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Excellence in Service: Fundamentals for Managers In Excellence in Service: Fundamentals for Managers, managers review the skills that they and their direct reports need to possess to relate effectively to customers. They also learn to develop and monitor a service team, create service plans, and develop and implement effective service standards. more...

Excellence in Service: Fundamentals for Employees Excellence in Service: Fundamentals for Employees helps learners develop the skills needed to effectively relate to customers and exceed their expectations. They learn to differentiate between internal and external customers and make sure their customers are completely satisfied. more...

Excellence in Service: Providing Superior Customer Service In Excellence in Service: Providing Superior Customer Service, you will learn how to develop and maintain a positive attitude, show extra attentiveness to your customers, and use customer-friendly language. In addition, you will learn how to effectively solve customers' problems and benefit from their complaints. more...

Excellence in Service: Working with Upset Customers In Excellence in Service: Working with Upset Customers, you will learn how to successfully serve upset customers, calm upset customers, and deal with abusive customers. In addition, you will learn how to control your own emotions and reduce your level of stress. more...

Excellence in Service: Communicating with Your Customers ...Excellence in Service: Communicating with Your Customers, you will learn how to build rapport with your customers, and you will learn how nonverbal communication is interpreted by customers. In addition, you will learn telephone skills, including how to project professionalism and how to provide quality customer service over the telephone. Finally, you will learn how to communicate effectively more...

Excellence in Service: Establishing Service Standards In Excellence in Service: Establishing Service Standards, participants will learn what customers really want from their organization and how they evaluate your service, as well as how to create and implement effective service standards. In addition, participants will learn how to monitor service standards and how to correct problems that cause service to fall below those standards. more...

Excellence in Service: Building a Customer Service Team In Excellence in Service: Building a Customer Service Team, participants learn techniques to help them select qualified employees, as well as how to conduct an interview. Participants will also learn how to train and empower employees and how to reinforce and recognize desirable behavior. more...

Excellence in Service: Creating Customer Loyalty In Excellence in Service: Creating Customer Loyalty, participants will learn how to create a customer service climate, as well as how to provide memorable service on a regular basis. In addition, participants will learn how to understand customers' experiences, encourage loyalty from them, and form a partnership with them. more...

Call Center Operations Call Center Technologies This course shows how technology can lead to excellence in customer service, through call routing applications at the agent level and performance management tools at managerial level. Agents who want to progress to an understanding of call center operations, including workforce management, technological applications and performance measurement for both agents and call centers. more...

Excellence in Internal Customer Service In today's fast-changing and 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 more...

Overcoming Internal Customer Service Problems Managing relationships with your internal 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 more...

The Role of Critical Thinking in Organizations In the organizational arena, applied critical thinking skills provide an essential foundation for all effective planning, problem-solving, and decision-making activities. Employees who can analyze and reason consistently and proficiently furnish a cost-efficient resource that results in a distinctive competitive advantage. Workers who are skeptical of quick fixes and operational dogma pay more...

Developing Fundamental Critical Thinking Skills You may not need an MBA to succeed in the corporate arena, but regardless of position or industry, you do need to be able to analyze, reason, and communicate effectively. These and other critical thinking skills are increasingly consequential as organizational planning and decision making become more distributed and reliant on written and verbal communication factors. Developing Fundamental more...

Strategies for Facilitating Critical Thinking Workplaces are not typically associated with reflection or critical self-reflection, ideas that are often considered 'soft' to the bottom-line, results-oriented world of business.... Yet, paradoxically, reflection is becoming more part of the lifeblood of organizations in today's economic environment. Victoria Marsick's words illustrate why businesses can no longer thrive on the unexamined more...

Critical Thinking Skills for Managing Rational decision making is linear and is what you do when you put your facts in order. Intuition is looking at those facts and trying to see a pattern-and the patterns aren't always evident because the patterns aren't always linear. The two together are an extremely powerful combination. Joel Kurtzman, President, Kurtzman Associates and former editor, Harvard Business Review. The Critical more...

Organizational Scope of Critical Thinking In any complex environment systems are necessary, but they must serve an organization rather than become its masters. This is how Ralph S. Larsen, chairman and chief executive officer of Johnson & Johnson, describes both the need for systems and their inherent risk. Organizational systems, with complex and intricately interrelated components, demand the application of critical thinking to avoid more...

Critical Thinking Strategies Simulation You have recently been hired as the general manager at Retail Management Software (RMS). The company began as a small start-up company five years ago, developing software that helps retailers create, manage, and fulfill consumer demand. The founders and owners, Fred Chambers and Larry Busby, and their small team worked hard and developed great products. Recently, RMS' business has increased a more...

Energizing and Empowering Employees Energy. Without it, the wheels and gigabytes of industry come to a screeching halt. And without energized, empowered employees, your part of global industry will make far less progress. This course introduces you to the importance of energizing and empowering employees. By doing so, you multiply the benefits to your department, team, and organization. The course begins by showing you ways to more...

Managing Cross-Functions Today, managers need to address the complex problems and challenges of the current global business environment. Managers must now rely upon other divisions, departments, or functions in order to allocate resources, prioritize their staff time, and cooperate with each other. This requires that managers develop a degree of systems thinking where managers operate in a large interconnected system of more...

Effective Administrative Support Professional Simulation Today's office setting is high-tech and fast-paced. Successful administrative support professionals must keep up with the requirements of the modern-day office environment, and this simulation tests the skills and procedures that will help you do just that. As administrative assistant to the VP of Sales for the Northeast Division of BMS Printed Circuits, you'll experience the full spectrum of more...

Total Quality Management Principles In Total Quality Management Principles you will build 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. This curriculum is aimed at all individuals who wish to input to and improve quality more...

The Six Sigma Project Charter and Plan What constitutes a project charter? How do you know whether you've set the right goals for your project? What tools can best help you plan your project? As you advance in this course--which focuses on project charter elements as well as planning tools and project documentation--you will obtain the skills and knowledge required to manage your project charter and plan. Six Sigma is a registered more...

Leadership Leadership is fundamental in driving quality in an organization. A good leader's actions and words filter down to all organizational levels to create a quality culture. The concepts of organizational leadership are built on a foundation of core business elements. A clear understanding of these elements is key in developing an organization's strategic plan and vision. These core elements include: more...

Team Dynamics Effective development of teams improves the organization's quality and productivity. Team development encompasses team establishment, assignment of roles and responsibilities, and performance evaluation. Dynamic team goals and objectives must align with the organization's vision and mission. This course explores team building and team dynamics. It is aligned with the Quality Management Division of more...

Developing and Deploying Strategic Plans Successful organizations are founded on effectively developing and deploying strategic plans. Organizations must identify their primary goals and objectives based on their mission and vision statements. Other success factors include understanding market forces, internal strengths and weaknesses, stakeholders, relevant technology, and legal and regulatory factors. With these considerations, an more...

Managerial Skills and Abilities ... quality of its management. In order to bring quality and excellence to an organization, managers need certain skills, tools, and abilities in all their functions. These skills and abilities relate to their understanding of management principles and theories, key organizational functions, and their mutual interrelationships.This course explores basic principles of management, management more...

Communication Skills and Project Management An essential element of management is the ability to effectively communicate with people. The capacity to successfully communicate in today's global economy is a pivotal element to the success of any organization. Managers need to be aware of emerging technologies and how these affect international communication. To meet an improvement project's specified goals and objectives, a manager must also more...

Quality Systems Models and Theories The implementation of an effective quality system is a vital component of the success of any organization. Personnel at all levels in an organization must be aware of the quality mission, plan, and methodology it employs. A quality mission and plan that is well developed and properly implemented must be aligned to the corporate mission and vision statements and the strategic plan in order to be more...

Problem Solving and Process Management Tools ...ving them. Success in ensuring quality and organizational excellence depends on how effectively managers apply these tools to solve quality and process-related problems.This course explores basic problem-solving and process management tools used for identifying, analyzing, and solving quality and process-related problems. The course is aligned with the Quality Management Division of the more...

Measurement Assessment and Metrics Were you ever in a situation where you started a new project and weren't sure of its effectiveness? Is your new process trending toward success or failure? These are questions that should be on the mind of every manager. An effective manager is continuously gathering, monitoring, and analyzing information as it relates to organizational performance.This course explores data analysis techniques more...

Customer Focused Management Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, is reputed to have said, "There is only one boss the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down simply by spending his money somewhere else." Effective quality management processes focus on the customer. In today's global marketplace, customers have more choices than ever before. To achieve success, it is vital for enterprises to more...

Supply Chain Management At what level are your suppliers performing? Are the relationships with your suppliers benefiting the organization? A quality-centered relationship with a supplier can play a vital role in the success of organizations, providing a competitive advantage in today's aggressive global marketplace. Without sound performance measurement and communication strategies, the relationship between you and your more...

Training and Development The most valued resource of any organization is its people. In today's corporate landscape of technological advancement, employees must be trained to align with the strategic direction of the business. Managers of quality should know that improvements in workplace productivity contribute positively to the overall well-being of the organization. This course explores the importance of investing in more...

e-Business Part 1 Facing the e-Business Challenge The first course in the e-Business curriculum focuses on the history, trends, and opportunities around the movement towards e-Business. It compares and contrasts e-Commerce and e-Business. The target audience is those individuals tasked with planning/implementing e-Business strategies within an organization (primarily technical and business managers, as opposed to programmers, network engineers, more...

Excellence in Service - Fundamentals for Employees ...Excellence in Service: Fundamentals for Employees you will learn 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 more...

Excellence in Service - Solving Customer Problems In Excellence in Service: Solving 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.  more...

Excellence in Service - Working with Upset Customers In Excellence in Service: Working with Upset 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.  more...

Excellence in Service - Communicating with Customers Virtually In Excellence in Service: Communicating with 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.  more...

Excellence in Service - Creating an Exceptional Service Environment ...Excellence in Service: Creating an Exceptional Service Environment you will learn how to create the necessary 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 more...

Excellence in Service - Establishing Service Standards ...Excellence in Service: Establishing 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 more...

Excellence in Service - Building a Customer Service Team ...Excellence in Service: Building a 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 more...

Excellence in Service - Building Lasting Customer Relationships ...Excellence in Service: Building Lasting 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 more...

e-Business Part 1: Facing the e-Business Challenge The first course in the e-Business curriculum focuses on the history, trends, and opportunities around the movement towards e-Business. It compares and contrasts e-Commerce and e-Business. more...