Strengthen your ability to build meaningful customer relationships using structured communication strategies and AI-assisted tools. This course focuses on empathy-driven engagement, retention tactics, omni-channel communication templates, and account health monitoring. You will learn to segment customers, calculate engagement uplift, draft professional service communications, and personalize AI-generated responses while maintaining clarity and tone. Using CRM insights and AI sentiment signals, you will assess key account health, design proactive outreach plans, and craft effective service recovery messages. Through applied exercises and a project, you will translate engagement data into actionable strategies that support loyalty, satisfaction, and long-term value. By the end of this course, you will be able to design and implement customer engagement strategies that combine human empathy with AI-enhanced efficiency.
Syllabus 12
Applying Empathy in Interactions 55 minutes
This module guides learners on using empathetic language to enhance customer satisfaction.
Reflecting on Emotional Impact 1.5 hours
Encourages learners to reflect on service interactions, fostering empathy and personal growth.
Implementing Engagement Strategies 50 minutes
Details on executing customer segmentation and engagement strategies to enhance retention.
Analyzing Engagement Uplifts 1.5 hours
Guides learners through analyzing engagement metrics and refining strategies.
Creating Omni-Channel Templates 50 minutes
Covers the essentials of template creation and AI integration for omni-channel responses.
Ensuring Template Readability 1.5 hours
Focuses on optimizing the readability of communication templates for diverse audiences.
Conducting Account Health Reviews 1 hour
This module offers structured procedures for regular account assessments to enhance engagement.
Scoring Account Health and Identifying Risks 1.5 hours
This module provides insights into using health scores and identifying at-risk accounts for strategic focus.
Writing Effective Apologies 40 minutes
This module explores structured approaches to writing effective apologies that foster customer trust.
Tone Adjustment with AI Tools 1.5 hours
Provides insights on using AI for adjusting tone to align with customer communications standards.
Project: Customer Engagement 55 minutes
Apply engagement and relationship strategies in a summative project that simulates real-world customer service contexts—while reinforcing when strategic planning, emotional intelligence, and human judgment drive lasting client loyalty.
Leverage generative AI to accelerate customer communication drafting, analyze engagement signals, and generate response recommendations—while understanding when human judgment and emotional intelligence remain essential.
Advantages and disadvantages
Advantages
Structured courses with graded quizzes, assignments and deadlines you can reset.
A shareable certificate from the university or company when you pay.
Financial aid is often approved for students in India (apply 15 days before you need it).
From Microsoft, a well-regarded name.
Self-paced: start any time.
A clear syllabus (12 parts) you can see before you start.
Hands-on: you build or practise, not just watch.
Disadvantages
Paid after a 7-day free trial (Coursera Plus or per course).
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