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Empowering service excellence through professional qualifications

Whether your goal is to upskill employees across core competencies or to build a coaching culture within your organisation, our suite of professional qualifications provides you with the tools you need for success. Each of our work-based qualifications is designed to improve performance through a flexible learning model encompassing self-study, coaching and in-house management. 

Qualifications are typically completed within three to six months, with flexible options for both virtual and in-person learning. 

Our professional qualifications are exclusively available to members. The first step is to speak to your Client Development Director to discuss your interest – or contact us today about organisational membership.

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Professional Qualifications

Delivery:

Online and blended

Level:

Qualification

Duration:

3 to 6 months

Audience:

Customer-facing staff, team leaders, Managers & HOD

Our credentials

For almost 30 years, we’ve partnered with leading organisations across the UK to elevate their customer service by empowering their people. Our qualifications are modular, progressive, and relevant to a wide range of job roles, ensuring that learning is impactful and directly applicable to your organisation’s needs.

Underpinned by our Service Experience Model, thousands of individuals have enhanced their skills through our qualifications, contributing to higher standards of customer service across sectors.

Trusted by some of the UK's biggest organisations
Our Professional Qualifications include:
Learning outcomes

Effective communication is at the heart of exceptional service. Our communications qualification is designed for individuals who regularly interact with customers, whether internally or externally. It provides the foundational skills necessary to build strong relationships, enhance understanding, and foster a positive service experience.

Develop raport

Learn how to establish and maintain regular, positive relationships with customers, ensuring their needs are always understood and met.

Effective listening

Enhance your skills and ability to listen actively, enabling you to respond appropriately to customer service enquiries and concerns.

Clear communication

Master the art of conveying information clearly and concisely, reducing misunderstandings and increasing customer satisfaction.

Assess customer needs

Gain skills in accurately identifying and assessing customer needs, ensuring that you provide tailored and relevant solutions.

Conflict resolution

Acquire techniques for managing and resolving conflicts, turning potential issues into opportunities to enhance customer loyalty.

Learning outcomes

Every organisation encounters recurring customer service issues, and the ability to identify and address these effectively is crucial to continuous improvement. Our solutions qualification empowers you to pinpoint the root causes of service failures and devise innovative solutions that prevent future occurrences, ultimately enhancing customer satisfaction.

Root cause analysis

Learn to systematically identify the underlying causes of recurring service issues, enabling you to address problems at their source.

Problem solving

Develop advanced problem-solving skills that allow you to create effective, long-term solutions to service challenges.

Implementation planning

Gain expertise in planning and executing solutions, ensuring a smooth integration into your organisation’s operations.

Continuous improvement

Foster a mindset of continuous improvement, where you proactively seek opportunities to enhance service delivery.

Measurable impact

Learn how to measure the effectiveness of implemented solutions, ensuring tangible improvements in service quality.

Learning outcomes

Innovation is key to staying competitive in today’s fast-paced business environment. The innovations qualification equips you with the tools to drive and implement improvements in customer service. This qualification encourages creative thinking and collaboration, enabling you to introduce new ideas and processes that lead to superior customer experiences.

Creative problem solving

Enhance your ability to think creatively and generate innovative ideas that can be applied to improve customer service.

Collaboration skills

Develop strong collaborative skills, enabling you to work effectively with colleagues and stakeholders.

Innovation implementation

Gain the knowledge needed to plan, pilot, and scale innovative solutions within your organisation.

Impact measurement

Learn to measure the success of your innovations, ensuring that they contribute to meaningful improvements in customer service.

Customer-centric focus

Foster a customer-centric approach to innovation, ensuring that all improvements are aligned with customer needs.

Learning outcomes

Coaching is an essential skill for leaders who wish to cultivate a high-performing, customer-focused team. Our customer service coach qualification is designed for individuals who are responsible for coaching and developing others within their organisation. This qualification provides the knowledge and skills necessary to become an effective coach, helping you to unlock the potential of your team and drive service excellence.

Coaching techniques

Master a range of coaching techniques that can be applied to develop the skills and confidence of your customer service teams.

Effective feedback

Learn how to provide constructive feedback that motivates and inspires your team to achieve higher levels of performance.

Personal development plan

Gain expertise in creating and managing personal development plans for your team, ensuring continuous growth and improvement.

Building a coaching culture

Contribute to the development of a coaching culture within your organisation, where continuous learning and improvement are valued and encouraged.

Leadership development

Enhance your own leadership skills, enabling you to guide your team more effectively and drive customer service excellence across your organisation.

Why undertake a qualification?

Improved service quality

Achieving a Professional Qualification leads to enhanced quality and consistency of customer service within your organisation.

Increased performance

The qualifications help improve both personal and business performance by developing critical customer service skills and behaviours.

Coaching culture

Completing the qualifications supports the development of a coaching culture within your organisation, allowing you to utilise these skills in various areas of your business.

Motivation and confidence

Employees who undertake these qualifications experience increased motivation, self-esteem, and confidence – leading to better engagement, job satisfaction and employee retention.

Recognition and reward

The qualifications provide formal recognition and reward for employees’ skills and achievements, boosting morale and encouraging a culture of excellence.

Transferrable skills

Participants develop transferable skills that can be applied across various roles and sectors, enhancing their career opportunities.

Professional Qualification case studies
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The member’s challenge 

The CII looked to enhance their training programmes to improve the effectiveness of their coaches and trainers. They aimed to provide more engaging training sessions to their members by enhancing the skills and knowledge of their in-house trainers. ​​

The impact 

Our Customer Service Coach Qualification led to significant improvements in the delivery and effectiveness of training at CII. By focusing on advanced coaching techniques and interactive training methods, the programme enhanced the skills of trainers, resulting in more engaging and effective training sessions. This improvement was reflected in higher satisfaction scores from members and a more robust training programme. ​

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The member’s challenge 

The primary challenge was to address high staff turnover post-onboarding and build loyalty by formally recognising the skills of employees and providing targeted support to those beginning their journey in the contact centre.​

The impact 

Employees who completed the qualifications broadened their skills and perspectives. Pension Protection Fund also subsequently looked to introduce access to qualifications as an opportunity for those that passed their probation, thereby increasing staff retention. The coaching qualification, in particular, changed the mindset and techniques of the staff, fostering a more questioning approach in their interactions.​

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