Learning to build your customer service skills will have a powerful impact on your career success as well as success in other areas of your life.  Through this course you will discover the direct relationship between service skills and career achievement.  You will become skilled at being an exceptional service provider.  You can help your organization and your career by translating your good service intentions into a workable plan and gain knowledge of ways to consistently deliver great service.  The payoff is enormous.
   
Nanette Sanders-Cobb, COI, instructor. One month online course.

$145

 outlineCourse Outline

Unit 1
Understand Service Matters
Longevity and Loyalty
Cost of a Lost Customer
Engage Your Customer

Unit 2
Listen to Your Customer
Active Listening
Avoid Improper Listening
The Power of Feedback

Unit 3
Web Sites and Electronic Communication
Web-Based Customer Service
Disadvantages of Web-Based Customer Service
Evaluate Your Web-Based Customer Service

Unit 4
Customer Turnoffs
Exceed customer expectations
Recognize and categorize customer turnoffs
Deal with customer expectations and turnoffs

 

Question MarkAbout online learning

Online learning is a fun, enjoyable and very productive way to learn. Millions of people are learning online each year. You will engage with the instructor and other participants. You will get to know your instructor and other participants. You may make friends.  It’s easy. It’s fun. 

GearsHow the Course Works

It is easy to participate in your online course. After you register, you will be given a web address to go to get into your online classroom.  You will have a password and use your email address and password to gain access.

Once inside the online classroom, here’s what you can expect.

CalendarParticipate when you want

You can participate any time of day or evening. The online classroom is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
There are no live real-time requirements or meetings. You decide when you participate.
For the best learning, participants should log into the course on 2-3 different days of the week.

ChecklistWhat you will do

For each Unit, you will:

  • Read the print readings (about 20 pages a week)
  • Have the option of accessing the online readings
  • Listen to the audio presentation for the Unit and view the slides
  • Have the option of taking a self-quiz to see how much you have learned
  • Engage in written online discussion with your instructor and other participants

For best learning, you should make one or more comments at 2-3 different times each week.
The content (readings, audio lectures, slides) and self quizzes are accessible for the entire course, so you can work ahead, or go back and review again, at your convenience.

DiscussionDiscussion

The Discussion for each Unit lasts one week. All comments are made in writing and can be made at any time of the day or night.

Your instructor will log into the Discussion area at least once a day and answer questions, make comments, and respond to comments by you and the other participants.

We encourage you to make 2-3 comments each week to maximize your learning and enjoyment of the course.

It’s easy. It’s fun.

Next offering(s):
June 4 - 29
October 1 - 26

CHANGES FOR FALL 2012:
  Our existing Extraordinary Customer Service course title changes to Keys to Customer Service with Nanette Sanders-Cobb as we create a Customer Service Certificate and offer the second new course under the title Extraordinary Customer Service.

$145 (both courses and certificate just $245 total)

About Your Instructor

 

 

Nanette Sanders-Cobb, COI has been developing and teaching customer service classes for over ten years in addition to teaching online for fifteen years.  She is a speaker and advisor, engages in marketing community festivals, and has trained and managed audit team members. 

Having been in senior management and an audit team leader in the United States Air Force, she has trained staff in providing extraordinary service.  She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and a Master’s Degree of Business and Public Administration.  Nanette Sanders-Cobb has earned the distinction as a Certified Online Instructor.

Directional ArrowsCourse Objectives

  • To provide those interested clarity on how no one succeeds without attracting and keeping loyal customers
  • To articulate how to get customers beyond mere satisfaction and develop customer loyalty
  • To address the important distinction between hearing and listening
  • To emphasize why feedback is so important
  • To present the importance of Web-based customer service
  • To identify and reduce customer turnoffs
  • To recognize the importance of exceeding customer expectations

Puzzle PiecesCourse Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, you will:

  • Upon successful completion of this course, you will:
  • Know how no one succeeds without attracting and keeping loyal customers
  • Be able to describe the important distinction between hearing and listening
  • Have the knowledge of the importance of Web-based customer service
  • Be able to categorize customer turnoffs and reduce the related problems.
  • Be able to discuss the importance of exceeding customer expectations
Completion Requirements