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CCOG for CEU 3100 Spring 2024

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Course Number:
CEU 3100
Course Title:
Supporting Your Most Challenged Customers
Credit Hours:
0.5
Lecture Hours:
0
Lecture/Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
0

Course Description

Participants will learn or refresh: Gracious communications techniques to guide a distracted customer. Diffusing anger and hostility. Calming distress in the moment. Interruption techniques to dispel confusion and draw people more into the present moment. Questioning and staging skills to keep the people progressing through the steps to complete their transaction. Handling people with various disabilities with respect and dignity. How to speak clearly to enhance understanding, without condescension. Avoiding getting hooked by customer behaviors, appearance and other qualities they find personally annoying or upsetting.

Intended Outcomes for the course

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