mission critical home  service & support  maximizing customer interactions  case study 

introduction  understanding the customer  strategic listening  synchronize 

clarifying with your customer  customer's involvement  deliver  summary 

synchronize with your customers

course links
maximizing customer interactions
introduction
introduction continued
understanding the customer
understanding the customer's expectations
strategic listening
what should you listen for
what could go wrong
barriers to good listening
synchronize with your customers
complete documentation
communicate that the customer is important and valued
use empathetic statements
use methods that fix the customer
clarify with your customers
confirming
get the customer's involvement
key questions
deliver
communicate
continue to communicate
things never to say to a customer
summary
communication style

If you ignore the customer's mood you may mismatch your communication style and irritate the customer.
 
When a customer is at ease and may be joking, you can adapt the same behaviors.
 
If the customer is extremely distressed, you need to be very serious and offer reassurance and empathy.
 
If the customer is speaking very fast acknowledge their sence of urgency, but remain calm.
 
It is important to match communication styles as much as is practical to "sync" up with the customer This allows you to better communicate with the customer so you can obtain the information you need to help them.

Interaction: Select an answer and press "submit", to see the correct answer.
 
You receive a call from a MC customer who is obviously excited and upset. He is speaking very fast, has an accent that makes it difficult to understand and begins using profanity. To synchronize with him, you would:

 
A.
 
Speak and communicate at a fast pace.
 

 
B.
 
Speak in a steady, calm manner.
 

 
C.
 
Speak in a very loud tone of voice.
 

 
D.
 
Speak in a very slow manner.
 

 


next

synchronize
It is important to match communication styles as much as is practical to synchronize with the customer.


return to top


building partnerships with mission critical remote support

hp services workforce development