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Introduction to our Customer Service Training Courses
Whether you have an office team, reception team, retail store, call centre, customer support team and so on, if you have employees that interact with customers either on the phone, in person (face to face) or via live chat, email, text etc then we have specialist customer service training courses designed to deliver immediate results.
CX Skills is an Australian-owned customer service training course specialist with all our courses designed, facilitated and continually updated by industry professionals that have learned and refined their skills over decades working in customer service using best-practice, proven methodologies and insights that provide real skills for the real world.
We’re not a generic training business or TAFE that offers hundreds of different courses. We ‘stay in our lane’ and only offer courses in customer service, contact centres and customer experience because that’s what we are experts at.
We are an accredited training supplier for the Australian Customer Experience Professionals Association (ACXPA) and as you’ll note from our customer testimonials and client list, we aren’t just all hype – the experience of our trainers, the quality of our courses and the transparency in the pricing we trust will assure you that you are in good hands for whatever customer service training courses you need for your team.
Available Customer Service Courses by function
Customer Service is a very broad term and there are a number of different training courses that may be suitable. To view the courses we have available for each job type, click on the tabs below.
Making or receiving phone calls is often a primary function for employees working in customer service roles and that interaction can have a significant impact on the customer experience. Done well, it can improve customer loyalty, increase sales, increase efficiency and so on. Done poorly, it can result in missed opportunities for your business, loss of existing customers or failure to convert new ones, increase costs of rework etc.
The courses below are designed for any phone-based employee. It doesn’t matter whether you have an office team, a customer support team or you identify as a contact centre – the skills for phone-based customer service employees apply regardless.
Click on a course to learn more about it including costs, upcoming dates and private or public training options.
Note: If you have employees that deal with more than just phone calls (e.g. emails, face-to-face etc.) please check out one of the other categories.
With COVID lockdowns hopefully a thing of the past, it’s great to be able to get back to helping customers in person.
So whether the skills are a little rusty or you’d like to ensure your team has the skills they need to take your business to the next level, the courses below are suitable for all customer-facing employees where they interact with customers in person and other channels (i.e. email, phone)
Typical roles include: Receptionists, office/admin staff, front-of-house staff, assistants etc.
The courses below are designed for employees who work in a retail store serving customers.
From beginner courses to our ‘PRO’ course as well as how to manage difficult customers, we’ve got a course for you!
Emails are still an effective way to communicate with customers and as there is a record of each interaction, it is often regarded as even more important than phone calls to ensure you provide the right experience for your customers.
Live Chat continues to gather momentum in Australia with many customers preferring to engage via Live Chat as opposed to voice so ensuring your employees have the right skills has never been more important (it’s not the same as the phone!).
Handling difficult customers is a skill that can and must be taught and with frustration for customers and employees at an all time high, equipping your employees with the skills on how to handle difficult customers and situations, taught by industry professionals, has even been more critical!
With the rising costs of living and record unemployment making it hard to find staff, employees are often finding it harder than ever to cope with the everyday pressures of work and home.
Equipping your employees with the skills to improve their resilience, as well as how to improve their overall health and wellness has never been more important.
Click on the courses below to learn more.
With technology making it easier for customers to connect to your business than ever before, we are now expecting employees to be a ‘jack of all trades’ and be able to handle phone calls, emails, live chat, face-to-face enquires and more – and often all at once!
Whilst it can be easy to assume that all these different channels require ‘customer service skills’ the reality is that each of these channels requires different skills to be executed correctly.
If your employees have not been trained correctly, it can result in increased stress for them and a less-than-ideal experience for your customers.
If your employees just need training on a particular channel, then please refer to the courses above. But if you’d like to equip your employees with the skills they need to be effective across all channels, refer below for our omnichannel courses.
The benefits of investing in customer service training courses
Typically one of the main reasons businesses invest in customer service training is that it’s going to deliver a better experience for your customers.
That, of course, makes perfect sense as we know delivering a great customer experience is good for business in lots of ways (see the section below) but there are also some other significant benefits for your business when you invest in your customer service employees:
- Less stress – Not having the tools and skills to perform their role is one of the biggest causes of stress in the workplace for employees.
- Happier workers are 12% more productive than neutral ones, while unhappier workers were 10% less productive.
- Happy staff have fewer sick days to a factor of 10X a dissatisfied employee. And they’ll stay longer too.
- Reduced turnover – It costs between 30-50 per cent of an annual salary (e.g. over $25,000 in Australia) to replace one frontline employee.
So not only do your customers and employees benefit from the investment in customer service training, there is a significant Return on Investment for your business as well.
Investing in customer service training courses for your business delivers a range of benefits including:
Different Types of Customer Service Training Courses
If you’re looking for training courses for your employees, it pays to know the different kinds of training courses available so you can get exactly what you need. Click on the tabs below to learn more about the various options and frequently asked questions.
CX Skills offers two types of customer service training courses:
Public Customer Service Training Courses
The public customer service training courses are perfect if you have small numbers of employees that require training as you only have to purchase one ticket, or you can purchase multiple tickets to train more employees – the flexibility is yours!
The public courses offer numerous benefits including:
- Cost-effective for small numbers of employees.
- The course dates are times are fixed so you can plan ahead to minimise any operational impact.
- Fixed course agenda so you know exactly what is getting delivered and it’s repeatable, so if you send one employee this month, and a different employee another month – they’ll have both received the same great training.
- Employees will get to hear and learn from others on the course which can expand their knowledge and help them build a professional network.
You’ll find a list of all the upcoming public customer service training courses at the bottom of this page!
Private Customer Service Training Courses
Private customer service training courses mean the training is conducted exclusively for your employees only. This offers the following benefits:
- Flexibility over the date, times and duration of your training so it can fit in perfectly with your operational requirements.
- More cost-effective for larger numbers/groups.
- Able to share/talk about more sensitive/specific examples as part of the training.
- Ability to customise course content (e.g. we can include specific case studies, examples etc directly related to your business or we can add/delete particular modules where applicable).
Learn more about the benefits of a private training course or contact us to have a no-obligation chat with us.
The majority of our customer service training courses are delivered via three methods:
- Onsite – For those that still want on-site/in-person training, we can provide training directly at your premises.
- Online – all our courses are now delivered online via ZOOM. Customer service training online provides a number of benefits over in-person training including:
- Less time wasted on travel so less downtime for employees and less impact to operations.
- Easier to break training into small chunks (e.g. 2 x 4-hour courses) so it can be easier to absorb learning and stay on top of critical work.
- More cost-effective as there are no travel and facility costs built into the training course prices.
- Self-paced – Most of our training is facilitated live by an instructor however we are now starting to offer some of our courses via self-paced modules comprising of videos, workbooks etc that can be completed at a time and date that suits you for the ultimate flexibility.
When it comes to the different types of customer service training, they can be broadly split into these four categories:
1. Customer Service Induction Training
Typically one of the largest costs, induction customer service training is for your new employees and typically compromises a range of different components including:
- Company culture
- Technical Skills (how to use the systems and software)
- Product and Services
- Soft Skills (customer service, sales etc depending on the role)
Depending on the complexity of the role, it’s not uncommon for induction periods to last several months whereas for some customer service employees it can be as short as a few hours!
We offer a range of customer service training courses that can be used as part of your induction program, enabling you to focus on your product, services and systems training.
2. Fundamental Customer Service Skills Training
For employees who are new to customer service, learning the ‘basics’ is an important consideration for a successful outcome. This can include skills such as:
- Getting the greeting right
- How to engage with customers/build rapport
- Empathy
- Active Listening
- Call control
- Upselling and Cross-selling
We have a variety of courses that can ensure your employees are equipped with the right skills that are appropriate for your business.
3. Customer Service Refresher Training
Even if you’ve worked in a role for a long period of time, we all need to fine-tune our skills to ensure we are performing at our best.
If you’re looking for a short course for customer service, whether it’s to keep up with industry best-practic, perhaps formal training was never initially provided and they just ‘learnt on the job’ or you just need to give your employees a boost, the customer service refresher courses are a perfect solution!
Most of our ‘essential’ courses are just 3 hours long, making them efficient and effective in making an immediate improvement to your customer service.
4. Specialist Training
If you’ve got lots of employees on the phones, you may want to look at our contact centre team leader or manager courses that will enable you to improve efficiencies, quality and of course the customer experience.
You don’t need to be running a ‘call centre’ to benefit from these courses! Call Centres are simply a term used when there are a lot of employees working on the phones so don’t be put off.
Learning how to coach, monitor and lead employees who work on the phone, setting quality standards and so on are just as critical in a small team of admin employees as in a large contact centre.
I can’t see a course I like, do you offer customised courses?
Yes! Please contact us to discuss your exact requirements.
We aren’t a call centre/contact centre so will these courses be suitable?
Absolutely! Unfortunately, the word call centre/contact centre often has a negative perception and many businesses do not identify as having a call centre in their business.
Rather, they have a customer support team, office/admin team, customer service team, customer service centre, customer resolutions group, customer management team, customer liaison group and so on.
The good news is whatever name you have for your team, if you have employees who spend time on the phone talking to customers, all our courses are suitable!
Customer Service Training Statistics
The equation is pretty simple – a great customer experience results in a more loyal customer who spends more and stays longer.
And employee engagement and retention are also significantly higher which also deliver significant benefits for your business.
Take a look at some of these Customer Experience statistics:
- A customer is 4 times more likely to purchase from a competitor if they are having an issue related to Customer Service – not pricing or products.
- 86% of consumers are likely to repurchase from a brand that offers what they deem as being “excellent customer experience”.
- 73% of buyers point to customer experience as an important factor in purchasing decisions.
- 84% of organisations working to improve CX report an increase in revenue.
So what are customers basing their customer experience on? For the majority of customers, the interaction with your frontline team is the moment of truth.
Put simply, every single interaction your customer service employee handles can make the difference between business success or failure.
So why leave that to chance?
Recent Customer Service Training Courses Testimonials
We’re incredibly proud of the customer testimonials we’ve received for our customer service training courses. You can read some of the latest below or you can read all of our customer testimonials here >
Some of our recent customers
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Upcoming Public Customer Service Training Courses
You can purchase tickets to all the upcoming customer service training courses below. Just click on the course to view the exact dates and times and to secure your ticket(s).
Tickets can be purchased with a credit card or you can request an invoice on checkout.
If you’d like to discuss a private course booking please contact us >
November 2023 Customer Service Reception PRO
Perfect for receptionists/front-desk employees etc, this November 2023 Customer Service Reception PRO course will teach your employees premium customer service skills over 3 x 3-hour sessions.
November 2023 Customer Service Reception Essentials
The November 2023 Reception Essentials course teaches essential customer service skills for in-person, phone and email – suitable for all front desk/reception roles.
December 2023 Customer Service Phone Essentials
The December 2023 Customer Service Phone Essentials course is a 3-hour online course designed to teach premium customer service skills for phone-based employees.
December 2023 Customer Service Phone Professionals
Equip your employees with superior customer service skills in the December 2023 Customer Service Phone Professionals Training course with 9 hours of facilitated learning (3 x 3-hour sessions) suitable for all phone-based employees.
January 2024 Customer Service Reception PRO
Perfect for receptionists/front-desk employees etc, the January 2024 Customer Service Reception PRO course will teach your employees premium customer service skills over 3 x 3-hour sessions.
January 2024 Managing Difficult Customers
Learn how to manage angry, upset and difficult customers with confidence in this 2 x 4-hour January 2024 online course suitable for all customer-facing employees.
January 2024 Customer Service Phone Professionals
Equip your employees with superior customer service skills in the January 2024 Customer Service Phone Professionals Training course with 9 hours of facilitated learning (3 x 3-hour sessions) suitable for all phone-based employees.
January 2024 Customer Service Reception Essentials
The January 2024 Reception Essentials course teaches essential customer service skills for in-person, phone and email – suitable for all front desk/reception roles.