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Dealing With Difficult Customers Training

Dealing With Difficult Customers Training is an in-person or live-virtual course that gives your team the skills and confidence to improve the outcomes of challenging customer situations. Participants learn effective responses to customers who are frustrated, and practices for de-escalating conflict.

Belding Training
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COURSE LENGTH
# PARTICIPANTS
REINFORCEMENT

On-Site, Live Virtual

1/2 Day – Full Day

5-20

4 Weeks +

About This Course:

Dealing With Difficult Customers Training is part of Belding Training’s Trust-Based Customer Service series (Learn more about trust-based service here). Your team will learn how to anticipate potentially negative situations and prevent them from occurring. They will practice proven techniques and language skills for dealing with negative emotions and help regain customer trust.

Topics:

Understanding and Preventing Conflict
  • The root causes of most customer conflict
  • The real reason customers behave badly
How to reduce emotions in conflict and stay focused
  • Reframing customer behaviour to help create connection
  • How to maintain control over any conversation
How to de-escalate conflict
  • Two focus-points that send the message “I care”
  • Active listening skills for Difficult conversations 
How to deal with unreasonable behaviour​
  • Recognizing and reacting to unreasonable behaviour
  • Why people lie, and how to handle it
How to navigating multiple organizational layers to achieve successful outcomes
  • Recognizing and reacting to unreasonable behaviour

  • Why people lie, and how to handle it

Essential training for Internal customer service
Internal Customer Service - Foundational
How to recover from difficult service situations
Situational Service Recovery
Handling Customer Escalations
How to Connect with Customers
Connecting with Customers: Every. Time.

Related Difficult Customer Situation Insights

Internal customer service for alignment

Who Should Attend:

Course Outcomes:

  • Greater confidence with challenging people
  • Faster resolution of service failure
  • Reduced employee stress
  • Increased customer loyalty
  • Reduced negative word-of-mouth

Looking for Customized Training?

This course will be customized to your specific organizations, including examples, case studies and relevant skills.

If you would like to blend content from another of our courses, or add content to address specific needs, we can do that too.

How to recover from difficult service situations
Situational Service Recovery
Handling Customer Escalations
How to Connect with Customers
Connecting with Customers: Every. Time.
How to Connect with Customers
Connecting with Customers: Every. Time.
Essential people leadership
Foundational Leadership
Essential training for Internal customer service
Internal Customer Service