Team Leader Development Pathway · course 1 of 4

Live online · 2 × 4.5 hours · with Daniel Ord

Call Centre Operations Management for Team Leaders

Of all the roles in a contact centre, the Team Leader has the most direct impact on day-to-day performance. Every decision about queues, staffing, coaching and communication shapes service, cost and customer outcomes.

This course shows Team Leaders how contact centre operations really work, from service level and occupancy to forecasting and staffing, and how their choices affect results in real time.

  • Led by global expert Daniel Ord
  • Built for Team Leaders, not planners
  • Part of a four-course pathway

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What’s in it for you

What you’ll be able to do

Many Team Leaders take on operational responsibility without any formal training. They’re expected to read dashboards, understand metrics and make real-time calls that affect customers and their team.

You’ll leave able to explain what drives performance, spot problems early and make better decisions every day, instead of reacting to the queue.

  • Metrics you can explain
  • Dashboards read with confidence
  • Better real-time decisions
Contact centre Team Leader talking with agents at their desks

Master wait-time metrics

Service Level, Response Time, ASA, abandonment and longest wait.

Read dashboards with confidence

Interpret real-time indicators and know when to act.

Group the metrics that matter

Quality, accessibility, efficiency, cost and strategy (QAECS).

Manage agent performance

An Agent Performance Management system for better conversations.

Know the laws

Erlang C, the Pooling Principle, Power of One and diminishing returns.

Understand planning

Forecasting, staffing, shrinkage and scheduling, and your part in them.

The course

Three modules over two live sessions

Call Centre Operations Management for Team Leaders runs live online over two 4.5-hour sessions on consecutive days: nine hours with Daniel Ord.

Day one covers accessibility metrics, service level, wait-time drivers and real-time indicators. Day two brings in performance categories, forecasting and the operating principles every Team Leader should know.

Sessions are practical and interactive, with real dashboards, exercises and discussion, so you can use it on your next shift.

  • 2 × 4.5 hoursTwo live sessions on consecutive days
  • Live onlineVia Zoom, join from anywhere
  • For Team LeadersNew, experienced and aspiring
  • Pathway course 1Stands alone, or with the other three

What’s covered: three modules

You move from the wait-time metrics customers feel, to the full set of performance measures, to the principles behind them.

Module 1

Service level, response time and wait-time metrics

The core metrics that define how accessible you are to customers, and how to influence them.

  • Service Level versus Response Time
  • ASA, abandonment and longest wait time
  • Reading dashboards and readerboards
Module 2

The metrics that matter

Performance measures across quality, accessibility, efficiency, cost and strategy, and how they interrelate.

  • The QAECS performance categories
  • How metrics affect each other
  • An Agent Performance Management system
Module 3

Contact Centre University

The operating principles and formulas every contact centre professional should know.

  • Forecasting, staffing and Erlang C
  • Service Level versus occupancy
  • The Pooling Principle and Power of One

Choose how to take part

Book tickets on a public course, or run it privately for your Team Leaders, on its own or as part of the full pathway.

Public course

Join a scheduled live online class

  • 2 × 4.5-hour live online sessions
  • Learn with Team Leaders from other organisations
  • Book one ticket or several
  • Save 15% when you book 3 or more
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Private team course

Your Team Leaders only, live online

  • Discussion focused on your own metrics and dashboards
  • Add the other pathway courses for a full program
  • Live online, on dates that suit you
  • Minimum 6 participants
Talk to us about your team

Accountable for the whole centre’s performance? See Contact Centre Management Fundamentals

Daniel Ord

Daniel Ord

Global contact centre and CX trainer

  • 50,000+participants trained worldwide
  • 40+countries
  • 4.9/5average course rating

Meet your trainer

Learn from one of the world’s most respected contact centre trainers

Daniel Ord is one of the world’s most respected trainers in customer experience and contact centres, with 30+ years in CX and contact centre leadership.

His programs blend practical management know-how with clear, human delivery that teams actually use the next day. He has delivered workshops in more than 40 countries.

  • Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP)
  • ICMI Certified
  • Net Promoter Certified practitioner
  • Judge of major CX and contact centre awards around the globe
  • A familiar face on conference stages and podcasts
  • Born in the US, two decades in Singapore, now based in Germany

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★★★★★
Daniel is an engaging teacher who was able to keep the content interesting and relevant. The insight of key KPIs to be used in a Contact Centre was a good learning I have taken from this course.
Courtney LaurieContact Centre Team Leader, Taronga Zoo Sydney
★★★★★
The facilitator (Daniel Ord) was really engaging and explained everything from WFM to forecasting in an easy to understand manner.
Jamie LeonardA/Operations Manager, Department of Justice and Community Safety, Victoria
★★★★★
The course was very informative and opened my eyes to many new ideas and concepts I previously had no knowledge of.
Jessica SteeleSystems and Processes Team Leader, Dokotela

Getting sign-off?

Everything your manager needs, in one PDF

Download a four-page fact sheet with the outcomes, modules, format, price, the full pathway and options, ready to forward or attach to an approval.

Call Centre Operations Management for Team Leaders fact sheet

2 × 4.5 hours live online with Daniel Ord, $897 per person. Public or private.

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Team Leader Development Pathway

One of four courses in Daniel Ord’s Team Leader pathway

Most Team Leaders step up because they excelled on the frontline, then find that operations, quality, leadership and CX need a completely different toolkit.

The pathway covers all four. Each course stands alone and can be taken in any order, or run all four privately as one Team Leader program.

  • Four standalone courses, in any order
  • Same format: 2 × 4.5 hours live online
  • $897 per course, per person ex GST
  • Run all four privately for your Team Leaders

The four courses

See how this course fits with the other three. Compare the full pathway.

Operations

Call Centre Operations Management for Team Leaders

The processes, metrics and dynamics that drive contact centre performance, and how Team Leader decisions influence customers, employees and results.

Focus: Service levels, staffing, occupancy, adherence

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Quality & Coaching

Quality Management & Coaching for Team Leaders

A step-by-step approach to defining, measuring and coaching for service quality, bringing performance standards to life.

Focus: QA frameworks, calibration, coaching for change

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Leadership & People

Leadership & People Management for Team Leaders

Where to focus time, how to build trust and how to hold the conversations that drive performance, growth and engagement.

Focus: Engagement, rhythms, feedback, tough conversations

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Customer Experience

Customer Experience Management for Team Leaders

How CX works and what Team Leaders can do each day to shape it: CX architecture, metrics and strategy turned into action.

Focus: CX metrics, VOC, journey thinking, daily leadership

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Course overview

A short interview with Daniel Ord introducing this course

Daniel explains the operational focus of the course, who it’s designed for, and how Team Leaders apply it in their day-to-day work.

Learn more about Daniel Ord

Upcoming live public courses

Book tickets for one Team Leader or a few

Public courses run live online over two 4.5-hour sessions on consecutive days, on a few dates each year.

Each public course needs a minimum number of participants to run. If a date can’t go ahead, we’ll let you know as early as possible and you can move to another date or get a full refund.

  • Live with Daniel OrdExpert-led and interactive
  • Two consecutive days2 × 4.5 hours, live online
  • 15% off 3 or moreBooked in one transaction
  • 25% off for membersACXPA member pricing
Next available18Feb2027

Thursday 18 and Friday 19 February 2027

  • Session 1 Thu 18 Feb · 12:30–5:00pm AEDT
  • Session 2 Fri 19 Feb · 12:30–5:00pm AEDT

Online via Zoom · Bookings close Wed 17 Feb, 6:30pm

$897per person, ex GSTBook tickets15% off 3 or more tickets 4.9/5 · 374 reviews
Times shown in Melbourne time (AEST/AEDT).

Who it’s for

Who is this course for?

Team Leaders and Supervisors in contact centres and customer service teams, new or experienced, who need a confident, practical grasp of how operational performance works. No prerequisites are needed.

Team Leaders and Supervisors

Making real-time decisions every day.

Senior Team Leaders

Keeping several teams consistent.

New leaders

Recently promoted and new to the metrics.

Operations and workforce partners

Needing a shared view of what drives results.

Contact centre managers

Wanting stronger operational skills in their Team Leaders.

Organisations aligning leaders

One operational language across the team.

Looking for other team leader training? Browse all team leader courses

Backed by ACXPA

Want training built for the work Team Leaders do every shift?

CX Skills is the official training partner of ACXPA. Alongside your course, ACXPA gives Team Leaders the coaching tools, WFM calculators and peer support to put their new skills to work every day.

  • Coaching tools: the Outlier Detection Wizard, plus the Team Leader Coaching Guide and Goal Tracker with Business Membership
  • WFM Hub calculators for staffing, service levels, intervals and shrinkage
  • Many CX Skills courses are ACXPA certified

ACXPA membership

Want to save $224.25 on this course?ACXPA members pay $672.75, not $897, plus a year of coaching tools, WFM calculators and live expert support

Whether or not your Team Leaders book a course, ACXPA membership gives each of them their own login to a practitioner-built, vendor-neutral platform of coaching tools, WFM calculators, templates and training, plus live access to experienced practitioners every fortnight.

  • 50+hours of live expert access a year
  • 65+tools, templates and resources
  • 18calculators
  • 25%off CX Skills live public courses

Plus member tools built for the work Team Leaders actually do

Coaching & Performance Hub

With Business Membership: a Team Leader Coaching Guide for 14 common scenarios, a Goal Tracker, and GROW and SMART templates for consistent coaching conversations.

WFM Hub

Nine planning tools, including Erlang staffing and service level simulators, an Interval Planner and a Shrinkage Calculator.

Agent Performance Matrix

New: plots every agent on quality versus productivity, so the whole team’s coaching priorities are obvious in one view.

Outlier Detection Wizard

Pinpoints top and bottom performers across multiple metrics, so coaching effort lands where it matters most.

Ready-to-deliver training

Facilitator packs (HEAT, Active Listening, Complaints) as PowerPoint decks with speaker notes and scenario activities, ready to run with your team.

Learning library

17 self-paced courses with certificates, Member Bytes videos, one-minute refreshers and industry quizzes.

An ACXPA Individual Membership is $197 ex GST a year, and Business Membership starts at $497 for a team of five, under $100 per person.

Every member gets 25% off CX Skills live public courses: one person on this $897 course saves $224.25.

Why learn with Daniel

Why teams choose Daniel Ord

Daniel has spent decades helping organisations around the world lift service, and his courses are some of our most highly rated.

Every session is live and interactive, with real examples, practice and plenty of room for questions.

A global perspective

50,000+ people trained across 40+ countries, so your team learns what works worldwide.

A proven format

A course refined over many years and delivered the same way every time, so the results are consistent.

Practice, not theory

Real examples, exercises and discussion, so skills are ready to use on the very next customer.

Your challenges, discussed

There’s always time to talk through the situations your team faces every day.

Engaging online

Two half-day sessions that keep people involved and fit around rosters and service levels.

Recognised credentials

CCXP, ICMI Certified Associate and Net Promoter Certified, and a regular keynote speaker worldwide.

Reviews

What participants say about Daniel

Verified reviews from leaders who’ve trained with Daniel Ord at CX Skills.

4.9

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FAQs

Call Centre Operations Management for Team Leaders FAQs

Delivery, pricing, content and who the course suits.

Still have questions? Get in touch
Who should attend?
Team Leaders and Supervisors, new or experienced, plus senior Team Leaders, new leaders and the operations and workforce people who work alongside them.
How is the course delivered?
Live online via Zoom over 2 × 4.5-hour sessions on consecutive days, so Team Leaders go deep without losing full days away from their teams. The times are shown with each date.
How is it different from Contact Centre Management Fundamentals?
This course gives Team Leaders the operational know-how to lead a team. Contact Centre Management Fundamentals is an 18-hour program for managers accountable for the whole centre, including forecasting and budgets.
Do I need to be good at maths?
No. You’ll learn what the numbers mean and how to act on them, not how to build the models.
Do I need to do the other pathway courses?
No. Each of the four courses in the Team Leader Development Pathway stands alone and can be taken in any order. Together they cover operations, quality and coaching, leadership and CX.
Can we run the pathway for our Team Leaders?
Yes. Any course, or all four as one program, can run privately and live online on dates that suit you, for a minimum of 6 participants. Talk to us about your team.
How much does it cost?
Public courses are $897 per person (ex GST). Save 15% when you book three or more tickets in the same transaction, and ACXPA members save 25%. Private courses are quoted.
What do participants need?
A computer with a stable internet connection, Zoom, and a headset and camera for the best experience. You’ll receive your join link before the course starts.
Will the course definitely go ahead?
Public courses need a minimum number of participants to run, so we reserve the right to reschedule or cancel a date if too few people book. If that happens, we’ll let you know as early as possible and you can move to another date or get a full refund.
How do I book?
For a public course, choose a date in the upcoming dates and book online by card or invoice. For private training, talk to us or call +61 3 9008 7287.

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