Managing Challenging Customers Training

Practical skills for dealing with difficult customers with confidence.

Our workshops help your team manage complaints, frustration, conflict, anger and challenging behaviour – while protecting their wellbeing and your organisation.

Onsite at your workplace or live online

Australia-wide delivery

Tailored to your team and industry

“Invaluable training. The best customer care training we've had. Very insightful.”

Manager

Government Contact Centre

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Psychologist-led

Understand the psychology behind behaviour so your team can respond calmly and effectively.

Practical & skills-focused

Real-world scenarios, practice and simple strategies your team can use straight away.

Tailored to your workplace

We adapt the content to your customers, industry, policies and frontline realities.

Choose the right training for your team

Customer aggression is a workplace safety issue.

Violence and aggression from customers, clients and members of the public are recognised psychosocial hazards that can create risks of both psychological and physical harm.

Safe Work Australia

88%

of retail and fast-food workers experienced verbal abuse from a customer in the previous 12 months.

SDA Member Research, 2025

12.5%

of retail and fast-food workers reported physical violence from customers in 2023.

SDA, No One Deserves a Serve

Practical training builds confidence, communication skills and the ability to respond safely.

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Managing Challenging Customers Training

For customer-facing employees

Build practical skills to manage complaints, frustration, conflict, anger and challenging behaviour with confidence.

Also covers: angry and escalated customers, verbal abuse and recognising when safety needs to take priority.

Trauma-Informed Customer Care Training

For customer, client & community-facing employees

Respond appropriately to customers experiencing trauma, distress or vulnerability while maintaining professional boundaries.

Accidental Counselling Skills Training

For employees, managers & client-facing roles

Know how to respond when an everyday workplace conversation unexpectedly becomes personal, emotional or distressing.