The Telephone Skills Coaching Manual

This manual contains ready-to-use sessions for working with individuals or small groups.

The material is designed to enable the trainer or coach to help trainees reflect on their experiences, share success, learn from failure and practise new skills and techniques until they're ready to try them out for real.

The coaching processes involved in the manual will improve self-awareness and teach your people how to observe behaviour and give and receive effective feedback.

The materials can be used to develop: everyone who needs to improve their telephone skills: receptionists and telephone "gatekeepers"; call centre and telephone sales teams; and credit control staff and other specialists.

Volume One focuses on the fundamental telephone skills that we all need, along with the skills for handling inbound customer service and sales calls.

Volume Two covers outbound calls.