If you or your team spend any time on the frontline, you’ll know what it’s like to encounter difficult customers. Sometimes people are just plain rude. Other times they are suffering difficulties, disappointments, and even illnesses that trigger their abusive behaviour. Whatever the cause, it’s vital to equip your team with the skills to manage difficult people including:
Demanding, impatient people who have unrealistic, inflexible expectations, and make inappropriate personal snipes that cause your team to feel intimidated and unsafe
This breakthrough course has already given thousands of
frontline customer service professionals and team leaders
the practical skills and confidence to:
Indecisive people who don’t know what they want, have a thousand questions, and change their mind anyway
Know-it-alls who don’t understand, refuse to listen, and blame you when what they wanted doesn’t work
Angry, abusive people who just get more aggressive no matter what you say or do
Rude, entitled people who build themselves up by tearing others down, leaving your team unnerved and emotionally scarred long after the encounter
All people-facing teams experience similar challenges. That’s why we’ve developed this unique course to equip your team with the skills to defuse emotionally charged situations and lead customers/patients to positive outcomes.
This course is called ‘Managing Angry, Rude, Abusive, Threatening & Emotional people’ (pronounced “MARATE”, just like “Karate”).
It is designed for:
Department and team leaders who are keen to protect frontline workers from abusive customer outbursts, build resilience and team morale, and improve job employee satisfaction and longevity
Frontline team managers looking for ways to improve phone and face-to-face customer service and boost your professional reputation
Managers who want to empower their teams with the skills to remain calm and positive during (and after) confrontational encounters
Community services personnel passionate about effectively delivering government services in diverse communities
Law enforcement officers looking for techniques to identify, de-escalate, and maintain respectful control in tense situations — especially when dealing with unknown and potentially
Quick-facts about this course:
Anybody who wants to get better at dealing with people – especially when they are acting emotionally or aggressively
Live Face to Face, Virtual or Hybrid delivery method.
Delivered via power sessions, half-day, 1-day, or coaching.
Course content can be modified to include your department’s unique systems and processes, values, culture, and code of conduct.
Our facilitators have real-world expertise and come highly recommended in their areas of expertise. We guaranted the right match for your organisation.
Attendees receive a Certificate of Achievement to acknowledge their professional development journey.
This course is backed by our 100% money back guarantee.
Designed for live, remote, or hybrid learning
Unlike traditional courses that are merely repurposed for an online environment, this course is specially designed for virtual and hybrid learning, and facilitated by experienced digital trainers to maximise education and engagement.
Customised Content
While other training providers offer general, off-the-shelf content, we take time to understand your unique needs and provide customised, adaptive training that integrates your company’s processes, values, culture, and code of conduct.
Interactive Learning
Our social learning activities maximise engagement and knowledge uptake and can even be based on live scenarios in your workplace.
Offerings Flexible to Fit Your Schedule
Our adaptive and efficient training fits in with your schedule, so training doesn’t get in the way of your team’s productivity.
Guaranteed Results
We provide post-course follow-up to ensure maximum retention and implementation of knowledge for guaranteed results.
before your team’s morale is reduced by another customer service incident
Alternatively, if you have any questions about this exciting workshop for frontline customer service professionals, you can contact us on 1300 762 421.
In the very unlikely event that we do not provide 100% satisfaction to the agreed objectives and outcomes we offer a ‘no argument, no risk to you’ money back guarantee. Terms and conditions apply.
