customer service
customer experience
and internal customer service
Use problem solving skills to resolve customer issues with ease
Build better connections with your customers
Model proper etiquette when interfacing with customers
Explore how to delight and appreciate your customers
Navigate difficult customers and turn them into forever fans
Discover that customer service is just people helping people!

* Requirements

* Currently have a new Customer Service role or be seeking a role in Customer Service
* Are new to a role in any department that may be customer facing

Description

Are you a beginner customer service agent or are seeking a future role in customer service? This course will deliver actionable best practices and skills you need to be successful!

From turning the angriest of customers into forever fans, to delighting customers to the point where they sing you a song, to tough customers who end up falling in love and ask to marry you, this course will equip you with Your Customer Service Toolbox, full of unique yet realistic and actionable best practices that you can immediately apply to your role as a customer service agent.

In this course, you will:

  • Discover the impact of your role in customer service

  • Differentiate between customer service, customer experience, and internal customer service

  • Use problem solving skills to resolve customer issues with ease

  • Build better connections with your customers

  • Model proper etiquette when interfacing with customers

  • Explore how to delight and appreciate your customers

  • Navigate difficult customers and turn them into forever fans

Throughout this course, you’ll complete interactive activities like responding to difficult customer emails, delivering etiquette best practices to boost customer loyalty and the importance of empathy and putting yourself in the customer’s shoes.

Customer service is just people helping people. And, working with people can be tricky! Knowing the basics of how to knock customer’s socks off with awesome service can not only help you excel in your role with your company but it can make an impact on someone’s life.

Who this course is for:

  • The front line customer service agent who wants to excel at their job while making an impact providing exceptional customer support.
  • This course is geared towards students who are beginning their customer service journey and want to learn foundational best practices.

Course content

5 sections • 17 lectures

Welcome! Preview 02:02

  • Introduce instructor & background

  • Course overview & definition of success

  • Reflection activity: what do you want to get out of this course?

Activity: Customer Service Reflection Preview 02:51

A Simple Definition Preview 02:52

Customer Service vs. Customer Experience Preview 03:32

What is Internal Customer Service? Preview 03:31

Situational Exercise

In this activity, you’ll look at 3 different situations you may find yourself in as a front line agent helping customers. By the end of this activity, you’ll be a pro at identifying the differences between customer service, customer experience, and internal customer service.

Problem Solving Skills Preview 07:11

Activity: Problem Solving Skills Preview 04:00

Relationship Building Skills Preview 06:12

Activity: Unrobot Yourself Preview 01:13

Etiquette Preview 06:04

Etiquette Best Practices

In the last lecture, you learned the value in using a customer’s name, how spelling and grammar can make or break your day, awkward silences are well, awkward, and how to put a customer on hold. Let’s mush that all together into this interactive activity that will help expand your etiquette skills

Using Personalization & Creativity to Appreciate Your Customers Preview 02:44

Activity: Customer Appreciation Preview 01:10

Navigating Difficult Customers Preview 06:00

Activity: Difficult Customers Preview 04:15