{"id":29,"date":"2010-08-21T20:17:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T10:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pdtraining.com.au\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2014-06-10T18:48:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T08:48:01","slug":"customer-service-training-theory-in-practice-emmas-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pdtraining.com.au\/blog\/professional-development-training\/customer-service-training\/customer-service-training-theory-in-practice-emmas-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Theory in Practice &#8211; &#8220;Emma&#8217;s Story&#8221;: Customer Service Training in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Customer Service &#8211; Theory, Theory, Theory!<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"figure alignright\"><a href=\"\/courses\/customer-service-training\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\/courses\/customer-service-training\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Customer Service Training Course in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photodune-353716-communicating-xs-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Customer Service Training Course from pdtraining in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Build skills to excel at customer service<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you are looking to build new skills in customer service, consider using <a title=\"Classes in Customer Service\" href=\"\/courses\/customer-service-training\" target=\"_blank\">Customer Service Training Course<\/a> from pdtraining in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and other cities in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Does any of it actually make a real-world difference?<\/p>\n<p>Sure it does.\u00a0 All of us trainers have real-world experience in the topics we present on, with real stories, both our own and those shared by attendees.\u00a0 Emma (not her real name) sent in this email:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;I work in retail in a major chain-store in Sydney.\u00a0 For my 19th birthday 3 months ago, my Father-in-law got me what I thought was the crappiest gift ever, a Customer Service training course,\u00a0not the Xbox 360 I asked for.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>I really didn&#8217;t want to waste my day off but they made me go.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">It was actually pretty interesting, and the <a title=\"FISH! Train the Trainer\" href=\"\/courses\/fish-train-the-trainer\" target=\"_blank\">trainer<\/a> was cute.\u00a0 When I got back to work, things he had said kept popping into my head and they kinda made sense in the shop, so I gave it a go.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>You know what?\u00a0 I got 3 customers in the 1st couple of weeks giving good comments on the forms, my first ones ever.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">Last week I got promoted to trainee manager, and HR said it was because of the good comments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Turns out Bob [father-in-law] didnt just give me a day of training, he gave me a promotion!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">For Xmas, I have asked for a <a title=\"Communication Skills Training\" href=\"\/courses\/communication-skills-workplace-training-courses-are-delivered-by-pdtrainings-communication-skills-training-specialists-in-brisbane-sydney-melbourne-adelaide-and-australia-wide\" target=\"_blank\">communication skills course<\/a> (Ill prob get the Xbox now, lol)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is just one of thousands of stories, a few we hear about, most we never do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Theory &#8211;&gt; Practice &#8211;&gt; Results;\u00a0 A proven progression.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a title=\"\/blog\/train-the-trainer-course\/techniques-improve-training-train-trainer-training-melbourne-adelaide-canberra\/\" href=\"\/blog\/train-the-trainer-course\/techniques-improve-training-train-trainer-training-melbourne-adelaide-canberra\/\" target=\"_blank\">Related Article&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"\/pd-training-reviews\"><b>Pdtraining<\/b><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s3\"><b> delivers 1000\u2019s of professional development courses each year in Brisbane, Sydney, Parramatta, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra and Perth, so you can be assured your training will be delivered by a qualified and experienced trainer.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s3\"><b>All public\u00a0<a title=\"Classes in Customer Service\" href=\"\/courses\/customer-service-training\" target=\"_blank\">Customer Service Training<\/a><\/b><b>\u00a0courses include am\/pm tea, lunch, printed courseware and a certificate of completion.\u00a0 Customised courses are available upon request so please contact pdtraining on\u00a01300 121 400 to learn more.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know what?  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