Customer Service Excellence

Course Overview

Guest care, communication, complaint handling, difficult situations and service recovery for hospitality teams.

Learning Outcomes

  • Apply professional hospitality workplace standards.
  • Communicate effectively with guests, colleagues and supervisors.
  • Recognise role boundaries, escalation points and operational risks.
  • Demonstrate learning through practical scenarios and assessment.

Course Structure

  1. Service Mindset — Understand guest expectations.
  2. Communication — Use clear professional language.
  3. Active Listening — Identify the real guest need.
  4. Personalisation — Provide appropriate attentive service.
  5. Complaints — Use a structured complaint response.
  6. Service Recovery — Take permitted corrective action.
  7. Difficult Situations — Remain professional and escalate risk.
  8. Accessibility & Inclusion — Support respectful inclusive service.
  9. Scenarios — Practise realistic guest interactions.
  10. Final Assessment — Complete customer-service assessment.

Assessment & Certificate

Recommended pass mark: 80%. Learners who satisfy the Academy completion requirements may receive a RICS Learning Academy Certificate of Completion. Where a subject requires statutory, regulated or externally accredited training, this Academy course is supplementary and does not replace that requirement.

YOUR LEARNING PATH

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Customer Service Excellence — Module 1: Service Mindset

Understand guest expectations.

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Customer Service Excellence — Module 2: Communication

Use clear professional language.

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Customer Service Excellence — Module 3: Active Listening

Identify the real guest need.

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Customer Service Excellence — Module 4: Personalisation

Provide appropriate attentive service.

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Customer Service Excellence — Module 5: Complaints

Use a structured complaint response.

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Customer Service Excellence — Module 6: Service Recovery

Take permitted corrective action.

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Customer Service Excellence — Module 7: Difficult Situations

Remain professional and escalate risk.

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Customer Service Excellence — Module 8: Accessibility & Inclusion

Support respectful inclusive service.

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Customer Service Excellence — Module 9: Scenarios

Practise realistic guest interactions.

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Customer Service Excellence — Module 10: Final Assessment

Complete customer-service assessment.

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