Complaint Handling Training
Course Synopsis
Our UK customer complaint handling training defines the process and methodology needed to create an effective customer complaints handling procedure, aimed at effectively handling a customer complaint.
Target Audience
The course provides valuable in-house training for individuals who are responsible for handling customer complaints.
Course Objectives
This in-company run training course aims to provide participants with the key skills to effectively improve their effectiveness in handling a customer complaint.
Programme Topics
- What defines something as a complaint
- Perceptions
- The visible and invisible costs of customer complaints
- The benefits of complaints
- Key skills and qualities for successfully and effectively handling a customer complaint
- Positive body language
- Questioning and listening skills
- Complaint empathy - seeing things from the other person's perspective
- Know what authority/power you have
- Agree a course of action with customers (win/win - customer and organisation)
- Making commitments and honouring promises for complaint resolution
- Demonstrate how to handle a complaint
Methods
- Trainer presentation and input
- Group discussion
- Questionnaires
- Individual and small group exercises
- Case studies
- Role plays and workbook

Where we Work
We deliver in-house complaint handling training to companies across the UK including the following locations:
- London and the South East
- Cambridge
- Norwich and East Anglia
- Leeds and Bradford
- Oxford and Swindon
- Manchester and the North West
- Southampton and Bournemouth
- Birmingham and the Midlands
- Nottingham
- Bristol
- Cardiff and South Wales
- Exeter and the South West
- Newcastle
- Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland
Note: Complaints handling training courses are also offered in other UK cities and regions.