icspghana, Author at ICSP

November 6, 2022

The 2nd diet of the Basic Certification in Customer Service (BCCS) program for 2022 has been scheduled for November 10-12 and November 17-19 2022. The training would be held online via the ICSP e-school Learning Management System (LMS) and Zoom platform with participants from all over the world. The certification program is a professional training and certification curriculum of the West Africa Association of Customer Service professionals (WAACSP) for prospective customer service practitioners in the West African sub region. The association continues to work towards its vision of providing support and accreditation for customer service practitioners. ICSP (Institute of Customer Service Professionals) will yet again put out a tech driven learning, evaluation and assessment system for the program.

Being a certified service professional is open to all, irrespective of current career or profession – you can grow as a customer service professional in any sector; financial, health, engineering, administration, telecommunications, hospitality, oil and gas, information technology, the public and private sector.

The sequence of this year’s diet is 100% ONLINE as have been since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. Class would be taken by trained and experienced WAACSP customer service trainers. Last session was over subscribed, due to WAACSP restriction, this session has limited STREAM so spaces are limited and participation is on a first register basis. Register today by clicking REGISTER

Registration Details Fee: Reduced fee of Ghs 450. All other training content would be made available during training.

by icspghana

April 30, 2022

The 1st diet of the Basic Certification in Customer Service (BCCS) program for 2022 has been scheduled for June 16 – 18 and June 23 – 24, 2022. The training would be held online via the ICSP e-school Learning Management System (LMS) and Zoom platform with participants from all over the world. The certification program is a professional training and certification curriculum of the West Africa

Association of Customer Service professionals (WAACSP) for prospective customer service practitioners in the West African sub region. The association continues to work towards its vision of providing support and accreditation for customer service practitioners. ICSP (Institute of Customer Service Professionals) will yet again put out a tech driven learning, evaluation and assessment system for the program.

Registration Details Fee: Reduced fee of Ghs 400. All other training content would be made available during training.

by icspghana

October 2, 2021

The 2nd diet of the Basic Certification in Customer Service (BCCS) program for 2021 will take place in Ghana, Nigeria and Gambia in November 18-20 (1st batch), 25-27 (2nd Batch).

The training would be held online via the ICSP e-school Learning Management System (LMS) and Zoom platform with participants from all over the world. The certification program is a professional training and certification curriculum of the West Africa Association of Customer Service professionals (WAACSP) for prospective customer service practitioners in the West African sub region.

It has become vital for the association to continue with its vision of providing support and accreditation for customer service practitioners. ICSP (Institute of Customer Service Professionals) will yet again put out a tech driven learning, evaluation and assessment system for the program. With a resounding commendation by participants from the previous diet, the institute is committed to making sure that all participants are poised to deliver excellent customer service through a well laid out certification process.

Schedule:

October 2: Registration opens.
November 2: School portal opens and registered participants have access to program study materials.
November 10: pre class platform opens.
November 18-20: class session (1st batch).
November 25-27: class session (2nd Batch)
November 27-29: certification assessment/examinations.

Registration Details
Fee: Reduced fee of Ghs 400.
Last session was over subscribed, due to WAACSP restriction, this session has limited STREAM so spaces are limited and participation is on a first register basis. Register today by clicking REGISTER

by icspghana

April 7, 2021

One event!, 16 countries!, Three locations!, Hundreds online , Same time, interconnected….

The WAACSP 2021 induction ceremony held on the 27th of March 2021, witnessed perhaps the first multi-city induction event that will forever resonate in our hearts as a memorable and inspiring event.

The Covid-19 Pandemic and the restrictions placed on social gatherings brought about ingenuity and the very first online and physical induction combined. We still had a synchronized event across all our centers.

The event commenced with the arrival of Inductees to the respective venues and online. The welcome address by the associations board chair Yvonne Ohui Maccarthy, speeches by our guest speakers and patrons left us all in awe of the possibility of a service-conscious world.

The Chairperson, Yvonne Ohui MacCarthy gave a vigorous charge to our inductees on raising the standard and lifting the torch to light up the world of Customer service across Africa.

The highlight of the event was the avenue created for networking amongst our members (across all categories) after the vote of thanks from the Ghana and Nigeria venues.

If you weren’t at the induction ceremony (either physically or virtually), it is safe to say you missed out on a truly memorable event.

A new breed of Professionals have been empowered to cause a paradigm shift that will cut across all sectors in Africa.

The service year just got exciting and we look forward to sharing every part of it with you.

Congratulations to all our newly inducted members.

Cheers to the start of an enthralling service year!

Download the e-copy of the brochure HERE

For pictures from the WAACSP 2021 Induction ceremony, kindly click on the links below:

LAGOS VENUE

ABUJA VENUE

ACCRA VENUE

West African Association of Customer Service Professionals is the umbrella body of customer service professionals in the sub – region.

by icspghana

April 7, 2021

The 1st diet of the Basic Certification in Customer Service (BCCS) program for 2021 will take place in Ghana Nigeria and Gambia on the 20th-22nd May and 27th-29th May. The training would be held online via the ICSP e-school Learning Management System (LMS) and Zoom platform.

The certification program is a professional training and certification curriculum of the West Africa Association of Customer Service professionals (WAACSP) for prospective customer service practitioners in the West African sub region.

After a successful induction ceremony on the 27th of March 2021, it has become vital for the association to continue with its vision of providing support and accreditation for customer service practitioners. ICSP (Institute of Customer Service Professionals) a top Ghanaian customer service institute will yet again put out a tech driven learning, evaluation and assessment system for the program. Having been rated 4star by WAACSP for the last diet and with a resounding commendation by participants from the previous diet. The institute is committed to making sure that all participants are poised to deliver excellent certification process.

The program, this diet will involve:

1- pre program test.

2- two weeks online module accessibility pre program.

3- in class exercises, role plays, breakout sessions.

4- After class test with result populated immediately and added on continuous assessment for certification.

5- On boarding interactive WhatsApp group platform for mentoring by facilitators, networking with co-participants , jobAlerts and related industry news pre and post program.

6- Customer Relationship management tools training online complaint resolution training with case scenarios and input methodology

Successful participants from this diet will form a batch of cohorts to be inducted in 2022 by WAACSP.

Program Details

Registration portal opens.

School portal opens, participants have access to modules and reading materials.

Registration closes.

Onboarding, introduction to training

Training starts

This session promises to be yet another memorable certification process for participants.

Registration details

Fee: Reduced fee of Ghs 330 (including WAACSP membership certification fee).

Last session was over subscribed, due to WAACSP restriction, this session has limited STREAM so spaces are limited and participation is on a first register basis.

by icspghana

January 28, 2021

Madam Yvonne Ohui Maccarthy, President, Institute of Customer Service Professionals (ICSP) has said Customer Service Index (CSI) for the year 2020 increased by 3.3 percent as against that of 2019.

She said a survey conducted by the Institute with a sample size of 3,182 for the year in review saw the index at 65.55 per cent whereas that of 2019 was 62.62 per cent.

Madam McCarthy said this at a media engagement on Thursday in Accra to provide reports on how various sectors in the country were performing in relation to customer services.

The event also provided the opportunity to measure customer satisfaction of institutions in Ghana through interactions by industry players.

Madam McCarthy said the survey, third in series, focused on hospitality, retail malls, insurance, online businesses, banking, health care, transportation, telecommunications, utilities and public sectors of the economy.

Speaking on the performances of the sectors in relation to customer service, she said the results of the survey indicated that hospitality came first with 76.63 per cent, retail malls, second with a customer service percentage of 74 per cent, insurance with 71.79 per cent, online businesses with 69.99 per cent, banking with 65.84 percent, health care with 63.84 per cent, telecommunications with 63.24 per cent, in that order.

Transportation, utilities and public institutions were ranked at the bottom three with 59.91 per cent, 56.86 per cent and 53.83 per cent respectively.

Explaining the impacts of COVID-19 on customer service, Madam McCarthy, said despite the fact that the pandemic had adverse impacts on various sectors, there had been positive impacts as well.

She explained that the pandemic helped organizations to be extra innovative, re-evaluate and reset their ways of executing duties as created seamless services to provide customer satisfaction.

“Before the pandemic set-in, consumers of telecommunication services were not usually tracking their consumption of internet data, but because most of us were not that busy due to the lockdown, we usually checked how much data we have consumed after using our phones for some time. The pandemic made people more conscious of their data usage,” she said.

Madam McCarthy advised business owners to provide workers with necessary resources and technological tools to enhance effective work.

Mr. Clement H. Holloway, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Wewrite Technologies, a consultant on the project, said ICSP had provided a customer service survey platform, a customer service online courses platform and a serve check accreditation application platform, which helped in the assessment.

He said the customer service survey platform gave customers the opportunity to lodge their complaints when unsatisfied with the services of institutions they visited.

Mr Holloway said customers could share their experiences via www.ghanacsi.org/survey, for future surveys.
Mr. Albert Cofie, Managing Director, Hegemony Consultancy, assured citizens of the effective and smooth usage of the platforms provided by the institution.

He encouraged citizens to speak out in cases, where they got dissatisfied services to improve customer service in the country.

Source: Ghana News Agency

by icspghana

January 20, 2021

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The West Africa Association of Customer Service Professionals [WAACSP], the umbrella body of Service Professionals in the ECOWAS region, will start the 2021 service year with the 2nd induction of service professionals, members, and patrons of the body.

The induction will see the body admit new members on the three (3) membership platforms; Certified, Professional, and Fellows categories.

The ceremony will hold simultaneously in Accra, Ghana, Lagos, and Abuja – Nigeria in compliance with all covid19 protocols on March 27th, 2021. Lagos – Nigeria is the designated host city. However, all three venues and members who will be inducting from their homes will be linked virtually.

With its core mandate of grooming and projecting employable professionals to better shape the advocacy in excellent service experience, WAACSP will for the first time welcome its inaugural set of mentors and patrons to help provide leadership to the association’s growing membership base, shaping the discussion in improved quality of service delivery and lend their voices to the aims and objective of the association.

Four thought leaders from the region will be inducted as patrons of WAACSP namely; Sola Salako Ajulo, co-founder Consumer Advocacy Foundation of Nigeria (CAFON) and special adviser to Ekiti State Governor on communications, Chairman Essien – Customer experience advocate, from Ghana. Bernard Osei-Duah, head BOD Consult, one of Ghana’s leading CX educators with service culture teachings across Africa, Rufai Oseni – one of Nigeria’s leading social awareness and civic responsibility advocates, co-host ‘The Morning Show’ on AriseTV and ‘Impact with Rufai’ across radio stations in Nigeria.

The three (3) platforms for membership induction are:

Certified Members–
Participants from the WAACSP basic certification in customer service programs for the years 2019 and 2020.

Professional Members-
Open to trained Service professionals currently practicing within the last 24months who are not yet members of WAACSP.

Fellow Membership-
Senior service supervisor executives, managers, and heads of CS departments with not less than 8 years in the service industry.

Over 300 new members will be inducted at the event.

WAACSP aside charting the direction for service experience in the region, have put in place various mechanism to ensure service professionals are listed, rated, certified, and projected for employment. The WAACSP recruitment webpage is the only recognized recruitment portal for direct access to accredited service professionals for customer service and allied jobs.

In 2018, the WAACSP recruitment portal recorded a 28% engagement rate between members and corporate organizations. [View sample of members as listed for engagement here

The body’s strategic partnership with customer service associations in Southern Africa, North America, and top international brands is opening frontiers for program and learning exchange of resource professionals and international certification affiliation.

Aside from being honored last year as Africa’s Customer Service icon for 2020 in Eswatini, WAACSP board chairperson Yvonne Ohui MacCarthy is also on the advisory board of the Africa Service Culture Think-tank working on the 2021 Africa conference on service experience billed to hold in October organized by Customer Experience Evolution Africa [CEEA]. The opportunities arising from joining WAACSP at this time are career impacting.

The 2021 service year will also herald the 2021-23 service education curriculum. The basic certification in the customer service program will be expanded while the Advanced Customer Service Program will be introduced in the WAACSP training calendar.

As a result of these, the body will also open its training network to more training partners/organizations as WAACSP affiliate training partners to make service education accessible.

Also, customer service trainers will be recruited into the WAACSP trainers’ network for the 2021-23 training calendar.

Training organizations looking to affiliate with WAACSP, click HERE

Customer experience trainers wishing to join the WAACSP trainers network, Click HERE to proceed.

The 2021 induction is open to customer service persons of West African origin and there are enriching and career rewarding benefits from being a member.

Visit the WAACSP induction website to start processing your membership and induction.

For further details contact WAACSP via:
www.thewaacsp.com
Email: [email protected]
GSM:
Nigeria –
+234 702 500 3527
Ghana –
+233 57 076 0360

Follow WAACSP and all its activities on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

Source: Global Times Nigeria

by icspghana

September 9, 2020

The 2nd diet of Basic Certification in Customer Service (BCCS) program will take place in Ghana from October 29th – 31st. The training would be held online via the ICSP e-school Learning Management System (LMS) and Zoom platform.

The bi-annual certification program is a professional training and certification curriculum of the West Africa Association of Customer Service professionals (WAACSP) for prospective customer service practitioners in the West African sub region.

On the heels of a highly successful 1st diet training which was the first professional certification program to hold online in West Africa, ICSP (Institute of Customer Service Professionals) Ghanaians premium customer service institute will yet again put out a tech driven learning, evaluation and assessment system for the program. Having been rated 4star by WAACSP for the last diet and with a resounding commendation by participants in diet 1, we are poised to deliver excellent certification process.

The program, this diet will involve:

1- pre program test.

2- two weeks online module accessibility pre program.

3- in class exercises, role plays, breakout sessions.

4- After class test with result populated immediately and added on continuous assessment for certification.

5- On boarding interactive WhatsApp group platform for mentoring by facilitators, networking with co-participants , jobAlerts and related industry news pre and post program.

6- Customer Relationship management tools training online complaint resolution training with case scenarios and input methodology

Successful participants from this diet will form the last batch of cohorts to be inducted in January 2021 by WAACSP.

Program details

Sept 10- registration portal opens.

Oct 2– School portal opens, participants have access to modules and reading materials.

Oct 16- Registration closes.

Oct 17– Onboarding, introduction to training

Oct 29- Training starts

This session promises to be yet another memorable certification process for participants.

Registration details

Fee: Reduced fee of Ghc 300 (including WAACSP membership certificationfee).

Last session was two streams and both streams was over subscribed, due to WAACSP restriction, this session is ONLY ONE STREAM so spaces are limited and participation is on a first register basis.

by icspghana

May 25, 2020

The West Africa Association of Customer Service professionals will hold its inaugural Customer Service training and certification program for aspiring customer service professionals in Ghana in the month of July 2020. Before the corona virus pandemic, Ghanaians have had to travel to Nigeria for the certification exercise.

This year, WAACSP in partnership with the Institute of Customer Service Professionals (ICSP) in Ghana would deploy complete Elearning platforms for this process. In view of the current global situation the certification authority: West African Association of Customer Service Professionals (WAACSP) has developed a new curriculum to reflect updatedonline job skills and structured to 100% E-school to be used across the region.

The training assessment will involve:

6 new modules including CRM online study.
Module by Module exercise.
Break out team sessions.
Individual continuous online module by module assessment and assimilation evaluation.
Multiple facilitators.
Pre, during and post training WhatsApp group to aid interaction, networking and training support.
Module by module audio playback available to participants to make up for internet fluctuations and other technical issues during class session.

This is not a Webinar.

Program Details

Customer Service Training & Certification Award: Basic certificate in customer service ( BCCS)Issuing Authority: West Africa Association of Customer Service professionals (WAACSP)Recognized as: A certified Customer Service Professional and member of the West Africa Association of Customer Service Professionals Training by: ICSP – Ghana Dates: 16th – 19th July 23rd – 26th July Time: 10am or as agreed by all. Venue: Online ICSP – Ghana E – school portal Fee: Ghc 450 but reduced to Ghc 250 Fee covers all e-materials, access to school portal, modules and certificate. Requirement: Minimum of HND academic qualification. English or French plus one local language Successful participants will have their profile on the professional members page of WAACSP. Click here to view the members page. Being listed on the page increases members recruiting and engagement chances Registration Pay program fee via any of the payment platform listed below Click HERE to pay On confirmation of payment, you will receive via your mail box: 1: e-receipt 2: program booking form. 3: login code to access the school portal. Manual modules are available on the school portal for participant to read ahead of the program. (Click www.icspghana.com to view ICSP school portal) For more details please chat – +233 54 323 3390 or 0543019186.

by icspghana

March 9, 2020

The West African Association of customer service professionals (WAACSP) for English Speaking ECOWAS Countries have announced the body’s governing board for 2020 – 2022.

The doyen of customer service in Ghana and head consultant institute of customer service professionals- Ghana, Yvonne Ohui MacCarthy will pilot the affairs of the 5 man board with the task to project and promote the body’s visibility across the region, professionalize and bring customer service practitioners across the region under one umbrella with a view to strengthen the profession, increase service delivery, awareness and demand acceptable standard from employers, Government and practioners.

Yvonne Ohui MacCarthy is a UK trained Banker and Customer Service Professional with certification from the London institute of Banking and Finance (LIBF). She also hold recognition award from the London school of public speaking and award for Advance training the trainer from Institute of leadership and management (ILM) UK. Her work experience includes customer service Jobs at NatWest Bank and Santander.

She’s currently head of consulting for ICSP- Ghana and lead consultant for British council across the West African Sub-region. She has trained many individuals and businesses in Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Cote D’Ivoire under the institute of customer service professionals and the British Council on their Connecting classrooms project (4 years).

Other members of the board include: Nelson Simeon Benson (Technical and Strategy) Araba Nana (Regional Integration) Chris Anozie (Secretariat) and Barrister Martins Nzube (Legal)

The board is also saddled with induction of WAACSP members with the three (3) inductions billed for 2020 to hold in Lagos, Accra and Freetown.The tenure of the board expires February 28, 2022.

Source: Thewaacsp.com

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