Resolving Telephone Conflict Training - Facilities, Retail & Leisure Sectors

Course outline

Teaches your people how to manage and defuse difficult phone conversations.

Delegates will learn coping strategies for use during and after an aggressive call. Used effectively, our training will allow conversations to progress more productively.

Suggested attendees

All telephone staff including call centre teams and customer liaison staff.

This Facilities, Retail & Leisure Telephone Resolution training course is aimed at all staff including:

  • All new employees
  • Call Centre Staff
  • Customer Liaison Staff

Course content

Recognising telephone conflict

  • Policy definitions
  • Causes of challenging calls
  • Positive body language
  • Customer service principles
  • Self-awareness in difficult situations

Communication models and de-escalation

  • Attitude and behaviour model
  • Managing difficult and distressed conversations
  • Listening model to defuse
  • Structured model to manage and end calls when required

Incident reporting and support

  • Documentation and systems
  • Post-incident procedures
  • Options for support

By the end of this course your team will be able to:

  • Recognise telephone conflict
  • Start a call positively
  • Implement strategies to manage a challenging call
  • Report incidents effectively

At the end of this course your team will receive:

  • A certificate of attendance
  • Access to a dedicated delegate resource area via IKON Academy

  • Duration 3.5 hours

  • Delegates 16 Max

Delivery methods

IKON Live,
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    • Thank you, a wonderfully engaging course. Will be sending my engineers soon with confidence that they will learn a lot from it.

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