iCQ
    Level 2
    QN: 601/3689/3
    Curriculum Active

    iCQ Level 2 Diploma in Customer Service (RQF)

    Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by iCQ. Classified as a Occupational Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 743 hours.

    Qualification Level
    Level 2
    Awarding Body
    iCQ
    Syllabus Units
    39 Units
    Guided Hours
    743 hrs
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    Course Syllabus & Study Modules

    Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.

    1

    Bespoke Software

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Input and combine information using bespoke applications
    • Use appropriate structures to organise and retrieve information efficiently
    • Use the functions of the software effectively to process and present information
    2

    Buddy a colleague to develop their skills

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to buddy a colleague
    • Be able to plan to buddy a colleague
    • Be able to support a buddy colleague carrying out work activities
    3

    Carry out customer service handovers

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the customer service handover process
    • Be able to plan customer service handovers
    • Be able to carry out customer service handovers
    4

    Carry out direct sales activities in a contact centre

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to gather information needed for direct sales activities in a contact centre
    • Be able to carry out direct sales to customers through a contact centre
    • Be able to keep direct sales records within a contact centre
    • Be able to comply with regulations and legislation during direct sales in a contact centre
    • Understand how to conduct sales activities in a contact centre
    5

    Communicate verbally with customers

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to communicate verbally with customers
    • Be able to use customer service language to communicate with customers
    6

    Communicate with customers in writing

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to communicate with customers in writing
    • Be able to plan written communications to customers
    • Be able to communicate with customers in writing
    7

    Contribute to the organisation of an event

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand event organisation
    • Be able to carry out pre-event actions
    • Be able to set up an event
    • Be able to carry out post-event actions
    8

    Deal with incidents through a contact centre

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to deal with incidents through a contact centre
    • Be able to use contact centre communications systems to deploy incident management resources
    • Understand how to deal with incidents in a contact centre
    9

    Deal with incoming telephone calls from customers

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to deal with incoming customer calls
    • Be able to establish the purpose of incoming customer calls
    • Be able to deal with customer questions and requests
    10

    Deliver customer service

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand customer service delivery
    • Understand the relationship between customer service and a brand
    • Be able to prepare to deal with customers
    • Be able to provide customer service
    • Be able to support improvements to customer service delivery
    11

    Deliver customer service to challenging customers

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the delivery of customer service to challenging customers
    • Be able to deal with challenging customers
    12

    Deliver customer service whilst working on customers’ premises

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to deliver customer service whilst working on customers’ premises
    • Be able to deliver customer service whilst working on customers’ premises
    13

    Develop customer relationships

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to develop customer relationships
    • Be able to develop relationships with customers
    14

    Develop working relationships with colleagues

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the principles of effective team working
    • Be able to maintain effective working relationships with colleagues
    • Be able to collaborate with colleagues to re
    • solve problems
    15

    Employee rights and responsibilities

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the role of organisations and industries
    • Understand employers’ expectations and employees’ rights and obligations
    16

    Exceed customer expectations

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to exceed customer expectations
    • Be able to exceed customer expectations
    17

    Gather, analyse and interpret customer feedback

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to gather
    • analyse and interpret customer feedback
    • Be able to plan the collection of customer feedback on customer service issues
    • Be able to gather customer feedback
    • Be able to analyse and interpret customer feedback to recommend improvements
    18

    Handling objections and closing sales

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to handle sales objections
    • Understand how to close the sale
    • Be able to handle objections
    • Be able to close the sale
    19

    Health and Safety Procedures in the Workplace

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know health and safety procedures in the workplace.
    • Be able to carry out tasks with regard to health and safety in the workplace.
    20

    Make telephone calls to customers

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to make telephone calls to customers
    • Be able to plan telephone calls to customers
    • Be able to make telephone calls to customers
    21

    Manage diary systems

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the management of diary systems
    • Be able to manage diary systems
    22

    Manage personal performance and development

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to manage personal performance
    • Be able to manage their own time and workload
    • Be able to identify their own development needs
    • Be able to fulfil a personal development plan
    23

    Meeting customers’ after sales needs

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to investigate customer after sales needs
    • Be able to handle customers’ after sales needs
    • Be able to review the after sales process
    24

    Negotiate in a business environment

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the principles underpinning negotiation
    • Be able to prepare for business negotiations
    • Be able to carry out business negotiations
    25

    Principles of customer service

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand customer service
    • Understand how legal and ethical requirements relate to customer service
    • Understand how to deliver effective customer service
    • Understand the management of customer service information
    26

    Principles of equality and diversity in the workplace

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the implications of equality legislation
    • Understand organisational standards and expectations for equality and diversity and context in the workplace
    27

    Process information about customers

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to process customer information
    • Be able to process customer information
    28

    Processing sales orders

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to process and follow up sales orders
    • Be able to process sales orders
    • Be able to follow up sales order processing
    29

    Promote additional products and/or services to customers

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the promotion of additional products and/or services to customers
    • Be able to promote additional products and/or services to customers
    30

    Provide post-transaction customer service

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand post-transaction customer service
    • Be able to provide post-transaction customer service
    31

    Provide reception services

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand reception services
    • Be able to provide a reception service
    32

    Resolve customer service problems

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the resolution of customer service problems
    • Be able to re
    • solve customer service problems
    • Be able to manage unresolved customer service problems
    33

    Resolve customers’ complaints

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the monitoring and resolution of customers’ complaints
    • Be able to deal with customers’ complaints
    34

    Support customer service improvements

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to support customer service improvements
    • Be able to identify the potential for improvements to customer service
    • Be able to support the implementation of improvements to customer service
    35

    Support customers through real-time online customer service

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to support customers through real-time online customer service
    • Be able to establish the customer service support needed by customers
    • Be able to support online customer service in real-time
    36

    Support customers using self-service equipment

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to support customers using self-service equipment
    • Be able to identify the help needed by customers using self-service equipment
    • Be able to help customers to use self-service equipment
    37

    Understand customers

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand different types of customers
    • Understand the value of customers and their loyalty
    38

    Understand employer organisations

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand organisational structures
    • Understand the organisational environment
    39

    Use social media to deliver customer service

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand social media in a business environment
    • Be able to deal with customers using social media

    Regulatory & Verification Details

    Qualification Number (QN)
    601/3689/3
    Regulated Status
    Available to learners
    Awarding Body
    iCQ
    Qualification Type
    Occupational Qualification
    Operational Start
    Sept 2014