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TOPICS
LANGUAGE TIPS AND STRATEGIES
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Introduction to
Customer care success
Skills and qualities for good
customer care
Customer care businesses and jobs
customer care
Surprising facts about
Making suggestions
customer care
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Face to face with
Body language
Basic socializing language
customers
A company visit
The importance of small talk
Meeting do’s and don’ts
Follow-up
At a trade fair
Steps for winning customers in
The invisible customer
your presentations
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Dealing with
General telephoning
Being courteous on the phone
customers on
The ‘customer care’ phone call
Making sure you understand
the phone
What the customers really hear
Making arrangements
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Call centre
Taking an order
The first impression
success
Hotline (Troubleshooting)
Clarifying and explaining
Customer-centred call centres
Checking comprehension
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Delivering
Effective letters and emails
Salutations and closes
customer care
Formal and informal writing styles
Standard phrases for handling
through writing
The five Cs of customer care writing
customers (connecting with the
A case study
reader, taking action, etc.)
Enclosures and attachments
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Dealing with
Complaint strategies and policies
Softening bad news and
problems and
The letter of apology
apologizing
complaints
Explaining company policy
Problem-solving steps
Some opinions about complaints
and apologies
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Test yourself !
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Partner Files
Partner A
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Partner Files
Partner B
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Answer key
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Transcripts
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A–Z word list
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Useful phrases and vocabulary
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