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Customer Service & Retail

Serving customers well in shops, call centres and service teams, including modern retail systems and handling difficult situations.

Area status: Launching nextStarter → Proficient

Next in line after the first platform release. Not open to learners yet.

At a glance

  • 3 training programmes
  • Levels: Starter → Proficient
  • Used in 9 seed pathways
  • 8 skills

Training in this area

3 training programmes

Each programme shows its own status. Planned modules are an outline and may change before they are built and reviewed.

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Customer Service Foundations

Serve customers well: listening, helping, handling complaints calmly, returns and escalation, and protecting customer details.

  • Level range: Starter
  • 9 related pathways

Planned modules

  1. What good service looks like
  2. Listening and clarifying
  3. Handling an upset customer
  4. Returns and escalation
  5. Privacy and fraud at the counter

What you’ll practise

  • Responding to an upset customer in a role-play
  • Deciding when to escalate
  • Handling a return request

Skills

  • Greeting and helping customers
  • Handling complaints
  • Handling difficult situations
  • Customer privacy and fraud awareness
Status: Planned

Retail Supervision

Step up from team member to supervisor: rosters, opening and closing, escalations and supporting your team.

  • Level range: Capable → Proficient
  • No related pathway yet

Planned modules

  1. From team member to supervisor
  2. Rosters and shifts
  3. Escalations and difficult customers
  4. Opening and closing routines

What you’ll practise

  • Building a weekly roster
  • Handling an escalated complaint

Skills

  • Supervising a team
  • Rosters and planning
  • Handling complaints

Best after: Customer Service Foundations

Status: Planned

Retail Systems Basics

Understand tills, payments and refunds, receiving and counting stock, and end-of-day routines in modern retail.

  • Level range: Starter → Capable
  • No related pathway yet

Planned modules

  1. How a till works
  2. Payments and refunds
  3. Receiving and counting stock
  4. End-of-day routines

What you’ll practise

  • Processing a refund in a simulation
  • Finding a stock discrepancy

Skills

  • Point-of-sale concepts
  • Inventory basics

Best after: Customer Service Foundations

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