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25 Reproducible Activities for Customer Service Excellence

Make it easy for employees to provide great customer service with this collection of motivating and skill-building activities. There’s no need for a special training facility, no huge costs involved, or no prior training experience required. All you need is a group of employees who are committed to giving customers what they rightfully deserve—excellent service.

Areas covered include:

  • the customer's first impression
  • customer paradigms
  • listening to the customer
  • finding out who the customer really is
  • how rumors get started and spread
  • the importance of telephone greeting messages
  • dealing with telephone tag
  • telephone communications
  • understanding what the customer really wants
  • characteristics of successful customer service
  • customer service diseases
  • developing your personal improvement plan
  • personalities of potential buyers
  • types of customers
  • customer complaints
  • tips for selling your product or service
  • positive and negative words
  • winning and losing the customer
  • logic vs emotion in selling
  • 25 Reproducible Activities for Customer Service Excellence $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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Managing Stress On and Off the Job PowerPoint & Booklet Kit

Managing Stress On and Off the Job PowerPoint & Booklet Kit

Stress on the job is a triple threat to your business leading to Accidents, Absences, and business busting hostile Attitudes toward co-workers and customers. This PowerPoint training kit gives you a training class that's ready to go right out of the box.

This kit includes:

  • A 30-slide customizable PowerPoint presentation
    Makes training a breeze by including prewritten speaker's notes. All you have to do is point, click, and train.
  • Completion certificates
    Print these out and document which employees completed training.
  • Quizzes and handouts
    Prewritten quizzes and handouts give you ready-made training materials and test your employees knowledge.
  • 20 booklets
    Includes 20, 16-page informative booklets with easy-to-read explanations on important topics such as: managing stress that starts at home, work-life balance, and the benefits of channeling stress in productive ways.

    • Managing Stress On and Off the Job PowerPoint & Booklet Kit $299.99 [Add to Cart]
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The Secret of Guest Relations (Healthcare Version) - DVD

Excellent guest relations is a must in the increasingly competitive field of healthcare. Don't let poor service and ineffective communication tarnish your organization's reputation. Teach your employees the "how-tos" of superior guest relations.

Mary is a nurse on a busy floor. At the end of her shift, Mary's attitude toward patients and guests is poor. "Accidentally" taken to Heaven, she must find the secret to good guest relations in order to return to Earth. With the help of the "Great Patient Relations Director in the Sky", Mary helps several other hospital staff members learn caring techniques.

Key Training Points:

  • Communicate effectively
  • Follow up solutions with actions
  • Handle irate patients
  • Discover a patient's true needs

Running Time(min) 23

  • The Secret of Guest Relations (Healthcare Version) - DVD $595.00 [Add to Cart]
  • The Secret of Guest Relations (Healthcare Version): Rental $295.00 [Add to Cart]
  • The Secret of Guest Relations (Healthcare Version): Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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Selling with INSIGHT Trainer's Kit

Trainers Guide

Improve your selling skills by better understanding yourself and others using the INSIGHT Inventory.

This new selling system uses the INSIGHT Inventory to help increase sales effectiveness. It will help participants to understand themselves and others better and to use this understanding to improve interpersonal relationships with customers. This makes it possible for salespeople to reduce the interpersonal tension that often develops from style differences between themselves and their customers and to create open, honest dialogue. Sales representatives will be able to uncover customer needs and accurately match them with the most appropriate products and services.

The Selling with INSIGHT System includes:

  • One INSIGHT Inventory for the user to complete
  • Seven pages of interpretation information for the INSIGHT Inventory
  • Four skill-building activities
  • One action planning worksheet

Participants will learn

  • Their primary style preferences and how these affect their behavior
  • How they may behave when under stress and how selling situations can bring out this altered behavior
  • How their styles impact their communications and sales approach with their customers
  • How they are likely to be perceived by their customers, both positively and negatively
  • How to flex their styles to sell more effectively to customers with similar styles
  • How to flex their styles to sell more effectively to customers with different styles
  • Strategies for dealing with difficult customers
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Fun Is Good - DVD

This course is also available for online training, see details below.

This highly motivational program takes you behind the scenes at Midway Field in Minnesota, where fun is encouraged daily. Visit a workplace where a costumed pig tosses out the balls, "ushertainers" serenade you in the stands and games are always sold out. See firsthand just how much fun, when combined with commitment, relates to organizational success and personal satisfaction.

Sure, a day at the ballpark might sound like a good time. But when it's your job, it can mean a fifteen-hour day of hard work, whether you're cleaning the bleachers, keeping the books or taking care of customers. How do they do it?

For the people who work here, fun is an attitude. An experience. It's why everyone from head groundskeeper to the president and co-owner is passionate about coming to work. Having fun on the job makes these employees more creative, more productive, and ultimately more satisfied. They don't take themselves too seriously. They treat each other with respect. And they make every day an event.

Key concepts in the video can bring this mindset to any workplace:

  • Discover Your Passion
  • Bring a Positive Attitude
  • Show People You Care

Program includes: VHS or DVD, Leader's Guide, PowerPoint Presentation on CD-ROM with film transcript, 10 Participant Workbooks, 10 Reminder Cards. Bonus extended-cut DVD version of show included with either video format.

Online Training Option

  • Pricing - $9.95 per user
  • Minimum order - $500
  • Users receive a post-test and certificate of completion. You set the test’s passing grade.
  • You get an Administrator’s Page that shows who has logged on to take the training and the test score of each viewer.

Please contact us by email if you have more than 1000 users for special pricing options.

Note: When you order the online training version of this program, our shopping cart will show 50 items listed (minimum number of participants) for $500, each additional participant/item added is $9.95

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25 Sales Strategies and Activities

25 Sales Strategies and Activities is a unique training and development tool designed to teach sales professionals how and when to use a variety of proven sales strategies.

A diagnostic sales strategy matrix shows how much each strategy emphasizes both relationship and performance. A relationship performance index further classifies the strategies as highest, higher, moderate, lower, lowest.

Each strategy comes with an activity that clears up any question about how the strategy should be implemented. Each activity includes fully reproducible exhibits which can be used as exercises and handouts in training sessions.

Rather than a one-time training tool, 25 Sales Strategies and Activities is a useful and practical guide your employees will refer to over and over again. It’s packed with a wealth of insight, tips and guidance for motivating sales people to:

  • Know the customer
  • Create buying habits
  • Adapt to change
  • Empower customers
  • Create the need
  • Sell the sizzle
  • Understand the customer’s perspective
  • Sell service
  • And much more

Binder - 176 pages

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If Looks Could Kill - DVD

Produced in 2000 

Free Online Preview

This DVD course is also available for online training – learn more

How people behave when dealing with customers or colleagues can determine the success or failure of each interaction. In this spoof detective case, careless failure has created a victim. At the doctor's, at the shoe shop, in the post office and at the station, a customer was driven to distraction by careless behaviour. A detective must piece together a customer's movements to see how several suspects' behaviour led to his demise.

Three key pieces of evidence result from his enquiries: 

  • Behaviour breeds behaviour
  • Behaviour is a choice
  • Behaviour can be used to help a transaction.

This light-hearted program raises some simple but key issues, and expresses them in a professional, down-to-earth manner. Any staff seeing this video will learn how to deal with customers by being professional and choosing their behaviour. Personal problems and prejudices should be hidden, and customers should be welcomed and put at their ease.

The benefits

  • Engaging, amusing and realistic scenarios
  • Structured analysis of front-line behaviour
  • Suitable across a range of industries for all levels of staff
  • Written by behavioural expert Dr Peter Honey

Programme includes: DVD(28 mins), Course leader's guide, Delegate worksheets on disk, Powerpoint slides/OHPs on disk and Self-study workbook on disk.

$999.00 [Add to Cart]
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Through the Customer's Eyes - DVD

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If looks could kill demonstrates how thoughtless behaviour can create a dissatisfied customer. Its sequel, Through the customer's eyes, takes a different stance. In this amusing story with a sting in the tail, we see that how we believe we are behaving is not necessarily how the customer sees it.

Mrs Porter (Marion Bailey) has reached the end of her tether. Her mounting frustration while shopping in Starmore's department store has driven her to the edge. Inspector Thackeray (Jeremy Clyde) from the Customer Services Squad arrives to investigate her claims of rude behaviour and poor service on the part of a number of the store's sales assistants.

He retraces Mrs Porter's movements and uncovers a number of cases where she was ignored, forgotten or treated badly by staff. For example, she was left waiting while they did other jobs or discussed business with other employees.

Inspector Thackeray then shows how positively Mrs Porter would have reacted had she received the service she expected.

The staff of Starmore's learn to acknowledge waiting customers and apologise for any delay in serving them; understand that non-selling work comes second to serving customers; and discover when to call in a manager to resolve a problem. Finally they learn always to respect the customer's purchase.

When sales staff offer the service that a customer expects, everyone benefits. Friendly behaviour sells. It also creates the perfect environment for selling accessories and services.

The benefits

 

  • Sales staff will understand what effect their behaviour can have on customers
  • They will realise how attentive and friendly service really sells
  • This will improve the results for your organisation in terms of customer satisfaction and sales

Also available for online training - learn more!

 

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The Customer is Always Dwight - DVD

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Every organisation has processes; a series of operations changing one thing (a product or service) into another.

Achieving 100 per cent quality first time, every time requires everyone in the process treating the next person in the line as an internal customer. They should then discover their internal customer's requirements - and how to meet them.

This is Process Management, the approach explored by Dwight (Andrew Sachs). It demands 100 per cent commitment from everyone in an organisation; but it repays effort in both improved productivity and job satisfaction.

The video makes the point that it is the responsibility of managers to act as process 'owners', maintaining the links with all the people in the process chain.

Of course, there are less ideal ways to approach quality. Dwight uses to examples - one where the process management approach is needlessly complicated - to make his point.

Dwight concludes that quality is not confined to products and services, it's the way that organisations work.

The benefits

  • Identify internal and external customers
  • Find out their needs
  • Deliver 100% quality down-the-line
  • The process should be as good as the product or service.

Program includes: DVD(21mins)and guide.

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An Inside Job - DVD

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Everyone in an organization forms part of a 'customer-service chain', which leads from dealing with customers right through the business. In a hotel scenario, an investigator is called in to investigate mismanagement, and identifies how people in departments not dealing with customers are actually letting external customer service down.

Three steps to creating an effective internal customer perspective are identified:

  • Identify your internal customers
  • Consult them about their needs
  • Serve them as though external customers.

The benefits

  • Suitable for everyone in a customer-focused industry
  • Simple three-step process for adopting and motivating internal care awareness

Programme includes: DVD(23 mins) , Course leader's guide, Delegate worksheets on disk, Powerpoint slides/OHPs on disk and Self-study workbook on disk

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On the Receiving End Making Call Centers More Effective - DVD

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This DVD course is also available for online training – Learn more

 

Customers who are fatuous, difficult or helpless are every call centre operator's worst nightmare. However, it often requires more than just a good telephone manner to deal with these types of people - good training is essential.

On the receiving end shows how customers can be kept satisfied and loyal to an organisation. The video demonstrates how to listen carefully, ask relevant questions and assess customers' needs. It explains how a successful relationship is developed by clearly outlining the available options to customers and agreeing upon a course of action.

By looking for opportunities staff will be able to add value to their service, developing as an agent who is able to solve customers' problems efficiently and easily. The result is a satisfied customer who will be comfortable with conducting business over the phone and who will not hesitate to call again.

The benefits

 

  • Suitable for all levels of call-centre staff
  • Tried and tested telephone techniques
  • Complements skills for handling difficult customers
  • Fun and friendly format

Programme includes: DVD(25 mins), Showreel tape, Meeting break video, Course leader's guide, Delegate worksheets on disk, Powerpoint slides/OHPs on disk and Self-study workbook on disk

 

  • On the Receiving End Making Call Centers More Effective - DVD $999.00 [Add to Cart]
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25 Role Plays to Teach Negotiation, Volume 2

Includes FREE CD with 25 role plays from the popular first volume-50 total role plays!

Updated with 25 new role plays not covered in the first volume, the latest edition of the popular 25 Role Plays to Teach Negotiation will inspire you to think and act like a negotiation expert. If you're a management training and development specialist who needs one or two role-plays to use in a negotiation program, this book's a must. The book provides the opportunity to practice the behaviors used most frequently by successful negotiators-including questioning, clarifying, checking for understanding, summarizing and active listening.

Each of these role plays is based on a unique approach to negotiation embracing three critical concepts:

  • Successful negotiation is not an adversarial process, but a collaborative framework for creative problem-solving
  • The needs and interests of both negotiating parties must be addressed if there is to be a long-term solution
  • Negotiation is an ongoing process, and today's negotiation will affect the long-term relationship between the parties

Try out new behaviors that will help you:

  • Handle situations among co-workers regarding their roles and responsibilities
  • Talk with your employees about their performance
  • Improve relationships between the purchasing staff and internal clients
  • Deal with difficult customers

Sample role-plays:

  • The new project manager
  • The difficult team member
  • The difficult discussion/meeting
  • Engineering changes

  • 25 Role Plays to Teach Negotiation, Volume 2 $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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The Art of Selling - DVD

New Release - 2007

 

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The best thing about dealing with a good salesperson is you don't feel like you're being sold to. As far as you're concerned you're just receiving good service.

The art of selling is designed to equip your staff with all the skills and techniques they need to approach sales opportunities with confidence.

To make this program as relevant as possible it looks at many different scenes in which all sales staff can relate to such as: department store, DIY store, bank services such as mortgages, overdrafts, loans and insurance, shoe shop and many more.

The art of selling uses humorous right and wrong way scenarios to teach new skills in a memorable way. It covers the four key stages of selling, in both retail and financial situations:

 

  • Winning the customer's confidence: how your actions can affect customers
  • Discovering their need: the importance of listening to your customers
  • The importance of product knowledge: how knowing your products inside out will help you offer your customers what they want, and in turn build your conference
  • Closing the sale: why silence could be your new best friend

Included in the program are specific DVD extras for both the retail and financial sales. These cover everything from handling complaints to dealing with obnoxious customer.

The benefits

 

  • Suitable for all levels of staff who deal with customers
  • Amusing and realistic scenarios make lessons very clear and easy to follow
  • Small bit sized clips to allow flexibility in facilitating a training course
  • Immediately actionable and accessible

Program includes: DVD (28mins), DVD extras (10mins), Course leader's guide with fully resource training program, Group training workbook, Self-study workbook, PowerPoint presentation slides. All materials is customisable and provided on disc

Also available for online training, learn more!

 

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In An Instant Business Training Library - (6 DVD Set)

The In An Instant® Business Training Library contains six individual courses that have been updated to include new post-tests and closed captioning. Plus, each course in the library comes with a videocassette, DVD, audio CD, book and copies of the post-tests that may be reproduced. The In An Instant Business Training Library contains the following courses:

  • Effective Teamwork (39 minutes)
  • Succeed by Listening (35 minutes)
  • How to Develop Effective Communication Skills (34 minutes)
  • The Power of Customer Service (45 minutes)
  • The New Supervisor: Skills for Success (48 minutes)
  • Negotiating for Business Results (39 minutes)

Each course with video, DVD, audio, book and post-tests (plus closed captioning) is $149.95; however, if you purchase the entire library the cost is $749.75. Save $149.95.

These courses are terrific to start a new training library, or to augment an existing one.

  • In An Instant Business Training Library - (6 DVD Set) $749.99 [Add to Cart]
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Customer Service: Natural As Child's Play - DVD

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We all know healthcare professionals are busy –– now more than ever. But being warm, friendly and helpful doesn’t mean you can’t also get your work done. Customer Service: Natural As Child’s Play, details entertaining real-life scenarios and the best ways to handle them. A humorous host provides enlightening commentary on how natural customer service can be, as natural as child’s play. Topics include:

  • Knowing all types of customers
  • Applying the “treat people how you want to be treated” method
  • Using empathy instead of apathy
  • Employing good communication skills with an emphasis on listening

Includes: 24 minute DVD, 10 handbooks and electronic leaders guide.

Added features and benefits of DVD training include:

  • English and Spanish versions – many also include Portuguese
  • A Customizable PowerPoint™ Presentation – makes training site-specific; excellent for training different personnel and departments
  • Training Points – outlines key learning points of your training; reinforces important safety points to your employees.
  • Chapterized Content - video-enriched training organized by learning objectives that facilitates classroom discussion; ideal for refresher training, specific training points and navigating through the course.
  • Expanded Leader's Guide – excellent resource to help plan and implement your presentation. A quiz is provided that can serve as a pre and/or post evaluative tool.
  • Portable Convenience – perfect for those who train and travel! Includes ten employee handbooks.

  • Customer Service: Natural As Child's Play - DVD $545.00 [Add to Cart]