The January 2025 Technical Support and Help Desk Customer Service Training Essentials course is designed as a short-duration (3-hour) course to provide your technical support/help desk employees with professional customer service skills that will immediately impact your business.
Whether it’s for new employees, existing employees who are a little stale, or employees who have never had any professional customer service training, this course will teach the core fundamentals to assist them in delivering consistently great customer service over the phone in a technical support/help desk environment.
The course goes beyond traditional customer service training clichés such as ‘always have a smile in your voice’ and ‘use the customer’s name 2 or 3 times in a call’.
This program has been three decades in the making and is based on the Australian Customer Experience Professionals Association (ACXPA) Contact Centre Quality Standards, leveraging the insights and assessment of more than 50,000 phone calls to identify the five core competencies and 18 behaviours directly linked to positively impacting the customer experience.
Crucially, we don’t teach scripts (they don’t work!), but we do provide your employees with a proven, reliable structure for customer support phone calls that will enable them to consistently communicate in key moments with energy, empathy and simplicity.
In particular, your employees will learn how to master the start and the finish of any phone call, identify the root cause of the customer’s issues or concerns, and check in with the customer for understanding, comfort, and resolution throughout the process.
They will also learn and practice a simple but powerful two-step method for dealing with more difficult customers and situations they may encounter.
The course is designed to deliver an immediate uplift in performance, so if you’re looking to inject some premium customer service skills into your employees through a highly engaging course, you’ve landed in the right place!
The January 2025 Technical Support and Help Desk Customer Service Training Essentials course has been specifically adapted to be delivered virtually/online from either the workplace or home.
At just three hours long, this course is specifically designed for online training to keep the costs low and enable your employees to acquire new skills in a short burst of interactive and highly engaging training.
So whether it’s a stand-alone refresher course for your current employees or part of an induction program for new employees, your employees will gain some new skills they can use immediately!
The course is typically delivered via Zoom (or Teams), which is easily accessible to anyone who has an internet browser.
This course can also be delivered onsite for private bookings and larger groups.
The customer service skills we teach for customer support are applicable to all industries, products and services and are suitable for any employee who speaks to internal or external customers over the phone in a technical support or help desk capacity.
Whether it’s because they’ve become a little stale, have never received any formal training, or you’ve got some new employees that you want to equip with the right skills, this course will ensure your employees learn the fundamental skills to deliver a great customer experience for your customers when they are seeking support.
Typical roles suitable for this course include:
If you are looking for our more comprehensive customer service programs, check out Technical Support and Help Desk Customer Service Training Foundations (2 x 3-hours of skills sessions or the Technical Support and Help Desk Customer Service Training PRO (the longer version of this course with 3 x 3-hour skills sessions).
Over a 3-hour online/virtual training session, the January 2025 Technical Support and Help Desk Customer Service Training Essentials course will teach your staff the critical skills for technical support that the most successful customer support employees in the world use to deliver superior customer experiences and efficient first contact resolution.
The skills taught align with the Australian Contact Centre Quality Standards, consisting of five core competencies and 18 behaviours required to deliver great customer service over the phone, whether it’s in an office, contact centre or working from home.
Centred on empathy, discovery, clarity and energy, your employees will learn to be more confident, efficient and effective with every customer interaction. The training consists of powerful demonstrations and practice in the essential behaviours across five key modules:
This module sets the scene about what your customers (internal employees or external customers) want and need when contacting your business for support.
Having to deal with customers and staff when things go wrong with their products, services or tech brings unique challenges, so understanding their psychology in these moments is key to unlocking superior service delivery.
Your employees will learn how to create a strong first impression by showing strong empathy, ownership and intent and how to effectively manage expectations to build trust and confidence with customers that their technical issues will be resolved.
Your employees will learn how to avoid those often awkward, clunky finishes to calls through a simple method of strong final checks, expressions of gratitude and thanks in a warm farewell that leaves a positive, lasting impression.
We’ll teach your employees the critical discovery techniques (as used by the FBI) to more effectively identify, check and confirm the root cause of customer issues and what is needed to resolve enquiries in an efficient manner.
Participants will learn how to proactively educate and inform customers with technical instructions, product, service & process information in a manner that maximises first contact resolution.
The key skills and behaviours covered are clarity, Pacing, Pausing, and consistent checks of understanding, comfort, and suitability.
Participants will learn (and practice!) a powerful two-step method for dealing with more difficult customers and situations, effectively using the most appropriate language, empathy, and action.
They’ll also learn how to effectively validate and diffuse emotion to satisfy a customer’s emotional and transactional needs.
The modules are designed to have an immediate impact – delivering improved customer service outcomes for your business and providing improved confidence for your employees when interacting with customers over the phone.
The January 2025 Technical Support and Help Desk Customer Service Training Essentials course is facilitated by Simon Blair, one of Australia’s leading Customer Service Trainers.
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 provider 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 January 2025 Tech Support Customer Service Essentials course is delivered live via virtual/online training and is a public course, which means there will be employees from other businesses on the course as well.
The course is delivered live at the following date and time:
As a public course, we typically have between 3 and 20 attendees.
If we have less than three attendees booked, we may elect not to run the course if it will compromise the training experience for attendees. In that instance, we will provide you the option of a full refund or move you to the next available date.
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The public January 2025 Technical Support and Help Desk Customer Service Training Essentials course is just $278 per employee ex GST for 3 hours of live, facilitated learning.
Simply select the number of tickets you require at the top of the page.
Payment can be made instantly using a credit card, or you can request an invoice (Payment must be made prior to the course commencing).
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