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Internal Customer Service Excellence — A 1-Day Course

Course Synopsis

A lot of emphasis is often given to providing excellent customer care - but how does this affect you if your job role means you only deal with colleagues within your organisation?

The ability to provide excellent service to your internal customers is an essential business skill, enabling others around you to work effectively and efficiently.

This course is designed to help participants further develop skills that will enable them to identify their customers and meet the challenge of consistently providing the best customer service available.

Anyone who deals with internal customers on a day to day basis will benefit from attending this course.

Course Objectives

Delegates will learn how to:

  • Explore the importance of your role to the organisation
  • Identify who your customers are
  • Identify what makes customer care count and set personal customer care goals
  • Obtain from customers a clear understanding of their expectations
  • Solve problems on behalf of your customers and know how to handle complaints effectively
  • Demonstrate the importance of taking responsibility to achieve customer satisfaction
  • State your preferred working style and how that may clash with the styles of others

Outline Course Contents

Establish personal objectives for the course

What constitutes excellent internal customer service excellence?

Experiences of excellent of poor internal customer service

Customer service behaviours that are important to your internal customers

Levels of communication

Building rapport with internal customers

Telephone skills

Structuring a call with a customer

Questioning techniques and listening skills

Projecting a positive, take action attitude

Positive reframing

Showing initiative

The importance of individuals' working styles

Levers for high quality customer service

Completion of a personal action plan

Personal Development training UK enquiries

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Personal Development training UK prices

For publicly scheduled training (individual places), see our UK training schedule.

In-house training for company groups is charged at a daily rate per group — see our In-House UK Training Guidelines.

Publicly Scheduled Training Locations

We currently run public training courses in the following locations:

  • London, UK
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
  • Birmingham, West Midlands, UK
  • Carshalton, Surrey, UK
  • Chester, North West, UK
  • Coventry, West Midlands, UK
  • Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • Glasgow, Scotland, UK
  • Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK
  • Manchester, North West, UK
  • Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK
  • Newark, Nottinghamshire, UK
  • Reading, Berkshire, UK
  • Slough, Berkshire, UK
  • Stevenage, Hertfordshire, UK
  • Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK
  • Wokingham, Berkshire, UK

Most UK public training courses are available on a monthly basis.

Please see the individual course outlines or our public training schedule for details.

In-house (on-site) training locations

We deliver in-house courses at client premises and/or training facilities in any part of the world which is practically and commercially accessible.

Our In-house training guidelines outline our basic requirements and our UK pricing structure. To estimate costs for training in other countries, simply convert to your local currency and then make a rough calculation of our tutor's costs for travelling to and staying at your location.


West Yorkshire Office

GBdirect Ltd
Training Division
Bradford Design Exchange
34 Peckover Street
BRADFORD
BD1 5BD
West Yorkshire
United Kingdom

training@gbdirect.co.uk

Training: 0800 651 0338
General: +44 (0)870 200 7273
Finance: +44 (0)1353 615 174

Please call between 0900 and 1700 (UK time) on Monday to Friday


South East Regional Office

GBdirect Ltd
Training Division
18 Lynn Rd
ELY
CB6 1DA
Cambridgeshire
United Kingdom

training@gbdirect.co.uk

Training: 0800 651 0338
General: +44 (0)870 200 7273
Finance: +44 (0)1353 615 174

Please call between 0900 and 1700 (UK time) on Monday to Friday


Please note:
Non-training enquiries should be directed, initially, to our UK national office in Bradford (West Yorkshire), even if the enquiry concerns services delivered in London or South/East England. Clients in London and the South East will typically be handled by staff working in the London or Cambridge areas.