Your complete guide to surviving and thriving as a Help Desk practitioner Help Desk Practitioner's Handbook The only book to address the unique concerns of the huge and growing number of Help Desk analysts, this is your complete guide to becoming a more effective communicator and problem-solver and deriving greater satisfaction from your job. Barbara Czegel, North America's most well-known expert on Help Desk support services and training, uses dozens of fascinating scenarios and real-world examples to illustrate the right (and wrong) ways to handle virtually every situation you can encounter. She arms you with an arsenal of proven tools of the trade, including: * Eleven effective listening habits that improve your ability to solve problems * Techniques for increasing the speed and accuracy of problem resolution * Early warning systems and layered strategies for problem control * Tools for reducing calls and eliminating problems before they occur * A simple, step-by-step process for doing cost justifications * Methods for turning Help Desk interactions into marketing opportunities Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/
This survival manual for Help Desk managers and staff presents practical strategies and tactics to enable Help Desks to add value to their enterprise. Includes suggestions for staffing, managing and selling a Help Desk, and helpful solutions to the problems of dealing with the changing face of technology and the economic realities of downsizing.
Stand out in one of IT's fastest growing job markets If you're looking for a job in IT, the help desk is the heart and soul of most IT operations, and an excellent starting point for a promising career. With the help of Getting an IT Help Desk Job For Dummies, you'll gain the knowledge and know-how to cut through the confusion of navigating the Information Technology job market. IT can be intimidating to hopeful-yet-inexperienced job candidates, but this guide will help you find and land the job of your dreams. Through easy-to-follow explanations, authoritative information, and a bit of humor, Getting an IT Help Desk Job For Dummies serves as your thorough and approachable guide to maximizing your competitive edge in this booming market. The IT job market has continued to expand as technology matures and deepens its roots in business operations. This is good news for you! However, it makes it that much harder to get a job in IT, as recent grads and other professionals are practically stampeding to get their feet in the door of this rapidly expanding industry. Luckily, Getting an IT Help Desk Job For Dummies gives you an advantage by providing expert instruction on how to score an interview and secure a job offer, the skills needed to obtain and maintain an IT position, and authoritative information on how to establish a career path in the IT field. Explore careers in the IT Help Desk field and establish the path you want to follow Plan for post-education certifications and training to make yourself more marketable Get expert guidance for creating a winning resume and cover letter Prepare for your IT Help Desk interview Loaded with simple, straight-forward advice, Getting an IT Help Desk Job For Dummies is your all-in-one guide to starting your IT career on the right foot!
Want to lower support ticket cost, improve first contact resolution (FCR), and improve reporting? If you said yes, then Effective Help Desk Ticket Categories is for you! Is this a long-winded book full of unproven theories? No. This book gets right to the point with a detailed step-by-step guide based on 20 years of successful ticket category implementation projects. It designed for busy professionals at call centers, service desks and of course help desks. Is this book just for system engineers? Absolutely not! The guide is for everyone that works with support tickets. If you are a director, project manager or developer, this book will help improve your process. Why do I need this book? With our help, your project will be successful! Your final ticket classification design will be geared to productivity gains, not just a ticket filing system. Your project will save time and money! We provide time-saving quick-start templates and discuss how to maximize your resolution tools to close tickets faster. What is in the book? First, we explain what ticket classification is, why we use it, and the significant benefits. Then we identify project resources to engage early in the project and the ticket classification process. After that, we provide you a step-by-step quick start guide to get your ticket classification project up and running. Following that we expand on the quick start guide with a detailed explanation of each step including the most popular templates. Finally, we include a glossary of frequently used terms. Once implemented most teams will see significant improvements in the following areas. Cost savings - Cost per call, reduced escalation costs. Improved incident resolution rates. Major Incident Management MTTR reduction. Issue avoidance - better problem management inputs. Enterprise reporting maturity. Agent training improvements.
All of today’s help desk support skills, in one easy-to-understand book The perfect beginner’s guide: No help desk or support experience necessary Covers both “soft” personal skills and “hard” technical skills Explains the changing role of help desk professionals in the modern support center Today, everyone depends on technology–and practically everyone needs help to use it well. Organizations deliver that assistance through help desks. This guide brings together all the knowledge you need to succeed in any help desk or technical support role, prepare for promotion, and succeed with the support-related parts of other IT jobs. Leading technology instructor Darril Gibson tours the modern help desk, explains what modern support professionals really do, and fully covers both of the skill sets you’ll need: technical and personal. In clear and simple language, he discusses everything from troubleshooting specific problems to working with difficult users. You’ll even learn how to manage a help desk, so it works better and delivers more value. Coverage includes: • How the modern help desk has evolved • Understanding your users’ needs, goals, and attitudes • Walking through the typical help desk call • Communicating well: listening actively and asking better questions • Improving interactions and handling difficult situations • Developing positive attitudes, and “owning” the problem • Managing your time and stress • Supporting computers, networks, smartphones, and tablets • Finding the technical product knowledge you need • Protecting the security of your users, information, and devices • Defining, diagnosing, and solving problems, step by step • Writing it up: from incident reports to documentation • Working in teams to meet the goals of the business • Using ITIL to improve the services you provide • Calculating help desk costs, benefits, value, and performance • Taking control of your support career Powerful features make it easier to learn about help desk careers! • Clear introductions describe the big ideas and show how they fit with what you’ve already learned • Specific chapter objectives tell you exactly what you need to learn • Key Terms lists help you identify important terms and a complete Glossary helps you understand them • Author’s Notes and On The Side features help you go deeper into the topic if you want to • Chapter Review tools and activities help you make sure you’ve learned the material Exclusive Mind Mapping activities! • Organize important ideas visually–in your mind, in your words • Learn more, remember more • Understand how different ideas fit together
This textbook is intended for students studying for AS degrees in computer information systems or information technology, or for secondary programs teaching vocational/technical programs, with varying degrees of computer knowledge who are training for jobs in desktop support and help desks.
Mark Copeman is a serial entrepreneur and was co-founder of Customer Thermometer, the customer satisfaction tool. He has spent two decades developing customer relationships, building a helpdesk and working with 100's of customer service organisations across the world. During this time, he has discovered the single most important ingredient to delivering exceptional customer service - habit creation and embedding. Mark's formula for success will not only transform how you work, but will also make you a happier and more successful customer service professional. Through his unique framework, he shows you how to create and embed 50 new habits, transforming how you deliver customer service, whether by phone, email or chat. Learn the importance of harnessing habits Develop the right attitude towards your role Understand the importance of human customer service Learn how to communicate effectively See how tiny adjustments in phrasing can win the day Become skilled in empathy and rapport Be assured it's OK to have a personality Read and implement with your team today and turn your helpdesk into a feature, not an overhead.
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This is today's most complete, practical, and up-to-date guide to succeeding as a help desk professional. Leading technology instructor and consultant Darril Gibson thoroughly explains each of today's help desk support roles, and fully covers all essential skill sets, both technical and personal. Reflecting his extensive classroom and field experience, he presents exceptionally clear and relevant objectives and summaries, backed with realistic case studies, hands-on projects, exercises, and multiple-choice review questions.
Do you want your Help Desk to maximize customer satisfaction, quality and first contact resolution? Or just make sure your IT management processes are repeatable? Does it seem your computer user support can be ad hoc at times? Are you always running around putting out fires? In this book you will learn powerful industry standard best practices that can be used to mature your IT Service Management processes, practices and procedures today! What makes this book different? Instead of just providing you a lot of technical information, I empower you with a step by step approach to mature your Help Desk. Each chapter includes straight forward processes that are easy to understand. Once you completely understand the process, chapters are concluded with a quick start implementation worksheet to put your new process into action. This format will allow you to rapidly transform your people, processes, and technology into a customer-focused center of excellence today! You can never underestimate the power of industry standard best practices. The recommendations shared in Help Desk Management are based on real-life experiences building successful customer-focused teams. Through trial and error, I am sharing what worked for my teams at small, medium, and Fortune 500 sized companies. Look no further. I will help you succeed. This information is designed to improve your management skills, your team engagement, and set you on a successful path to building a truly great team. What actionable and realistic end user support processes will you learn? How to justify funding for improvement projects. Creating an inspiring mission statement. Designing an employee performance management plan that works. Building an effective employee training and development program. Implementing a call and ticket quality assurance audit program that empowers the manager. Driving up the First Contact Resolution (FCR) percentage. Reducing cost per ticket costs by moving work from system engineers to the Help Desk. Marketing the Help Desk for company wide recognition. Implementing ITIL incident, problem, change, knowledge and event management. Do not hesitate to pick up your copy today
