Help Desk Hero

Service desk training.

Practice desk

Drill one move at a time. Nothing is timed, scored or recorded. When a move feels easy, take it to the Work desk queue, where it counts.

Data tables

Read a table with row and column headers, then take one fact from it. Six reps, drawn from every desk.

Drill data tables

Customer records and knowledge base

Open a customer's record, or find the article that answers the question. Six reps each.

Drill customer records Drill knowledge base look-ups

Forms

Fill a form the way the desk needs it: the right value in the right field, spelled the way the record spells it.

Drill filling forms

Documents and error messages

Read a policy, a procedure or a supplier page, then answer from what it says. Error messages are the same move on a smaller scale.

Drill reading documents Drill error messages

Writing the note

Write what happened so somebody who was not on the call can pick it up cold.

Drill writing it up

External websites

A hunt on a real, live website such as Microsoft, Dell or Zoom. One site per drill, with the finds in order.

Drill a website hunt

What to say

One moment of a call at a time: the opening, the awkward question, the bad news, the close. You pick the line and hear how it lands.

Drill spoken openings and replies

Keyboard commands

You are asked for a command. Press the keys and the drill tells you whether you are right.

Drill keyboard commands Command Quiz Typing practice