Transform your Retail Customer Experience!
The August 2024 Retail Sales & Customer Service PRO Course is a 9-hour training course (delivered over 3 x 3-hour online sessions or one-day onsite) designed to provide employees working in face-to-face retail roles with premium customer service and sales skills.
The training goes way beyond traditional customer service training clichés such as ‘always smile’ or ‘ask the customer how their day has been’.
Rather, your employees will benefit from decades of experience to learn the most impactful behaviours needed to drive successful customer experiences in any retail context.
The course teaches premium skills for retail interactions that will enable employees to greet customers effectively, proactively identify needs and deliver solutions, communicate with energy & empathy, and farewell in a warm, appreciative manner.
It’s a sales-from-a-service paradigm that actually delivers more sales by delivering great customer service and ensuring sales opportunities don’t slip through your fingers with each customer interaction. Sales Conversions, Customer Satisfaction, Net Promoter Score, however you measure results, are all positively impacted as your employees learn to be both more efficient and effective when interacting with customers in a retail environment.
Your employees will also learn and practice a simple but powerful two-step method for dealing with customer concerns or issues, as well as learn the critical techniques for when dealing with more aggressive or irate customers.
If you’re looking to improve sales opportunities to drive more revenue and ensure customers leave with a positive experience when interacting with your employees, this is the course for you!
Optimised for online/virtual training!
The August 2024 Retail Sales & Customer Service PRO Course is delivered via 3 x 3-hour online/virtual sessions (9 hours in total).
Online/Virtual training is the preferred option for the majority of our customers as it enables us to keep the costs low, maximise learning in short, highly interactive and engaging sessions, and minimise the impact on your business.
This public online version is delivered over three separate days (one 3-hour session each day), but for private online training sessions, you can have more flexibility in the schedule that works best for your business.
Onsite & Private Options
The Retail Sales & Customer Service PRO Course can also be delivered onsite at your premises for private bookings. The onsite version is delivered in a single day (9 am to 5 pm).
Travel costs will apply depending on your location (as we don’t have trainers available in every state).
The premium customer service and sales skills we teach are applicable to all industries, products and services and are suitable for any employee who interacts with customers in a face-to-face environment in a retail, hospitality or face-to-face setting.
It’s perfect for new employees you want to equip with the right skills from the start or for existing employees you’d like to equip with premium skills.
Typical roles suitable for the August 2024 Retail Sales & Customer Service PRO Course include:
If you are looking for a shorter option, we also have the Retail Sales & Customer Service Essentials Course, a single three-hour course that teaches the core fundamentals.
If your employees also have to handle phone calls and emails, you may also be interested in the Reception Essentials or Reception PRO courses that teaches in-person, phone and email customer service skills.
Delivered over nine hours of online training (3 x 3-hour sessions), the August 2024 Retail Sales & Customer Service PRO Course will teach your employees the skills they need to deliver superior customer experiences.
Centred on body language, conversation skills, listening, proactivity, energy & empathy, participants will learn how to be more confident, efficient and effective with every customer interaction they have.
The training consists of powerful demonstrations and practice in the premium behaviours, with nine key modules outlined below.
If you’d like to customise the course to spend more/less time on a particular module or include some other skills, please refer to our private course options further down the page.
This module sets the scene about what customers want and need based on decades of research, WHY the customer experience is so important and how crucial their role is in representing the organisation.
Participants will explore and practice the use of good posture, breathing, vocal delivery and body language to enable strong face-to-face communication that builds confidence and trust in customers.
How to create a strong first impression and impact at the start of any retail interaction by using a warm & welcoming greeting, showing a clear desire to assist, and using effective body language to build trust and confidence in the customer.
Your employees will learn how to have better needs-based conversations with customers using mirroring, empathy & active listening.
Participants will learn how to provide personalised solutions (so customers don’t feel like they are just a ‘number’) with proactive checks for improved customer experiences and resolutions (either sales or service).
How to create a lasting final impression and confident finish to any customer conversation through a simple method of showing gratitude and thanks in a warm farewell that leaves a positive impression on your customers.
How to consistently sound fresh and engaging whilst projecting confidence and clarity with each customer interaction.
Your employees will learn and practice a simple two-step method for dealing with customer concerns and issues and learn critical techniques when confronted with more aggressive or irate customers.
Your employees will have a chance to practice their newfound skills to build their confidence so they are ready to ‘hit the ground running’ and make an immediate impact on your business.
The effectiveness of any training course is dependent on the skills and experience of the trainer and the August 2024 Retail Sales & Customer Service PRO Course is facilitated by Simon Blair, one of Australia’s leading Customer Service Trainers.
When he’s not training, Simon is the General Manager of Quality Insights for the Australian Customer Experience Professionals Association (ACXPA) so he lives and breathes what it takes to deliver great customer experiences all across Australia.
Simon is a father of 4 and lives in the Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne. His twin girls keep him busy running around following their footy careers (one is an AFLW footballer with Collingwood) and he has a great love of music.
He does land the odd corporate or private gig around town as an acoustic guitarist and singer belting out rock and pop classics.
He has great adventures with his partner Ines, loves the North Melbourne Kangaroos footy team and every now and then escapes into other worlds when playing Dungeon & Dragons with his mates. He likes to call himself a ‘cool nerd’.
CX Skills is a specialist training business that only delivers customer service, customer experience (CX), contact centre, workforce optimisation (WFM/WFO) and workplace wellness courses designed and facilitated exclusively by industry professionals.
We're the official training partner of the Australian Customer Experience Professionals Association (ACXPA), and we are proudly Australian-owned and operated.
We’re grateful to have been trusted by hundreds of customers, and we’re proud of the amazing customer testimonials we’ve received, so you can rest assured that when you book a training course with CX Skills, your training is in good hands.
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The August 2024 Retail Sales & Customer Service PRO Course is delivered online/virtually in 3 x 3-hour sessions.
Tickets can be purchased at the top of this page (just select how many tickets you’d like to purchase).
Specific Dates & Times for this Public Course
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The August 2024 Retail Sales & Customer Service PRO Course is just $497 per employee ex GST.
Payment can be made instantly using a credit card, or you can request an invoice on the checkout page (the invoice must be paid in full before the training commences).
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