50 Customer Service Training Activities for Live Chat and Telephone Teams
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Focus | Duration | What You’ll Need |
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Self-Awareness, Empathy | 20 minutes | Whiteboard or flipchart |
This is an exercise adapted from cognitive behavioral therapy techniques, which are traditionally used to help people identify and change “faulty” thinking patterns. It can be very useful for helping a team become more aware of the impact of their thoughts, feelings and behavior on themselves and their customers.
Split your team into pairs and ask them to discuss the last time they experienced feeling angry, overwhelmed, upset, or a similar emotion. Give them 5 minutes to share stories.
Draw up the thoughts / feelings / behavior cycle on a whiteboard or flipchart and explain that the three influence each other. The cycle can continue or get worse if none of these three things change.
Give an example: Imagine that you need to give a presentation to a group of colleagues. If this makes you feel quite nervous, this could feed thoughts that you will mess up the presentation, which on the day will make you appear anxious and therefore more likely to fail – which then sets a precedent for you to feel even more anxious about presenting in the future. On the other hand, if you feel like this is a welcome challenge, you will probably be thinking that this is a welcome challenge and on the day, be well prepared and ready to dazzle your colleagues, which will give you confidence if you encounter this situation again.
Ask the team, in their pairs, how the situation they identified before impacted their thoughts and behavior. Ask them also to consider how this would have been perceived by others around them. Give them a few minutes to discuss this.
Bring the team back together and ask them to share some of their observations.
Pose a question to the group:
In the example we gave before, if you’re worried about presenting but you choose to “face the fear and do it anyway”, you might concentrate on taking opportunities to practice your presentation ahead of time, even if you don’t like the thought of it initially. This would boost your confidence and go a long way towards helping you think more positively and feel better about the presentation.
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