Telephone Techniques Training
Create a consistent, professional customer telephone experience
Telephone Skills Course
Build confidence and skills for handling telephone calls more professionally.
Our comprehensive telephone training courses cover professional telephone techniques and call handling etiquette, with an emphasis on customer service. Available as a half-day or one-day programme run at your offices, or as an open course (see below):
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Improve your telephone etiquette and communication skills with KSL’s Telephone Skills Open Course. Perfect for people in customer service roles, the training covers professional telephone techniques for building rapport and efficient call handling, as well as effective complaint handling and dealing with difficult customer behaviour. The telephone training also includes practice. Run online via Zoom in 2 x 3 hour modules over two consecutive days.
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Course Availability
Bitesize virtual training via Zoom
Upcoming Dates
- 03 February 2025
- 04 February 2025
- 13 May 2025
- 14 May 2025
Time
09:30 – 12:30 GMT (each day)
Price
£335 + VAT Early booking rate
£395 + VAT Standard rate
- 1/2 day course
- 1 day course
- Download course PDF
- +44 (0) 1635 890450
The course provides practical call handling training, teaching participants’ telephone etiquette and skills to confidently answer calls, as well as how to constructively respond to customer telephone enquiries and handle customer complaints.
KSL’s telephone skills training course is ideal for receptionist or customer support staff who make and answer calls on behalf of their organisation, thereby acting as the first point of contact for their customers and suppliers.
Key objectives of the course are to:
- Answer and make telephone calls in a professional manner
- Learn techniques to efficiently respond to a customer call
- Build rapport with the customer and satisfy their needs quickly
- Handle a customer’s concern or complaint, with empathy and understanding
The importance of professional telephone skills
- Importance of professional telephone techniques to the business
- Benefits of professional telephone etiquette
- Small group exercise and facilitated group discussion
Telephone communication challenges
- The challenges of telephone communication
- Role of non verbal communication
- Building rapport and gathering information
- Small group practical exercises, facilitated group discussion
Answering the telephone
- Telephone guidelines when handling a call
- The verbal handshake
- Putting callers on hold, transferring callers
- Group exercise, demonstration, presentation and facilitated group discussion
Communication skills to handle enquiries
- Effective listening techniques
- Questioning techniques
- Recording information
- Using positive language and taking ownership of call
- Closing the call
- Small group practical exercises, presentation and group discussion
Communicating with customers with different communication styles
- Recognising different communication challenges
- Main characteristics of communication styles
- Recognising your own communication preferences
- Adjusting to other styles of communication
- Presentation, individual questionnaire and group review, group exercises
Handling customer concerns and objections
- Pre-empting customers’ most frequent concerns
- Responding to customer concerns and objections
- Small group exercise, pairs practical activity, group review discussion
Handling customer complaints
- Handling emotional responses
- Responding to the complainant
- Escalating the complaint
- Small group exercise, facilitator tips, pairs practice session and group discussion
Reviewing the learning and next steps
- Review of learning and action planning
- Course feedback
The telephone skills training will be supported with:
- An optional participant pre-course questionnaire and/or pre-course reading on telephone techniques
- A colour printed workbook with telephone tips, techniques and space for personal notes
- An electronic communication styles questionnaire sent prior to the course
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Testimonials from previous attendees
The course exceeded our expectations. The way that Iain interacted and engaged with the delegates meant that they got so much out of the course. Thank you for ensuring the training was delivered smoothly and so professionally.
Very helpful and useful for the reception teams, to learn new skills and have an understanding of the importance of good telephone and general communication skills.
I found this course extremely useful. It brought up things about telephone customer service I hadn’t considered before, but were very important.
Really enjoyed this training session and will take some great/effective ideas back and use when taking future telephone calls.
Sarah’s energy and approach opened up the delegates and we had a very engaging and useful session. She managed to fit a lot in and we identified some follow-up internally.
Excellent training. Good materials and explained in a clear and precise way.
