Building an Effective Front Counter (Online Live)

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Format: Online Live
Duration: 1.00
Building Departments rely on their front counters to help customers, handle inquiries, and perform intake tasks. With higher levels of staff turnover and increased training requirements, departments need to ensure that their front counter staff have the resources they need to succeed. This course will help Building Departments create standardized knowledge bases that their front counter can use to answer more technical questions, reduce escalations, and stay up to date on the latest processes and code changes in their state/jurisdiction. Participants will walk away with customer service best practices, a method for standardizing and digitizing operating procedures for their frontline staff, and training best practices for new staff.
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Objectives
  • Discuss how to build a knowledge base so that staff resolve customer inquiries with consistent information
  • Learn to apply strategies to streamline responding to customer emails and phone calls so that staff can focus on higher value responsibilities
  • Explore how to document standard operating procedures for training purposes.
  • Discuss how to help your front counter staff answer increasingly technical questions, increase their code-specific knowledge, and set themselves up for promotions.
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