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Phone Customer Service Training
Practical phone customer service training that makes an immediate difference to every call. Your team learns to build rapport fast, stay in control of the call and resolve more at the first contact.
Choose Simon Blair’s Essentials, Foundations or PRO, or Daniel Ord’s Mastering Great Phone Conversations. Book a ticket on a live online public course, or train your whole team privately.
- ACXPA certified courses
- Built from 50,000+ assessed calls
- Certificate included
Trusted by leading organisationsHundreds of businesses, from local councils to national brands, have chosen CX Skills to upskill their teams. See who we’ve trained
What’s in it for your team
What your team will do differently on the phone
Your phone team is often the first impression customers get. A clumsy call costs you time, repeat contacts and goodwill.
Our training changes behaviours fast, so the difference shows in the very next calls, and in the results you report on.
- Fewer long calls, transfers and repeat contacts
- Higher customer satisfaction and first contact resolution
- More confident staff who stay in control of every call
Build rapport fast
Open every call warmly and professionally, and make a strong first impression.
Stay in control of the call
A clear call structure that keeps conversations focused, efficient and on track.
Find the real need
Questioning and listening techniques that uncover what the customer actually needs.
Calm difficult callers
De-escalate frustrated customers with confidence and protect your team’s wellbeing.
Resolve more first time
Fewer long calls, transfers and repeat contacts, and more issues resolved at first contact.
Lift customer satisfaction
Consistent, professional calls that improve CSAT and strengthen your brand.
Choose your course
Two expert trainers, two ways to build phone skills
Choose Simon Blair’s ready-made course in the length that suits you: Essentials, Foundations or PRO. They’re built from decades running contact centres and more than 50,000 assessed calls.
Or choose Daniel Ord’s Mastering Great Phone Conversations: one complete course from a global expert, with a proven 4-step pattern for every call.
Option 1Essentials, Foundations or PRO with Simon Blair About Simon Blair
Phone Customer Service Essentials
1 × 3-hour sessionlive online or onsite
$315per person, ex GST
Best for: new starters, or a fast refresh for experienced staff.
- Rapport and first impressions
- A clear structure for every call
- Questioning and active listening
- Professional, positive language
Phone Customer Service Foundations
2 × 3-hour sessionsor a half day onsite
$485per person, ex GST
Best for: anyone who wants skills to stick through practice.
- Everything in Essentials
- More role plays with live coaching
- Handling difficult customers
- Fewer repeat contacts
Phone Customer Service PRO
3 × 3-hour sessionsor a full day onsite
$645per person, ex GST
Best for: teams who want to master phone service.
- Everything in Foundations
- Advanced call control
- De-escalation and service recovery
- Consistent, measurable call quality
Option 2With Daniel Ord
Want one complete course from a global expert?
Mastering Great Phone Conversations with Daniel Ord teaches a proven 4-step pattern for every call: Greet, Listen, Control and Solve.
Two live 4-hour sessions, with plenty of practice and a focus on sounding natural and human.
- 2 × 4 hourslive online
- $550per person, ex GST
- Public or privateone ticket or your team
Trainer: Daniel Ord · 50,000+ people trained in 40+ countries
Three ways to train
Book a ticket for one person, bring the training to your whole team, or learn at your own pace.
Public course
Join a scheduled live online class
- Essentials or Foundations
- Fixed dates, easy to plan ahead
- Book one ticket or several
- Save 15% when you book 3 or more
Private team training
Your team only, as-is or tailored
- Essentials, Foundations or PRO
- Or tailored around your products
- Live online or onsite, on your dates
- Minimum 5 participants
Self-paced online
Short video lessons, any time
- From $9.15 per person a month
- 400+ practical lessons and quizzes
- Manager dashboards, custom pathways
- Certificates for every course
Not sure which course suits your team? Ask for a recommendation
Getting sign-off?
Compare all three courses, in one PDF
Download a two-page course guide that compares Essentials, Foundations and PRO: length, price, availability and what each level covers, ready to forward or attach to an approval.
Upcoming live public courses
Book a public phone customer service course
Essentials, Foundations and Mastering Great Phone Conversations run live online via Zoom. Book one ticket or several, and pay by card or request an invoice at checkout.
- 27Oct2026Phone Customer Service FoundationsTue 27 and Wed 28 Oct · 9:30am–12:30pm AEDT · 2 × 3 hours · Online via ZoomGive your team a proven structure for every call, plus the confidence to handle difficult customers, in this 2 × 3-hour live online course with Simon Blair, Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 October 2026.$485ex GSTView course
- 10Nov2026Customer Service Phone EssentialsTue 10 Nov · 1:30–4:30pm AEDT · 3 hours · Online via ZoomGive your team a proven structure for every customer call in this 3-hour live online course with Simon Blair, on Tuesday 10 November 2026.$315ex GSTView course
- 1Dec2026Phone Customer Service FoundationsTue 1 and Wed 2 Dec · 9:30am–12:30pm AEDT · 2 × 3 hours · Online via ZoomGive your team a proven structure for every call, plus the confidence to handle difficult customers, in this 2 × 3-hour live online course with Simon Blair, Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 December 2026.$485ex GSTView course
- 10Dec2026Customer Service Phone EssentialsThu 10 Dec · 9:30am–12:30pm AEDT · 3 hours · Online via ZoomGive your team a proven structure for every customer call in this 3-hour live online course with Simon Blair, on Thursday 10 December 2026.$315ex GSTView course
- 14Jan2027Customer Service Phone EssentialsThu 14 Jan · 1:30–4:30pm AEDT · 3 hours · Online via ZoomGive your team a proven structure for every customer call in this 3-hour live online course with Simon Blair, on Thursday 14 January 2027.$315ex GSTView course
- 11Feb2027Phone Customer Service FoundationsThu 11 and Fri 12 Feb · 1:00–4:00pm AEDT · 2 × 3 hours · Online via ZoomGive your team a proven structure for every call, plus the confidence to handle difficult customers, in this 2 × 3-hour live online course with Simon Blair, Thursday 11 and Friday 12 February 2027.$485ex GSTView course
- 16Feb2027Mastering Great Phone ConversationsTue 16 and Wed 17 Feb · 12:30–4:30pm AEDT · 2 × 4 hours · Online via ZoomLearn a clear structure for every customer call, from hello to solution, in this 2 x 4-hour February 2027 live online course with Daniel Ord.$550ex GSTView course
- 18Mar2027Customer Service Phone EssentialsThu 18 Mar · 9:30am–12:30pm AEDT · 3 hours · Online via ZoomGive your team a proven structure for every customer call in this 3-hour live online course with Simon Blair, on Thursday 18 March 2027.$315ex GSTView course
We’ll be adding new course dates soon. Can’t wait? Talk to us about a private course.
Who it’s for
Who is phone customer service training for?
Anyone who speaks with customers on the phone, from new starters to experienced staff who want sharper skills.
Customer service teams
Phone-based support and account management in any industry.
Reception and office staff
Managing incoming calls for businesses, practices and service desks.
Call centre agents
Inbound enquiries, complaints and support calls in contact centres of any size.
Small business teams
Anyone taking customer calls who wants to sound more professional.
Healthcare and professional services
Patient and client calls that need care, clarity and discretion.
Retail and ecommerce support
Product enquiries, orders and complaints handled by phone.
Looking for all our customer service training? Browse all customer service courses
ACXPA certified
Want your calls to meet the standard ACXPA uses to assess customer service?
CX Skills is the official training partner of ACXPA, which sets the standards used to assess customer service and publishes the Australian Call Centre Rankings.
Our phone customer service courses are ACXPA certified, so your team learns the behaviours that phone service is actually measured on.
- ACXPA certified phone customer service courses
- Built on the standards used to assess customer service
- ACXPA members save 25% on every live public course
ACXPA membership
Want the tools and support to handle every call with confidence?
ACXPA membership is a practitioner-built, vendor-neutral toolkit for anyone who looks after customers on the phone, and you don’t need to book a course to use it.
Members get self-paced courses on phone skills and difficult customers, a complaints framework your whole team can follow, the standards ACXPA uses to assess customer service calls, and live access to contact centre leaders every fortnight.
- 17self-paced courses with certificates
- 65+tools, templates and resources
- 50+hours of live expert access a year
- 25%off CX Skills live public courses
Sharpen your skills, any time
Self-paced courses on phone skills, service excellence, difficult customers and complaints, each with a workbook, quiz and certificate.
Plus one-minute refreshers that work well in a team huddle.
Handle every complaint the same way
The 7-Step Complaints Handling Framework, staff cheat sheets and logging tools in the Complaints Handling Hub.
Built to reduce escalations and restore customer trust.
Live expert access
A relaxed, off-the-record Open Mic on Zoom every second Tuesday with ACXPA’s founder and CEO.
Plus monthly CX and Call Centre Roundtables, kept in a searchable library.
Plus member tools built for phone teams
See where your service stands
The Customer Service Health Check rates you across 17 dimensions, with a full diagnostic and action plan for members.
The standard your calls are judged on
The ACXPA Global Contact Centre CX Standards: the phone behaviours ACXPA uses to assess customer service calls.
Spot who needs coaching
The Agent Performance Matrix plots each person on quality versus productivity, so coaching goes where it helps most.
An ACXPA Individual Membership is $197 ex GST a year, and Business Membership starts at $497 for a team of five, under $100 per person.
Every member gets 25% off CX Skills live public courses: five people on one $485 Foundations course save $606.25, more than a Business Membership costs.
Why CX Skills
Why our phone training gets better results
We’re not a traditional training company. Our trainers come from operations, have worked the phones and led teams, so every technique is one that works on real calls.
100% phone-focused
Every technique, tip and activity is built around phone conversations, not generic customer service.
Built from real calls
We’ve assessed over 50,000 phone calls, so the training focuses on what actually drives better outcomes.
Practical sessions
Role plays, live demonstrations and coaching keep people involved and using what they learn.
Trainers who’ve done it
Usually delivered by Simon Blair, one of Australia’s most experienced customer service trainers.
Measurable results
Skills that lift call quality, customer satisfaction and first contact resolution, and are easy to track.
Industry standards
ACXPA certified, and built on the standards used to assess customer service.
Reviews
What participants say about our phone training
Verified reviews from people who’ve completed our phone customer service courses.
374 verified reviews across all CX Skills courses
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FAQs
Phone customer service training FAQs
Course options, delivery, pricing and who the training suits.
Who is phone customer service training for?
Essentials vs Foundations vs PRO: what changes?
- Essentials: 1 × 3-hour session covering the fundamentals.
- Foundations: 2 × 3-hour sessions with more role play, coaching and feedback.
- PRO: 3 × 3-hour live online sessions or a full day onsite, adding advanced call control, de-escalation and service recovery. PRO is private only.
How much does phone customer service training cost?
What is Mastering Great Phone Conversations?
What’s the difference between public and private courses?
Will a public course definitely go ahead?
Is the training delivered online or in person?
Can the training be customised for our business?
Do participants receive a certificate?
Are the courses ACXPA certified?
Is there a self-paced option?
How do I book?
Talk to us
Questions about training your team?
Book a call to talk it through, or send us a message and we’ll get back to you.
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Prefer the phone? Call +61 3 9008 7287 (Mon–Fri, 8:30–17:30 Melbourne time) or email hello@cxskills.com.au.
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