Effective Questioning for Call Handlers
Key Details
- Duration
- 3 weeks
- Weekly study
- 3 hours
- Cost
- Free
- Extra benefits available
- From £52
Course overview
How an organisation handles phone calls can have a direct impact on its success - a badly handled call can mean limited information that might affect service delivery, customer satisfaction and even safety.
On this course you will learn to evaluate how call handlers ask questions over the phone. You will examine the consequences of asking questions in different ways and consider how this affects call outcomes. You will also examine the role of technology in call handler-caller communication and how software design can support service delivery over the telephone.
What topics will you cover?
- Explanation about the importance of studying conversations
- Audio recordings of telephone calls from research that examined how nurses, using decision support software, asked patients questions over the phone
- Video recordings of nurses using decision support software, synchronized with telephone calls
- Video material that explains different types of questions and the influence of decision support software
What wil you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...
- Explain the importance of studying conversations
- Describe different types of question-style for obtaining information from callers
- Evaluate the consequences of how questions are asked for the kind of information gathered from callers
- Identify the role of technology in shaping question-style in call handling interactions
Who is the course for?
This course is for any professional involved in delivering a service over the telephone, particularly any organisation that uses a computer software to support call handlers in managing calls.