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Telephone Skills Training

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Telephone Behavior: The Rules Of Effective Communication - DVD

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Talking on the phone is a no-brainer. But truly communicating is an art form. John Cleese demonstrates it humorously in this new version of Telephone Behavior. Now employees at all levels can master the techniques of positive, friendly telephone communication. Cleese takes you from the brief introduction to closing the call, with helpful advice every step of the way.

You'll discover how to ask open questions, listen actively, and send verbal signals to the caller to ensure their message is heard and understood. Learn to volunteer useful information, agree on next steps, and handle complaining callers. There's also a lesson on voice mail techniques, including tips for prioritizing and screening calls, updating greetings, and leaving concise messages. Produced by Video Arts.

  • Introduce yourself, and establish whether it's convenient to proceed
  • Control the call, ask questions, record and repeat information
  • Volunteer useful information; agree upon the next steps

Includes: A 33 minute DVD or VHS video and leader's guide.

  • Telephone Behavior: The Rules Of Effective Communication - DVD $870.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Telephone Behavior: The Rules Of Effective Communication - VHS $870.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Telephone Behavior: The Rules Of Effective Communication: Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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Call to Order - DVD

Produced - 1995

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n this video a cocky telesales executive is quick to complain about the treatment he receives from an evasive car salesman he's been trying to pin down over the telephone. But he is blind to his own errors. It isn't until a 'Twilight Zone'-like dream sequence that he sees the light and discovers where he's been going wrong.

The benefits

  • Teaches staff how to deal with inquiries and develop sales opportunities
  • Practical and easy-to-follow techniques
  • Demonstrates how to close a sale over the phone
  • Suitable for call center and telesales staff - in fact anyone who takes a customer call

Program includes: DVD (20 mins),briefcase booklet and discussion leader's guide.

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The Complete Telesales Training Kit - DVD

Produced - 1998

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Whether it's training a completely new telesales team, a refresher course for existing staff, or fine-tuning certain aspects of an individual's performance, this course covers it all.

From start to finish, every facet of the sales process is tackled. From making initial contact and finding out customer needs through to identifying buying signals, dealing with objections and closing the deal - it's all here in eleven easy-to-follow segments.

Based on people and situations everyone will identify with and presented in a fun but structured format, each video segment is followed by a review of key points by a telesales expert. So if probing, say, or staying in control of a presentation is a problem, these are skills that can be focused on. And if it's a whole new team that needs the ultimate A-to-Z to successful telesales then look no further.

The benefits

  • True-to-life scenarios staff can relate to
  • Suitable for teams or individuals - experienced or novices
  • Ready-made OHTs with the main training points
  • Eleven flexible and easy-to-identify modules

Program includes: DVD(73 mins), 11 segments of video, trainer's guide, resources binder and handouts.

  • The Complete Telesales Training Kit - DVD $1,995.00 [Add to Cart]
Telephone Skills Training DVD Set

(3 DVD Set)

Regardless of all the new technology the telephone is still the most used business tool in today's work place. It is also the most abused communication tool.

This new telephone 3 DVD training set will provide your staff with proven telephone techniques.

The set includes the following programs:

Program 1: "Telephone Skills at Work" will show you how to make your telephone your business partner. This new program is a great companion when used with our best-selling program. (Length: 30 minutes)

You'll Learn:

  • How to correctly handle incoming and outgoing calls
  • The basics of telephone etiquette
  • How to deal with complaint calls (and turn them into success)
  • How to listen and speak effectively on the phone

Program 2: Winning Telephone Tips - It doesn't have to be this way, especially at your company or organization. The exciting Winning Telephone Tips training program tells you how to solve these problems and many, many more. Complete with DVD, CD audio and book, the 30 action tips in this program can be put to use immediately. This program is for everyone in your organization from the mail room to the office of the president.

Learn why it's important to place your own telephone calls, how to avoid unnecessary call screening, and how to make your voice mail more efficient. You'll also learn innovative ways to prevent callers from wandering off the topic, and who calls back if your're disconnected; how to properly answer the telephone, and why it's important to say, "thank-you for calling" when the conversation is completed. These are just some of the 30 topics covered in this fast-paced video. A must for any organization! (Length: 45 minutes).

Program 3: Use the Telephone the Right Way - Master today's key skills and strategies for effective telephone use.

Good common sense telephone techniques and old-fashion courtesy--especially in today's digital age--often define crucial business moments. Poor telephone skills can cause customer dissatisfaction or loss of customers, damage the organizational image, and threaten overall caller goodwill. In this training program, your employees will learn how to apply 14 key call-handling skills that will boost not only your organization's credibility and bottom line, but also their own professionalism and value.

You'll Learn To:

  • Provide great service, turning phone calls into relationship builders
  • De-magnify conflict over the phone through sensitivity
  • Overcome the two root causes of poor telephone communication
  • Vary timing, tone and word choice to enhance caller comfort
  • "Check phone use attitude," follow the "two-ring rule" and more!
  • Apply voice mail etiquette that's also efficient

This set include: (3) DVDs, (3) CD audios and (3) books.

Telephone Courtesy: The Royal Connection - DVD

Produced - 1999

Customer loyalties can be crushed or created over the phone lines. This Trainer's Toolkit demonstrates courteous and effective telephone techniques to ensure that your customers keep calling back!

  • Avoiding the most common mistakes
  • Determining and fulfilling customer needs
  • Offering "royal treatment" over the phone

The toolkit contains the DVD program (21 minutes), Telephone Courtesy: The Royal Connection, 10 employee handbooks and expanded leader's guide.

  • Telephone Courtesy: The Royal Connection - DVD $700.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Telephone Courtesy: The Royal Connection: Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
Communications Library Set

This new Communication Set allows you to improve your communication skills in a short period of time at a most reasonable price. The following new titles are included in the set: "Use the Telephone the Right Way", "Better Meeting Management for Better Communication", "Manage Your Time Better", "Feedback Skills for Supervisors" and "Communication Skills That Build Winning Relationships"

Includes: 5 DVDs, audio CDs and Books

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On the Receiving End Making Call Centers More Effective - DVD
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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 $870.00 [Add to Cart]
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Customer Service Toolkit - DVD

New Release (2006)

Customize Your Training with 72 Situation-Specific High Quality Video Clips

Finally, an affordable video clip library with enough variety to help you build customer service training courses unique to every type of trainee.

You receive multiple video clips in these Customer Service topic areas:

  • Attitude
  • Communication
  • Problem Solving
  • Service Recovery
  • Supervising a Customer Service Department
  • Internal Customer Service

Plus your will have a variety of video clips in each of these service categories:

face-to-face (including field) & telephone, business-to-business & business-to-consumer, as well as employee-to-employee/internal customer service.

All in all, you get:

  • 72 professionally-produced video clips
  • A total of 75 minutes of total video (clips run between
  • 20 seconds and 2 minutes each)
  • Each clip in 2 formats: with narration to "set up the scene" and tell viewers what to look for, and without narration.
  • The entire library on BOTH: DVD for as-needed viewing, and CD-ROM for importing into PowerPoint presentations (easy-to-follow tutorial shows you how).

The accompanying Leader's Guide gives context to each clip, suggests where and how to use the clips and explains how to combine clips for maximum impact. Discussion starter questions and activity suggestions are also included. Click here to view Preview Guide (including sample pages of the Leader's Guide).

Create highly relevant courses for new-hires and develop refresher courses for seasoned staff. Over 20 different workplaces are represented including: general office, call center, government, healthcare, automotive/transportation, financial services, and more. Length: 75 minutes

Program Contents:
Video clips on 1 DVD and 2 CD-ROMs, each with 2 versions of all clips: with introductory narration and without; printed Leader's Guide and Leader's Guide on CD-ROM.

Frontline Library - (10 DVD Set)

Learn the basic skills necessary to compete in today's complex marketplace with the new Frontline Library. Complete with 10 DVDs, 2 videocassettes, 10 books and 7 audio CDs.

These programs provide the fast-paced material needed to improve the performance of the new employee or the long-time veteran.

Your cost $1,115! If you were to buy these programs individually, the total would be $1,417.50. Buy the complete library and save $302.50!

The Frontline Library includes the following titles:

  • Succeed by Listening
  • How to Handle Difficult People (3 Volumes)
  • How to Make Winning Presentations
  • Communicate and Win
  • Writing for Business Results
  • Effective Teamwork
  • Telephone Skills at Work
  • Time Management: Ideas that Work
  • How to Set and Really and Really Achieve your goals
  • The Basics of Business Etiquette

Cold Calling Techniques and Advanced Cold Calling Techniques - Video

by Steve Schiffman

There are no new sales without new contacts. Learn how to set make calls with proven cold-calling techniques. Top level corporate sales trainer and best-selling author, Steve Schiffman, presents the contents of his famous cold-calling seminar.

This definitive two-video set is the most comprehensive sales training program ever developed on the cold-calling process, providing sure-fire strategies for inside salespeople, telemarketers, and field sales professionals. Using a memorable, straightforward approach, this program actually teaches salespeople how to make cold calling the most productive part of the sales repertoire.

This package includes both the beginning and advanced video with a participant workbook.

  • Cold Calling Techniques and Advanced Cold Calling Techniques - Video $399.99 [Add to Cart]
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Customers With A Difference - DVD

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

Part of the Just A Call Away Series on telephone skills.

Encourage your customer service agents to take up the challenge and stretch their comfort zone when dealing with customers who may have a different culture or even first language.

Taylor works in a busy international freight company. One of her customers is a woman named Ruzita who is trying to send an urgent parcel to her mother in Malaysia. Ruzita is new to this country and English is her second language. Taylor is also frantically trying to organize travel arrangements for her own mother to fly for the birth of her first grandchild.

Our story follows Taylor's experience as she grapples with the challenge of being both a service provider and a customer, when dealing with cultural differences and language barriers. Taylor complains bitterly about the treatment she receives at the hands of the foreign visa department. However, when faced with a similar situation in her own work environment her reactions are not dissimilar.

After learning some valuable practical skills and the importance of stretching your comfort zone, Taylor has a pleasant, productive exchange with Ruzita and the urgent parcel is immediately winging its way to Malaysia. It's a simple story, but one that is played out every day, all over the world.

Participants will learn to:

  • Give instructions in a logical order
  • Repeat information without sounding annoyed
  • Avoid jargon and use simple language
  • Show sensitivity and understanding
  • Never be, or sound patronizing

Program includes: A 16 minute DVD or Video and Leader's Guide

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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Call of The Mummy - DVD

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

In today's competitive marketplace, even just one bad experience can cause a customer to take their business to another company. To keep loyal customers, then, it's crucial that every service opportunity, or "Moment of Truth," no matter how brief, make a great impression.

The Call of the Mummy uses entertaining, engaging vignettes featuring CSRs in business, government and healthcare to illustrate the do's and don'ts of customer service on the phone.

Viewers will learn eight key skills for quality customer service:

  • Use good communication skills
  • Know your products and services
  • Personalize the call
  • Listen carefully to callers
  • Encourage complaints
  • Manage complaints with a service recovery plan
  • Stay calm -- give feedback and offer a solution
  • Recognize opportunities to make a sale

Program Includes: A 19 minute VHS or DVD, Leader's Guide, sample Participant Workbook.

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