Customer Service: Discovering Customer Needs


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Overview/Description

Customer needs lie at the heart of every service interaction. In order to fully support the customer, we must be able to identify both their stated and unstated needs. Customer support professionals use a combination of skills to analyze beyond the stated requirements to uncover the full spectrum of customer needs.

In this course, you’ll learn the service advantages of being able to identify your customers' needs. You’ll learn best practices for discerning both stated and unstated needs in a service interaction and how to avoid problems and pitfalls in needs exploration. You'll also learn techniques to help you exceed your customers' needs and you'll explore scenarios that put these practices into action.

This course was developed with subject matter provided by NueBridge (www.nuebridge.com) which has extensive expertise in customer experience and management across multiple industries around the world.



Expected Duration (hours)
0.5

Lesson Objectives

Customer Service: Discovering Customer Needs

  • discover the key concepts covered in this course
  • recognize the advantages of fully defining customer needs
  • recognize key strategies to determining a customer’s stated needs
  • recognize techniques for determining customers’ unstated needs
  • Knowledge Check: Reviewing Your Skills in Identifying Stated and Unstated Customer Needs
  • identify strategies to help you overcome common pitfalls in addressing customer needs
  • recognize techniques to help you exceed customer needs
  • recognize best practices to determine customer needs during a service interaction
  • Knowledge Check: Applying Your Skills in Addressing Customer Needs
  • reflect on what you've learned
  • Course Number:
    bs_acs06_a03_enus

    Expertise Level
    Everyone