RCCSP Now Offers Field Service Professional Training, Certification

These include managing customer perceptions, making communications successful and listening effectively. It also covers managing customer expectations, how to get customer buy-in, how to show value and confirm satisfaction with the customer and how to engage the customer so they are involved and focused on what is being said. It outlines barriers to communication and describes techniques to overcome them.

Understanding yourself and your customer

The instruction covers effective questioning including types to maintain situation control, clarifications and to overcome customer assumptions or the field tech’s assumptions, with examples. It outlines the various levels of adult knowledge with strategies for successful communication with each level. It also delves into communication preferences and how to deal with personality conflicts. Equally if not more importantly it teaches about delivering service beyond and above satisfactory including how to turn complaints into additional service opportunities, match company services and products to customer needs and how to professionally offer identified services and products.

Communication methods

The teaching in this objective goes into how field reps can effectively communicate with customers. It discusses face-to-face communications including the importance of professional appearance and reading body language cues to determine the real message and how to respond with control to hostile questions from the audience when presenting. It gives lessons on proper phone and electronic communications i.e. e-mail and text with an emphasis on providing a positive and professional image.

Challenging customers

Customers can be as much of a challenge as the problems the reps are sent to solve; they are sometimes the cause of their own misfortune. There is instruction on managing challenging situations including escalations, overcoming objections, how to effectively say “no”, on conflict resolution and on calming customers and negotiating basics.

Maintaining confidence and credibility / effective teamwork

These lessons cover maintaining confidence and individual and corporate credibility. They also explore teamwork: including how to use both analytical and interpersonal behaviors in working with teams and what are the requirements of effective team leaders and team members.

Basic organization and productivity

To meet these objectives there is instruction on stress management including identifying the signs and methods of relieving them to prevent burnout. Lessons on time management will help techs to stay on track to meet goals.

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