Course : Optimizing Your Telephone Skills

Optimizing Your Telephone Skills




Telephone Reception is crucial for the company's brand image and the quality of its customer relations. This practical training provides tools to address this challenge, teaching participants how to listen, ask questions to understand requests accurately, and adopt appropriate language when formulating responses.


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Telephone Reception is crucial for the company's brand image and the quality of its customer relations. This practical training provides tools to address this challenge, teaching participants how to listen, ask questions to understand requests accurately, and adopt appropriate language when formulating responses.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Promote your company’s image through telephone answering quality
Adopt a customer relationship attitude
Master telephone communication techniques
Adapt your communication to the other person’s profile and expectations

Intended audience
Any staff member interacting with external or internal clients, including receptionists in both public and private sectors.

Prerequisites
No specific knowledge required.

Practical details
Hands-on work
Games with actors, scenarios, role-playing, self-diagnosis.

Course schedule

1
Understanding the principles of communication and answering

  • Identifying the roles of sender and receiver: Who does what and who is responsible for what.
  • Ranking and mastering all three communication media: Verbal, para-verbal, and non-verbal.
  • Understanding the unique features of the telephone.
  • Understanding the importance of smiling.
  • Discovering automatic information processing: Selection, distortion, and generalization.
Exercise
Voice game with actors.

2
Practicing techniques adapted to the telephone

  • Active and objective listening
  • Practicing rephrasing.
  • Knowing how to question.
Exercise
Listening, rephrasing techniques, and facilitating questions. Writing questions suited to each participant’s activity.

3
Using effective language

  • Speaking positively in order to achieve your goals, banishing jargon, doubt-filled phrases, negative words.
  • Using the present and future tense to give strength to your message.
Exercise
Replacing negative wordings with positive ones; training in reception phrases, guiding callers, placing them on hold.

4
Addressing objections

  • Identifying different types of objections.
  • Using objection acceptance and processing techniques: Quilt, sandwich, broken record, DESC.
  • Applying techniques: Soften/Rebound/Chain along.
Exercise
Handling objections in the form of “ping-pong” exchanges. Simulated telephone interviews using acceptance and rebound techniques.

5
Accommodating in a relationship of quality and service

  • Intending to do the most to handle requests as optimally and quickly as possible.
  • Understanding the needs and expectations of the people you’re talking to: SONCAS.
  • Adopting behaviors suited to the request and situation.
  • Choosing your words and developing your arguments (FAB).
  • Understanding the principle of handling difficult situations.
Role-playing
Detecting motivations, seeking appropriate responses. Group debriefing.


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Dates and locations
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