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Communication Skills
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Effective communication is essential to the success of any customer-oriented business. Each customer will have their own style of communication as well as an emotional response to contacting a support center. In order to effectively communicate the Customer Service Representative (CSR) must understand how to adapt to these different styles and emotions before the customers problems can be dealt with. This course explains how to adapt to the different communication types and identifies the common emotions that customers experience when contacting the support center. It also explains how to adapt your writing skills to communicate through e-mail and to document incidents. This course helps to prepare learners interested in the CSR Certification which is targeted to individuals wishing to qualify to work in a customer support center or help desk environment. ...
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Transitioning into a Project Management Role
by Skillsoft - Business
Many people find themselves thrust into a project management role with no formal training or experience. When this occurs it is important to be prepared to deal with the significant changes in your role. Your responsibilities broaden from managing yourself to managing others from short-term to long-term goals and from tangible to intangible issues. Time and experience will develop and refine your project management skills but this course will prime you for the process of transitioning into a project management role. It will discuss the changes a new project manager may face including the development of a successful project team. ...
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Coaching Performance
by Skillsoft - Business
Barry is new at quality control. He completed three weeks of training but he has already made two major errors that cost the firm $3000. Hes obviously upset and discouraged over his shaky start. If you were Barrys supervisor what would you do? Situations like this one can cause managers to fret and fuss and begin talking about disciplinary action. However leaders take a different approach. A leader would take the time to coach Barry and find out whats really going on--perhaps determining that three weeks of training wasnt quite enough. Or perhaps discovering that Barrys mother died recently and hes struggling to concentrate. Or offering to find a mentor for Barry until the situation eases. Taking the time to evaluate a situation and making an action plan is part of the process of coaching for performance that youll explore in this course. Youll learn when its appropriate to mentor train counsel or discipline an employee and youll be given guidelines and tips on how to perform each of these tasks in the most effective manner possible. ...
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Effective Relationships with Customers
by Skillsoft - Business
Its time to disregard that old deferential model of short-term customer relations youre using. Why not replace it with a selection of long-term relational skills that work for you in the marketplace? Take control by picking the best customers and developing equal trusting partnerships with them. When you limit your investment in your customer relationships you also limit your growth potential. Developing strong respectful relationships with your customers is a win-win situation. This course introduces the ingredients for creating and maintaining more effective and productive relationships with your customers and explains why these elements can generate better outcomes than earlier customer paradigms. The most effective relationships are mutually supportive and mutually beneficial. And they last beyond next quarters returns. Investing in the relationship and creating value for your customers rewards your business as well. ...
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Workplace Communication Skills
by Skillsoft - Business
Poor communication is often blamed for discord errors and misunderstandings in the workplace. In fact and more correctly poor communication of intent causes these problems. They occur when people are unwilling to say exactly what they mean or what they want. They also occur when there is a reluctance or an inability to get clarification of another persons intent. These situations can be avoided by using certain communication techniques to establish intent both other peoples intent and your own. This course covers the three prime strategies that will enable you to do this. ...
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Effective Intergender Relationships
by Skillsoft - Business
Guess what. Men and women are different. Socially the differences offer an attractive mystique. But in professional situations and in the workplace the significant differences in male and female communication styles can cause problems. There is no denying that women and men vary significantly in their verbal inflections and tone their body language and how they listen to others. They pick up on different cues in conversations and often the meaning they interpret is not the message the speaker intends. Its almost as if the two genders speak different dialects. And in fact thats nearly the case. Communication confusion and breakdown between men and women at work can lead to inefficiency and expensive business errors. This course explains the differences in the language and communication behavior of men and women so each can more easily understand what the other is really saying. The course also provides tips on how to modify your own communication behavior to be more clearly understood by the opposite gender. ...
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Asserting Yourself Professionally
by Skillsoft - Business
Do you sometimes wonder if your professional style is too passive-hesitant and weak? Or do you find yourself acting too aggressively toward your co-workers or subordinates--too critical and overbearing? Do you wonder if there is another professional style that might be better for you? ...
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Managing Anger in the Workplace Simulation
by Skillsoft - Business
Like most people you have probably become angry at work. A disagreement with a coworker or manager could make you lose your temper and voice your anger but is this really a good idea? What will your coworkers or manager think of your outburst? While confronting anger in the workplace is inevitable its important to minimize your angry thoughts emotions and behaviors and channel your energy into more constructive activities. ...
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Avoiding Grammatical Errors in Business Writing
by Skillsoft - Business
Grammar: the very word strikes terror into the hearts of learners everywhere. For many people it recalls the most difficult or most boring classes they can remember from childhood. Yet using correct grammar is one of the key skills for any business writer. Poor grammar skills interfere with communicating a clear message; moreover they may suggest that the writer is careless and perhaps unprofessional. ...
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Resolving Conflict with Communication Skills
by Skillsoft - Business
Although through the use of good communication skills conflict in the workplace can be minimized it cant be eradicated entirely. On the occasions when disharmony inevitably arises there is a need for a different set of communication skills--those of negotiation mediation or arbitration. ...
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