Technical Support and Help Desk Customer Service Training PRO Course
$548 AUD per person
Supercharge your Customer Support function!
The Technical Support and Help Desk Customer Service Training PRO course is a 9-hour training course (delivered over 3 x 3-hour virtual/online sessions or one-day onsite) designed to provide employees working in helpdesk, technical support or customer support roles with premium customer service 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 a customer support environment.
The skills taught align with the Australian Customer Experience Professionals Association (ACXPA) Contact Centre Quality Standards. They leverage the insights and assessment of over 50,000 phone calls to identify the five core competencies and 18 behaviours directly linked to positively impacting the customer experience.
The course teaches premium skills for customer support interactions, enabling employees to greet customers effectively, proactively identify needs and deliver solutions, communicate with energy and empathy, and farewell warmly and appreciatively.
Your employees will also learn and practice skills for handling customer objections, concerns, or issues, as well as the critical techniques for dealing with more aggressive or irate customers.
If you’re looking to improve the customer support experience for your business, this is the course for your business!
Technical Support and Help Desk Customer Service Training PRO course Fast Facts
Built for online or onsite training!
This course is offered as both an online/virtual training session or onsite.
Online Option
The online version of this course is delivered via 3 x 3-hour sessions (9 hours in total) and 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 to your business.
The public online version is delivered on three consecutive days (1 x 3-hour session each day), or for private online training sessions, you can have more flexibility in the schedule that works best for your business.
Onsite Option
The Technical Support and Help Desk Customer Service Training 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).
Course Suitability
The premium customer support skills we teach are applicable to all industries, products and services and are suitable for any employee who interacts with customers over the phone that requires customer support/assistance.
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 Technical Support and Help Desk Customer Service Training PRO course include:
- Technical support agents/employees.
- Help desk agent/employees.
- IT Helpdesk staff.
- Call centre agents that handle technical enquiries/support.
If you are looking for a shorter option, we also have the Technical Support & Help Desk Customer Service Training Essentials course, a single three-hour course that teaches the core essentials for tech support customer service.
We also have the Technical Support & Help Desk Customer Service Foundations course, a slightly shorter course, with 2 x 3-hour sessions (a total of six hours).
Technical Support and Help Desk Customer Service PRO Course Modules
Delivered over nine hours of online training (3 x 3-hour sessions) or 8 hours onsite, the Technical Support and Help Desk Customer Service Training PRO course will teach your employees the premium skills that the most successful customer support employees in the world use to deliver superior customer experiences and efficient first contact resolution.
The skills taught are aligned with the Australian Contact Centre Quality Standards, consisting of five core competencies and 18 behaviours required to deliver great customer service support over the phone, whether it’s working from the office, contact centre or working from home.
The training consists of powerful demonstrations and practice in the premium behaviours, with seven 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.
Session 1
1. The Psychology of Customer Service & Support
This module sets the scene about what customers want and needs when seeking customer support and workshops with participants on what makes a poor, average & superior tech or customer support experience.
We’ll teach your employees how to identify and understand the different types of difficult customers and what they need from their service experiences when they voice concerns.
This module also includes an exploration into the science behind emotions and how they can impact our brain chemistry and functions, which will help your employees better understand and manage challenging situations.
2. How to Engage
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.
A range of tech & customer support call-type simulations will be run for both group demonstration and lots of individual practice in the use of the key skills and behaviours learnt to better engage customers.
Session 2
3. Needs Discovery
We’ll teach your employees the three critical discovery techniques (as used by the FBI) to more effectively identify, check and confirm the root cause of customer issues that are driving them to seek support and what is needed to resolve their enquiries in an efficient manner.
The trainer will demonstrate the techniques across a range of scenarios to highlight their effectiveness and efficiency in driving better conversations that result in improved insights and problem-solving.
Individuals will then practice extensively with each other to develop new habits and capabilities within the session.
4. How to Educate
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.
Clarity, pacing, pausing and consistent checks of understanding, comfort and suitability are the key skills and behaviours covered.
Session 3
5. How to Close
Staff 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.
6. Handling Difficult Customers
This module includes an exploration of the science behind emotions and how they can impact our brain chemistry and functions. We will help your staff better understand what is happening with emotional customers in real-time and what is needed to validate and diffuse emotion effectively.
Participants will learn (and practice!) a powerful two-step method for dealing with those more challenging customer types that contact support/helpdesk areas with effective use of the most appropriate language, empathy techniques and actions required for better call outcomes.
7. Bringing it all together!
Your employees will have a chance to extensively practice their newfound customer support skills through role-playing end-to-end calls with each other.
This will enable them to build their confidence and embed some new call habits so they are ready to ‘hit the ground running’ and make an immediate impact in their roles and on your business.
About your Trainer, Simon Blair
The effectiveness of any training course is dependent on the skills and experience of the trainer, and the Technical Support and Help Desk Customer Service Training 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’.
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About CX Skills
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.
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Public and Private course delivery options
The Technical Support and Help Desk Customer Service Training PRO course is delivered either online/virtually or onsite and is offered both publicly (anyone can purchase a ticket) and privately (just for your employees), with the differences outlined below.
Public Courses
The Technical Support and Help Desk Customer Service Training PRO course is delivered as 3 x 3-hour live online/virtual sessions, enabling employees to upskill with minimal impact on your operations.
The times and dates are fixed to enable you to plan ahead, and being a public course, there will be others on the course, providing a great way to learn and share experiences (and know you aren’t alone in the challenges of providing technical support!)
We typically run the public course every two months, enabling you to plan well ahead to reduce the impact on your business. If you would like to have more flexibility on the dates and times or a session just for your employees, please refer to our private training options.
See upcoming available public dates at the bottom of this page!
Private & Customised Courses
Whilst the public courses can be a great way to interact with others and are perfect for small numbers, sometimes you need more flexibility with the dates and times, or you’d like the benefits of training larger groups of employees within your business, as well as keeping conversations “in-house” if that is important to you.
The private course option is the same course, but with the dates and times to suit you and it’s only for your employees. For example, instead of 1 x 3-hour sessions on consecutive days, we could space them out to once a week so the training is conducted on your quietest day of the week.
Private training can be delivered virtually/online or onsite, and we can also customise the training to add/delete modules or focus on different elements that are important to your business and incorporate specific examples for your business into the training.
Pricing and Payment Options
The Technical Support and Help Desk Customer Service Training PRO course is just $548 per employee ex GST.
Simply select the preferred public course date at the bottom of this page, along with how many tickets you’d like to purchase, or contact us to discuss a private booking.
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).
Available discounts:
- Save 15% when booking for three or more staff in the same transaction (note: the discount will be applied on the final checkout page, and no other discounts apply).
- ACXPA Members save 25% off all CX Skills courses (including this one), plus membership includes 15 self-paced training courses. Learn More >
- Want to train all your tech support employees? We offer volume discounts for training large teams. Contact us for customised pricing and availability.
Purchase a ticket to a public Technical Support and Help Desk Customer Service Training PRO course
All the publicly available Technical Support and Help Desk Customer Service Training PRO courses are listed below and are delivered virtually (online).
Click on your preferred date to purchase tickets.
Tickets can be purchased instantly using a credit card, or you can request an invoice on the checkout page.
If you have larger numbers (typically more than 6) and would like more flexibility with dates and times, contact us for pricing and availability on a private course.
New public course dates are published on a regular basis!
November 2024 Tech Support PRO
Online via Zoom Price: $498.00 AUD ex GSTEmpower your technical support/helpdesk employees with premium customer service skills in the November 2024 Tech Support PRO course delivered over 3 x 3-hour live virtual/online sessions (total 9 hours training).
January 2025 Tech Support PRO
Online via Zoom Price: $548.00 AUD ex GSTEmpower your technical support/helpdesk employees with premium customer service skills in the January 2025 Tech Support PRO course delivered over 3 x 3-hour live virtual/online sessions (total 9 hours training).
March 2025 Tech Support PRO
Online via Zoom Price: $548.00 AUD ex GSTEmpower your technical support/helpdesk employees with premium customer service skills in the March 2025 Tech Support PRO course delivered over 3 x 3-hour live virtual/online sessions (total 9 hours training).
This course is available for private bookings!
The course is also available to be delivered privately just for your employees, either onsite or online/virtually, with dates and times to suit you.
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