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Contact Centre Team Leader Courses

Real-world training for current and aspiring Team Leaders. Build the skills to coach effectively, lift team performance, manage rosters and metrics with confidence, and handle tough conversations without burning out.

Practical frameworks you can use on the next shift, delivered live online across Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific, or privately for your team.

  • ACXPA certified courses
  • Certificate included
  • Self-paced from $9.15 per person a month

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Team leader courses

Courses that build confident, capable Team Leaders

Delivered by industry-leading practitioners including Justin Tippett, Simon Blair, Marc Carriere and Daniel Ord. Start with one of our two flagship courses, or target a specific leadership or operational capability.

Flagship · The complete picture

Introduction to Contact Centre Management

A holistic view of running a contact centre, ideal for current managers who have never had formal training and Team Leaders ready to step up:

  • The role the contact centre should play in the business
  • KPIs, metrics and workload, including Erlang
  • Quality, human behaviour and leading people
  • Hands-on skills, including using AI

Trainer: Justin Tippett

2 × 3.5 hours$797PublicPrivateView course and modules
Flagship · Operations in depth

Contact Centre Management Fundamentals

A deep dive into the operations side of running a contact centre, refined over decades and grounded in global best practice:

  • Service level, response time and wait time
  • Measuring contact centre success
  • Forecasting and staffing
  • Erlang C, shrinkage and budgeting

Trainer: Daniel Ord

4 × 4.5 hours$1,997PublicPrivateView course and modules

Specialist & bespoke courses

Target specific capability gaps such as coaching maturity, real-time workforce control, frontline leadership and escalation management, as standalone courses or combined into a tailored pathway.

Contact Centre Coaching PRO

Advanced coaching techniques to lift Team Leader capability, accelerate performance and embed a repeatable coaching culture.

Trainer: Simon Blair

3 × 3 hours$847PublicPrivateView course and modules

How to be a Great Team Leader

The core skills to lead confidently, coach effectively and consistently deliver on KPIs.

Trainer: Marc Carriere

2 × 3.5 hours$897PublicPrivateView course and modules

WFM for Team Leaders

Forecasting, scheduling and intraday management fundamentals for Team Leaders overseeing real-time performance.

Trainer: Call Design

Full day$697Private onlyView course and modules

Managing Difficult & Escalated Customers

For Team Leaders who handle escalations, complaints and high-risk interactions: de-escalation techniques and structured decision-making.

Trainer: Daniel Ord

2 × 4 hours$747PublicPrivateView course and modules

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Team Leader Development Pathway

The Daniel Ord Team Leader Development Pathway

Team Leaders rarely get formal training in the skills their role actually requires. Most step up because they excelled in a frontline role, then discover that operations, quality, leadership and CX demand a completely different toolkit.

Designed and delivered by Daniel Ord of OmniTouch International, the pathway fills that gap with practical, real-world learning built for contact centres. Each course stands alone; together they build a complete capability foundation.

  • Four standalone courses forming a structured Team Leader capability pathway
  • Live online as 2 × 4.5-hour sessions on consecutive days, so leaders go deep without losing full days from the floor
  • Built for Team Leaders in contact centres and customer operations, not generic leadership theory
  • Public courses (book one ticket or several) or private in-house programs (minimum 6 participants)
  • Live online & private in-house options
  • Grounded in real contact centre practice
  • Global best practice from OmniTouch

Four connected courses: flexible pathways for your Team Leaders

Start with a single course, mix and match, or run the full pathway as a structured Team Leader development program.

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
Format: Live online · 2 × 4.5 hours on consecutive days

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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
Format: Live online · 2 × 4.5 hours on consecutive days

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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
Format: Live online · 2 × 4.5 hours on consecutive days

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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
Format: Live online · 2 × 4.5 hours on consecutive days

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Pathway overview

A short interview with Daniel Ord introducing the pathway

This brief conversation explains the Team Leader Development Pathway: who it’s designed for, and how contact centre Team Leaders typically apply the learning in their day-to-day work.

Learn more about Daniel Ord

Upcoming live public courses

Book tickets for one Team Leader or a few

Every upcoming Team Leader course, including the Daniel Ord pathway. Live online via Zoom. Pay by card or request an invoice at checkout. Places are limited.

  • Live with an expert trainerReal-time practice and coaching, not a recording.
  • Certificate of completionA digital certificate for everyone who completes the course.
  • Templates to keepTake-away templates and reference materials to use back at work.
  • ACXPA members save 25%Member pricing on every public course.
  • 27Oct2026People Leadership for Call Centre Team LeadersTue 27 and Wed 28 Oct · 12:30–5:00pm AEDT · 2 × 4.5 hours · Online via ZoomThe October 2026 People Leadership for Call Centre Team Leaders course: 2 × 4.5-hour live online sessions with global expert Daniel Ord on the Team Leader role, engagement and the conversations that lift performance.$897ex GSTView course
  • 12Nov2026Managing Difficult CustomersThu 12 and Fri 13 Nov · 12:30–4:30pm AEDT · 2 × 4 hours · Online via ZoomLearn global best-practice skills on how to manage angry, upset and difficult customers with confidence in this 2 x 4-hour November 2026 online course - suitable for all customer-facing employees.$747ex GSTView course
  • 18Nov2026Introduction to Contact Centre ManagementWed 18 and Thu 19 Nov · 1:00–4:30pm AEDT · 2 × 3.5 hours · Online via ZoomFast-track your knowledge of contact centre management in this 2 × 3.5-hour live online course with Justin Tippett, on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 November 2026.$797ex GSTView course
  • 19Nov2026CX for Call Centre Team LeadersThu 19 and Fri 20 Nov · 12:30–5:00pm AEDT · 2 × 4.5 hours · Online via ZoomThe November 2026 CX for Call Centre Team Leaders course: 2 × 4.5-hour live online sessions with global CX expert Daniel Ord, turning CX strategy, journeys and metrics into everyday leadership.$897ex GSTView course
  • 8Dec2026How to be a Great Call Centre Team LeaderTue 8 and Thu 10 Dec · 1:00–4:30pm AEDT · 2 × 3.5 hours · Online via ZoomLead your team with confidence, from time management that protects coaching time to call monitoring, feedback and coaching plans, in this 2 × 3.5-hour live online course with Marc Carriere, Tuesday 8 and Thursday 10 December 2026.$897ex GSTView course
  • 14Jan2027Managing Difficult CustomersThu 14 and Fri 15 Jan · 12:30–4:30pm AEDT · 2 × 4 hours · Online via ZoomLearn global best-practice skills on how to manage angry, upset and difficult customers with confidence in this 2 x 4-hour January 2027 online course - suitable for all customer-facing employees.$747ex GSTView course
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Public or private

Two ways to train your Team Leaders

Join a scheduled public course as an individual, or book private training tailored to your team and context.

Public course

Ideal for individuals or small groups. Learn with peers from other organisations and pick up fresh perspectives.

  • Book one Team Leader or more
  • Fixed dates, book online
  • Live, interactive sessions from anywhere
  • $697–$1,997 per person (course dependent)
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Private course

Best for organisations wanting specific outcomes. We tailor examples, tools and exercises to your processes and KPIs.

  • Choose the dates
  • Customised content and tools
  • Delivered online, or onsite for some courses
  • Minimum 5 participants (6 for the Daniel Ord pathway)
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Key skills

The skills your Team Leaders will build

Team Leaders keep the floor steady and the people performing. These are the core capabilities our programs build, with tools they can use on the very next shift.

How contact centres run

Operating model basics, demand vs supply, queues and service level logic, so Team Leaders can explain the “why” and set expectations.

Coaching that works

Assess performance, run structured coaching, set actions and follow up without the waffle.

Managing performance & HR

Documentation, tough conversations, improvement plans and when to escalate, done correctly.

Metrics & reporting

The KPIs that matter for Team Leaders, how to read them and how to turn daily numbers into actions.

Workforce planning basics

Rosters, adherence, real-time control and how to work with WFM without the chaos.

View the WFM course

Quality & customer experience

QA basics, calibration with coaches and feedback loops that actually improve CX.

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 the tools and support great Team Leaders rely on, all year round?

Each Team Leader on your membership gets their own login to a practitioner-built, vendor-neutral platform of tools, templates and training, plus live access to experienced practitioners every fortnight, so they’re never on their own.

  • 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.

Business Membership starts at $497 ex GST a year for a team of five, under $100 per person.

Every member gets 25% off CX Skills live public courses: five Team Leaders on one $897 pathway course save $1,121, more than twice the membership cost.

Self-paced online

Self-paced Team Leader training

A practical top-up when rosters, budget or timing are tight

Live instructor-led training is the gold standard. When it isn’t practical, Team Leaders can build skills anytime, anywhere, without disrupting service levels.

  • Low cost per person
  • Perfect for shift work
  • No travel or venue costs

From

$9.15

per person a month, ex GST

On the 100-user plan. Individual access is $30 a month.

Explore self-paced courses

Pay monthly · No contracts · Cancel anytime

What’s included

  • Set course pathways designed to build capability in specific skill areas
  • Short, engaging video lessons of around 10 minutes each
  • Workbooks, quizzes and certificates of completion
  • 400+ and growing library of on-demand courses
  • Accessible anytime, on any device, perfect for shift work

Ideal for

  • New and aspiring Team Leaders
  • Ongoing top-up learning
  • Large leadership teams

Why CX Skills

Why Team Leaders choose CX Skills

Most Team Leader training is built by people who have never been accountable for a live contact centre.

Ours is created and delivered by practitioners who’ve led teams in both small centres and large-scale operations, managing real rostering risk, handling real escalations and carrying real P&L pressure.

So the training fits how your centre actually works, whatever its size.

Contact centre Team Leader coaching a team member

Real-world operators

Trainers who’ve led teams, handled escalations and hit targets.

Tool-heavy sessions

Coaching frameworks, QA checklists and WFM basics you’ll use the next shift.

Backed by industry data

Informed by insights from the Australian Call Centre Rankings.

ACXPA certified

CX Skills is the official training partner of ACXPA, and many of our courses are ACXPA certified.

Global best practice

Proven frameworks applied to your local context and customers.

Flexible delivery

Public dates for individuals, private programs for teams, and self-paced options.

Reviews

What real Team Leaders say

Reviews pulled straight from our post-course surveys and public ratings, so you can see how Team Leaders describe the content, facilitators and impact in their own words.

4.9

374 verified reviews across all CX Skills courses

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Team Leader courses · 40 reviews

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FAQs

Team Leader training questions

Quick answers for Team Leaders and organisations booking Team Leader training.

Still have questions? Get in touch
Do you run public Team Leader courses with fixed dates?
Yes. We run live online public courses throughout the year. You can check upcoming dates in the upcoming live courses list.
Can you customise a Team Leader program for our organisation?
Yes. For private training we tailor examples, role-plays and exercises to your context while keeping the proven frameworks intact. That might include:
  • Using your channels, scenarios and KPIs in activities.
  • Dialling up or down the emphasis across topics (e.g. coaching depth, WFM basics, escalation handling).
  • Aligning tools and templates to your reporting style.
If you need deeper customisation, we’ll scope it, but we won’t compromise the core Team Leader frameworks. Learn about private training.
What is the Daniel Ord Team Leader Development Pathway?
Four standalone courses designed and delivered by Daniel Ord: Call Centre Operations, Quality Management & Coaching, Leadership & People Management, and Customer Experience. Each runs live online as 2 × 4.5-hour sessions on consecutive days. Team Leaders can join the course that matches their current focus, or progress through the full pathway.
Do I need experience to join?
No formal prerequisites are required. The courses are designed for both new and existing Team Leaders. Some programs provide a broad overview of the key responsibilities and skills expected of Team Leaders; others focus on specific areas such as coaching, workforce management or managing escalations. Participants at different stages of their career can find a course suited to their needs.
Do participants receive a certificate?
Yes. Everyone who completes a Team Leader course receives a digital certificate of completion.
Are the courses accredited?
Many CX Skills courses are ACXPA certified, and our courses are aligned with the Global Contact Centre CX Standards. They are not part of the national accreditation framework. You can read a full explanation here: accredited vs non-accredited training.
How long are the Team Leader courses?
Public courses run in blocks of live online sessions, from 2 × 3.5 hours (Introduction to Contact Centre Management) and 3 × 3 hours (Coaching PRO) to 2 × 4.5 hours (each Daniel Ord pathway course) and 4 × 4.5 hours (Contact Centre Management Fundamentals). WFM for Team Leaders runs as a full-day private course (minimum 5). Private programs can be tailored in duration and format to suit your team.
What do the Team Leader courses cost?
Public courses range from $697 to $1,997 per person (ex GST) depending on the program. Private training is quoted per team and is usually more cost-effective for groups of 5 or more (6 or more for the Daniel Ord pathway courses).
Do ACXPA members get a discount?
Yes. ACXPA members receive 25% off CX Skills live public courses (per ticket), including the Team Leader pathway. Learn more about membership on the ACXPA site.
What are the typical group sizes for private Team Leader training?
Private groups of 4 to 14 usually work best for interaction and coaching (the Daniel Ord pathway courses need a minimum of 6). Larger centres often run multiple sessions.
What tech do I need for live online courses?
A reliable internet connection, a webcam, a headset and a quiet space. We’ll provide the meeting link and participant materials in advance.

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