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Writing Web Content (Master Class)-Self Directed ... to the screen, or from a conventional Help system to Web customer assistance, demands a new approach. Learn to write the Web way, responding to your visitors with all the give-and-take of a conversation, replying to their questions, addressing their needs, and assuaging their doubts. When you write hot text, you get your point across quickly, provoke action, and satisfy your toughest  more...

Writing Web Content (Master Class) ... to the screen, or from a conventional Help system to Web customer assistance, demands a new approach. Learn to write the Web way, responding to your visitors with all the give-and-take of a conversation, replying to their questions, addressing their needs, and assuaging their doubts. When you write hot text, you get your point across quickly, provoke action, and satisfy your toughest  more...

Influence Your Customer to Take Action and Buy ...s. Selling is a balance of give and take. You give your customer what they want to know about your product or service can do for them, and then they `take` it from you in exchange for a price. Most often referred to as closing, you ask them to make a decision by suggesting they take action. According to the old school of selling, "getting action" is closing. But the word "closed" establishes  more...

Selling the Way Your Customer Buys Learn how to read your clients,adapt your presentation and build a solid business relationship.  more...

How to Build And Maintain Rapport With Your Clients ...d get beyond small talk. Whether it`s a salesperson with customer, manager with employee, teacher with student or parent with child, rapport skills are the foundation for successful communications. As we think of rapport being a degree of harmony that we have with someone, it takes on powerful dimensions in developing relationships. And when a person is responsive to you and your intentions,  more...

Boost Your Self-Confidence And Enjoy Selling Success Reinforce your self-motivation, understand how to improve your attitude and set goals. Selling success is part product and industry knowledge, part people and communication skills and part attitude and perspective. Strengthen your self-image, set and achieve goals that reach your company`s and your own expectations and reinforce your self-motivation to take control of what you can to reach your  more...

How to Ask The Right Questions To Maximize Influence And Minimize Objections ...e questions, you can better direct your answers to show a customer how your product or service is the best fit for them. Your customer has previous buying experiences where he or she has formed doubts and concerns. Concerns orobjections are natural in sales. Be ready to recognize objections and allow them to be a way for you to demonstrate how what you have to offer can reduce or relieve the  more...

Introduction to Customer Relationship Management CRM -Part 1 DISCONTINUED--Step into the world of CRM with this foundation course in Customer Relationship Management and learn how the practice of effective CRM can not only transform you into a highly successful business professional but also improve your company`s bottom line by helping you expand and retain your valuable customer base.  more...

Customer Relationship Management CRM -Part 2 DISCONTINUED--Advanced CRM is the second and final part of our program. The course will teach you how to independently develop a CRM plan for your organization after conducting a focused analysis of your organization`s business processes and customer profile.  more...

Dealing with Customer Complaints ...customers complain, it shows they care. You want customers to complain so you can fix the problem. The challenge is to know the best way to resolve the situation. During this program, you'll learn why an organization should seek customer complaints, and learn appropriate customer service responses. You'll also learn a technique to help work through challenging customer service situations.The  more...

Winning Over Difficult Customers ...or getting the attention and cooperation of the difficult customer. Concerns, objections and difficulties in customers come in a variety of styles. They might be uncertain, angry, clammed up or just plain rude. If you and your customer could read each other`s mind there would likely be none or at least few of these encounters. The reality is your customer has previous buying experiences that  more...

Tour Operator Certificate - Instructor Led ...transporation, air reservations, tour products, sales and customer service and air fares. The Tour Operator Certificate Program consists of seven individual courses (see course list below). Each course includes instruction, student-instructor interacation through email and message boards, assigments and a final exam. Courses require 20- 30 contact hours for completion and are self paced but  more...

Travel Agent Certificate Program - Instructor Led ...avel products, destination geography and travel sales and customer service. The Travel Agent Certificate Program consists of twelve individual courses (see course list below). Each course includes instruction, student-instructor interaction through email and message boards, assignments and a final exam. Courses require 20- 30 contact hours for completion and are self paced but individual  more...

The Art of Professional Telephone Communication ...you are at the disadvantage of not being able to see your customer. There are verbal skills and strategies you can use to turn the telephone into a selling advantage. Tuning in to key words will indicate buying style and presentation preferences. You want to know how to ?read? your customer with those key words. Your use of both incoming and outgoing voice mail affects the success you have  more...

Six Sigma Management and Leadership Training Program This course will teach you about the methodology and implementation of Six Sigma in your organization. Self-Directed. Many organizations use our courseware for their yellow belt, green belt, and black belt programs handling the project components internally on real life (versus contrived) situations. In the 21st Century, and its global economy, the skills of Process Efficiency is paramount to an  more...

Selling With an Unfair Advantage: No Lying, Cheating or Deception ...of ideas, strategies, models and techniques that help the customer to make a quality buying decision. Here you will have 5 sessions which cover these ideas. There will be discussion on strengthening your self-confidence and motivation; the selling approach to your prospects way of buying; skills for physical, vocal and language effectiveness; how to find and reach prospects; gaining and  more...

Sales Through Service Skills ...the communication skills to identify, meet and beat their customers expectations. It will help them through the sales through service process: first contact, explore customer needs, match the needs, close the deal and take the extra step. It will also help to analyze what the customer wants and needs by combining active listening and effective questioning...so they can make a real  more...

SalesPlus ...rtunities that result not only in sales but in developing customers who will continue to do business with them time and time again. Identifying potential sales opportunities, making the sale, and creating a customer relationship that will result in future business is the art of selling. By the end of this course you will know the process of selling, the conditions necessary for a customer to  more...

QuickBooks Pro 2001 Level 1 ...small business. Specific features of interest include the Customer Detail Center and the Vendor Detail Center. After completing this course, even students with limited accounting knowledge will be at ease using QuickBooks Pro 2001 to create and manage the financial information of a small business. Students will complete such tasks as creating invoices, making payments, entering receipts, and  more...

Providing Excellent Customer Service in a Multicultural Environment ... give you some guidelines to help you serve multicultural customers. Providing excellent customer service in a multicultural environment Serving diverse and multicultural customers is an exciting and challenging part of working in libraries today. But it also presents situations that may be new and unsettling for you. This course will help you begin to understand people with different  more...

Professional Bar Management Mastery Level Certification ...profits, sales promotions, hiring and training employees, customer service and all staff issues. Unlike long-term hospitality programs, this practical and effective course acts as a supplement, concentrating solely on the bar area. Simplified and easy to comprehend, you will not waste time learning useless information and you will be prepared to handle the physical, emotional and mental demands  more...

Professional Bar Management ...u simple ways to handle difficult situations with unhappy customers and employees, the duties of each employee, and key factors which are vital to a successful business. Professional Bar Management Managing a bar or restaurant can be an overwhelming experience. The physical, emotional and mental demands are extreme. This class will teach you simple ways to handle difficult situations with  more...

Management & Leadership Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Training Program This course will teach you how to effectively and efficiently implement a system of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) for your organization. In the 21st Century, and its global economy, the skill of continually improving quality is vitally important to an organization's longevity and success. Whether you are in the service or production business, this course provides a proactive method of  more...

Keep Them Coming Back: Customer Retention Strategies That Work--Instructor-Led ...eating the kind of message that truly resonates with your customers.Students may complete this course within a reasonable period of time. Contact Hours give an indication of how much time is needed to take this class. As an extra added value, registered students will have unlimited access to course materials for 12 months from the day of enrollment. Keep Them Coming Back--Instructor-Led A  more...

Keep Them Coming Back: Customer Retention Strategies That Work--Self-Directed ...eating the kind of message that truly resonates with your customers.Students may complete this course within a reasonable period of time. Contact Hours give an indication of how much time is needed to take this class. As an extra added value, registered students will have unlimited access to course materials for 12 months from the day of enrollment. Keep Them Coming Back --Self-Directed A  more...

ISO 13485 Medical Devices General Employee Training ...dical devices and related services that consistently meet customer (and regulatory) requirements applicable to medical devices and related services. This standard includes unique clauses for medical devices and excludes some of the requirements of ISO 9001 that are not applicable. Therefore, conformance to ISO 9001 does not imply conformance to 13485 and vice versa. They must be independently  more...

ISO 9001:2000 General Employee Training ...t". This means what the organization does to: Fulfill the customer's quality requirements Meet applicable regulatory requirements enhance customer satisfaction achieve continual improvement of its performance in pursuit of these objectives. After you place your order, you will receive a user name, password and log-in instructions. You will log-in and work through our interactive training for  more...

Introduction to Customer Relationship Management-Part 1 ...y`s highly competitive business environment, knowing your customers well and effectively interacting with them is a mission-critical exercise. This emphasis on developing and enhancing customer loyalty has evolved over the years and is now called Customer Relationship Management or CRM. This is an Instructor-Led course. Introduction to Customer Relationship Management (CRM)-Part 1 In today?s  more...

How to Serve Your Customer This course looks at increasing customer service levels. This course explores how to create better customer service in a variety of atmospheres and locations. The course works for the beginning worker or management level.  more...

Hotel Certificate Program - Instructor Led ...l. This includes instruction in hotle products, sales and customer service and ground transportation. The Hotel Certificate Program consists of four individual courses (see course list below). Each course includes instruction, student-instructor interacation through email and message boards, assigments and a final exam. Courses require 20- 30 contact hours for completion and are self paced but  more...

Fair & Unfair Competition Rules ... company's business decisions hiring, marketing, sales, customer-relations, and research and development, among others and are important for employees to understand. Violations of these rules can be very damaging to a company generally and, in some cases, to individual employees. Unfair Competition The rules regarding what is fair and unfair competition affect virtually all of a company's  more...

Customer Service Certificate ...series is designed to help users create and maintain good customer services. Concepts covered include defining company-wide customer service and standards, strategies for effective communication, and effective problem resolution. This self-directed course can be completed within 90 days or sooner depending on time and learning capabilities of the student. Welcome to Customer Service  more...

Customer Service for Bars and Restaurants-Online ...customer service is for a pleasant dining experience and bar owners know that excellent and friendly service are vital to repeat business. From this online course employees will learn sales techniques, in addition to hospitality skills. Bar and restaurant consultant, Kellie Nicholson, stresses the value of a smile and a kind word for greater tips and the return of loyal customers. Customer  more...

Customer Service Plus ... success and failure in today s business environment is customer service. In this course you ll learn the basics of customer service and how to consistently provide high-quality customer service. User is given 1 year access to this course. Customer Service Plus The difference between success and failure in today?s business environment is customer service. In this course you?ll learn the  more...

Cruise Line Certificate Program - Instructor Led ...ludes instruction in cruise product, air reservations and customer service. The Cruise Line Certificate Program consists of six individual courses (see course list below). Each course includes instruction, student-instructor interacation through email and message boards, assigments and a final exam. Courses require 20- 30 contact hours for completion and are self paced but individual courses  more...

Customer Astonishment: The Commitment to World-Class Customer Care ...Customer loyalty is the crowning achievement in any business. Customer loyalty is absolute leverage on profitability and growth. It means that your success is cumulative from year to year. In today`s business environment, a satisfied customer is no longer enough. We have all entered a new age wherein we must positively astonish our customers by anticipating their needs. To be Customer Need  more...

Build Your Own BIZ(tm) - Selling Skills This course is designed to sharpen your selling skills and help you close more sales. It will also help you set sales goals and measure the effectiveness of your sales force. Build Your Selling Skills and Close More Sales This course is designed to sharpen your selling skills and help you close more sales. The class includes text and downloadable resources. Description of Course Selling Skills  more...

Build Your Own BIZ(tm) Comprehensive Certificate ...f-paced study modules in the areas of Business Operation, Customer Service, Finance, Sales and Marketing, and Human Resources. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS What is Build Your Own BIZ?? Build Your Own BIZ? is a comprehensive Web site that provides small business owners with timely expert advice, actionable templates, and mission-critical insights to daily challenges in the following areas:  more...

Build Your Own BIZ(tm) - Customer Service Strategies ...customer service and help you define who your customers are, how to measure customer service, and determine the appropriate methods for obtaining customer feedback. You will receive as a bonus 1 year unlimited access to this course from the day of enrollment. If attempting to accelerate your learning (1-2 weeks or less), please pay special attention to key points so you may successfully apply  more...

Build Your Own BIZ(tm) - Customer Service That Sells ...customer service culture that is dedicated to serving your customers. You will receive as a bonus 1 year unlimited access to this course from the day of enrollment. If attempting to accelerate your learning (1-2 weeks or less), please pay special attention to key points so you may successfully apply the information gained from this course to your particular business situation. Create a Culture  more...

Basic Internet Specialist Certificate ...websites that sell. Students will learn how to deal with customers concerns, and the best way to provide support. Students will also learn how to deal with and avoid viruses. Along with creating websites, students will also learn about traffic reports and what they will mean to them as Webmasters. The most important principle in regards to the Internet, is how to use it to get the most  more...

Bartending to the Max-Online ... basics of tending bar, this course emphasizes ethics and customer service, which is invaluable knowledge for anyone who works in a bar or restaurant. The class is extremely beneficial to bar owners, managers, waitresses and novice bartenders, also. Hollywood bartender Kellie Nicholson has condensed over twenty-five years of experience into a course that will give you the confidence to step  more...

Bartending the Easy Way-Online ... This class will prepare you to be a great salesperson, a customer service expert and an honest and valuable employee, skills that will help you succeed throughout life. The lessons taught are extremely beneficial to managers, waitresses and novice bartenders, also. Bartending the Easy Way-Online For those who are serious about becoming a professional bartender, this course could be completed  more...

AS9100 Aerospace Standard General Employee Training ...te its ability to consistently provide product that meets customer and applicable regulatory requirements. Customer satisfaction is increased through the application of the system and using a process approach for continual improvement of the system, much like ISO 9000. After you place your order, you will receive a user name, password and log-in instructions. You will log-in and work through  more...

Advanced Customer Relationship Management -Part 2 ...ed analysis of your organization`s business processes and customer profile. This is an Instructor-Led course Advanced Customer Relationship Management (CRM)-Part 2 In todays highly competitive business environment, knowing your customers well and effectively interacting with them is a mission-critical exercise. This emphasis on developing and enhancing customer loyalty has evolved over the  more...

A+ 2003 Complete Bundle (90 days of online training for PC Technicians) This Online training provides a comprehensive study package designed to prepare a computer technician for CompTIA`s A+ 2003 Certification exam. The A+ 2003 Complete Bundle package features: +Prerequisite study material. +A prerequisite test to help gauge your level of preparation. +More than 28 hours of interactive, multimedia training. +More than 1,000 pages of printable reference material to  more...

911 OPERATOR TDD TRAINING According to the Americans with Disabilities Act: "PSAPs should require or offer refresher training to recognize and process TTY calls at least as often as they require or offer training for voice calls, but at a minimum, every six months." This innovative online course consists of an online, interactive lesson. Once the lesson is completed, students participate in simulated conversations with  more...

Demanding Customers ...Customers The Demanding Customers course guides sales and service providers through a series of scenario based option paths. This will show the participant how to manage an angry customer, understand why a customer might be shy and help an undecided customer come to a decision. It will help to deal with a customer who isn?t right, but who is a customer, and who ? with skill ? will still be one  more...

Complaints And Angry Customers ...Customers The Complaints and Angry Customers course helps sales and service providers understand how to approach the more difficult and challenging situations they?ll encounter. It provides participants with a 6 step method for handling complaints, communication strategies for staying in control and for soothing feelings that are running high. And it equips participants with a process to help  more...

Negotiating for the Sales Professional ...tion -- An effective sales professional knows how to meet customer needs while assuring reasonable terms and profit for his or her own company. This course has techniques for identifying customer expectations and determining how to meet them in a way that both parties are satisfied by the results. There are checklists and discussion guidelines to help a sales professional master this essential  more...

Dealing with Difficult Customers ...customers are the most informed and demanding shoppers ever. For a service representative, meeting the demands of one of these savvy customers can be a customer service nightmare! Taking this course will wake you from the nightmare and show you how to calm angry customers and resolve their complaints while keeping your cool. IMPORTANT NOTE: INTERNET EXPLORER (IE) BROWSER REQUIRED - can't use  more...

How To Master Team Building Course description -- Meeting business objectives and maximizing resources requires effective teamwork, and this bundle will build the basic competencies that will ensure your teams are organized, goal-oriented, and customer-focused. Together they provide a toolkit of effective techniques and strategies for building high-performing teams in any function or discipline. IMPORTANT NOTE: INTERNET  more...

Managing Projects Course description -- The Strategies and Tips in this course will take you through the steps of managing a project, from defining the requirements to managing the implementation. You will be given tools and methods for organizing the project activities, focusing on customer needs, and leading the project team to successful completion. There are suggestions for resolving plan and budget conflicts,  more...

Telephone Skills for Quality Customer Service ...es are an everyday part of business and often aid in your customersa first impression of your company. This course identifies telephone skills needed to be successful and more professional. It provides strategies to enable you to give your callers the quality service they deserve. You will learn tips for handling the telephone, ways to manage the discussions, and how to influence your  more...

Basics of Effective Selling Course description -- Selling is a complex and sophisticated process, but successful sales begin and end with the basic essentials. This course includes an overview of the selling process, and provides worksheets and checklists to take you from contact list through sales call and on to follow-up and referrals. There are tools for identifying the features and benefits of your product and service,  more...

Certified Help Desk Professional Online This online course is a practical alternative for busy customer support professionals.  more...

Building Strong Customer Relationships ...description -- This course will help you get to know your customer as you use the tools that are provided to conduct customer audits and listen to customer feedback. There are techniques for developing a customer focus and gaining the commitment of all employees to excellent customer service. A company-wide customer friendly culture will be just one of the payoffs youa ll get from using the  more...

How To Master Customer Service ...Customer service personnel are the frontline in making your customers happy and developing your reputation as a quality company. The How to Master Customer Service bundle addresses three vital aspects of customer servicea developing a customer-oriented culture, using effective telephone skills for quality customer service, and dealing with those occasional, but very important, difficult  more...

A Day 4 - Chapters 14-18 This course is designed to teach the computer technician the skills needed to pass the CompTIA A+ Certification tests. This fourth of a 4-part or day (i.e. "day" - a really full day - about 10 hours of training) course covers the skills needed to work with Windows 2000, including the alerter service, the Recovery Console, communications, and file protection. This section also explains networks and  more...

SAP Accounts Receivable Accounting ...in SAP with hands-on exercises - learn how to work with customer records, balances and line items - learn how to post, search and display customer documents - post customer payments and process dunning runs - run important financial reports such as A/ R Info systems, Customer balances, Customer lists Release: ECC 6. 0 (newest SAP release) Audience: - End users - Accountants  more...

Presenting Your Proposition Even the most confident sales people can feel their self-assurance dissolve when required to make a formal sales presentation. This course is about giving you the confidence, not only to present, but also to get commitment from your customer. Demonstrating a structure that can be adapted to most situations, this course will equip you with the skills needed to deal with the most intimidating  more...

Negotiating to Mutual Benefit The key to being a skilled negotiator is understanding the difference between negotiating and giving money away. This course demonstrates the stages and rules that will gain you a win/win solution, and with it long-term business. If you follow the guidelines set out here, you will be able to handle customer strategies and still close the deal on terms that keep both your company and your customer  more...

From Executive-level Sale to Strategic Partnership Selling at an executive level doesn't stop when the contract is signed. To develop the business and prevent attack from the competition, major accounts need nurturing. This course illustrates how knowledge of various corporate cultures will give you a customer compatible approach that safeguards and maximizes your account revenue.  more...

Understanding Your Customer ...customer you know nothing about? You probably wouldn't succeed. The better you know your customer, the higher your chance for success. In this course, you'll learn about the first major component of the strategic account sales (SAS) approach: research. You'll start by learning about the key areas to research using the SAS approach and where to find business information sources about your  more...

Conducting Effective Sales Research Meetings ... your target accounts is important for understanding your customer's business. But only by conducting research meetings will you learn the "inside" information you need to truly understand the business fit between your company and your customer. In this course, you'll learn about bringing your research and communication skills together in strategic account sales (SAS) research meetings. You'll  more...

Working with Your Customer s Key Players ...customer relationships are essential for long-term sales success. In this course, you'll learn about the second major component of the Strategic Account Sales (SAS) approach--communication. You'll start by learning about developing coach relationships in your target account. A vital part of your sales effectiveness depends on finding contacts at target accounts that can become part of an  more...

Understanding Your Target Customer s Business ...customer that you know nothing about. Do you think it would be an easy process? Probably not. The better you know your customer, the better your chances for success. In this course, you'll learn about the first major component of the territorial account sales (TAS) approach--research. You'll gain an understanding of the benefits of good research and how to gather information from public  more...

Effectively Using Customer-focused Research Meetings In this course, you'll learn about bringing your research and communication skills together in territorial account research meetings. By conducting research meetings, you'll get the inside perspective you need to truly understand your customer. You'll start by learning how to prepare for an effective research meeting. Next, you'll explore how to conduct research meetings to gather desired  more...

Sales Communications Foundations ...nications skills to effectively instruct your prospective customers and help them discover the value of your offerings, and you must seduce them with the customer experience you offer. Every buying decision that has ever been made, or ever will be made, is an emotional decision rationalized with facts. Your communications skills are the crucial element behind stirring the emotions of your  more...

Field Sales Foundations ...rse builds the foundation for a strategy that changes the customer's perception of the salesperson from a mere vendor to a consultant and true business resource. Field Sales Foundations introduces you to the basics of the field sales approach. You'll learn about its value and the importance of customer perceptions, premises for choosing the field sales approach, how it compares with a purely  more...

Planning Your Field Sales Approach ...o efficiently plan their sales approach for both existing customers and prospects, as well as managing their time and territories effectively. Planning Your Field Sales Approach provides practical tools for determining call and meeting objectives and developing appropriate openings for face-to-face selling situations. Included in the course are detailed descriptions of the six customer buying  more...

Applying Your Field Sales Approach ...ld sales representatives is their ability to assess their customers' needs, determine sales opportunities, and access the decision makers--often in one or two sales calls. Sound impossible? It's not if the sales professional applies the essentials presented in Applying Your Field Sales Approach. This course provides sales strategies to change your customers' perceptions of you from vendor to  more...

Completing Your Field Sales Approach What does it take to successfully present valuable solutions and close sales while achieving a sense of accomplishment and trust between you and your customer? Completing Your Field Sales Approach highlights how to present sales solutions and close sales with your customers. Included in the course are steps and tips for overcoming customer objections effectively. You'll have opportunities to  more...

Preparing for Outbound Sales Calls ...ed. Being prepared means knowing what to expect from your customer and planning your responses. In this course, you will learn about the common perceptions customers have of salespeople. You will also learn the three premises of the inside sales approach, the structure of this approach, and the six buying roles. The course outlines the steps involved in precall planning, including recognizing  more...

Initiating Outbound Sales Calls ...ime you have to make a solid, positive impression on your customer. Knowing how to initiate an inside sales call is a key to your success. In this course, you will learn the strategies for dealing with voice mail and call screeners and for making a successful initial contact with a customer. You will also learn the four profile types and strategies for creating account profiles. In this course,  more...

Preparing for Inbound Sales Calls ...essful inside sales agent begins planning long before the customer calls. Successful inside selling is all about being prepared, and that means thinking ahead on customer inquiries and responses you will give. This course identifies the common perceptions that customers have of salespeople. In the course, you will learn the three premises of the inside sales approach, the structure of this  more...

Assessing Customer Behavior ...customer-centric business model, dealing with all customers in a positive and efficient manner is paramount. But this goal can become daunting to a TSA who has not developed the ability to identify various behavior types and apply appropriate techniques to deal with them in a way that builds a positive relationship between the customer and the company. This course instructs agents in how to  more...

Technical Support Agent Survival Skills Coping with stress is an everyday issue for the Technical Support Agent (TSA). The focus of this course is specifically directed to the situations that TSAs encounter. The course will help the TSA avoid burnout and manage job responsibilities by identifying the causes of stress, prevention methods, and time management skills.  more...

Industry Overview Information Technology ...ices will continue to increase, but at the same time, the customer is demanding more value per dollar in order to justify IT spending. Rather than ad hoc purchasing to solve a specific problem, customers are evaluating IT purchases in light of how they will serve strategic business needs and fulfill more fully defined processes and architectures. This reflects a fundamental change for the  more...

Developing Customer Satisfaction Surveys By the time most people have the chance to develop their first survey, they've seen so many that it seems like developing one will be a piece of cake. To an extent, they're right. Developing a GIGO (Garbage In/Garbage Out) survey is a no-brainer. Developing a survey that gets valid, reliable data, however, is both science and art.In this course, you'll learn to use the principles of survey design  more...

Customer Satisfaction Analysis and Implementation ...customer satisfaction survey will depend largely on the power of the analytical tools you apply to the data and the effectiveness of actions taken based on the resulting information. Although the analysis itself is best conducted by your statistical team, you'll be able to use survey results more effectively if you understand how key analytical tools are applied.In this course, you'll examine  more...

The Contact Center and the Technical Support Agent ...ed that it is easier to generate revenue from an existing customer base than to find new customers. Retaining customers has become paramount, and technical support has become a valuable resource. Driven by Customer Relationship Management (CRM) principles, this course explains how the role of the technical support agent (TSA) has changed as businesses realize the importance of CRM strategies to  more...

Technical Support Essentials These days, technical support agents (TSAs) can't provide world-class technical service and support unless they understand contact center technology. They also need to understand the various elements and stages of a call--and what to do with the information gained. This course explains contact center technology and TSA activities. It covers the technology that links the TSA to the customer and to  more...

Call Center Customer Service ...customer service representative? Maybe you are experiencing some feelings of anxiety, as do many novice agents. You may be concerned about dealing with customers' issues one-on-one. Fortunately, there is a comprehensive training course for people in your situation. This course will help you overcome reservations about customer service in a call center setting. This course for potential or new  more...

Call Center Telephone Sales How many times have you attempted to get your point across over the phone, only for it to end up unsuccessful? Would you like to improve your conversational skills? When you take this course, you will learn how to save your and your customer's time. Learn which principles and techniques of selling, professional presentation approaches, and telemarketing laws apply to you. Using your time  more...

Customer Service Procedures ...customer service and effective complaints handling leads to increasingly dissatisfied customers. Organizations need to be able to address the needs of customers in an effective and efficient manner. This course is intended to show the proper procedures and processes needed to provide effective customer service: how to properly support a customer, how to provide accurate documentation, and how  more...

Managing the Quality of the Customer Support Service Center ...Customers who experience problems with your service represent a significant challenge to your company. If the support center is able to deal with incidents efficiently, your company can benefit enormously. Reputation and customer satisfaction can be restored and procedures can be established to recognize and prevent future incidents. This course examines the processes involved in incident  more...

Management Tools and Metrics ...Customers contacting Support Centers expect the same level of professionalism each time they interact with a Customer Support Specialist (CSS). To ensure this consistently high level of service, the CSS can draw an array of management tools and processes that both guide and measure his performance. This course is intended to demonstrate the management and measurement tools a professional CSS is  more...

The Customer Support Specialist CSS ...customer than it does to retain an existing one. So it makes sense that a business must do everything it can to support and satisfy existing customers. Handling complaints effectively and efficiently can result in increased customer loyalty. Today's Customer Support Specialists (CSS) and support centers have a vital role to play in ensuring customers' needs are addressed in an effective,  more...

Support Center Services This course is intended to instruct the learner in the Help Desk Institute's (HDI) basic levels of service commitments and attitude. Best practices, personal accountability, enhancing the image of the organization, and the work environment are covered.  more...

Establishing Team and Customer Relationships ...derlying benefits and skills needed to establish team and customer relationships. Teamwork is a critical component of a Support Center. This course looks at the individual responsibilities of each team member, as well as the team as a whole. It also addresses the role of strong leadership in building and maintaining successful teams. In a Customer Support Center, customer relationships are  more...

Interacting with the Customer ...customer service and effective complaint handling leads to increasingly dissatisfied customers. Organizations need to be able to address the needs of customers in an effective and efficient manner. This course is intended to show the proper procedures and processes needed to provide effective customer service: how to properly support a customer, how to overcome communication problems, and how  more...

Effective Communication Skills ...ffective communication is essential to the success of any customer-oriented business. Each customer will have their own style of communication as well as an emotional response to contacting a support center. In order to effectively communicate, the Customer Support Specialist (CSS) must understand how to adapt to these different styles and emotions before the customer's problems can be dealt  more...

Managing Conflict Stress and Time ...customer wants her problem to be the most important problem to the Customer Support Specialist (CSS). For the CSS, adapting to each customer's communication style, understanding each customer's emotional response, and solving each customer's problem can be an enormously stressful and time-consuming process. This course is intended to show the proper methods needed to resolve conflicts, manage  more...

The Inbound Call Center ...ment and acquisition of cost-effective methods to provide customers with the service they demand. By ensuring that you have a good knowledge base of the inbound call center industry, you are establishing a sturdy framework for success. This course will provide you with the knowledge needed to identify customer care benefits resulting from key events in the history of call center technology;  more...

Inbound Call Center Management Leadership Did you know that your personality can greatly affect your leadership skills? Are you aware that even if you are a fabulous manager, you may not be an effective leader? As a call center manager, how can you motivate everyone, including senior management, to work together toward a common goal? As you progress through this "Inbound Call Center Management: Leadership" course, you will become aware  more...

Inbound Call Centers People Management ...centers are often the only link between a company and its customers. As a call center manager, you want to hire agents with special customer service "genes." Good call center agents do a better job on the telephone, are happier with their work, and genuinely enjoy helping customers. This course will help you staff your call center with the right people for the job. You'll learn how to select  more...

Inbound Call Center Technology Today, the technology within the inbound call center is constantly changing and improving. How can you, as a call center manager, keep up with this advancing technology? Moreover, why should you? This course will explain the fundamentals of inbound call center technology, and explore ways current technology might evolve. It examines different methods of obtaining this technology, and outlines how  more...

Performance Metrics for an Inbound Call Center ... be. As the call center industry slowly transforms into a customer management industry, the impetus will be on call center managers to ensure customers receive the best service possible. But where do you look to analyze performance? Is performance quantifiable? Yes it is Call center performance metrics outlines the path to improved operations. This course will explore the full range of call  more...

Excellence in Internal Customer Service ...d highly competitive business climate, offering excellent customer service has never been so important. But what about taking a different approach? Has your organization tried looking inwardly to find the answers to offering great service? Organizations consist of an independent chain of individuals and functional units, each taking inputs from one another and turning them out into external  more...

Working with Internal Customers ...customer service lies at the heart of any successful business. However, you should not overlook the importance of meeting the needs and expectations of your fellow employees, your internal customers. By helping other people within your organization, you enable it to succeed. Great internal customer service improves people's morale, productivity, and external customer service, and ultimately  more...

Overcoming Internal Customer Service Problems ...customers isn't always smooth sailing. When internal customer service does not go according to plan, problems occur, or communication breaks down, what can you do to get your plans back on track, and break down barriers? At times like these, you and your employees need to act swiftly and proactively to solve the problem, and regain the customer's trust. In this course, you'll learn the art of  more...

The Customer Service Agent in Action ...customer service agents (CSAs) working in nearly 80,000 call centers in the United States. Call centers are burgeoning in Europe and the Pacific Rim as well, and experts predict that the number of CSAs will grow by 20 percent each year. Worldwide, revenues for the call center industry could soon reach almost $60 billion. The magnitude of these numbers suggests the important role that customer  more...

Professional Skills for Customer Service Agents ...customer service agent (CSA), the focus of your job is to solve customers' problems within a short amount of time. To do this, you have to understand the optimum methods for professionally processing a large volume of customers representing many different personality types. This can be a challenging task. You can successfully handle an agent's workload while satisfying customers by mastering a  more...

Managing Challenges in Customer Service ...customer service agents (CSAs) handle dozens of customer calls. The calls may range from simple requests for product information to urgent demands for solutions to complex problems. The callers may range from quiet, logical, and professional in their manner to noisy, impatient, and infuriated. CSAs are expected to meet the challenges of handling all of these calls and customers with speed,  more...

Cross-selling in a Customer Service Call ...llenges by being flexible. Flexibility is a key factor in customer call centers.As a customer service agent (CSA), you handle dozens of calls a day, effectively helping customers by providing efficient solutions. At the end of this positive interaction, it makes sense to recommend additional or better products that will further aid customers. Customer service agents have become a vital source  more...

ITIL The Service Desk and Incident Management ...izations that provide IT services to internal or external customers need to provide excellent services to increase the quality of, and the profits for, the organization. The IT infrastructure library (ITIL) can help organizations achieve these goals. At the same time, ITIL can help organizations to increase external and internal customer satisfaction.The delivery and support of IT services are  more...

ITIL Configuration and Release Management Organizations make substantial investments in their information technology infrastructures. That investment pays off only if the organization uses its information resources to increase productivity. Information technology planners and managers must understand how the components of the IT infrastructure interact if they want to eliminate waste and improve service to the users of the system. The  more...

ITIL Service Level and Capacity Management ...of IT service given and received in a manner that is both customer focused and cost effective. Simultaneously, organizations need to provide the required capacity for data processing and storage, at the right time and in a cost effective way.The delivery and support of IT services are divided into core processes within the IT infrastructure library (ITIL). This course covers two service  more...

ITIL Problem and Change Management ...e extremely costly in terms of lost productivity and lost customer satisfaction. The IT infrastructure library (ITIL) is the most widely accepted approach to IT service management (ITSM), and it can help organizations set up rigorous processes to identify, classify, and resolve problems and errors, as well as identify and implement appropriate solutions.The delivery and support of IT services  more...

ITIL Continuity and Availability Management American businesses have had to face many disasters since the onset of the new millennium. There have been fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, large-scale power outages, terrorist attacks, and damaging computer viruses, just to name a few. As businesses become more dependent on IT services, disasters such as these can disable or even ruin companies in the blink of an eye.The delivery and support  more...

ITIL Financial and Security Management IT organizations face numerous challenges every day. Two of the biggest challenges are to become and stay profitable and to protect their systems from unauthorized access. The IT infrastructure library (ITIL) is the most widely accepted approach to IT service management (ITSM), and it can help IT organizations set up rigorous processes to aid in their efforts to become and remain solvent and to  more...

ITIL V3 - ITIL and the Service Lifecycle ...izations that provide IT services to internal or external customers need to provide excellent services to enhance value to the organization. The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) can help organizations achieve these goals and increase external and internal customer satisfaction. To be successful, an organization needs to have the capabilities to manage these services and good practices to ensure  more...

ITIL V3 - Service Strategy Fundamentals IT organizations face a variety of challenges to maintain a strategic advantage over their competitors. Within IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Service Strategy is a phase of the Service Lifecycle that helps IT organizations create value for their organizations through their service assets. This course examines how value is created through service assets, and how these service assets can perform  more...

ITIL V3 - Service Strategy Processes In order to decide the best path for an IT service organization to grow, service providers need to develop a strategy to maintain an advantage over their competitors. This course details the processes that affect Service Strategy.  more...

ITIL V3 - Service Design Fundamentals IT organizations must design their services according to their business objectives, thereby aligning those services with their business needs. Within ITIL, Service Design is a phase of the Service Lifecycle that helps IT organizations create the design specifications to provide these IT services.  more...

ITIL V3 - Service Design Processes IT organizations require information to create the design specifications necessary to provide IT services to their customers. Service Design processes are important because they provide organizations with information that will affect their decisions on designing solutions for new or changed services. This course is intended to introduce learners to the Service Design processes.  more...

ITIL V3 - Service Transition Processes and Principles IT organizations need to transition their service designs into operations. Service Transition processes are important to provide companies with information to ensure that their service design solutions will achieve their expectations. This course will help learners understand Service Transition processes.  more...

ITIL V3 - Service Operation Principles and Functions IT organizations must manage their day-to-day service operations according to their business objectives, so that their services are aligned with their business needs. Within the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Service Operation is a phase of the Service Lifecycle that helps IT organizations manage their daily operations to provide these IT services. This course is intended to help learners  more...

ITIL V3 - Service Operation Processes IT organizations need to ensure that their services are operating properly. Service Operation processes are important because they enable organizations to correctly perform, manage, and control their day-to-day operations. This course is intended to help learners understand the Service Operation processes within the ITIL Service Lifecycle.  more...

ITIL V3 - Continual Service Improvement Fundamentals IT organizations should incorporate service improvement continually throughout the lifecycle of every service they provide to their customers. Within ITIL, Continual Service Improvement (CSI) is a phase of the Service Lifecycle that provides IT organizations the tools and processes necessary to continually improve their services. This course is intended to help learners understand how CSI will  more...

Identifying Your Customers Expectations ...Customers have expectations of all the companies with which they transact business. These expectations may be predominantly unspoken but, all the same, they have a strong influence on how your company, its employees, products, and services are perceived. In the first lesson of this course, you'll be shown what characteristics customers want to see demonstrated, what external influences generate  more...

Using Surveys to Measure Customer Satisfaction ...customers will complain when they are dissatisfied with your company's service. If you're not so lucky, they'll say nothing and just take their business elsewhere.It's essential that you keep your fingers on the pulse of customer opinion if you are to prevent them defecting to the competition. You need to measure customer satisfaction on a regular basis, and this course will give you the tools  more...

Bridge the Expectations Gap ... walk a mile in their shoes to understand more fully what customers experience when they deal with your company. There's nothing more effective in emphasizing the gap between what you believe their experiences to be and their realities than thinking and acting like a customer. This course takes you through several processes for doing exactly that, and you'll be shown how to find out if dealing  more...

Leading a Customer-focused Team ...customer service is in the hands of the people who deliver it. As their leader it's your responsibility to give them the direction, resources, and support they need to succeed.This course shows you how to work with them to create a customer-focused environment that fulfills customers' expectations while still achieving corporate goals. The first lesson explains how to work together to set the  more...

Discovering What Your Customers Want ...data are in, and there's no doubt about it: The return on customer loyalty goes directly to your company's bottom line. Too often, however, organizations seeking to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty begin with a survey. To build a successful customer satisfaction system, you have to begin with the basics.When customer satisfaction programs begin with a survey, and not a plan, the result  more...

Advancing Service Expertise ...inment. A certain degree of pampering is key to achieving customer loyalty, and this course shows us how to make "five star attitude" an integral part of our service commitment. These lessons are designed to foster awareness and new skills that deepen our customer service expertise. Gain techniques for personalizing customer interaction. Enhance your approach to customer assistance by giving it  more...

Customers Confrontation and Conflict ...pedo your work day more than an arrogant, obnoxious, rude customer? YES Not knowing how to handle one It's challenging to stay service-minded when the person you are dealing with is being "difficult." This course will give you the perspective to effectively cope with customer conflict, and sound methods to deal with all types of potentially confrontational situations. You'll be able to identify  more...

Overcoming Difficult Service Situations ...customer's face is more contorted than anything you've ever seen...eyes bulging, fists clenched, and a scowl that makes Scrooge look like a nice guy. It's tempting to cut and run, but coping with even the most challenging situations is part of customer service. This course is designed to give you the means to hang in there when the going gets especially tough. Recognition of the warning signals  more...

The EXCEL Acronym Instilling Service Excellence ...customer service commitment, it's helpful to have an easy way to remember additional concepts that can make you a service superstar. Since the goal is customer service excellence, this course uses the word E-X-C-E-L as an acronym for five important behaviors that impact the service mindset. It might surprise you, but seeking help and knowing where to find it can improve your service abilities.  more...

Service Teams and Service Stars ...urse will move you to the level of stardom in the area of customer service. In profiling the highest achievers, you will grasp the meaning of leadership, the importance of long-term focus, and the secrets to making your customers more memorable. In this course you will also explore the importance of being a little "self-serving." You are much better caretakers if you practice taking care of  more...

The Call Center Industry When people pick up a phone and hear someone greeting them from the XYZ Company, they put little thought into the people, process, or technology behind the phone call. To them, the person on the phone is just a voice on the other end of the line. This course will examine all of the aspects of a call center. In order to facilitate this examination, this course has been broken down into three parts:  more...

Call Center Communication Skills ...tion skills are very important for a successful career in customer service and sales. This is especially true in a call center environment. Call centers can be high pressure, fast-paced environments where you may have to deal with hundreds of people in one day. That is why it is so important to fine tune your communication skills. This course will examine handling different personalities,  more...

The Customer s Voice ...cessary to a lot of "somebodys". Those somebodys are your customers. This course provides the tools to learn all that you can about your customers. The focus is on recognizing and ultimately anticipating customer expectations. There are any number of ways to hear "The Customer's Voice", but you have to know how to listen. Learn about the dynamics of client expectations, and the inconsistent,  more...

Making Telephone Calls Count ...make every call count. Is the service you deliver to your customers over the telephone merely satisfactory, or is it superior? When challenges present themselves, how well do you handle yourself? What do your actions say about your company? You may think telephone interactions are all simple and straightforward. The customer talks. You listen. But how well do you listen on the telephone? Are  more...

Corporate Culture Building the Service Foundation ...uild the foundation." That's why the first course in this Customer Service series focuses on building the foundation of good service. The buzz term is "Corporate Culture." It's not some rare disease, but your workplace "culture" can be positively or negatively infectious as it relates to customer service. In this course, you'll get the basics about corporate culture, and how it impacts service.  more...

The Fundamentals of Exceptional Customer Service ...Customer satisfaction guaranteed." But in today's marketplace, satisfaction isn't enough. This course is designed to take your goals beyond merely satisfying the customer to creating customer loyalty. The training takes aim at outdated modes of thinking, and establishes the building blocks for a service mentality that increases customer commitment, not to mention profits. Learn how to develop  more...

E-mail as a Marketing Tool ...customers? How can you build stronger relationships with new and existing customers? How can you boost sales of your company's products and services? This course will provide you with useful strategies to help you incorporate electronic mail into your marketing approach. Learn how to communicate effectively with your customers through e-mail. You and your company will benefit from better  more...

Contracts in Commercial Transactions ...customer, the hiring of a new employee, the acquisition of a new company, or countless other formal and informal business practices. This course introduces the laws, which determine whether such agreements are legally binding and enforceable by the courts. To begin, this course explains the legal requirements for contracts and their different legal classifications. In order to make effective  more...

Effective Relationships with Customers ...ime to disregard that old deferential model of short-term customer relations you're using. Why not replace it with a selection of long-term relational skills that work for you in the marketplace? Take control by picking the best customers and developing equal, trusting partnerships with them. When you limit your investment in your customer relationships, you also limit your growth potential.  more...

Communication Business Etiquette How's it going? Is this an appropriate greeting in today's corporate workplace? How about telephone use? Is it always necessary to return phone calls? If so, how soon should you do it? Is e-mail the method of choice for communicating all your ideas, or is another way better? How important is your tone of voice when dealing with a customer? All these questions are a matter of etiquette. How you  more...

Communicating for Results ...ourse will outline the communication required to maintain customer relationships during sensitive situations, such as when customers make a complaint, or you must deny their requests. Thirdly, you will learn how best to present information to your managers. Whether your intention is to report or to persuade, if you also want to impress your boss, it's crucial that you communicate concisely, and  more...

Writing with Intention ...view, a multi-page proposal, or a presentation to a prime customer, you know that having a job means having to write. But if you're not a trained writer, how do you begin? The writing process actually starts before you pick up a pen or place your fingers on a keyboard. It begins with defining what you are writing, for whom you are writing, why you are writing, and which writing approach to use.  more...

Working for Your Inner Boss Personal Accountability ...employee must look to a supervisor, a director, or even a customer to establish priorities, assign tasks, set deadlines, and evaluate results. Whoever gives this direction is called the boss. On one level, the boss decides how employees will perform their jobs. How well an employee meets requirements set by the boss determines whether that employee succeeds or fails, receives rewards or  more...

Customer Relationship Management - Fundamentals of CRM ...Customer Relationship Management: Fundamentals of CRM introduces the student to the benefits of creating customer loyalty, developing a market intelligence enterprise, and incorporating customer relationship management into your company. The program also details the three steps a company can take to create customer loyalty, the four marketing tiers, the four types of CRM, and the four steps of  more...

Customer Relationship Management - Implementing CRM Customer Relationship Management: Implementing CRM introduces the student to the goals of CRM, the costs of CRM, and ways to modify operations costs to become customer focused. The program also details CRM pre-implementation strategies, the CRM implementation process, and tactics used to test CRM.  more...

Customer Relationship Management - eCRM Customer Relationship Management: eCRM introduces the students to managing customer relationships over the Internet. The program details the characteristics of eCRM, how departments can use eCRM to automate processes, and how to customize eCRM interfaces for each type of eCRM user.  more...

Relationship Management - Building the Client Relationship In "Relationship Management - Building the Client Relationship," you will learn about the importance of developing a relationship with a client in which you serve not as a salesperson, but as a trusted advisor. You will learn how to create and conduct an effective needs assessment and how to turn this needs assessment into a shared vision with your client. You will also learn specific action items  more...

Relationship Management - Maintaining the Client Relationship In "Relationship Management - Maintaining the Client Relationship," you will learn about the differences between short-term and long-term customer relationships, as well as the causes and advantages of these relationships. You will also identify methods of keeping and extending the client relationship into future endeavors. Finally, you will learn about techniques for measuring success in the  more...

Project Planning ...activity. Experienced project managers learn that meeting customer expectations is ultimately more important than having a project go "according to plan." In this course, learners will be introduced to the purpose of the Planning Process Group and its associated processes. They will learn how to answer such questions as, "what must be done, how should it be done, who will do it, how much will  more...

Performing Quality Assurance and Control ...or any project is whether the results satisfy the project customer. After all, it's the project customer who determines whether the results of a project were worth the time and money that went into it. However, project managers can't wait until a project is complete to find out whether the results meet the customer's needs. At the scheduled conclusion of a project, both the customer and the  more...

Managing a Project The factors of a successful project almost always end up depending on how much money and time is needed to create a product worthy of the customer. This course will help you manage the constraints of time, money, and schedules, and how they relate to the overall quality of your project and product.  more...

Six Sigma and Lean in the Organization ...ty improvement as the only way to protect margins and win customer loyalty. Originally developed in Toyota's manufacturing operations, Lean is a continuous improvement approach that focuses activities on reducing wastes. Whereas Six Sigma helps companies reduce defects and improve quality, Lean thinking helps reduce waste and improve process flow and speed. Due to the complementary nature of  more...

Six Sigma Process Improvement In the world of business you cannot expect faulty processes to deliver outstanding organizational results. Six Sigma offers many ways to improve your organization's processes, based on your priorities and business requirements. Whenever you delve into process improvement, you have the option to create new processes altogether or replace old processes with new ones. Six Sigma Champions generally  more...

Six Sigma Reducing Variation to Improve Quality ...use of Six Sigma. "Variation," or deviation from what the customer wants, may be inherent in the business world, yet by employing the principles of Six Sigma, the standard of 99.9997 perfection is within your grasp. It's just a matter of learning--and employing--those principles. In "Six Sigma: Reducing Variation to Improve Quality," you'll do just that. You'll begin by gaining a basic  more...

Six Sigma Listening to the Voice of the Customer ...sses should be looking for the best way to gauge what its customers really need and want. In "Six Sigma: Listening to the Voice of the Customer," Six Sigma Green Belts and team members learn that best way. The course consists of two lessons: "Understanding Customer Requirements," and "Defining Customer Requirements." In lesson one, you'll discover methods for specifically identifying your  more...

Define the Six Sigma Opportunity ...'ll learn specific methods for capturing the voice of the customer, and how to use the Kano model to discern and categorize those customers' needs. You'll also learn about Six Sigma improvement opportunities from a financial perspective: what to consider before launching a project, the financial metrics that will be involved, and how to calculate the cost of poor quality. Six Sigma is a  more...

Six Sigma Team Leadership ...customer needs, streamlining processes, minimizing variance, and addressing poor quality and inefficiency, Six Sigma?? can encourage a more profitable and sustainable business. The development and leadership of an effective team is critical if these outcomes are to be achieved. An effective Six Sigma team comprises the right people using their skills in collaboration with each other to address  more...

Six Sigma and the Voice of the Customer ...ompetition, modern consumer protection laws, and expanded customer awareness have helped negate the influence of this business maxim. Today, organizations are admonished to heed the voice of customers and give them what they really want. "Voice of the customer," or VOC, is a Six Sigma?? term that refers to customers' actual, as opposed to assumed, product and service needs and desires. This  more...

Six Sigma and Critical Customer Requirements ...body does anything about it." Unlike the weather, serving customer needs is something companies actually can do something about. Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a systematic process for motivating a business to focus on its customers. In a Six Sigma?? environment, such a focus is central to success. In this course, you'll learn how QFD works. You'll explore ways to listen to the voice of  more...

Scoping the Six Sigma Project ...wn solutions, identifying projects that will truly impact customer service while also improving the bottom line can be challenging. When pressure mounts, it's tempting to act too quickly and possibly solve the wrong problem. In this course, you'll learn what a Six Sigma team should focus on, and more importantly, what the team should avoid in order to make Six Sigma projects successful. You'll  more...

Lean Tools ...ons can become more competitive, agile, and responsive to customer demands. This course highlights the implementation of Lean tools in the production and manufacturing environment. These tools have derived largely from the development of the Toyota Production System (TPS). In addition, the course examines how these improvement tools are used to maintain an orderly and efficient flow of  more...

Processes and Customer Analysis in Six Sigma Projects ...f creating and delivering products and services needed by customers. According to Takashi Osada, Japanese author and quality pioneer, "if the process is right, the results will take care of themselves." By Six Sigma standards, a "right process" is one that creates and delivers precisely what the customer needs. By this logic, no Six Sigma effort can start without having a high-level picture of  more...

Introduction to Online Branding ...ne the unique characteristics of the e-marketplace, the e-customer, and the effect technology has had on brand messages. If you are already a brand manager, you will discover a fresh perspective regarding just who should be building brands on the Web and content ideas for a Web presence. Regardless of your title, you will also examine the factors to consider when entering the global marketplace  more...

Strategies for Building an Online Brand When a product lands on the Internet, the brand becomes more than a mere name; it becomes an interactive brand experience. This course will provide marketers with strategies for building strong online brands by maximizing the interactive nature of the Web. The course begins by identifying key branding objectives and provides useful strategies to take offline brands into an online environment.  more...

Quality Management - The Quality Management Process Quality Management: The Quality Management Process offers the student an overview of the fundamentals of quality management, the costs of quality, and how to achieve quality through customer orientation. The program also outlines how to achieve daily quality management, identify variation in processes, and control costs.  more...

Total Quality Management - Principles "Total Quality Management: Deploying TQM Principles": This course builds on the fundamentals by examining the principles of customer satisfaction and quality teamwork. It teaches the importance of training and motivation, performance excellence and shared quality, as well as the first steps in implementing an improvement process.  more...

Supply Chain Management Using Models ...tch capacity with consumer demand. Identify benefits of Customer Order Management (COM). Identify elements of order management control. Identify key elements of the three Vs model for inventory management. Identify key inputs to Sales and Operation (S&OP) planning. Identify characteristics of Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) model. Unit 3: Distinguishing the Firm and its  more...

EnjoySAP Features Functions The Computer Based Training course (CBT) Enjoy SAP Features and Functions aims to provide all the employees of your company, who want to learn more about the new interface Enjoy SAP with an overview of it's handling, features and functions. Having been given the background to the development of the EnjoySAP interface and its new features, the trainee will learn how to access the 4.6 System and to  more...

CIW E-Commerce Designer Part 4 Site Implementation Course Overview The aim of this course is to help prepare students for the CIW: E-Commerce Designer exam. This course presents students with both theoretical and practical instruction on E-Commerce site implementation. The instruction can be divided into two main parts: Site Creation Methods and Site Development. Learn To Identify the features of independent online storefront creation  more...

CIW E-Commerce Designer Part 3 Site Usability ...ing usability in Web site design. Identify ways to allow customers to search for products or services. Identify the features of a Web site that inform the customer about a product. Identify the benefits of e-service. Identify the guidelines for developing an e-service action plan. Identify the characteristics of synchronous service. Identify the e-commerce Web site administration tasks.  more...

CIW E-Commerce Designer Part 2 Product Marketing ...b marketing can achieve. Identify ways to provide online customer service. Match the types of online promotion with their features. Identify categories of Web sites that are defined by marketing activities. Identify the features of banner ads. Audience Candidates for this exam design and implement commerce-driven Web sites, identify customer needs, monitor customer usage patterns,  more...

CIW E-Commerce Designer Part 1 Foundations Course Overview The aim of this course is to help prepare students for the CIW: E-Commerce Designer exam. This course presents students with both theoretical and practical instruction on E-Commerce Designer foundations. The instruction can be divided into three main parts: E-Commerce Foundations, B2B Frameworks and Law and the Internet. Learn To Identify the factors that drive  more...

Building an E-Commerce Business Case ... Transactions. About Sales and Services. About Online Customer Relationships. About the Virtual Value Chain. Audience: This course is intended for Managers and technical staff who are in a position to provide e-commerce recommendations to executives. Deployment: e-Learning/Self-Study Accreditation CEU credits: 0.70 CEUs Language Options: Japanese, US English  more...

Evaluating E-Commerce Options ...apabilities of browsers. Identify methods of maximizing customer access to an e-commerce site. Identify the features of the SET payment standard. Identify the role of certification in e-commerce. Identify e-commerce transaction security options. Identify transnational issues affecting e-commerce. Identify copyright issues affecting e-commerce. Identify taxation issues affecting  more...

Introduction to E-Commerce ...-commerce to a business enterprise. Identify e-commerce customer service issues. Identify the benefits of business-to-business e-commerce. Identify the benefits of business-to-consumer e-commerce. Identify e-commerce communication technologies. Identify types of digital products. Unit 2: E-Commerce Standards (2 hours) Identify the role of standards within industry. Identify  more...

SAP R 3 Supply Chain Management ...aches. Principles of ERP. Supply Chain Planning Tools. Customer Relationship Management. System architectures. Internet Basics. Applications. SCM Tools offered by SAP. Sales Force Automation (SFA). Business Information Warehouse (BW). Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO). APO in Business Processes. Demand planning. Supply Network Planning and PP-DS. Supply Chain Cockpit.  more...

SAP R 3 v4 x SD Order Processing ...iting Dates. Pricing. Pricing Elements. Increasing the Customer Discount. Analyzing the Origin of a Condition. Maintaining Prices Manually. Viewing Pricing Details. Credit Limit Check. Credit Control Area. System Responses. Credit Management. Unit 3: Tools Duration: 1 - 2 Hour(s) Entry Aids. Tools. Displaying Assortments. Copying Assortments. Making Changes Quickly.  more...

Oracle 11i10 Order to Cash Porcessing Invoices This course provides an overview of the Invoicing process. The course describes the methods for creating, correcting, and generating invoices. The course also covers using invoices for revenue recognition and making promised commitment accounts. Learn To: Identify key concepts of Receivables related to the Invoicing process. Identify key concepts related to entering invoices.  more...

Oracle 11i10 Order to Cash Invoicing Overview ...is course also discusses concepts related to implementing customer invoicing. Learn To: Identify key concepts related to the AutoInvoice process. Identify options for managing the AutoInvoice system options. Identify key concepts related to transaction batch sources. Identify key concepts related to the Bill Presentment Architecture (BPA). Identify key concepts related to  more...

SAP R 3 v3 0 Information Systems within FI ...ost center and budgetary controlling; Accounts Receivable/Customer Credit management; Accounts Payable; G/L Accounting. Participants should have completed the following courses: 13033: Working with SAP R/3; 12276: Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable; 12277: FI General Ledger. T otal Learning Time 5 - 8 Hour(s) Course Contents Unit 1: Overview Duration: 2 Hour(s) Describe  more...

SAP R 3 v4 0 Retail Order Management via Distribution Center ...ing with orders, an overview of the possible processes of customer order processing. This course illustrates the training knowledge using an example of a possible process chain, between a retail company and its clients. L earn To: The Retail Process. Basic scenario and related processes. Delivery Scheduling. Subsequent Settlement. C ontent Emphasis Skills-Based A  more...

Sales Skills Gaining Customer Commitment ...Customer Commitment, you will learn how to establish credibility and develop relationships with your clients, as well as what questions you should ask clients when determining their needs. You will also learn the three stages of need, how to determine which stage of need a client is in, and how to help clients envision themselves benefiting from your product or service. In addition, you will  more...

Brand Management Branding on the Web ...he initial stages of moving online in order to expand its customer base. The Lil' Brown Bean brand is associated with an upscale image of quality and discerning taste. You are meeting with the team that is in charge of developing the plan to move the brand online. The team is made up of Jessica Stone, the Marketing Communications Manager; Marcus D'Angelo, the Senior Web Developer/Designer; and  more...

Professional Selling Over the Phone Preparation Strategies ...ance. Respond appropriately to customers' communication styles. Apply the steps for creating a teleselling plan. Select guidelines to maximize the effectiveness of your telesales calls. Audience The target audience for this series is Inside and Outside Sales Representatives, Sales Managers, Account Managers and  more...

Professional Selling Over the Phone Prospecting ...les Representatives, Sales Managers, Account Managers and Customer Services Representatives that use the phone in any part of the sales cycle. Deployment Options e-Learning Accreditation NASBA credits: 3 CPE Credits CEU credits: 0.30 CEUs Language Options US English Total Learning Time 2 to 4 hours Objectives Unit 1: Generating Telesales Prospects (0.5 - 1  more...

Professional Selling Over the Phone Closing a Sale ... The program provides processes for gaining feedback from customers, addressing rejection, resolving telesales objections, and closing a sale. In addition, the program offers the student guidelines for preparing to close sales with customers. Learn To Identify the guidelines for preparing to close telesales. Follow the process for  more...

Essentials of Business Law Employment Law ...lation, you will meet with Kent Redburn, a relatively new Customer Service Representative for Icon. As Kent a a s immediate supervisor, you are meeting with him today to try to orient him into his new role in the company. The two of you will discuss Kent a a s responsibilities as an agent and your responsibilities as his principal. Unit 2: Employment Laws (0.5 - 1 hour)  more...

Consulting Skills Building Consulting Relationships Consulting Skills: Building Consulting Relationships explains how to determine whether your organization could benefit from a consultant's services. It also teaches how to manage internal resistance to consultants, how to communicate effectively with consultants, and what to include in a legally binding consulting contract. Learn To Identify the steps to determine  more...

Consulting Skills Serving as an Internal Consultant ... In this simulation, you have spoken with sales reps and customer service supervisors, and determined that many customers are not receiving their orders on time, which is costing your division sales and customer loyalty. You have also discovered that the warehouse relies on hard copies of purchase orders instead of using an electronic inventory management system. You have developed a proposal  more...

Quality Management The Quality Management Process ... the costs of quality, and how to achieve quality through customer orientation. The program also outlines how to achieve daily quality management, identify variation in processes, and control costs. Learn To Identify the role of management in implementing quality. Identify the ways in which variation leads to loss.  more...

Advanced Six Sigma The Define Phase of DMAIC ...pply them to an organization. You will identify problems, customer requirements, and tools to address the problem and increase customer satisfaction. This course will help the learner begin to identify customer needs and wants by: Obtaining a basic understanding of the Kano Model Utilizing the 5 Why root cause analysis technique to obtain a deeper understanding of the customer's needs and wants  more...

SAP R 3 v4 0 Retail Organizational Structures and Master Data Course Overview The purpose of this course is to give users working in retail companies knowledge of the organizational structure and master data of the SAP R/3 retail system. This course also provides essential skills in daily activities associated with use of Master Data in IS Retail. L earn To: Logistics organizational structure. Organization of financial accounting. Create  more...

SAP R 3 v4 0 Profitability Analysis - Basics ...wn Planning. Updating Data at Lower Levels. Planning at Customer and Product Level. Before Valuating the Plan Data. Valuating Plan Data. Actual Postings. Creating an Order. Valuating Incoming Orders. Billing. Transferring and Valuating Billing Data. Further Actual Postings. Data for Profitability Analysis. Unit 4: Information System Duration: 1 Hour(s) Basic Reports.  more...

Building Cisco Remote Access Networks - Part 2 ... cable technologies. Identify tasks for configuring the customer premises equipment (CPE) as the Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) client. Identify commands for configuring addressing translations using Port Address Translation (PAT) for a Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) client. Identify tasks for configuring a Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM (PPPoA) Digital  more...

Oracle 11i10 Order to Cash Order Entry Overview ...for creating transaction types, defaulting rules, and end customers. The course also covers the header and line information that needs to be entered in an order. Learn To: Identify key areas in the order entry process. Identify characteristics of the Negotiation functionality. Create a transaction type for orders. Audience: The target audience is Functional Implementers and  more...

Oracle 11i10 Order to Cash Customer Credit Management Setup ... elaborates on the tasks involved in managing parties and customer accounts. The course also covers the tasks involved in setting up credit management, reviewing credits, and managing credit reviews. Learn To: Identify features of the party model. Identify tasks involved in managing parties. Identify features of profile classes. Identify tasks involved in setting up Credit  more...

Oracle 11i10 Order to Cash Curriculum ...: Lifecycle & Key Components Oracle 11i10 Order to Cash: Customer & Credit Management Setup Oracle 11i10 Order to Cash: Order Entry Overview Oracle 11i10 Order to Cash: Order Creation & Setup Oracle 11i10 Order to Cash: Manage Order Updates & Order Inquiry Oracle 11i10 Order to Cash: Basic Pricing Oracle 11i10 Order to Cash: Shipping Overview & Setups Oracle 11i10 Order to Cash:  more...

Access XP Fundamentals ...de a range of other job types such as Junior Secretarial, Customer Service etc. Typically learners will work in an office environment (possibly networked) producing documents/spreadsheets and/or databases/Web pages. Learners will need a basic knowledge of either Microsoft Office 97 or 2000 programs and be familiar with Windows 9X or later operating system(s). Content Emphasis Informational  more...

Strategic Sales Gaining Access to the Executives ...lly, you will learn to work through the various stages of customer need: buyer unawareness, buyer realization, and buyer action. Learn To: Identify the importance of selling to top executives by using an executive mindset. Identify reasons to prepare for contacting the executive. Audience: This course is for senior sales professional that are tasked with selling enterprise  more...

Sales Skills Series The Sales Skills Series includes the following courses: Sales Skills: The Fundamentals Sales Skills: Prospecting and Addressing Needs Sales Skills: Overcoming Obstacles Sales Skills: Gaining Customer Commitment Sales Skills: Developing a Winning Strategy Sales Skills: Effectively Closing a Sale To review individual course descriptions, please return to the previous page and select the  more...

Balanced Scorecard Implementing In Balanced Scorecard: Implementing the Balanced Scorecard, you will learn the importance of using a balanced scorecard as a tool to measure corporate performance relative to your company's strategies. You will also identify the four perspectives of a balanced scorecard, understand how to apply the steps to build a balanced scorecard for your organization, and learn how to construct a strategy map  more...

Self Development Developing Rapport Through Communication ...n, you will meet with Kathy Fuller, one of Icon's veteran Customer Service team leaders. As a new Sales Team Leader, you are trying to build strong working relationships with some of the established leaders of the department. In order to achieve a good relationship with Kathy, you will need to adapt to her while communicating, encourage her to communicate with you, handle any conflict that may  more...

Time Management Developing a Plan ... In this simulation, you will meet with two Customer Service Representatives, Stacey Brighton and Carol Chung, to discuss the benefits of completing a time audit. Stacey has been late with a number of call reports, and Carol is behind on the customer evaluation project, making the time audit a necessary step in improving each employee's time management. First, you will meet with  more...

Customer Relationship Management Series The Customer Relationship Management Series includes the following courses: Customer Relationship Management: Fundamentals of CRM Customer Relationship Management: Implementing CRM Customer Relationship Management: eCRM To review individual course descriptions, please return to the previous page and select the desired title(s).  more...

Moving from Technical Professional to Mgr Series Getting Started ...ng a feasibility study. Identify reasons for analyzing customer requirements. Simulation Overview: You are a project manager with Icon International. You've been appointed by Katherine Cavanaugh, Senior IT Manager, to manage the Reservation project. The project involves adding more features to the popular Reservation database. This project is in response to requests from some of Icon's  more...

WebSphere MQ Integration Message Broker ...s, senior level programmers and IT managers from both IBM customer and business partner organizations. Students will often not work directly with the product, but rather will be involved in evaluating and planning the product. A basic knowledge of WebSphere MQ is mandatory. Knowledge of database basics and IT infrastructure would be beneficial. Deployment Options e-Learning  more...

EnjoySAP What s New in Release 4 6 ...tenance of G/L Account Master Data. - Mass Maintenance of Customer Master Data. - G/L Account Postings. - Creating Vendor Invoices. - Maintaining Cost Elements via G/L Accounts. - Changing the Cost Center Standard Hierarchy. - Performing Internal Postings. a Logistics: - Navigating in the Customer Master Data. - Navigating in a Purchase Order. - Mass Maintenance of Purchase Orders. -  more...

mySAP com - Overview The Computer Based Training course (CBT) mySAP.com Overview aims to provide all employees of your company an introduction to SAP's answer to e-business, and the possibilities that mySAP.com offers. Trainees will be shown why mySAP.com was developed and the key components it contains. Furthermore, it shows how application hosting can be controlled throughout the system's entire life cycle,  more...

SAP R 3 v4 6 AR Accountant ...grated in the R/3 System, how to create master data for a customer, and how to post invoices and incoming payments. Furthermore, he will be able to display and process customer documents, and will be shown the tools provided by the R/3 System to help the Accounts Receivable accountant carry out periodic processing. Learn To: o Getting started with SAP R/3 4.6. o Starting the system and  more...

SAP R 3 v4 6 SD Custromer Service Representative ...Customer Service Representative course aims to provide the basic knowledge required to start and log on to the R/3 System, Release 4.6. The student will be given an overview of the basic sales processes and how Sales and Distribution is integrated and organized in the R/3 System. Additionally, this course describes the master data used by sales employees. Furthermore, the student will be  more...

Customer Relationship Management CRM ...Customer Relationship Management (CRM) - Overview introduces the trainee to the term Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and its objectives, as well as looking at the basic principles of SAP CRM and explaining what SAP CRM can be used for. Furthermore, the trainee will be introduced to the individual applications of CRM and their most important features. Learn To: o CRM and the SAP CRM  more...

WebSphere MQ Programming I ...call. To differentiate between Customer Information Control System (CICS), batch, and Information Management System (IMS) connection rules. To identify features of the MQPUT call. To match MQ Message Descriptor (MQMD) fields with their functions. To identify features of the Message Queue  more...

WebSphere MQ Programming I ...call. To differentiate between Customer Information Control System (CICS), batch, and Information Management System (IMS) connection rules. To identify features of the MQPUT call. To match MQ Message Descriptor (MQMD) fields with their functions. To identify features of the Message Queue  more...

Defining Microsoft NET Solution Architectures Part 1 ...tware solutions. At least two years experience: Analyzing customer needs and creating documents specifying requirements for software solutions in multiple business domains; Modeling processes. Accreditation NASBA credits: 4 CPE Credits CEU credits: 0.70 CEUs Language Options US English Total Learning Time 6 to 8 hours Objectives Unit 1: MSF (1 hour)  more...

Business Travel Safety Domestic Travel In ''Business Travel Safety: Domestic Travel,'' you will learn how to make travel preparations, including researching your destination and then making appropriate travel arrangements. You will also learn how to increase your safety during air and ground transportation and at destinations, such as hotels, restaurants, and business events. Learn To Identify the  more...

Defining Microsoft NET Solution Architectures Part 2 ...NET Framework. At least two years experience in analyzing customer needs and specifying requirements for software solutions in multiple business domains. Accreditation NASBA credits: 4 CPE Credits CEU credits: 0.70 CEUs Language Options US English Total Learning Time 6 to 8 hours Objectives Unit 1: Developing Specifications (1.5 - 2 hours)  more...

QuickBooks 2003 Getting Started ...ickBooks 2003. Finally, the course outlines how to set up customers, accounts, and budgets. Learn To Identify component parts of the QuickBooks 2003 interface. Identify options in the EasyStep Interview wizard. Match Navigators with their functions. Deployment Options e-Learning Language Options  more...

mySAP CRM 3 0 Overview ...urse mySAP CRM 3.0 Overview will introduce the trainee to Customer Relationship Management, and introduce him to the most important features of mySAP CRM 3.0. The trainee will be introduced to the procedure for creating a follow-up activity to an activity in the Customer Interaction Centre. Learn To: o CRM and the mySAP CRM System. o Customer Relationship Management. o Example  more...

Creativity Innovation Thinking Creatively In Creativity and Innovation: Thinking Creatively, you will learn to meet the demands of creative thinking in the workplace. This program will help you develop your creative thinking skills and allow you to practice using the creative thinking process. Learn To Identify the stages of the creative process. Recognize techniques that will  more...

Defining Microsoft NET Solution Architectures Part 2 ...NET Framework. At least two years experience in analyzing customer needs and specifying requirements for software solutions in multiple business domains. Accreditation NASBA credits: 4 CPE Credits CEU credits: 0.70 CEUs Language Options US English Total Learning Time 6 to 8 hours Objectives Unit 1: Developing Specifications (1.5 - 2 hours)  more...

Defining Microsoft NET Solution Architectures Part 3 ... .NET Framework. At least two years experience: Analyzing customer needs and specifying requirements for software solutions in multiple business domains; Modeling processes and data, designing components, designing user interfaces; Designing, developing, implementing software solutions; Integrating new applications into legacy environments; Developing MS Windows-based and Web-based  more...

Defining Microsoft NET Solution Architectures Part 4 ... .NET Framework. At least two years experience: Analyzing customer needs and specifying requirements for software solutions in multiple business domains; Modeling processes and data, designing components, designing user interfaces; Designing, developing, implementing software solutions; Integrating new applications into legacy environments; Developing MS Windows-based and Web-based  more...

Defining Microsoft NET Solution Architectures Part 3 ... .NET Framework. At least two years experience: Analyzing customer needs and specifying requirements for software solutions in multiple business domains; Modeling processes and data, designing components, designing user interfaces; Designing, developing, implementing software solutions; Integrating new applications into legacy environments; Developing MS Windows-based and Web-based  more...

CCNT Basic Telecommunications v6 0 Part 1 ...ment (CPE). Identify features of components of Consumer Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) enterprise networks. Identify features and functions of telecommunications services. Identify features in the process of making calls. Identify features of basic services. Identify the features of Lines and Trunks. Match dedicated services with their features. Identify features of VPNs.  more...

Interpersonal Communication Listening Skills Interpersonal Communication: Listening Skills teaches you how to develop the skills you need to be a critical listener and how to respond appropriately to speakers. In this program, you will have the opportunity to visit with a listening expert and practice skills in a work environment. Both activities will help you improve your listening skills and decrease listening problems in the workplace.  more...

Interpersonal Communication Effective Communication Interpersonal Communication: Effective Communication will help you develop the skills needed to communicate a message effectively by identifying the receiver, choosing a proper channel, and responding to feedback. In this program, you will also learn how to overcome a variety of common forms of interference. Learn To Identify the seven elements of communication.  more...

Interpersonal Communication Telephone Skills ...Learn To Provide efficient customer service through good telephone skills. Demonstrate behavior callers appreciate. Use screening methods. Distinguish between high and low priority calls. Take accurate messages. Increase your  more...

Emotional Intelligence Applying Emotional Intell in the Workplace Emotional Intelligence: Applying Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace gives the student an overview of the use of Emotional Intelligence from a leadership perspective and provides a process for applying Emotional Intelligence in everyday interactions with team members and employees. The program covers how the process can be applied in various situations, including motivating, resolving  more...

Defining Microsoft NET Solution Architectures parat 4 ... .NET Framework. At least two years experience: Analyzing customer needs and specifying requirements for software solutions in multiple business domains; Modeling processes and data, designing components, designing user interfaces; Designing, developing, implementing software solutions; Integrating new applications into legacy environments; Developing MS Windows-based and Web-based  more...

Communicating w Difficult People Handling Difficult Co-Workers Communicating with Difficult People: Handling Difficult Co-Workers offers the student information on how to define difficult co-workers, cope with their difficult behavior, and resolve conflict caused by the negative behavior. The program describes the proper methods to address each difficult personality type, the appropriate techniques to use to cope with and manage difficult behavior, and the  more...

Excellence in Service Fundamentals for Employees ...how to develop the skills needed to effectively relate to customers, fulfill their needs, and develop a positive customer service attitude. You will understand the importance of going beyond just satisfying customers. You will also differentiate between internal and external customer needs and understand the relationship between supporting your internal team and how it positively enables you to  more...

Excellence in Service Solving Customer Problems ...Customer Problems you will learn how to quickly identify the style of the customer so you can speak their language. You will learn customer-friendly language that keeps the customer from becoming upset. You will also learn how to effectively solve customers? problems and benefit from their complaints. Learn To: Identify ways to effectively communicate with customers by examining  more...

Excellence in Service Working With Upset Customers ...Customers, you will learn how to successfully handle customers when they are upset, calm upset customers, and deal with abusive customers. In addition, you will learn how your own emotions affect your interactions with customers and how to reduce your stress. Learn To: Identify how to manage customer service stress by learning how to control your emotions and reduce your stress level.  more...

Excellence in Service Communicating With Customers Virtually ...Customers Virtually, you will learn how to adapt your telephone behavioral styles to your customers over the telephone. You will also learn how to project professionalism over the phone using various verbal techniques. In addition, you will be able to provide quality customer care by learning how to manage customer communication via the phone or e-mail. Learn To: Identify ways to  more...

Excellence in Service Creating an Exceptional Service Environment ...ecessary foundation to help employees deliver exceptional customer service. You will learn steps for writing your customer service vision statement, as well as suggestions for ensuring that the appropriate processes and systems are in place to support exceptional customer service. You will also learn ways to be a role model of exceptional customer service for your employees. Learn To:  more...

Excellence in Service Establishing Service Standards ...lishing Service Standards, you will learn how to identify customer expectations by evaluating the criteria customers use to assess the quality of your company's service. You will learn how to set, develop, and implement service standards. You will also understand the importance of surveying customers and incorporating their feedback into service standards. Finally, you will learn how to monitor  more...

Excellence in Service Building a Customer Service Team ...Customer Service Team, you will learn techniques to successfully select, train, and motivate employees to form a customer service team. You will identify important aspects of employment laws that affect your search for quality service employees. You will also learn how to develop a training program that is suitable for your customer service team and that will meet your organization a a s  more...

Excellence in Service Building Lasting Customer Relationships ...Customer Relationships, you will learn how to build ongoing customer relationships by identifying and delivering a solid value proposition to your customers. You will then understand how to add value by increasing customer responsiveness, promoting customer knowledge, and developing customer loyalty. You will learn how to build on customer loyalty by focusing on both the rational assessment, as  more...

Call Center Inbound Customer Service ...Customer Service, you will identify what challenges come from the situation, the caller, and the environment. You will learn what guidelines you should follow in order to provide excellent service and use your skills to fulfill your customers' needs. Learn To Understand your role as a representative of your company. Maintain a  more...

Call Center Mgt Measuring Quality Performance ...ity and Performance teaches the student information about customer expectations and how to reduce the percentage of a call center's lost calls. The program also teaches students about various staffing tactics, provides a process for calculating staff levels, and identifies the types of reports that call center managers use to evaluate a call center's performance. Additionally, the program  more...

Customer Relationship Mgt Fundamentals of CRM ...Customer Relationship Management: Fundamentals of CRM introduces the student to the benefits of creating customer loyalty, developing a market intelligence enterprise, and incorporating customer relationship management into your company. The program also details the three steps a company can take to create customer loyalty, the four marketing tiers, the four types of CRM, and the four steps of  more...

Customer Relationship Mgt Implementing CRM ...Customer Relationship Management: Implementing CRM introduces the student to the goals of CRM, the costs of CRM, and ways to modify operations costs to become customer focused. The program also details CRM pre-implementation strategies, the CRM implementation process, and tactics used to test CRM. Learn To Identify ways to achieve CRM goals and focus on  more...

Customer Relationship Mgt eCRM ...Customer Relationship Management: eCRM introduces the students to managing customer relationships over the Internet. The program details the characteristics of eCRM, how departments can use eCRM to automate processes, and how to customize eCRM interfaces for each type of eCRM user. Learn To Identify the features of eCRM. Identify ways  more...

Implementing Wireless LANs Part 4 Site Design Installation ...his course provides an understanding of how to assess the customer's needs for an enterprise-wide WLAN implementation and how to perform a site survey. It addresses preparation, infrastructure awareness, site survey methods, and the Cisco ACU site survey utility. The WLAN installation section provides guidelines for mounting access points and antennas. The troubleshooting section provides  more...

Recruiting Retention Internet Recruiting ... In this simulation you will meet with Customer Service directors Terry Jones and Caroline Harris, who are looking to fill Customer Service representative positions. They both have specific requirements on the skills and qualifications they desire for the positions. As a member of Icon a a s Human Resources, you will help David and Caroline put together a posting site that  more...

Recruiting Retention Keeping Your Good Employees ...Services Division. Linda will need to hire two additional Customer Service Representatives as part of a departmental expansion. In addition, she will be responsible for the orientation of the new employees. Linda has some experience with recruiting employees but has never been in charge of a new-hire orientation program. As Linda's manager, you will need to explain the importance of retaining  more...

Decision Making Problem Solving Problem Solving Fundamentals In Decision Making & Problem Solving: Problem Solving Fundamentals, you will learn to use a systematic approach to solve problems. In this program, you will face several problems in your organization and successfully use your problem solving skills in order to produce a positive outcome. Learn To Identify different ways problems can be handled.  more...

Leadership Development Delegation ...is simulation, you will meet one of the Loan Department's Customer Service Agents. You will review his progress on a new assignment and identify problems that are hindering his success. You will also want to help him formulate a plan to complete his project. Unit 4: Delegating During a Project (0.5 - 1 hour) Avoid common delegation obstacles.  more...

Leadership Development Goal Setting In Leadership Development: Goal Setting, you will develop an understanding of how to set specific and measurable goals. Using your goal setting skills, you will have the opportunity to help employees manage goal achievement, set goals to meet deadlines, and identify strategic goals for the future. Learn To Successfully define a target to be reached.  more...