Developing Customer Service Excellence
Shaping Customer Service in the Εra of DisruptionOVERVIEW AND SCOPE
This innovative program provides a blend of contemporary knowledge with a holistic approach to the understanding of the dimensions of customer service.
The programs aims at disseminating knowledge, skills and practices in an intensive, interactive mode and a condensed timeframe. The program unfolds around theories of organizational and customer psychology that are utilized as a framework to understand behavior as well as a tool to develop customer service competencies.
Participants will have the opportunity to explore new perspectives on human interaction and to practice alternative ways to address it.
Learning Objectives:
- Development of contemporary knowledge, behaviors and competencies that are connected with customer service ( communication, problem solving, trust, resilience)
- Understanding management challenges in the Digital Era
- Development of a human centric and customer centric approach
Program Dates & Venues
The first three sessions of the program will be conducted via the learning platform Zoom.
The last session will take place at Alba premises, Xenias 6-8, Athens. Please refer to the table below:
Day 1: Wednesday 5/3/2025 time 9:30-15:30 ZOOM
Day 2: Thursday 6/3/2025 time 9:30-15:30 ZOOM
Day 3: Thursday 13/3/2025 time 9:30-15:30 ZOOM
Day 4: Friday 14/3/2025 time 9:30-15:30 ZOOM
Day 5: Friday 28/3/2025 time 9:30-13:30 ZOOM
Day 4: Thursday 3/4/2025 time 10:30-14:30 Alba premises, 6-8 Xenias Str., Athens
ALBA EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT APPROACH
PROGRAM INFORMATION
Program Dates & Venues
The first three sessions of the program will be conducted via the learning platform Zoom.
The last session will take place at Alba premises, Xenias 6-8, Athens. Please refer to the table below:
Day 1: Wednesday 5/3/2025 time 9:30-15:30 ZOOM
Day 2: Thursday 6/3/2025 time 9:30-15:30 ZOOM
Day 3: Thursday 13/3/2025 time 9:30-15:30 ZOOM
Day 4: Friday 14/3/2025 time 9:30-15:30 ZOOM
Day 5: Friday 28/3/2025 time 9:30-13:30 ZOOM
Day 4: Thursday 3/4/2025 time 10:30-14:30 Alba premises, 6-8 Xenias Str., Athens
1st Session - The Customer Service Competencies Game
With the use of gamification techniques, participants will understand and conceptualize the key themes of customer service efficiency. The game will also serve the purpose of assessing the characteristics of the participants’ team in order to further adjust the following modules to their challenges and needs. (cases & exercises)
The most important customer service skills:
- Communication Skills
- Problem Solving – Handling Complaints
- Trust
- Self & Team Resilience & Customer Service
- Interpersonal skills
- Collaboration skills
- Empathy
- Efficiency
- Working across channels
- Speed
- Relationship building
- Understanding customer needs
- Agility
Group assignment: The journey toward Greater Customer Centricity
Applying a design thinking approach for best practices in Customer Service Management
2nd Session - Customer Centricity Masterclass / Tracing Management & Customer Service Management in the Digital Era
Customer Centricity Masterclass
- Learn what the power of customer centricity is; customer relations and powerful brand as a bridge between customer value and firm value
- Create the customer learning capability: tools for understanding customer “pain” and “plug” it into your value proposition
- Overcome the traps of customer centricity; how inertia, silos, and arrogance destroy customer value.
- Make it happen: Align mission, processes, policies, and information systems to make your customer, improvisation and “all that jazz”
Tracing Management & Customer Service Management in the Digital Era:
- Challenges and opportunities in the Digital Era
- The concept of disruptive innovation
- The effects of Exponential Growth in Business and Management
- New business models and organizational structures for the Digital Era
3rd - 5th Session - Diving deep into Customer Service Excellence
Session 3, The journey toward Greater Customer Centricity
Applying a design thinking approach for best practices in Customer Service Management- Group Presentations The journey toward greater customer centricity
Session 4, Customer Needs & Expectations
Identify and clarify customer needs and expectations
COVID Has Forever Changed the Customer Experience
- Which Changes Are Likely to Stick?
- Customer experience in the new reality
- How to succeed in the new reality
- Proactive customer service is Valued by customers
- The roadmap to Become a Customer-Centric Company
- How can you successfully anticipate your customers’ needs?
- The Client Needs analysis
- Customer needs vs. customer expectations
- Is customer experience the same as customer service?
- Address diverse customer needs
- Establish a Rapport With Customers
Expanding Customer Relationships
- Follow-up to assess customer satisfaction.
- Take action to assure customer satisfaction.
- Resolve complaints and encourage critical encounters.
- Expand collaborative involvement.
- Add value and enhance mutual opportunities.
- Achieving Customer Loyalty
Session 5, Best Customer Service Practices
Customer Service Stories
PARTICIPANT PROFILE
This program is addressed to Executives / Supervisors who lead teams in the area of:
- Customer Service Management
- Service Management
- Telephone/Call Center Customer Service
FACULTY
CONTACT
To request more information please contact
Mrs. Maria Karadeli
Training Coordinator & P.R., Hellenic Institute of Customer Service
Tel: +30 210 6686370
email: [email protected]r
To get in touch with ALBA Executive Department please use the below information
Mrs. Maria Pappa
Tel.: +30 210 89.64.531-8
Fax: +30 210 89.63.302
e-mail: [email protected]
We would be pleased to address any enquiry you might have and to assist you in any way we can.