Telephone Skills: Power Phone Image at Front Desk - TED Learning

Introduction

In ANY industry today, apart from face-to-face encounter, the next important first impression of your business is via an initial phone call that comes through the front desk. The first word projected by your frontliner does dramatically impact a customer’s perception of your employee’s skills and overall performance.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this program, the participants should be able to:

• Enhance customer service skills through professional phone techniques and etiquettes
• Enriching effective and professional vocal for powerful on-the-line service
• Understand the basic telephone protocol for professionalism
• Gain confident to handle different type of callers
• Develop listening, questioning and feedback skills for effective telephone communication
• Develop strategy and harness competency in taking and managing messages

Course Outline

MODULE 1: FOUNDATION OF TELEPHONE ETIQUETTES

1. Telephone as successful business tool
2. Importance of effective telephone communication
3. Business telephone protocol and courtesies
4. Challenges of telephone communication

MODULE 2: YOU AND PROFESSIONAL POWER PHONE IMAGE

1. Mastering your telephone vocal for power brand
2. The right posture of taking calls
3. Familiarising behaviour of different caller’s communication styles
4. Manage phone EQ
5. Phone rapport magic vs rapport spoiler

MODULE 3: PHONE HABITUDE

1. Skill enhancement with RINGS techniques
2. Make your customer feel welcome and important
3. Active listening with professional acknowledgement
4. Managing efficiently challenging callers
5. Excellent closing the conversation

MODULE 4: MANAGING PHONE MESSAGE EFFECTIVELY

1. Right tools at the right place at the defining moment
2. Right name, right company, right salutation
3. Effective message taking technique
4. Relevant statement to avoid