Course Five
Customer Service Strategies to Move the Call in the Right Direction
Free Lesson: Perspective Taking: How to Understand a Customer’s Point of View for Creating the Best Outcome
After this free lesson you will:
- Understand the meaning of perspective taking and how it will create a positive customer service outcome
- Know the importance of using perspective taking with customers
- Gain strategies on how to apply perspective taking with every type of customer
Customer Service and Call Center Includes
Tier One
Quick Training: Courses 1 and 5 Only
How to Sound Smart, Confident and more Engaging
Customer Service Strategies to Move in the Right Direction
Community Access: Ask questions anytime
Read posts and communicate with members
Discounted Bulk Pricing
Tier Two
- All 5 Courses
- Bonus Material: e-book How to Sound like an Expert and Speak like a Leader (8-hour full audio files included)
- Community Access: Ask questions, read posts and communicate with members
Each employee will get a one-time access coupon. Coupons good for lifetime of course.
Discounted Bulk Pricing
Doing customer service phone work for a full day can be emotionally and physically tiring. Keep in mind that some callers will be upset, people come from different backgrounds, and everyone deserves respect. There is always a goal for every call. Often the goal is to close a sale, collect a payment or educate the customer. Using the skill of perspective-taking can help make the call go smoothly with an actionable outcome.
Perspective-taking is considering situations from another point of view. Taking this approach can help customers feel heard and understood. To be successful at perspective-taking, you must do two things:
1. Set aside your own thoughts and feelings about the call.
2. Then change your line of thinking to see it from the customer’s point of view.
If you are mentally commenting on the call to yourself, (I.e., this person is being rude to me) then seeing from the customer’s point of view will be too difficult. Perspective-taking will help you to better understand the situation as the caller sees it. Applying perspective-taking will help you to have more tolerance of and appreciation for the individual.
Customer Service and Call Center Includes
Tier One
Quick Training: Courses 1 and 5 Only
How to Sound Smart, Confident and more Engaging
Customer Service Strategies to Move in the Right Direction
Community Access: Ask questions anytime
Read posts and communicate with members
Discounted Bulk Pricing
Tier Two
- All 5 Courses
- Bonus Material: e-book How to Sound like an Expert and Speak like a Leader (8-hour full audio files included)
- Community Access: Ask questions, read posts and communicate with members
Each employee will get a one-time access coupon. Coupons good for lifetime of course.
Discounted Bulk Pricing
How to Do Perspective-Taking
1. Imagine yourself having the same experience.
2. Use your own similar past experience to understand another person’s situation.
3. Apply general knowledge on how someone would react to that situation
For example, a customer is frustrated because their water was turned off due to three months of nonpayment. From the customer’s perspective, there are two issues here: not having access to water and being financially challenged at the moment. What are some comments you can make using the concept of perspective-taking and excellent customer service?
Examples:
“Not having access to water is frustrating.”
“Coming home to no water must have been terrible.”
“This has to be difficult for your family.”
Write down different types of situations that arise in your work with follow-up comments using perspective-taking.
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Typically in a call center, the goal is to collect a full or partial payment. Perspective-taking can help that conversation feel more supportive to the customer. Kindly educate as you move through the steps of the process. By acknowledging the caller’s feelings or mood, you can redirect the conversation to a good outcome for your customer and for yourself.
Customer Service and Call Center Includes
Tier One
Quick Training: Courses 1 and 5 Only
How to Sound Smart, Confident and more Engaging
Customer Service Strategies to Move in the Right Direction
Community Access: Ask questions anytime
Read posts and communicate with members
Discounted Bulk Pricing
Tier Two
- All 5 Courses
- Bonus Material: e-book How to Sound like an Expert and Speak like a Leader (8-hour full audio files included)
- Community Access: Ask questions, read posts and communicate with members
Each employee will get a one-time access coupon. Coupons good for lifetime of course.