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Customer Service (Service Advantage) Training for Security Professionals
Learn to deliver truly outstanding customer satisfaction.
SERVICE ADVANTAGE for Security Professionals is not just about service, it’s about attitude. It’s about meeting the needs of your customer, taking ownership of the situation, listening, building a relationship, and going the extra mile. This one-day course, offered by Commissionaires BC, will demonstrate the fundamentals of customer service, and how to go beyond in order to achieve satisfaction for clients, employees and employers.
Request Training or call 877 322 6777. View class schedule.
Why You Should Take This Course
Other customer service courses only touch on the basics of friendly service, but don’t delve into the fundamentals of delivering long-term customer service effectively and with sincerity. Our SERVICE ADVANTAGE course will demonstrate how you can learn to read customers’ needs and behaviour carefully, so you can further the relationship and promote customer loyalty. At the heart of it we’re all human, and learning to interact with one another successfully makes for a more enjoyable work experience. The valuable human relations skills taught here will help improve relationships in all areas of the workplace, including peer to peer.
What You Will Learn
The curriculum is based on successful customer service methods and is enhanced by leading-edge human relations principles. Through short presentations, discussions, and group work, you will gain an understanding of how to create positive and lasting customer relationships. Upon completion, you will be able to:
- Understand the components of service delivery and how service delivery is an essential part of a customer-facing role;
- Appreciate how a focus on the customer leads to human relations skills that assist in professional development;
- Relate to how individuals react to their own history, intent and norms and how these affect the employee-customer interaction;
- Determine what contributes to a communication breakdown and how language can positively affect successful customer service;
- Utilize the five components of outstanding customer service: Reliability, Assurance, Tangibles, Empathy, and Responsiveness;
- Correct behavioural and attitudinal assumptions that prevent delivering outstanding customer service;
- Develop an action plan to implement your new knowledge into your workplace.
Course modules:
- Welcome and Introduction;
- What’s in it for you in understanding and delivering customer service?;
- The customer and customer service;
- How to communicate for successful customer service;
- What is SERVICE ADVANTAGE;
- Dealing with assumptions that prevent successful customer service;
- Your action for outstanding customer service.
Who Should Attend?
SERVICE ADVANTAGE is a course that will benefit anyone seeking to improve their ability to offer outstanding customer service, including individuals in a customer-facing role and those who supervise this role. This course will also benefit individuals who wish to improve workplace relationships.
Course Duration
This is a one-day course.
Course Locations
SERVICE ADVANTAGE is a comprehensive one-day course that can be delivered at the Commissionaires Learning & Development Centre location most convenient for you. Classes are offered at our Surrey Gateway facility and also at our Kelowna training facility. Our state-of-the-art Surrey campus is equipped with the very latest in classroom technology and teaching tools for interactive presentations and digital media. It is conveniently located in the Gateway Station Tower on the SkyTrain Expo line. Our Kelowna classroom is centrally located in the heart of Kelowna.
| Surrey | Kelowna |
| Suite 1650, Station Tower, 13401-108th Avenue | 103 – 346 Lawrence Avenue |
| Surrey BC | Kelowna BC |
| V3T 5T3 | V1Y 6L4 |
| T 604 495 8201 | T 250 979 4773 |
| TF 877 322 6777 | TF 877 322 6777 |
| Map of Location | Map of Location |
Course Schedule and Registration
Please check the class schedule for upcoming classes. When you are ready to register, you can Request Training online or call 877 322 6777 to speak to a training professional today.
Why Commissionaires?
Commissionaires is known for our excellence in training. Our training is delivered by Commissionaires’ subject matter experts who are trained facilitators with extensive real-life, relevant experiences. Commissionaires BC is a member of the Canadian Society of Training and Development (CSTD). CSTD, the professional association in Canada focused on training, learning, and development in the workplace, has been setting standards in the industry for over 30 years as Canada's only national association for workplace learning and development. As members of CSTD, Commissionaires BC holds a competitive advantage in the security industry, having a forum for our trainers to engage, learn, achieve and connect with other members.
Commissionaires has earned a reputation as a security leader, having protected people and property across Canada for over 85 years. Our organization employs many individuals who are former military and RCMP. The calibre of security expertise of our people is second to none in the private security industry, and students can reap the benefits. Our courses have an extremely high success rate for completion, and graduates can bring that success to the organizations they work with.
Overall Rating 




"I would recommend this course to be offered to anyone who has relationships with the public. This course was great." - Stacy Halvorson
"There are so many people currently in customer service based industries that would benefit from this course." - Dawn Digby
"I really enjoyed the discussion. Great videos to support the learning experience." - Suzanne Wright, VP HR
"I do have a lot of experience in customer service but the course opened up many other areas, which will be extremely beneficial." - Gary Smith, Manager
"Well done course. Facilitation is the key and was delivered to a high standard." – Eleanor Drescher, HR Manager
"Great course. Open to interpretation but can be applied to many environments." – Dwayne Russell, Assistant Manager
“I would love to take this class again in the future. I would recommend it to everyone. Lots to learn and a great instructor.” – Leyla Roshanshad, Payroll Specialist
“This course applies to anyone and everyone ... it will change how one interacts successfully in every aspect of their life.” – Tyson Hennecker, Sales Coordinator
"Very well designed and professional. The material was first class and allowed the participants to give feedback." – David Anderson, Trainer
"Class interaction was strong. All students participated in all aspects of the course." – David Walker, Trainer
"New methods, styles and equipment along with the new information and insight has reminded me I need to change and be more aware of methods to better enhance my customer service." – Jerry Stewart, Director of Training Services
"This workshop presented a different style of the value of customer service. On a scale of 1 to 10 this was a 10." – Marian Gushue-Geiger, Human Resources Manager
"Very well presented. I would not hesitate to recommend this course or this instructor / facilitator to anyone else." – Jerry MacAlpine, Instructor
"Instructors both have great knowledge of customer service. I learned a lot." - Avtar Sidhu, ID Services Coordinator
"It makes one remember how little things can make a person turn off in a conversation." - Bob
"Excellent course." - Grant Meeres, Assistant Manager Security Services
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