Customer Service Skills for Utility Operations

Explore techniques to address an array of customer service challenges, increase customer engagement, and sustain customer relationships.

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Course Details

Course Name: Customer Service Skills for Utility Operations
Course Code: EO0108WA25
Date of Most Recent Offering: May 21 & 22, 2025

Date: May 21 & 22, 2025  (Participants must attend both days of class.) UPDATE THIS FOR NEW OFFERING
Time: 8:30 am – 12:00 pm EDT  UPDATE THIS FOR NEW OFFERING

Location: Online UPDATE THIS FOR NEW OFFERING
Format: Live, instructor-led

Registration Fee: $ 280.00 per person UPDATE THIS FOR NEW OFFERING
Multi-Person Discount Fee: $250.00 per person (Save when you sign up with a colleague!)
NJLWO Discount Fee: $140.00 per person (available for T, W, and VSWS license holders only)

Registration Closes: May 19, 2025 at 3:00 pm EDT UPDATE THIS FOR NEW OFFERING

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Course Overview

Customer service is something everyone needs to be aware of – really! How can we go beyond service to engage our customers in an experience they will not soon forget? This course was developed to provide tips, techniques, and tools to help you build and improve your customer service skills and mindset.

  • Customer Service Versus Customer Experience
  • Customer Focused Mindsets and Behaviors
  • Understanding Customer Behaviors
  • Increasing Customer Engagement
  • Building a Customer Centric Culture
  • Cultivating Ownership and Accountability
  • Sustaining Customer Relationships

Who Should Attend?

From utility crews out in the field to personnel in a call center, and from front line workers to senior leaders, all attendees will gain valuable knowledge to help them address an array of customer service challenges because customer service is EVERYONE’S job! Past participants have included:

  • Assistant Superintendents
  • DPW Directors
  • Customer Service Representatives
  • Equipment Operators
  • Field Service Representatives
  • Maintenance Technicians
  • Operations Mechanics
  • Operators
  • Repairmen
  • Revenue Integrity Operations Supervisors
  • Sewer Maintenance Coordinators
  • Water Utility Workers

Meet Your Instructor

Bill Jamison

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Bill Jamison is a communications consultant and an accomplished public speaker who has been teaching courses through Rutgers University since 2002. He is certified by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as a Crisis Emergency Risk Communications trainer and has decades of experience as a communications specialist with the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH).

Student Reviews

Most useful part of the course: “Learning different skills to deal with customers.”

– Past Participant

“[I learned] How to diffuse a situation with an irate customer.”

– Past Participant

Most useful aspect of the course: “[Learning] How to make customers feel that you are doing your best to assist them.”

– Past Participant

Continuing Education Credits

The most recent offering of Customer Service Skills for Utility Operations was approved for 0.6 Rutgers CEUs (6 contact hours), as well as the following credits from professional organizations. We will reapply for similar credits the next time the course runs, but we cannot guarantee credit approval for future offerings.

The Customer Service Skills for Utility Operations course is approved for 0.6 Rutgers CEUs (6 contact hours), as well as the following credits from professional organizations.

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NJ Certified Public Works Managers (CPWM): 6 Management Contact Hours

NJ Drinking Water and Wastewater Operators: 6 TCHs (Approval #01-010801-30)

NJ Health Officers and Registered Environmental Health Specialists (HO/REHS): Rutgers University, NJAES, Office of Continuing Professional Education has been approved by the New Jersey Department of Health as a provider of NJ Public Health Continuing Education Contact Hours (CEs). Participants who complete this education program will be awarded 5.50 NJ Public Health Continuing Education Contact Hours (CEs).

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PA Drinking Water and Wastewater Operators: 6 Recertification Hours

Course Requirements and Policies

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This online course will be delivered via Zoom.

Equipment you will need to access this training:

  • Laptop or desktop computers are required for this class.
  • A microphone is required.

 A week before the start date of class, you will receive an email from Judith Joshua with more details on the class.

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A unique email address is required for each registrant to register and access our courses.

  • If this is your first time registering with us, please provide your own unique email address when registering; do not provide an email address that you share with co-workers.
  • If you have previously taken classes with us and have used an email address that you share with your co-workers or supervisor, your account must be updated with a unique email address. To do this, please send an email to us at registration@njaes.rutgers.edu stating that your email address needs to be changed and include:
    • Your full name
    • The shared email address that needs to be changed
    • Your unique email address
    • A phone number where you can be reached if we have any questions

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A $75 cancellation fee applies for this course. Substitutions are permitted. View our cancellation policy.

Program Questions? We’re Here to Help!

If you have any questions about Customer Service Skills for Utility Operations, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us.

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Program Coordinator: Pamela Springard-Mayer
848-932-7463
pspring@rutgers.edu

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Administrative Assistant: Claudine Oleskin
848-932-7204
coleskin@njaes.rutgers.edu

For registration assistance, please contact our Registration Department at 848-932-9271, option 2 or email registration@njaes.rutgers.edu.

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