Customer Service Essentials OnDemand eLearning Training

The Right Training, Right Now

Whether your team is spread across the country or your day-to-day is just too busy to take an entire day off for training, our OnDemand online customer service training seminars, based on our course Customer Service Essentials (CSE), are here to help get your team up and running.

Our online customer service training is designed to give you quality and concise training you can watch in one sitting. When you want to offer ongoing educaton on a budget, online training is a great, cost-effective solution.

Who CSE OnDemand Is Built For

If your team is customer-facing - phone, email, chat, or in person - this training was designed for them.

  • Customer service & support teams - frontline team members who handle calls, emails, and chats every day
  • New hires & onboarding cohorts - get everyone speaking the same language from day one
  • Remote & distributed teams - consistent training regardless of location or schedule
  • L&D managers & HR teams - scalable, budget-friendly training that actually gets completed
  • Organizations reinforcing existing skills - target specific modules for focused behavior reinforcement
  • Teams post-AI implementation - when automation handles the easy stuff and your team handles everything harder
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What's Covered?

Our OnDemand Customer Service Essentials training covers a wealth of topics including:
Mindset: Putting Customers First
Critical concepts for making the most of every customer interaction.
Greeting Your Customer
Concise, productive greeting to immediately build rapport and maintain focus.
Acknowledge & Take the Lead
Engage with the customer while keeping the conversation on track.
Empathy
Understand empathy, recognize when it’s warranted and how to express it.
Gems for All Conversations
Ways to build rapport, foster positive communication and gather information.
Delivering Negative Information
Increase cooperation and decrease resistance when delivering a negative message.
Troublemakers
Learn to rephrase common words and phrases that put customers on the defensive.
Active Listening
Key components to active listening and acquiring a listening mindset.
Etiquette: Holds, Transfers & Wrap-Up
Proven techniques for handling these functions with ease and professionalism.
Best Practices for Email & Chat
Apply Bonfire’s positive communication techniques to written messages.
Difficult Customers
Avoid common pitfalls that help create difficult callers, and how to de-escalate. 
Accountability
Overcome ‘the blame game’ and ‘victim mentality’ to create a thriving team.
Action Plan!
Review key techniques and download an Action Plan to keep the skills alive.

Give Your Team the Skills. Skip the Scheduling Headache.

Per Seat Options

Perfect for individuals or a single team, ready to start today.

$224

per seat with 90 days of access

Buying for a team? Volume pricing kicks in automatically.

Licensing / LMS Options

Best for larger organizations, teams that want to host the course in their LMS, or organizations that want to tailor the content to their needs before purchase.

  • License CSE for your own LMS – SCORM-compliant, full access, no usage limits
  • Track learner progress with reporting built for Team and Enterprise needs
  • No pressure, no obligation – just a real conversation about what fits
OPTIONAL ADD-ON

Workbook & Technique Cards

Physical job aids that reinforce key concepts — daily reminders of the techniques learned, supporting long-term behavior change after the course is complete.

“The training went really well! Employees were very engaged. It’s great to be able to put our teams through the training together, so there are consistent standards and expectations on how to deliver great service to our members.”

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Common Questions

Your team will have access for 90 days.
Reach out for a custom quote. CSE is SCORM-compliant and can be licensed for delivery on your organization’s own learning platform.
Yes — CSE OnDemand is built from the same Customer Service Essentials curriculum used in Bonfire’s live onsite and remote sessions, adapted for self-paced learning.

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Start with a free test drive — or buy the course today and get your team on it this week.

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