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Managing Difficult Telephone Conversations
This interactive course enhances telephone skills to enable your team to develop better rapport with patients, control conversations better, care navigate and to reduce difficult conversations/abuse.
AIMS
- Getting the Best out of Patients on the Phone
- Creating the personal connections that are lost in face to face contact
- How your choice of words matters
- Making a great start to create a personal connection
- Techniques to reduce the likelihood of abuse
- Noticing the patient’s mood and flexing your language to create empathy
- Question techniques to ensure that we get the information we need from the patient to care navigate effectively
- Dealing with patients who say too much
- Dealing with patients who might be aggressive or angry
- Dealing with patients who don’t say enough
- Dealing with patients with communication challenges
- Recovering after a tough conversation