Live online public course with Daniel Ord
Contact Centre Management FundamentalsTuesday 19 to Friday 22 January 2027
The gold-standard course for the operations side of running a contact centre: 18 hours with Daniel Ord on the universal principles behind every high-performing centre.
Four live 4.5-hour sessions with Daniel Ord, plus the course workbook and certificate. Book one ticket or several for your team.
- 5.0/5 from verified reviews
- Led by global expert Daniel Ord
- Workbook and certificate included
- Runs only a few times a year
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What’s in it for you
What you’ll be able to do
Most contact centre managers started on the phones and have only worked in one or two centres, so the way they lead is shaped by local habits rather than proven principles.
This course teaches the global best practices that apply to every centre, whatever its size, sector or technology, so performance stops feeling unpredictable.
- Defensible targets and forecasts
- Fewer surprises and firefights
- A centre your executives trust
- Proven principles, not local habits
Set targets that work
Service Level and Response Time targets that match customer wait time and intent.
Forecast with confidence
Forecasts that connect demand, handle time, shrinkage and staffing.
Recover from spikes
Service level recovery plans that protect cost and morale.
Measure what matters
Align measures for Agents, Team Leaders and Managers with the P, Q & A model.
Know the laws
Erlang C, shrinkage and the Response Time Formula, without getting lost in theory.
Budget credibly
Budget the centre and explain the trade-offs to senior stakeholders.
The course
Four sessions, the operating model in depth
Contact Centre Management Fundamentals runs over four live 4.5-hour sessions on consecutive days: 18 hours with Daniel Ord.
Learn for half the day and lead for the other half, with demonstrations, exercises and case discussions that transfer cleanly to your centre.
These are global best practices, taught by Daniel in 40+ countries, so they work in any contact centre, whatever its size, industry or technology.
- 4 × 4.5 hoursFour live sessions, 18 hours
- Live onlineVia Zoom, join from anywhere
- Workbook includedPlus post-course support
- CertificateFor everyone who completes
What’s covered: four sessions
Each session builds on the last, from customer wait time to the laws every leader should know.
Begin at the beginning: customer wait time
Master Service Level, Response Time and wait time, and set targets that work in the real world.
- Service Level and Response Time
- Real-time queue management
- Service Level recovery plans
Measuring contact centre success
Define what good looks like for each role and avoid measures that create perverse outcomes.
- Aligning metrics to intent
- The P, Q & A performance system
- Coaching to clear expectations
Forecasting practices
The workforce mechanics every manager must lead, even if they don’t do WFM themselves.
- Time-series and bottom-up forecasting
- Shrinkage and demand to staffing
- Reading variance the right way
Contact Centre University
The foundational laws every leader should know, plus a practical approach to budgeting.
- The role and limits of Erlang C
- The Response Time Formula
- Budgeting the contact centre
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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
Daniel has an amazing ability to connect with people. He is very personable, and has this amazing ability to bring training content to life!
The facilitator (Daniel Ord) was really engaging and explained everything from WFM to forecasting in an easy to understand manner.
Daniel is very experienced and the way he explains makes things easy to understand.
Getting sign-off?
Everything your manager needs, in one PDF
Download a four-page fact sheet with the outcomes, modules, format, price and options, ready to forward or attach to an approval.
Contact Centre Management Fundamentals fact sheet
4 × 4.5 hours live online with Daniel Ord, $1,997 per person. Public or private.
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Talk to usWho it’s for
Who is Contact Centre Management Fundamentals for?
Anyone accountable for how a contact centre performs, in any industry and on any platform. No prerequisites are needed.
Existing contact centre managers
Strengthening operations with global best-practice frameworks.
Managers by experience
Leaders who learned on the job without formal training.
New contact centre managers
The fundamentals to manage well from day one.
Senior Team Leaders
Preparing for Operations or Contact Centre Manager roles.
Operations managers
Owning service levels, staffing and budgets.
Senior executives
Clarity on how to measure, manage and support the centre.
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Reviews
What managers say
Verified reviews from managers who’ve completed Contact Centre Management Fundamentals with Daniel.
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Pricing
Pricing and payment options
Eighteen hours of live training with Daniel Ord, the course workbook and a certificate, for $1,997 per person ex GST. Book one ticket or your whole team, and pay by card or invoice at checkout.
Places are limited to keep the sessions interactive, so book early to secure your place.
- Save 15% when you book 2 or more tickets in one transaction
- ACXPA members pay $1,497.75 per person, a 25% saving (see below)
- Card or invoice: choose how to pay at checkout
- Workbook and certificate for everyone who completes
- Training a whole team? Private courses run live online for groups of 5 or more
- Minimum numbers apply: if these dates can’t go ahead, we’ll tell you early and you can move dates or get a full refund
Official ACXPA training partner
Want to save $499.25 on this course? A $197 ACXPA membership pays for itself on this ticket
The maths
- 50+hours of live expert access a year
- 65+tools, templates and resources
- 18calculators
- 25%off CX Skills live public courses
ACXPA members save 25% on this course and every CX Skills live public course.
ACXPA membership is a practitioner-built toolkit for anyone who runs a contact centre: WFM planning tools, diagnostics, rankings reports and live expert access every fortnight, for a full year.
What your managers get, all year round
- WFM Hub: nine planning tools, including Erlang staffing and service level simulators
- Diagnostics: the Contact Centre Maturity Tool and a Customer Service Health Check
- Call centre rankings reports tracking 48+ metrics
- Open Mic every fortnight and monthly Call Centre Roundtables
FAQs
Contact Centre Management Fundamentals FAQs
Delivery, pricing, content and who the course suits.
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Questions about training your team?
Book a call to talk it through, or send us a message and we’ll get back to you.
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Prefer the phone? Call +61 3 9008 7287 (Mon–Fri, 8:30–17:30 Melbourne time) or email hello@cxskills.com.au.
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Secure your tickets for 19 to 22 January, or talk to us about a private course for your team.