IT Customer Service Skills Training

IT Customer Service Skills Training might be opening a can of worms. But it might well be a can of worms that needs opening. The more IT staff resist, the more essential the IT customer service workshop becomes. IT professionals need to know that delivering professional internal and external customer service skills is part of their role. If you watched the show “Little Britain” you’ll remember the skits they played over and over of “The computer says no”. Very amusing, but not exactly customer service at its best!

Would you like to improve the customer service skills of your IT team and introduce smoother IT operations? It will make some leaps forward with regard to improving the service delivery of IT services. But there is still some stubbornness. IT people get caught up in the projects and sometimes their customer service skills are lacking.

The IT Department can become a communication silo. This course was designed by an organisational psychologist to relaunch the internal/external customer service charter for your IT people.

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Key Learning Outcomes

At the conclusion of this tailored IT Customer Service Adding Value Training workshop, your IT Team will be able to:

Understand the customer’s expectations
Recognise that IT serves both internal and external customers
Calibrate the level of existing service delivered
Develop a customer service charter
Work collaboratively across different personality styles
Put themselves in the customer’s shoes, who may have limited IT knowledge
Understand the importance of building rapport
Resist the temptation of symptomatic responses
Calibrate the zone of tolerance with customers
Debunk any negative connotations about being in a service industry
Deal with difficult internal and external customers
Communicate more effectively with people from different generations
Tally the impact of professional impact in the IT industry
Build feedback loops to drive better outcomes
Search for win/win outcomes and learn how to invent them
Change deadlines seamlessly and reset expectations
Feel comfortable having courageous conversations with peers and direct reports

Course Description

There has been a major push in Australia towards ITIL® (Information Technology Infrastructure Library). This is becoming a default standard in the IT industry. This identifies that IT is a service and all IT workers are service providers. However, this breakthrough course goes further and creates a “service” culture and mindset within the IT Department. Imagine taking your IT Team to the brink of customer service excellence where they are completely engaged by the service nature of their role too. There is a perception that some IT workers don’t really want to be “service providers”. Ideally IT should be like every other top quality internal service.

Test the quality of your existing IT service delivery

Just answer Yes or No to the following statements:

Our IT Department responds to all queries in a timely manner Y | N
Our IT people are always polite Y | N
Our IT people are comfortable being in a customer service role Y | N
Our IT people avoid jargon and communicate clearly Y | N
Our employees rate the IT service delivery highly Y | N
Our IT people communicate delays in advance when possible Y | N
Our IT people take responsibility for problems instead of blaming “other people” Y | N
Our IT people are open-minded to new ideas to improve the overall service Y | N
Our IT department works seamlessly Y | N
Conversations with the IT department usually end amicably Y | N
Our IT people do not appear frustrated when contacted Y | N
Our IT people follow up to ensure critical problems have been rectified Y | N

If you have answered No to more than 3 of these questions, you should strongly consider this course for your people.