
Live online public course with Daniel Ord
Call Centre Operations Management for Team LeadersThursday 18 and Friday 19 February 2027
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.
Two live 4.5-hour sessions with Daniel Ord on consecutive days, part of his four-course Team Leader Development Pathway. Book one ticket or several for your team.
- 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

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.
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
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
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
Training a whole team? Talk to us about a private course

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 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.
The facilitator (Daniel Ord) was really engaging and explained everything from WFM to forecasting in an easy to understand manner.
The course was very informative and opened my eyes to many new ideas and concepts I previously had no knowledge of.
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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Talk to usTeam 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.
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.
You’re viewing this courseQuality Management & Coaching for Team Leaders
A step-by-step approach to defining, measuring and coaching for service quality, bringing performance standards to life.
View courseLeadership & 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.
View courseCustomer 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.
View courseCourse 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 OrdWho 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
Reviews
What participants say about Daniel
Verified reviews from leaders who’ve trained with Daniel Ord at CX Skills.
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Pricing
Pricing and payment options
Nine hours of live training with Daniel Ord for $897 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 3 or more tickets in one transaction
- ACXPA members pay $672.75 per person, a 25% saving (see below)
- Card or invoice: choose how to pay at checkout
- Part of a pathway: one of Daniel’s four standalone Team Leader courses, taken in any order
- Training a whole team? Private courses run live online for groups of 6 or more, as one course or the full pathway
- 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 $224.25 on this course? ACXPA members pay $672.75, not $897, plus a year of coaching tools, WFM calculators and live expert support
- 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 Team Leaders: coaching tools, WFM calculators and live expert access every fortnight, for a full year, whether or not you book a course.
What your Team Leaders get, all year round
- Coaching & Performance Hub: the Agent Performance Matrix and Outlier Detection Wizard to target coaching effort
- With Business Membership: a Team Leader Coaching Guide for 14 common scenarios, GROW coaching scripts, SMART goal templates and an Employee Goal Tracker
- WFM Hub: nine planning tools for staffing, service levels and shrinkage
- Live expert access: a fortnightly Open Mic with ACXPA’s founder and monthly Call Centre and CX Roundtables
FAQs
Call Centre Operations Management for Team Leaders FAQs
Delivery, pricing, content and who the course suits.
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Book a call to talk it through, or send us a message and we’ll get back to you.
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