This course is for anyone in a Customer Service position. The training is onsite or virtual and uses the adult-learning model. Focus is on retaining and upselling customers, relationship building, and increasing customer satisfaction ratings. Topics include: Cross selling, Handling difficult situations, Optimizing the customer service call process. Skills are developed in the areas of Empathy, Tonality, How to identify new opportunities, Words/phrases to avoid, How to give bad news, and Dealing with an irate customer. Best practices are examined for the call greeting and overall demeanor, customer interaction, information handling and knowledge, and sales approach.