Subcategory • Team Leaders

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.

Get practical frameworks you can use the next shift: escalation handling, coaching systems, QA basics, workforce planning fundamentals, and the leadership routines that keep a team engaged and on target.

  • Designed and delivered by practitioners who’ve led high-performing teams.
  • Official training partner of the Australian Customer Experience Professionals Association (ACXPA).
  • Informed by insights from the Australian Call Centre Rankings.
Contact centre team leader coaching an agent

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 different. These programs are created and delivered by practitioners who’ve run large-scale operations, managed real rostering risk, handled real customer escalation, and carried real P&L pressure. That operational reality is baked into every framework, tool and case study.

  • Real-world operators. Trainers who’ve led teams, handled escalations, and hit targets.
  • Australian context. Examples, metrics, and scenarios that match local realities.
  • 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.
  • Aligned with ACXPA. Official training partner of the Australian Customer Experience Professionals Association.
Instant skills on the next shift Global best practices in an Australian context Live online or private delivery options 25% off for ACXPA members

What Real Team Leaders Say

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

Available Contact Centre Team Leader Courses

These programs form the core leadership capability framework for modern contact centres. They are the foundation layer that underpins performance, service consistency, workforce control, quality, coaching and commercial outcomes across Team Leaders and frontline managers.

Delivered by industry-leading practitioners including Justin Tippett, Simon Blair and Marc Carriere, with advanced leadership development also available through the Daniel Ord Team Leader Development Pathway further below.

Choose a comprehensive All-Rounder to establish full operational coverage across all core disciplines, or target a specific leadership or operational capability with a specialist or bespoke course. Public dates are available for individuals, and private delivery can be tailored for your team.

All-Rounders

Our flagship leadership programs for Team Leaders and new managers who need complete operational coverage.

Introduction to Contact Centre Management

The essential management toolkit for anyone stepping into contact centre leadership or managing without formal training. Covers the full breadth of disciplines — operating model, KPIs and service levels, QA foundations, WFM basics, and leadership routines — so you can run your centre with clarity, confidence and consistency.

  • Trainer: Justin Tippett
  • Format: Live online (public) or private
  • Duration: 2 × 3-hour sessions (6 Hours Total)
  • Cost: $697 per person ex GST

Specialist & Bespoke Courses

These programs are designed to target specific leadership and operational capability gaps inside your contact centre. They are ideal for lifting particular performance levers such as coaching maturity, real-time workforce control, frontline leadership effectiveness and escalation management.

Delivered as standalone interventions or combined into a tailored development pathway for your Team Leaders and operations leaders.

Contact Centre Coaching PRO Course

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

  • Trainer: Simon Blair
  • Duration: 3 × 3-hour sessions
  • Cost: $798 per person ex GST
  • Availability: Public & Private

WFM for Contact Centre Team Leaders

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

  • Trainer: Call Design
  • Duration: Full day (8 hours)
  • Cost: $697 per person ex GST
  • Availability: Public & Private

Managing Difficult & Escalated Customer Interactions

Designed for Team Leaders who routinely handle escalations, complaints and high-risk interactions. Build confidence, de-escalation techniques and structured decision-making for complex customer situations.

  • Trainer: Daniel Ord
  • Duration: 2 × 4-hour sessions
  • Cost: $847 per person ex GST
  • Availability: Public & Private

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. The Team Leader Development Pathway, designed and delivered by Daniel Ord, fills that gap with practical, real-world learning built specifically for contact centre environments.

Each course stands alone, and together they build a complete capability foundation: Call Centre Operations, Quality & Coaching, Leadership & People Management, and Customer Experience. Team Leaders can join the course that matches their current focus, or progress through the full pathway to build clarity, confidence and consistency across their role.

  • Four standalone courses forming a structured Team Leader capability pathway.
  • Delivered live online in 2 × 4.5-hour sessions on consecutive days, so leaders can go deep without losing full days from the floor.
  • Designed specifically for Team Leaders in contact centres and customer operations — not generic leadership theory.
Contact centre trainer Daniel Ord delivering a course session
Daniel Ord, OmniTouch International – global authority in contact centre and CX training.
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

Each course is delivered live online in 2 × 4.5-hour sessions on consecutive days. Organisations can start with a single course, mix and match, or run the full pathway as a structured Team Leader development program.

Call Centre Operations Management for Team Leaders

A practical introduction to the processes, metrics and dynamics that drive contact centre performance. Team Leaders learn how operations work — and how their decisions influence customers, employees and overall results.

  • Focus: Service levels, wait times, staffing, occupancy, adherence and real-time decision making.
  • Format: Live online, 2 × 4.5-hour sessions (public or private delivery).

Quality Management & Coaching for Team Leaders

A step-by-step approach to defining, measuring and coaching for service quality. Team Leaders learn how to bring performance standards to life and coach in ways that guide, support and elevate improvement.

  • Focus: Quality frameworks, monitoring, calibration and coaching for fair, constructive behaviour change.
  • Format: Live online, 2 × 4.5-hour sessions (public or private delivery).

Leadership & People Management for Team Leaders

A clear, practical framework for leading people confidently and effectively. Team Leaders learn where to focus their time, how to build trust and how to hold the conversations that drive performance, growth and engagement.

  • Focus: Engagement, operating rhythms, feedback and performance conversations.
  • Format: Live online, 2 × 4.5-hour sessions (public or private delivery).

Customer Experience Management for Team Leaders

A practical look at how CX works and what Team Leaders can do each day to shape it. Participants learn CX architecture, metrics and strategy, and how to translate them into meaningful actions for their teams and customers.

  • Focus: CX metrics, VOC, journey thinking and applying CX principles in daily leadership.
  • Format: Live online, 2 × 4.5-hour sessions (public or private delivery).

Organisations can start with any course, take one, two, three or all four, and tailor the Team Leader Development Pathway to their structure, maturity and priorities.

Pathway overview

A short interview with Daniel Ord introducing this development pathway

This brief conversation provides context on the Team Leader Development Pathway, who it’s designed for, and how team contact centre team leaders can typically apply the learning in day-to-day contact centre environments.

Tip: If you’re looking for an overview of all our avaiable call centre team leader courses, including introduction to contact centre management, coaching PRO, WFM for team leaders etc — see our Contact Centre Team Leaders Courses course.

Key Skills Taught in Our Team Leader Courses

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

How Contact Centres Run

Operating model basics, demand vs supply, queues and SL logic so TLs 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 TLs, 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.

Quality & Customer Experience

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

Explore Other Call Centre Training Pathways

Looking beyond Team Leader development? These programs support frontline agents, contact centre managers, and workforce planning specialists with role-specific, practical training.

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Call Centre Agent Training Courses

Develop the skills to deliver exceptional customer service across phone, email, and live chat.

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Call Centre Management Courses

Advanced training for call centre managers covering strategy, leadership, and operational excellence.

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Workforce Management (WFM) Training

Learn WFM principles to optimise staffing, forecasting, and resource planning in call centres.

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ACXPA - The Ultimate Resource for Call Centre Team Leaders!

Building coaching capability takes more than a single training course. Team leaders need ongoing access to the tools, resources, and best practices that drive performance — plus the insights and thought leadership shaping today’s contact centres.

That’s exactly what an ACXPA membership delivers, giving team leaders a one-stop hub for proven frameworks, expert guidance, and a community of peers who’ve faced the same challenges.

Tap into standards, tools and community built by the people behind Australia’s Contact Centre Quality Standards and the Australian Call Centre Rankings — so your team leaders coach with confidence and lift results consistently.

ACXPA Members save 25% on all CX Skills public courses!

  • Member pricing 25% off all CX Skills public courses (yes, including Team Leader programs).
  • WFM Hub access Erlang staffing simulators, service level models, shrinkage calculators, interval planners and more.
  • Downloadable templates Practical Excel tools and calculators for turnover, attrition and employee replacement costs, plus call centre acronyms.
  • Private member groups Connect with other team leaders, managers, WFM practitioners and more to compare approaches and share solutions.
  • Monthly roundtables Live expert sessions on contact centre management, WFM, performance and CX challenges.
  • Self-paced learning 15 included micro-courses, with discounted access to 300+ additional programs across CX, leadership and service.
  • Resource library Benchmarking data, videos and best-practice guides to support continuous improvement.
  • Industry & knowledge quizzes Fun, interactive quizzes to test knowledge, reinforce learning, and keep your team sharp.

How Our Call Centre Team Leader Courses Are Delivered

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

Public Courses

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

  • Fixed dates, book online
  • Live, interactive sessions
  • Join from anywhere

Private Training

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

  • Choose the dates
  • Customised content & tools
  • Delivered online or onsite (for some courses)

Upcoming Public Courses for Contact Centre Team Leaders

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Contact Centre Team Leader Courses: FAQs

Quick answers for Team Leaders and organisations booking TL training.