Live online · 4 × 4.5 hours · with Daniel Ord
Contact Centre Management Fundamentals
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.
Service levels, forecasting, staffing, measurement and budgets, refined over decades and ready to use the moment you’re back on the floor.
- 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
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
- 4 × 4.5-hour live online sessions
- Learn alongside managers from other organisations
- Book one ticket or several
- Save 15% when you book 2 or more
Private team course
Your leadership team only, live online
- The same course, just for your team
- Time to discuss your own centre’s challenges
- Live online, on dates that suit you
- Minimum 5 participants
Want a shorter, broader starting point? See Introduction to Contact Centre Management
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.
Download the PDFPrefer to talk it through?
Not sure it suits your team? Get in touch and we’ll help you choose.
Talk to usUpcoming live public courses
Book a Contact Centre Management Fundamentals course
Public courses run live online over four 4.5-hour sessions on consecutive days. The course runs only a few times a year, so dates are often scheduled months ahead.
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.
Tuesday 19, Wednesday 20, Thursday 21 and Friday 22 January 2027
- Session 1 Tue 19 Jan · 12:30–5:00pm AEDT
- Session 2 Wed 20 Jan · 12:30–5:00pm AEDT
- Session 3 Thu 21 Jan · 12:30–5:00pm AEDT
- Session 4 Fri 22 Jan · 12:30–5:00pm AEDT
Online via Zoom · Bookings close Mon 18 Jan, 6:30pm
Who 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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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 $499.25 on this course?ACXPA members pay $1,497.75, not $1,997, 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
Live expert access, every fortnight
Our Open Mic is a relaxed, off-the-record Zoom every second Tuesday with ACXPA’s founder and CEO.
No agenda, no slides: bring a question, share what you’re working through, 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 $1,997 course saves $499, more than twice the cost of an Individual Membership.
Why learn with Daniel
Why teams choose Daniel Ord
Daniel has spent decades helping organisations around the world lift service, and his courses are some of our most highly rated.
Every session is live and interactive, with real examples, practice and plenty of room for questions.
A global perspective
50,000+ people trained across 40+ countries, so your team learns what works worldwide.
A proven format
A course refined over many years and delivered the same way every time, so the results are consistent.
Practice, not theory
Real examples, exercises and discussion, so skills are ready to use on the very next customer.
Your challenges, discussed
There’s always time to talk through the situations your team faces every day.
Engaging online
Four half-day sessions that keep people involved and fit around rosters and service levels.
Recognised credentials
CCXP, ICMI Certified Associate and Net Promoter Certified, and a regular keynote speaker worldwide.
Reviews
What managers say
Verified reviews from managers who’ve completed Contact Centre Management Fundamentals with Daniel.
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Talk to us
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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