
Managing Difficult Customers – March 2021
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March 2021 Managing Difficult Customers course
Encountering difficult situations is an intrinsic part of dealing with customers & clients – whether internal or external.
But how many of us are equipped to handle those situations?
It takes a lot of confidence and skill to effectively manage angry or upset customers and not having the right skills can, and is, a daunting experience for anyone.
We even need to consider our internal viewpoints and belief systems to ensure we can manage the situation well and not take things too personally or slip into chastising or blaming the customer that can be both personally and professionally damaging.
And whilst there always been angry and difficult customers since the age of time, COVID has no doubt seen a global increase in people’s stress and frustration levels.
Our March 2021 Managing Difficult Customers Training Courses teaches you how to identify the different types of difficult customers and the different types of difficult situations, and then use root cause analysis to identify and apply the correct solution with confidence.
From learning how to negotiate, through to learning how to say no effectively and with professionalism, the Managing Difficult Customers Training Course is the ideal program to help you or your team members handle difficult situations with grace and style.
As with all our CX Skills courses, this course involves workshop exercises, quizzes, role-plays, videos, examples and more to make the course enjoyable and bring the learnings to life.
This is one of our most popular courses and it’s run both publicly (great for smaller numbers) and privately if you need to train larger groups, need more flexibility in the timing and would like to keep all the discussions ‘in-house’.
You can also view other upcoming dates if these don’t suit.

March 2021 Managing Difficult Customers Course Highlights
Built for online training!
Whilst we have delivered this course face to face in a classroom setting (in a pre-COVID world!) for decades, we have now adapted this course to be delivered online using Zoom teleconferencing.
Our March 2021 Managing Difficult Customers course teaches students how to identify and manage difficult customers and situations with confidence.
This isn’t just boring textbook and video training – this course is delivered over 2 x 4-hour sessions with a total of 8 hours of facilitated live training by world-renowned customer experience trainer Daniel Ord.

Who should do this course?

The March 2021 Managing Difficult Customers training course is designed to equip students with the skills to manage any difficult situation when dealing with customers regardless of the industries, products or services.
The course is suitable for anyone who deals with customers with typical roles including:
- Call centre agents (sales or service)
- Customer service staff
- Retail/counter staff
- Telephone account management
- Complaints teams
- Team Leaders
- Managers
As this course is specifically focussed on dealing with difficult customers, if you need to learn more generic customer service skills, check out our customer service training programs >
Four Powerful Customer Complaint Handling Modules
About Your Trainer
Your trainer for the March 2021 Managing Difficult Customers course is Daniel Ord from OmniTouch International – the leading contact centre trainer in the world with his courses regularly selling out across the globe.
Daniel has trained over 50,000 participants across over 40 countries and is regularly featured in leading contact centre publications and he has been a regular visitor to Australia for over 20 years.
Participants consistently rank Daniel as the best trainer they’ve had with incredible subject matter expertise, excellent storytelling with real-world examples and of course, a great sense of humour so you’ll have some fun while you learn!
Credentials-wise, Dan is a Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP), an International Customer Management Institute (ICMI) Certified Associate, a Call Centre Industry Advisory Council Training Partner (CIAC), Net Promoter Certified and the first to bring professional management level Contact Centre certification to Asia back in the early 00s.
Like to learn more about Daniel? Read some of Daniel’s articles on CX Central, listen to some Podcasts on the CX Hustle or view Daniel’s profile on LinkedIn.
Watch the Video
We recorded a short video with the CEO of CX Skills, Justin Tippett and Daniel Ord providing some additional insight about the course.
Testimonials
“This course was really engaging and very well organised. Daniel was amazing, and I didn’t ‘zone out’ once, a sign of an excellent trainer. Really enjoyed the course and learnt lots, particularly liked the examples of situations where certain vocabulary is acceptable. Made the course sink in.”
“I just wanted to email you in thanks as I have found your recent training session very helpful! I have been able to use UNER(R) very effectively, where previously I had problems saying ‘no’, generally going into far too much detail on my explanation. This has helped stop at least two complaints and I‘ve also been using the Human Touch in more of my emails 😀 .”
“Hi Daniel, just wanted to say thanks for the brilliant workshop. Was lovely to meet you and it’s always a pleasure to learn new techniques, perspectives and ways of working.”
“It was a really fun and exciting training course and I will be able to apply all these methods now and in my future career. Loved the tips on how to deal with the especially fussy guests!”.
“Very good and interactive – fun but full of knowledge.”
“The training was really fun but more importantly I learned a lot of techniques that I’ve been able to use on lots of my calls which has made my job a lot easier – thanks!”
About CX Skills
CX Skills is a specialist training business that only delivers customer experience and customer service related courses facilitated exclusively by industry professionals. Our main website, CX Central is Australia’s most trusted website for contact centre and CX professionals in Australia and we also manage the popular Call Centre Legends Facebook page followed by over 30,000 call centre employees.
As well as training solutions, we also provide CX & Contact Centre consulting services using the same practices, processes and methodologies that we use in our training courses so you can rest assured you’ll be learning best-practice skills that work in the real world.

How and when it’s delivered
The March 2021 Managing Difficult Customers course is delivered via Zoom Teleconferencing and users will be sent any required materials prior to the course commencing. This is a public course meaning it is available for anyone to book and the dates and times are fixed to enable you to plan ahead.
If you would like to have more flexibility on the dates, times and content refer to our private options.

The March 2021 Managing Difficult Customers Training Course will be conducted on:
- Session 1 – Thursday 18th March 2021, 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm AEDT
- Session 2 – Friday 19th March 2021, 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm AEDT
Pricing and Payment Options
The Managing Difficult Customers Training course is just $497 per person ex GST for 8 hours of facilitated learning (2 x 4-hour sessions) delivered by global CX training expert Daniel Ord.
Want to register 3 or more staff? Save 15% when booking in the same transaction (note: the discount will be applied on the final checkout page).
Purchase now:
Tickets to the March 2021 Managing Difficult Customers course can be purchased instantly using a credit card below. If you would rather be sent an invoice for payment, order over the phone, enquire about this course being delivered privately or have further questions please call our Australian Based customer service team on +61 3 9008 7287 or send us a message >