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What are some essential customer service skills?

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Question added by Zain Khater , Project Supervisor – StartUp Project , Injaz
Date Posted: 2018/02/14

Patience

When working in customer service, there are regularly unexpected hurdles and situations that arise. Without a certain degree of patience, it can become very difficult to keep your customer happy or remain satisfied with your own work.

Good Communication

If you are not a great communicator, you will probably not go far in customer service. An ability to communicate clearly and effectively verbally and written is essential. It also involves avoiding miscommunication that might lead to misunderstandings and unwanted consequences.

Knowledge of the Product

- Knowing your product inside and out will make the customer service experience much smoother, and will leave your customers feeling satisfied and assisted. Without knowing your product from front to back, you won’t know how to help customers when they run into problems.

Time Management

Effective time management includes smart planning, setting goals and priorities, minimizing interruptions, handling procrastination and delegating responsibilities. The last one should be applied in the situations when you simply cannot help a customer, whether it’s because you don’t know how or you’re not authorized to do it. That’s when the best thing you can do is to pass a customer over to someone who can help them, without wasting both of your time.

A great customer service employee knows when they have reached their knowledge limit, and another team member has to be called in. No one wants their time to be wasted, not you, your team members, or your customer.

Multi-Tasking

The ability to multi-task is essential when working in customer support. Without the ability to manage it all in real-time, things fall through the cracks and customers become upset. What happens if you need to assist multiple customers at a time, or if one customer is placing an order while another one is requesting information? The more moving items you can elegantly handle at once, the better equipped you are to handle customer service.

An Open Mind & Will to Learn

The final essential customer service skill involves an open mind and will to learn. No matter the industry you are in, or the profession you occupy, one should never lose their willingness to learn. By remaining open to concepts and changes to process, you will become much better at what you do. If you have no interest in getting better, there is someone else who does, and they will come along and take your customer.

 

 

 

ahmed mohammed fayez ahmed
by ahmed mohammed fayez ahmed , sales key account , Mash Premiere for pharmaceutical industries

1- good listening

2- patient

3- Good knowledge of products

4-Ability to Analyze  customers

5-Persuasion skills

Elsadig Ali
by Elsadig Ali , Business Excellence Team Leader , TAD for Total Facilities Mangament Company

 The most helpful skills :

1- Patience 

2- Ability to deal with pressure 

3- Smile to gain trust and it will effect positively on you too

4- Quick reponse when it comes to complaining 

Suzuette Santos
by Suzuette Santos , Sales Associate , Xcite Alghanim

Some of the essential customer service skills that i know are as follows: 1.Being positive and friendly. 2.Knows how to pay respect with everyone especially with the customers. 3.Product knowledge which help us to present or demonstrate our products with confidence. 4.Practice of suggestive / cross selling to boosts the sale and help customers at the same time. 5.Being a good listener to help us understand what the customer need. 6.Willingness to help and assist the customer. 7.Love for your work.Because you will do your best for the company and for the customer if you do so. 8.Having a lot of patience for some difficult situation with the customers. 9.Know how to stay calm.Always remember that every problem has a solution. 10.Always SMILE.

Ashraf E. Mahmoud (PhD)
by Ashraf E. Mahmoud (PhD) , University Lecturer, Freelancer Consultant and Trainer for Int'l Business & Banking TF. , FreeLancer

THanks for invitation,

I do support our colleague Jameela Nazeeb's answer.

Syed Tariq Qamar Ali
by Syed Tariq Qamar Ali , Administration Assistant

Knowledge of product

Patience

Good listener

A divine smile

Understanding what customer is asking for

A happy welcome and a Happy check out with a great smile

Offering deals for buying more and get discount

 

 

Herbin Sha
by Herbin Sha , Front Office Supervisor , Flora Airport Hotel

  • Pleasing Personality which includes a warm smile 
  • Know the customer what they looking for 
  • Be a Team player 
  • Good communication skill
  • Good Knowledge about what we are in
  • Enough Patience 

 

mary grace sy
by mary grace sy , Personal Assistant / Administrator , Pro Act Technology LLC

Patience is the most important being a customer service and your a good CSR if your a Good listener too

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