Your Customer Service Toolbox: Best Practices for Beginners (Udemy.com)
Excel as a front-line customer service agent using problem-solving & relationship-building skills, etiquette, and more.
Created by: Jenny Dempsey
Last updated July 2021
What you will learn
- Discover the impact of your role in customer service
- Differentiate between customer service, customer experience, and internal customer service
- Use problem solving skills to resolve customer issues with ease
- Build better connections with your customers
- Model proper etiquette when interfacing with customers
- Explore how to delight and appreciate your customers
- Navigate difficult customers and turn them into forever fans
- Discover that customer service is just people helping people!
Course Description
Are you a beginner customer service agent or are seeking a future role in customer service? This course will deliver actionable best practices and skills you need to be successful!
From turning the angriest of customers into forever fans, to delighting customers to the point where they sing you a song, to tough customers who end up falling in love and ask to marry you, this course will equip you with Your Customer Service Toolbox, full of unique yet realistic and actionable best practices that you can immediately apply to your role as a customer service agent.
In this course, you will:
Discover the impact of your role in customer service
Differentiate between customer service, customer experience, and internal customer service
Use problem solving skills to resolve customer issues with ease
Build better connections with your customers
Model proper etiquette when interfacing with customers
Explore how to delight and appreciate your customers
Navigate difficult customers and turn them into forever fans
Throughout this course, you’ll complete interactive activities like responding to difficult customer emails, delivering etiquette best practices to boost customer loyalty and the importance of empathy and putting yourself in the customer’s shoes.
Customer service is just people helping people. And, working with people can be tricky! Knowing the basics of how to knock customer’s socks off with awesome service can not only help you excel in your role with your company but it can make an impact on someone’s life.
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
8,417 Reviews
Jenny Dempsey
Jenny’s done a little bit of everything—consulting, contracting, and spending 18 years in startup tech working in customer service and experience. She started out in a call center in 2005, co-founded Customer Service Life in 2012, and has been sharing her thoughts on CX, customer service, and self-care ever since. Along the way, she picked up some awards, like the CloudCherry CX Influencer Award (2019/2020) and ICMI’s Top 25 Thought Leader.
These days, she flips furniture, hosts The Career Flipper podcast, and helps people navigate career changes in a variety of industries, all while working a CX 9-5 full time job. When she’s not working, she’s probably at a concert, taking a hot yoga or spin class, riding her e-bike to brunch, taking care of her plants, playing guitar, watching the sunset, or petting every dog she sees.
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Reviews
By Lizanne Smit on 7/29/2026
This is a very insightful course and something anyone in a Customer Service role should consider no matter how many years of experience you may have. Its very good as a refresher as well.
By Infinity Concierge on 6/6/2026
It was a wonderful course! Thank you so much, Jenny. It really helped me a lot.
By Diane Robinson on 6/5/2026
It was "cute" but as someone with not a lot of time to spare, I would rather forego the cute and spend about 1/3 of the time getting the same information.
By Laura Stievano on 2/2/2026
Be always Always be aware of how important is to be kind and helpful. Knowing how to put yourself in someone's shoes
By Theodore Price on 2/2/2026
Wow - what a great presentation. She's engaging, pleasant to listen to, and makes it fun. She sets the bar for how to present a subject to an audience which is also a form of customer service. Great job!
By Robert Rogers on 1/13/2026
Some of this is pretty obvious, however if it isn't then you really need this course. I like the explanation of the difference between customer service and customer experience.
By Anonymized User on 12/17/2025
Really enjoyed the course, it acted as a reminder of the little things we do that may affect customer experiences positively or negatively.
By Iris Martinez on 12/11/2025
this course is really good it's really explaining everything in detail. i love it thanks blessings
By Saveendra Pal Singh on 11/18/2025
Great course showing how to empathise with customers. Learning how to investigate and find solution to customers problems so the issue do not happen again.
By Elizabeth Buckley on 11/12/2025
This is one of the best Customer service courses that I have taken. Many of the ideas brought forward, had been forgotten. thank you!
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Overall Score : 92 / 100







