Customer Service Training Solutions

Over the many years we’ve been designing and delivering customer service training,  we’ve worked with hundreds of incredible organisations, supporting them to embed a culture of customer service excellence…

Whether you’re after a fully bespoke customer service training solution crafted to meet specific challenges (and budget), or prefer a tried-and-tested off-the-shelf programme, we’ve got you covered. We can train your teams directly or equip your trainers to deliver the learning themselves. From internal service teams to client-facing staff, office-based roles to field operatives, and across all sectors, our focus is on helping you deliver customer service that goes beyond excellent.

No matter the route you choose, every training solution is carefully tailored and delivered by our dynamic team of experts who bring energy and passion to every session. We focus not just on the “what” but the “how”, ensuring that your people leave with practical strategies they can implement immediately, driving real change and fast results. If you’re facing a customer service challenge, give us a call, we’ll explore options with you, and have a tailored programme outline and quote back to you!

In-House, Customisable Customer Service Training Solutions

All customer service training workshops are customisable to suit your company requirements, with enhancements such as on-the-job coaching, training manuals, experiential learning, professional actors and recorded scenarios. Here are a few options below…

Customer Service Excellence

This flexible, modular customer service programme offers up to 4 x half day programmes for those who wish to fully develop customer-facing teams. The modules can be spread over a 3-6 month duration offering bespoke assignments between modules to actively support the transfer of learning into the workplace.

All modules are interactive, fun and focus on the latest thinking in providing confident customer care for those working face-to-face with customers or on the telephone within a contact centre environment. Roleplay scenarios are bespoke to the client.

Module 1 – Customer Service Revolution: explores the customer journey and expectations, customer touch points within the service process. What are the customer service team good at/what do they need to improve

Module 2 – Customer Kaleidoscope: exploring key communication techniques using the colour of communication profile tool and the diversity of customers

Module 3 – Conversation not Communication: How to develop conversational dialogue. Questioning skills and Influencing skills

Module 4 – Negotiating by Telephone: telephone etiquette. Foundation level negotiation skills

Face to Face training

This highly active customer service training programme has been specifically developed for those working in a face-to-face customer service environment such as retail store, garden centre, entertainment venue, airport, railway station etc.

By working in their own live retail environment this programme naturally becomes bespoke to each client. The content has been designed to include facilitated learning during the morning session enabling attendees to understand the latest in customer service techniques. During the afternoon, to bring the learning alive, attendees will go to the retail floor, following which, they will take part in an experiential learning exercise and observations within their own live environment. The programme combinates in a final debrief session held back in the training room. This programme is engaging, participative and extremely practical.

Complaints Handling & Assertiveness

This one day programme develops assertiveness through an understanding of behaviour patterns and preferences, self-awareness and practice of behavioural skills. The purpose is to provide participants with more confidence to be assertive, rather than passive or aggressive, in a wide range of customer complaint related situations.

Empowered with the right tools, this programme will enable attendees to tell a customer or a colleague ‘no’, in situations where ‘no’ is the only answer in a confident, assertive and non-confrontational way.

This programme is for anyone working on the frontline with customers who may have complex issues and concerns. It is equally suitable for those who tend to be too forceful and aggressive as it is for those who are too submissive and passive.

Customer Journey Workshop

This specialised and very effective approach to developing and enhancing customer service involves your people in two short workshops. The ‘Customer Journey Workshop’ and ‘Customer Service Skills Development Programme’.

The short half-day Customer Journey Workshop provides, for most people, a surprising insight into what needs to happen to Disappoint, Deliver or Delight customers when dealing with your organisation. These insights trigger ideas on how to ensure that there is a continuing and unswerving focus on delighting customers. Once the customer journey is unravelled and analysed participants agree on the skills and techniques needed to deliver great service by phone or face-to-face in the following Customer Service Skills Development Programme.

During the 1-day development programme the skills and techniques are woven with an understanding of human communication and behaviours. The involving and engaging programme gives participants the confidence and understanding to deliver consistently excellent service.

 

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU

To achieve your desired results, our development effort extends beyond the training or consulting room. We work in partnership with you to:

  • Understand your business and development needs
  • Design development initiatives and deliver high impact training interventions
  • Develop and implement powerful reinforcement programmes
  • Track and measure for continuous improvement and sustainability

 

“All our services are tailored to your needs, culture and business”

ACCELERATING YOUR GROWTH

Our services are based on industry awareness. We do believe that the knowledge of the market and the synthesized experience is as important as the theoretical knowledge in the management sciences. Therefore, in every case, we transfer our knowledge filtered. We believe in customizing and developing specific solutions through a collaborative process designed to identify a client’s needs, requirements and objectives.

Our unique approach combined with the strong faculty of experts, competent trainers, multi-lingual facilitators puts our lab in the position to spur the progress of your establishment.

ACCREDITATIONS

There are many reasons Epics is consistently ranked the number one major consulting firm, for both formal and informal training.

We are a leading provider of training courses across the East Africa. Our accreditation credentials are impeccable and we have been vetted by industry bodies to ensure our quality is second to none. Whether it’s IEA, PMI or Microsoft we’ve got you covered and can help you, or your employees, get ahead.

You can rest easy knowing that with us as your partner you will be trained to the highest possible standards in order to achieve certification from any one of these top-tier organizations.