Telephone Skills Training
for Local Government Employees
In today’s fast paced culture, it is critical that employees who answer the telephone are equipped to represent their organizations professionally and courteously. They should also be able to successfully transfer calls, answer customer inquiries, and reduce rework that results from insufficient information gathering. Telephone Skills Training for Local Government Employees prepares employees at all levels of employment to do just that. Additionally, this half-hour SGR online course prepares participants to streamline processes and maximize respect and accountability while creating a customer centric culture and reputation for excellence. This course includes a fully reproducible Participant's Guide.
Course Objectives:
Properly answer a business phone
Properly transfer calls
Properly take a message
Properly address the needs of the caller
Properly manage difficult callers
This course is suitable for employees at all levels of your organization.
Use this Registration Form to register participant(s) for one or more courses. Populate all required fields and submit. An invoice will be emailed to you. Upon receipt of payment, participants will be uploaded into the On-Demand Course system. Each participant will be emailed the access information for the course(s) for which they have been registered.
The self-paced course content may be hard copy printed or stored and viewed electronically by user
The course contains multiple topic related attachments
In case of unanticipated interruption, participants may exit the course, then resume where they left off at a later time
The course contains multiple interactive slides designed to increase retention of material
The course contains a ten question quiz to test for comprehension of materials
Participants can print a certificate of completion (or multiple copies for HR, participant's supervisor, etc.) after successfully completing the course