Creating Positive Conversations with Challenging Customers
30mIntermediate2022-02-23
Authors

Myra Golden
Author, Trainer, Keynote Speaker
Course details
What do you do when faced with a customer who's fuming over a delay, cancellation, or objection to a policy? How can you adequately address their issue when your interaction starts off on such a sour note? In this course, Myra Golden shares approaches that can help you reframe such conversations, and use your words and actions to put a positive slant on an otherwise negative situation. Learn how to use empathy and pacing to foster a sense of connection with customers. Discover the words and phrases to avoid in customer service, how to use partnership language to leave people feeling heard and satisfied, and how to properly apologize. Plus, learn how to approach real-world situations, such as billing issues, positioning controversial policies, and how to politely distance from hot-button issues like religion and politics to maintain a professional position.
Skills covered
Customer Service SkillsCustomer ServicePersonal DevelopmentProfessional DevelopmentDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
Introduction
- Why telling a customer what you can do is important
Working with Difficult Customers
- Be positive with customers, not provoking
- Pacing your customers
- Ask your customers what else
Positive Positioning Skills
- Use partnership language with customers
- When you can't give the customer what they want
- Positively prime customers
- Words and phrases to avoid and choosing better options
Positive Positioning in Action
- Positioning controversial policies
- Issues with billing or customer rewards
- Politely distancing from hot topics
Conclusion
- Start, stop, continue exercise