The perfect introduction to complaint handling for new staff
SOCAP Training Workshops
SOCAP Australia provides professional development for consumer professionals and complaint management practitioners and has been training professionals in this service industry for 30 years with leading conferences, best practice facilitators, and strategic consumer insights. Become the expert in your organisation for complaints handling, dispute resolution and customer services to provide fair and effective outcomes. Explore our professional development and member events calendar for specialised training, workshops, webinars and networking events across Rising Star, Intermediate and Advanced programming options.
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All SOCAP training programs can be credited as CPD for SOCAP Complaints Professional Certification, with CPD points shown on each program listing. Learn more about SOCAP Complaint Professional Certification here.
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As well as being scheduled as public training, our professional workshops are available to be conducted in-house, on your site, at a date that is convenient for your entire team. Ask us for a tailored proposal for your team’s training. Call 02 8095 6426 for more information or email socap@socap.org.au
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WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Rising Star
This program is designed for Rising Star participants and new entrants in customer experience, consumer care and complaints management roles.
Participants with Intermediate customer care and complaints management skills are also advised to attend to refresh skills sets with updated learning techniques.
Intermediate
This program is designed for Intermediate participants who have general experience in customer experience, consumer care and complaints management roles, who have been working in the industry for more than 12 months and are looking to extend their professional skills and responsibilities.
Participants with Rising Star skills are also advised to attend to extend their professional skills and responsibilities.
Advanced
This program is designed for Advanced participants who have senior experience in customer experience, consumer care and complaints management roles, who are looking to transform their organisation with new thinking and strategic approaches to consumer management.
Participants with Intermediate skills are also advised to attend to extend their professional skills and responsibilities.
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OUR PROGRAM THEMES
Customer Service Excellence
Customer service and complaints management best practice
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Consumer Behaviour and Wellbeing
Managing customer behaviours, social pressures and team self-care
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Business Transformation
Strategic change and organisation performance
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View or download the current Training and Event Calendar here, or select a program below to register.
Ethics for Complaint Professionals
Essential for business, professional and organisational ethics
SOCAP Webinar Series
Join SOCAP online in 2019 and explore a new range of topics. Tech Trends Tuesday, 5 February 2019 – 12pm-1pm […]
Assisting Customers in Vulnerable Circumstances
Awareness of vulnerability and having key skills in service provision for those who may be experiencing periods of vulnerability will also assist in ensuring compliance on corporate social responsibility and more actively manage risk.
Complaints and Customer Insights Forum
RISK AND PRODUCT GOVERNANCE THE NEW ROLES FOR COMPLAINT PROFESSIONALS How do you rate the level of trust you and […]
Root Cause Analysis
Prevent recurring, significant problems/complaints and reduce costs
Written Communication for Complaint Handling
Are your written communications effective and helpful, or do they obscure meaning and antagonise?
Effective Complaint Management Systems
Essential elements for an effective complaint handling system.
Managing Unreasonable Complainant Conduct
Unreasonable conduct by complainants (UCC) can take up an inordinate amount of an organisation’s time and money. Additionally, if situations […]
The Power of Apology
When things go wrong, customers need acknowledgement of the problem and a pathway back so that they can trust the […]
Mental Health Awareness for Complaint Handlers
Identify those at risk of self-harm and tools and techniques to diffuse difficult situations
Handling Social Media Complaints and Crisis/Reputation Management
This workshop expands on theories learnt in the Handling Social Media Complaints and Crisis/Reputation Management webinar. Is your business active on […]
Leadership Breakfast Series
Leadership breakfast panel series in all states across Australia
Member Networking Events
Join us to share your experience and network with other SOCAP members at your SOCAP Community of Practice.
From Rage to Reason
Enhance your ability, confidence and resilience to handle angry and raging customers Objectives Why are complaints important? What is anger? […]
Maximising your Resilience in the Workplace and Beyond
Pressure proof your team to prevent burn out in high pressure environments
Mastering the Art of Difficult Conversations
Steps for making tough discussions with staff and customers easy
Negotiation and Dispute Resolution Skills for Entrenched Complaints
Learn a structured dispute resolution win/win process for resolving entrenched complaints
Accidental Counsellor for Complaint Handlers
Mental health, suicide, domestic violence, isolation, substance abuse and lack of access to usual support services are significant issues affecting, not […]
Minimising Resolution Time through Effective Investigation Techniques
Proven strategies and techniques to arrive at a fair and impartial conclusion
Raising your Emotional Intelligence for Customer Care and Complaint Handling
Develop Emotional intelligence in your complaints team to enhance customer satisfaction
Strategic Complaints Improvement and Customer Experience Masterclass
Successful organisations providing a world-class customer experience understand the value of learning from customer feedback and complaints, and compliance to […]
A Fair Service for All – Managing Customer Diversity
This full day program will explore in depth how to employ key work practices that value workplace and consumer diversity. […]
Teamship – Leading for a new age
There is a view held by some that teams develop on their own through chance or good luck. This is […]
Getting Customers to Satisfaction and Brand Advocate
Identify your customers’ experience at each touch point
Transforming Workplace Culture UGR Masterclass
Whether it’s creating a culture to deliver great service, helping leaders understand their role in shaping the culture, helping teams […]
Increasing your Customer Experience through Effective Telephone Service Delivery
Half day phone skills course for contact centre and frontline customer service/complaint staff.
Strategic Communication for Results
Personnel, who are effective communicators, are sought after assets to any organisation. Although ‘communications’ is an essential skill, training in […]
Business development programs for ongoing success in your role
SOCAP is working together with PD Training, to deliver members a further range of business development programs with events run […]