Verbal De-escalation for Phone Interactions

Give your team a unique and engaging training experience!

Training Delivery Options:

Self-paced and fully interactive online course available

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By taking this course, participants will explore:

De-escalating Caller Anger | Audio Review and Analysis
Effective Response to Foul Language, Verbal Abuse, Harassment, and Threats
Pre-planning and Managing our Response
Disengagement Strategies
How and When to Trade Off With a Co-worker
Enhancing Proactive Customer Service
Reporting and Documenting Incidents

Create a shift in how workers perceive and respond to escalating interactions

Our unique and engaging phone de-escalation training gives employees the confidence and skills to effectively respond to the continuum of client and customer conflict, from low-level agitation through to verbal abuse, aggression, and threats. This course is designed to create a shift in how workers perceive and respond to escalating interactions, and as a result, workers assume greater responsibility for their choices and better understand the critical role they play in how situations unfold.

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Online Training

A leading expert in workplace de-escalation takes participants through the best practices of pre-planning, visualization, knowing our own limitations, verbal intervention, as well as key phone de-escalation strategies. We utilize a multimedia approach, in which learners experience engaging audio review and analysis, pre and post training surveys, as well as knowledge tests.

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