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Telephone Communication Skills

Telephone Communication Skills

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Telephone Communication Skills - The Telephone is Crucial

The telephone is crucial to all businesses.

Communication is a huge part of life and often taken for granted, so much so that over time, bad habits can be formed unconsciously. How many business opportunities are missed or wasted through behaviours that are not well-focused whilst on the telephone?

This one-day workshop focuses on verbal communication and how it should be used in a telephone environment.

Who Should Attend?

Sales, Collections, Reception, Customer Service or Support.

If you deal with existing or potential customers or clients on the phone this is the course for you

Content

This workshop will focus on the following areas

Identifying your strengths

  • Self-awareness
  • Identify areas that could be improved on

The importance of using Positive Vocabulary

  • How important words are. Saying what you can and will do, rather than what you can’t!
  • Promoting a positive mindset and attitude

Reflective listening

  • Great listening skills and their importance. Do we really listen or just hear?

Understanding and managing first impressions

Handling calls in a consistent manner

The importance of Empathy

  • Dealing with difficult/aggressive callers
  • Getting information quickly and effectively
  • How to ask the right questions for different situations
  • How to summarise and ensure both parties have understood

Telephone communication over face-to-face

  • Pluses and minuses
  • Identifying the difference

Mental attitude

  • The way you feel and how it affects the way you sound
  • Flexibility

Voice: What impression does yours give?

  • Stress
  • Inflection
  • Clarity
  • Speed
  • Enthusiasm
  • Empathy

Positivity

  • If you think you can or you think you can’t
  • You’re absolutely right
  • Say what you can and will do, not what you can’t do
  • The importance of self-belief
  • How to change the way we feel about a situation by changing the words used to tell it

Delegate Feedback

"Wonderful, interesting, relaxing, understandable and friendly."
Service Administrator, Ceva Security Gates Ltd

"Informative - incentive to re-assess one's approach."
Reception, Wrexham School

"Very useful insight into telecommunication skills, including what you should and shouldn't say to customers and other people calling the company."
Operations Support Admin, RED Scientific Ltd

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Workshop Style

This training course is delivered in a workshop style. It is highly participative with a blend of presentation, group exercises and debate.  A comprehensive delegate pack is included. .

Numbers

To ensure effective levels of delegate participation, involvement and interaction, delegate numbers are restricted.  This workshop is suitable for groups of 2 to 20 delegates.

Certification

Formal CPD certificates are provided after the event in a form which is acceptable as CPD evidence to many professional bodies and institutions.

Facilitator

The facilitator for this workshop is a highly experienced trainer with in-depth subject knowledge.