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December 6, 2024
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Unlock Potential of Gen AI for Customer Support. Learn how to leverage the capabilities and tools of generative AI to provide enhanced customer support and drive excellent customer experiences in just 3 weeks!
Instructors: Skill-Up EdTech Team
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Recommended experience
Intermediate level
Basic knowledge of customer service or IT support domain
Recommended experience
Intermediate level
Basic knowledge of customer service or IT support domain
Job-ready skills using generative AI specifically tailored to customer support scenarios in just 3 weeks
Generative AI fundamentals and its applications in customer support, including ethical considerations and challenges
How to develop effective prompts and apply generative AI techniques to analyze sentiment and provide proactive support solutions
How to use generative AI tools and chatbots for diverse scenarios, including automating customer responses and supporting multilingual interactions
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As per Gartner, 85% of customer service leaders now plan to adopt conversational generative AI. As businesses turn to AI, this Generative AI for Customer Support specialization teaches customer support professionals, managers, and startup and small business owners how to leverage generative AI effectively in just 3 weeks!
During the program, you’ll explore the core concepts and capabilities of gen AI and learn how to leverage these capabilities throughout the customer support lifecycle. You’ll learn the useful techniques for prompt engineering that optimize the outcomes produced. Plus, you’ll discover how generative AI can help you automate customer responses, develop FAQs, train support agents, perform sentiment analysis, and provide proactive support.
You’ll also get valuable hands-on practice using generative AI tools and chatbots for different use cases related to improving customer interactions and streamlining customer support operations.
You’ll gain insights from experts as they explore the key concepts covered in the specialization.
If you work in a customer support environment and want to leverage the true power of generative AI to enhance your career, enroll today!
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Through hands-on labs and projects, you’ll gain practical experience in harnessing generative AI for customer support. By applying generative AI tools to real-world scenarios, you’ll build job-ready skills to leverage in your role.
You’ll learn how to draft effective prompts for generating relevant outputs for common scenarios in customer support. Plus, you’ll use generative AI tools to streamline workflows and diverse tasks in customer support. Some examples of the labs included are:
Generate Text Using Generative AI
Generating Text, Images, and Code
Naive Prompting and the Persona Pattern
The Chain-of-Thought Approach in Prompt Engineering
The Tree-of-Thought Approach in Prompt Engineering
Working with Generative AI Tools for Customer Support
Exploring Common Prompts for Generative AI in Customer Support
Using Generative AI to Create FAQs
Performing Sentiment Analysis Using Generative AI
Using Generative AI for Problem Management
Describe generative AI and distinguish it from discriminative AI.
Describe the capabilities of generative AI and its use cases in the real world.
Identify the applications of generative AI in different sectors and industries.
Explore common generative AI models and tools for text, code, image, audio, and video generation.
Explain the concept and relevance of prompt engineering in generative AI models.
Apply best practices for creating prompts and explore examples of impactful prompts.
Practice common prompt engineering techniques and approaches for writing effective prompts.
Explore commonly used tools for prompt engineering to aid with prompt engineering.
Job-ready generative AI skills businesses need for enhancing customer interactions and streamlining customer support operations
How to use GenAI for automating responses, creating FAQs, user guides, and enabling multilingual support
How to leverage GenAI for SOP documentation, sentiment analysis, and proactive customer support
A good understanding of the ethical considerations, challenges, and best practices for integrating AI into customer support
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This specialization is self-paced. On average, learners who spend 5–6 hours a week can complete it in 3 weeks.
This specialization is designed for professionals in customer support who are interested in enhancing their careers and job performance using generative AI.
This specialization is for you if you are:
- A customer support representative who wants to enhance your career by leveraging the power of generative AI
- An IT support specialist looking to upskill and integrate generative AI into your work
- A manager or a team leader in customer support seeking to enhance workflows and leverage AI for data-driven decision-making
- An owner of a startup or a small business seeking to adopt AI-driven customer service
- A professional transitioning into roles in customer support
- An individual seeking an introduction to leveraging generative AI in customer support
This specialization requires fundamental knowledge of customer support.
The courses in this specialization have been designed in a logical sequence. It is recommended that the courses be taken in the order they are presented to derive maximum learning.
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The specialization is designed to boost your customer support career by providing the knowledge and practical skills to leverage the power of generative AI.
You will be able to design effective prompts to generate relevant output from generative AI tools for diverse use cases in customer support.
You will be able to leverage generative AI tools and AI-driven chatbots for product inquiries, perform sentiment analysis to understand customer emotions, and develop multilingual support solutions to enhance global interactions.
Additionally, you will be able to streamline workflows by integrating generative AI into customer support processes, create standardized operating procedures (SOPs), and apply proactive strategies by analyzing customer behavior.
This course is completely online, so there’s no need to show up to a classroom in person. You can access your lectures, readings and assignments anytime and anywhere via the web or your mobile device.
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