Luxury Customer Relationship Management Certificate
TRAINING OBJECTIVE
Mastering and managing customer relations in luxury hospitality
Description
Luxury Customer Relations Certificate RS6018
2990€ INCL. VAT
35 hours/ 5 days
The “Managing customer relations in luxury hospitality” certification is part of a professionalization program. Its aim is to attest to the mastery of complementary skills required for the exercise of professions in the “high-end” and “luxury” hospitality sector. The training is extremely useful for any employee whose profession places him/her in contact with the establishment’s customers.
Learners must pass all 12 modules to obtain certification, which attests that holders have acquired skills that complement their core business competencies, in order to manage customer relations with a particularly demanding clientele, which is the very essence of the “high-end & luxury” sector.
In order to improve and maintain at its best the “perception of excellent service” specific to the sector defined upstream, employees in direct contact with the customer must be able to mobilize 5 active principles of customer relations, namely :
■ understanding the customer journey in their establishment ■ professional savoir- vivre, and relational excellence ■ excellent sales techniques & digital communication specific to this sector
To meet the needs of establishments in the high-end and luxury hospitality industry (Palaces, 4 and 5*) and to respond to their teams’ need for skills, Butler Academy offers to deploy the “Managing customer relations in luxury hospitality” certification, with excellence and efficiency.
35 hours-5 days
In-house training available in France or abroad
For a maximum of 15 participants
Certification
Training available in English, French
Calendar
content
module 1 . Prepare for a customer's arrival to ensure excellence in customer relations by personalizing the welcome and gathering and summarizing useful information.
- Applying luxury codes to ensure service excellence
- Apply a personalized customer welcome
- Prepare for a customer’s arrival by taking into account their external and internal environment, and gathering the necessary information to personalize their welcome.
module 2: Developing a global vision of the customer journey
- Take a global view of the customer journey
- Understanding that the luxury customer journey is all about detail
- Identify the different stages of the customer journey and the behaviors to adopt to achieve service excellence
- Knowing how to adapt your career path to different situations, such as disability
module 3: Welcoming and caring for customers while respecting the principles and codes of good manners
- Mastering interpersonal skills
- Adopting a spirit of service
- Master the rules of etiquette and precedence
- Careful presentation
- Knowing yourself: how to improve your skills.
- Understanding the notion of shared pleasure: “Doing and enjoying”.
- Understand the importance of 1st contact and take charge of the customer
- Active listening, questioning and reformulation
module 4. Gathering customer needs over the phone
- Understanding the stakes of the telephone call: 1st image of the establishment
- Applying impeccable telephone manners
- Respond effectively by practicing active listening, questioning and reformulation
- Master the rules for taking leave
Module 5: Adapting verbal and non-verbal communication to the customer's culture
- Mastering multicultural hospitality
- Adapt to customer culture
- Adopt the right behavior: vocabulary, expressions to avoid making mistakes
- Be responsive and personalize your service
module 6: Presenting your company's products and services to a customer
- Identify the customer’s needs and requirements using active listening, questioning and reformulation.
- Know what your establishment has to offer and its characteristics to sell more effectively
- Create your sales pitch
- Explain the advantages and benefits of products and/or services to the customer with a view to making a sale
module 7 . Practice empathetic listening to the customer's words in the argumentation stage
- Practice active listening to empathize with your interlocutor and establish a relationship of trust
- Practice the investigation phase
- Rephrase to demonstrate involvement and understanding
- Reformulate to convince, including arguments highlighting the product’s advantages and benefits
- Arguments highlighting the advantages and benefits of products, services…
- Mastering luxury vocabulary
module 8: Responding to well-founded or unfounded customer objections
- Identify and respond to objections
- Respond with new elements that highlight the fit with the customer’s identified needs
- Respond with a similar and/or complementary offer.
- Apply the right know-how: empathy, patience, humility
module 9: Detecting the warning signs of conflict in order to resolve them
- Dealing with difficult situations while preserving the quality of customer relations
- Demonstrate empathy
- Use mediation to find a solution
- Developing assertiveness
module 10. Make suggestions to management to improve internal quality levels
- Pass on the necessary information about the customer dispute to your staff, superiors and/or the department concerned.
- Seek solutions, be proactive in resolving disputes with a view to constantly improving the quality of customer service
- Implement a corrective action plan
module 11: Implementing excellent digital customer communications
- How to write personalized e-mails
- Elegant written expression: without spelling mistakes, respecting grammatical rules and using customary rules of protocol.
module 12: Responding to negative or neutral customer comments on social networks
- Discovering customer satisfaction through SR
- Write an elegant response to a negative or neutral comment, using correct spelling, grammar and customary rules of etiquette.
- Restate the complaint in a factual manner
- Providing a solution for the customer
details
- Face-to-face
- Remote capability
- Registration 1 month in advance
Target audience and prerequisites
- Receptionist
- Concierge
- Butler
- Guest relation, customer advisor Gouvernante
- Hall staff
- Restaurant service Maitre.sse d’hôtel
PREREQUISITES
- Master the written and spoken French language
Teaching methods
Active and participative teaching methods with course application:
- Setting the scene
- Indoor quiz
- Case studies
- Training support documents projected in the classroom
- Access to a digital space dedicated to training
Certification validation
Case study and MCQs
- Setting the scene
- All 12 skills must be mastered to obtain the “Managing customer relations in luxury hospitality” certification.
Results are sent within 1 month of the certification date.
Candidates who fail the exam may retake the modules in a make-up session.
Range
Candidates will be able to manage customer relations with a particularly demanding public, which is the very essence of the “high-end & luxury” sector.
Path sequences
Candidates will be able to continue their studies with specific training modules.
Our key figures
Trainees trained in 2022
Abandon
Successful completion of WSET
Hours of training provided in 2022
Up-to-date website
Our trainers
Frédéric V. : WSET Trainer
Currently studying for an MBA at ESCP Paris.
He is an entrepreneur, founder of a wine import company, author of ” Le vin pour ceux qui n’y connaissent rien ” a columnist for the specialized press, and a member of wine-tasting committees.
He teaches wine and spirits for the WSET with energy and conviviality.
Sophie P. : WSET Trainer
With an MBA and WSET level 3 diploma, Sophie is a cellar manager.
Quadrilingual with a taste for traveling to wine-producing countries, his desire to pass on his passion for wine has led him to take on WSET training courses.
Annabelle M. : WSET Trainer
Dualist from the Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin in Bordeaux and WSET Level 4 graduate, she has been working as a winemaker, wine journalist, caviste, sommelier and wine and spirits trainer in France and Australia for the past 6 years.
The referents
Sarah Z. : Handicap Referent
Tel: 07 68 44 27 23 / 01 88 61 78 95
Mail: accueilPSH@butler-academy.com
Sarah welcomes and accompanies all people with disabilities.
For any request to adapt our training offer, she will be at the heart of the organization and the link with our partners and referents dealing with the subject of disability.
Samuel G. : President
Tel: 01 88 61 78 90
Mail: commercial@butler-academy.com
Samuel answers all questions relating to company organization, accounting and suppliers.
Aurélie R. : Training Manager
Tel : 01 88 61 78 95
Mail: contact@butler-academy.com
Aurélie is the training consultant for trainees, managers, companies and trainers.
She listens to everyone’s feedback and problems, and makes every effort to propose appropriate content.
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CONTACT US
BUTLER ACADEMY - HOTEL TRAINING
Our headquarters
28 rue de Chambéry 75015 Paris
Contact education department
Email: contact@butler-academy.com
Phone: 01 80 91 61 82
Fax: 01 80 91 60 75