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When you're providing customer service over the phone, without face-to-face interaction, it can be challenging to establish the right customer relationships. There are many techniques that can help you consistently deliver service excellence over the telephone. In this course, you'll learn basic etiquette tips for answering, managing, and ending client service (CS) calls. You'll also learn how to make a good impression by listening, using questions to probe for more information, minding your tone, and empathizing with the customer. Finally, you'll learn ways of reflecting or adapting to your customer's style.

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Objectives

Customer Service over the Phone recall guidelines for answering calls and putting customers on hold list techniques for transferring and closing customer service calls recall techniques for maintaining a positive tone of voice on customer service calls identify examples of active listening techniques recognize examples of customer-focused language identify approaches to helping resolve customer problems recall techniques for mirroring a customer's language use proper etiquette and techniques when providing customer service via telephone