Empathy for Customer Service Professionals

Discover how to use empathy to help facilitate positive and memorable customer interactions that leave customers feeling heard, understood, and supported.

Introduction

• Customers remember how you make them feel

1. Why Empathy in Customer Service Matters

• Explore the role of empathy in customer service

2. Empathy: The Secret to a Great Customer Experience

• Be an empathic customer service professional
• If genuine empathy is hard for you, try this

3. Build Your Empathy Quotient

• Would you say that to your grandmother?

4. Apply Empathy to Your Customer Support Tool Kit

• Diffuse anger with empathy
• Use empathy to your advantage in customer support
• Convey empathy when things go wrong for the customer

Conclusion

• Continue to cultivate your empathy skills