Live online · 2 × 3.5 hours · with Justin Tippett
Introduction to Contact Centre Management
The complete picture of running a contact centre, built on the global best practices that apply to every centre, whatever its size or sector.
Ideal for managers who have run a team for years without formal training, new managers, and Team Leaders ready to step up.
- 4.8/5 from verified reviews
- Led by Justin Tippett
- Workbook and certificate included
- Endorsed by ACXPA
Trusted by leading organisationsHundreds of businesses, from local councils to national brands, have chosen CX Skills to upskill their teams. See who we’ve trained
What’s in it for you
What you’ll be able to do
Many managers inherit a contact centre without ever being shown the universal rules that drive high-performing operations: how work arrives, how staffing becomes service, and which KPIs actually matter.
This course gives you that playbook in seven hours, so you can stop firefighting and run your centre with confidence.
- Clear targets and the right KPIs
- Less firefighting, more control
- A stronger voice with executives
Understand how centres really work
The role your centre plays in the business, and the jargon every leader needs.
Use the right KPIs
What each metric means, how they affect each other and what to watch for.
Plan the workload
Model staffing needs and apply simple workload maths, including Erlang.
Measure quality properly
Assess quality at agent and centre level, beyond just the numbers.
Lead people better
How human behaviour drives performance, and how to lead with empathy.
Put AI to work
Where AI can lift efficiency, quality and compliance in your centre.
The course
Seven modules, the complete picture
Introduction to Contact Centre Management runs over two live 3.5-hour sessions: seven practical modules that cover every core discipline of running a centre.
It’s the roadmap every manager wishes they’d had on day one, whether you lead a team of five or a multi-site operation.
- 2 × 3.5 hoursTwo live sessions, 7 hours
- Live onlineVia Zoom, join from anywhere
- Workbook includedPlus post-course support
- CertificateFor everyone who completes
What’s covered: seven modules
From the foundations to AI, each module builds knowledge you can use the next day.
Contact Centre Foundations
The evolving role of contact centres, CX versus customer service, and the jargon every leader needs.
- The role of the modern contact centre
- CX versus customer service
- Key terms and acronyms
Team Leader Roles & Responsibilities
The core functions of Team Leaders and Managers, and how to focus on what matters.
- What great leaders spend time on
- Impact on team performance
- Priorities in a busy centre
KPIs & Metrics
The key metrics, how each influences the others, and what to watch when assessing results.
- Service level and response time
- How metrics interact
- Reading team and centre results
Calculating Workload
Model staffing needs, optimise rosters and apply simple workload calculations.
- Workload and staffing basics
- Rostering to demand
- An introduction to Erlang
Measuring Quality
Approaches to measuring quality at agent and centre level, beyond the numbers.
- Agent and centre quality
- Assessing customer experience
- Linking quality to coaching
Human Behaviour
How behaviour influences performance and customer interactions, and how to lead with insight.
- What drives performance
- Leading with empathy
- Influencing and relationships
Using AI
How AI can be used in the contact centre to drive efficiency, quality and compliance.
- Practical AI use cases
- Productivity for you and your team
- How AI is changing the industry
Choose how to take part
Book a ticket on a public course, or run it privately for your leadership team.
Public course
Join a scheduled live online class
- 2 × 3.5-hour live online sessions
- Learn alongside managers from other organisations
- Book one ticket or several
- Save 15% when you book 3 or more
Private team course
Your leadership team only
- Examples aligned to your centre and KPIs
- Frank discussion of your own challenges
- Live online or onsite
- Minimum 5 participants
Want to go deeper on operations? See Contact Centre Management Fundamentals
Justin Tippett
Founder and CEO of ACXPA, founder of CX Skills
- 30+years leading and advising contact centres
- 4.8/5from verified course reviews
- 2industry benchmarks co-created: the Rankings and the CX Standards
Meet your trainer
Learn from someone who has lived it for 30+ years
Justin Tippett has lived and breathed contact centres for more than three decades, from his early days on the phones to leading major operations across Australia and New Zealand.
Today he leads ACXPA, the professional association for customer experience and contact centre professionals, and is one of the most recognised voices in the sector. This is the one course he delivers personally, so you learn the fundamentals from the person who helped set the benchmarks.
- Founder and CEO of ACXPA
- Co-creator of the Australian Call Centre Rankings
- Co-creator of the global Contact Centre CX Standards
- Chair of the Contact Centre Roundtables
- Host of The Customer Verdict podcast
- Judge of international industry awards
In the media: Justin has been featured on ABC, Channel 7, Channel 9 and 3AW, and on podcasts including Fear & Greed, commenting on customer service and contact centre trends.
If you’re looking for a contact centre subject matter expert, brilliant communicator, and all-round top bloke, look no further than Justin.
You could clearly see the passion and joy Justin had for what he was teaching and it was clear to see his experience.
Justin was confident, to the point, and full of very useful information and insight.
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.
Introduction to Contact Centre Management fact sheet
2 × 3.5 hours live online with Justin Tippett, $797 per person. Public or private.
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Talk to usUpcoming live public courses
Book an Introduction to Contact Centre Management course
Public courses run live online over two 3.5-hour sessions, so you can join from anywhere. Pay by card or request an invoice at checkout.
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.
Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 November 2026
- Session 1 Wed 18 Nov · 1:00–4:30pm AEDT
- Session 2 Thu 19 Nov · 1:00–4:30pm AEDT
Online via Zoom · Bookings close Tue 17 Nov, 6:30pm
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- 24Feb2027Wed 24 and Thu 25 Feb 20271:00–4:30pm AEDT · both sessions · Online via Zoom$797ex GSTBook tickets
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Who it’s for
Who is Introduction to Contact Centre Management for?
Anyone responsible for a contact centre, whether you lead a team of five or a multi-site operation. No prerequisites are needed.
Managers by experience
Leaders who learned on the job but never had formal training.
New contact centre managers
A structured foundation to manage well from day one.
Existing managers
Proven frameworks that cut through daily firefighting.
Team Leaders stepping up
Building the capability for Operations or Centre Manager roles.
Business leaders
Executives accountable for the contact centre channel.
Supervisors and 2ICs
Understanding the numbers and decisions behind the operation.
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Backed by ACXPA
Want to learn from the people who set the benchmarks?
CX Skills is the official training partner of ACXPA, the organisation that defines the Global Contact Centre CX Standards and publishes the Australian Call Centre Rankings. Your managers learn to run their centre against the same benchmarks call centres are measured on.
- Many CX Skills courses are ACXPA certified
- Management frameworks grounded in the benchmarks used to rank call centres
- Delivered by practitioners who’ve run both small centres and large-scale operations
ACXPA membership
Want to save $199.25 on this course?ACXPA members pay $597.75, not $797, plus a year of benchmarks, tools and live expert support
Whether or not your managers book a course, ACXPA membership gives each of them their own login to a practitioner-built, vendor-neutral platform of tools, benchmarks, templates and training, plus live access to experienced practitioners every fortnight, so they’re never making the big calls on their own.
- 50+hours of live expert access a year
- 65+tools, templates and resources
- 18calculators
- 25%off CX Skills live public courses
Justin on call, every fortnight
A relaxed, off-the-record Zoom every second Tuesday with Justin Tippett, ACXPA’s founder and your trainer on this course.
It’s like having Justin on call: bring a question, or just listen.
Call Centre and CX Roundtables
Monthly live panels with contact centre and CX leaders on the problems customer-facing teams face every day.
Every session is kept in a searchable library, with an AI assistant that answers your questions.
Eight specialist hubs
Customer service, CX, complaints handling, coaching, training and onboarding, call centres, WFM and benchmarking.
Each hub has its own tools, templates and training, ready when you need them.
Plus member tools built for the work managers actually do
WFM Hub
Nine planning tools, including Erlang staffing and service level simulators, an Interval Planner and a Shrinkage Calculator.
Call centre rankings reports
Monthly, quarterly and sector reports from the Australian Call Centre Rankings, tracking 48+ metrics.
Diagnostics
A Contact Centre Maturity Tool across seven weighted domains, a 17-dimension Customer Service Health Check and a 42-question CX Maturity Audit.
QA tools
QA Sample Size and Advanced QA calculators, plus the QA Sampling Benchmark to compare your sampling by sector and size.
Agent Performance Matrix
Plots every agent on quality versus productivity, so you can see where each team’s coaching effort should go.
Call Centre Hub
The operational toolkit for running a modern contact centre, including a business continuity plan template and manager and Team Leader job descriptions.
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 $797 course saves $199.
Why this course
Why managers choose this course
There are universal operating rules that underpin every high-performing contact centre, and most managers have never been taught them.
This course teaches them in a practical, engaging way, with real examples from centres of every size.
Global best practice
The same principles work in any centre, sector or platform.
Taught by a practitioner
Justin has spent 30+ years leading, consulting and training centres.
Seven focused hours
Two half-day sessions that fit around running your centre.
No maths degree needed
The numbers explained from a manager’s point of view.
A seat at the table
Position your centre as strategically important to the business.
Endorsed by ACXPA
Workbook, certificate and post-course support included.
Reviews
What participants say
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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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