Course 6 · Customer Service & Retail

Available now Level 1 · Starter takes you to Level 2 · Capable

Customer Service Foundations

Serve customers well: listen, ask, explain clearly, handle complaints calmly, know when to escalate and protect customer information.

7 units · about 5 hours · free · PDF certificate when you pass

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What is this course?

Serve customers well: listen, ask, explain clearly, handle complaints calmly, know when to escalate and protect customer information.

2

What you’ll practise

  • Responding to an upset customer in a role-play
  • Deciding when to escalate
  • Handling a return request
3

The exam

  • 8 short questions at the end
  • Get 6 right to pass
  • 3 tries an hour, then a short break
  • Pass = your Customer Service Foundations certificate

The 7 units

  1. 1

    What Good Service Actually Is

  2. 2

    Listening and Asking the Right Questions

  3. 3

    Explaining Clearly on Every Channel

  4. 4

    When Something Has Gone Wrong

  5. 5

    Angry Customers and Holding a Boundary

  6. 6

    Returns, Escalation and Handing Over

  7. 7

    Customer Information and Fraud

  8. The exam — 8 questions

Skills you’ll add to your Skills Passport

Every course starts at unit 1.

Take it one unit at a time. You’ve got this — and we’re cheering you on.