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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
Contact centre team talking through performance at their desks

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.

Session 1

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
Session 2

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
Session 3

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
Session 4

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
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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
Talk to us about your team

Want a shorter, broader starting point? See Introduction to Contact Centre Management

Daniel Ord

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

See Daniel’s profile

★★★★★
Daniel has an amazing ability to connect with people. He is very personable, and has this amazing ability to bring training content to life!
Joyi LuService Improvement Lead, Queensland University of Technology
★★★★★
The facilitator (Daniel Ord) was really engaging and explained everything from WFM to forecasting in an easy to understand manner.
Jamie LeonardA/Operations Manager, Department of Justice and Community Safety, Victoria
★★★★★
Daniel is very experienced and the way he explains makes things easy to understand.
Lin Yi TerhCC Service Executive, Central Provident Fund, Singapore

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.

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Prefer to talk it through?

Not sure it suits your team? Get in touch and we’ll help you choose.

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Upcoming 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.

  • Live with Daniel OrdExpert-led and interactive
  • Workbook and certificateFor everyone who completes
  • 15% off 2 or moreBooked in one transaction
  • 25% off for membersACXPA member pricing
Next available19Jan2027

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

$1,997per person, ex GSTBook tickets15% off 3 or more tickets 4.9/5 · 374 reviews
Times shown in Melbourne time (AEST/AEDT).

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

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.

4.9

374 verified reviews across all CX Skills courses

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5.0

Contact Centre Management Fundamentals · 29 reviews

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On Google · 39 reviews
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FAQs

Contact Centre Management Fundamentals FAQs

Delivery, pricing, content and who the course suits.

Still have questions? Get in touch
Who should attend?
Current and aspiring contact centre leaders, including senior Team Leaders, Operations Managers and new or experienced Contact Centre Managers, plus executives who need clarity on managing and measuring the centre.
Will this apply to our contact centre?
Yes. The principles apply to small teams of five as much as to global multi-site operations, in any industry and on any platform, whether you use Genesys, Five9, Amazon Connect or anything else.
How is the course delivered?
Live online via Zoom over 4 × 4.5-hour sessions on consecutive days, so you can learn for half the day and stay on top of your centre for the other half.
Can Daniel deliver the course onsite?
Daniel is based in Germany, so this course runs live online. We have run it onsite for some clients: if you’d like Daniel with your team in person, talk to us and we’ll quote it, including travel.
Do I need to be good at maths or workforce planning?
No. You’ll learn the manager’s perspective on forecasting, staffing and service levels: what matters, how to read the reports and how to make sound decisions.
How does it compare with Introduction to Contact Centre Management?
Fundamentals is an 18-hour deep dive into the operations side. Introduction to Contact Centre Management gives you the complete picture in seven hours, including leadership, quality and AI.
How much does it cost?
Public courses are $1,997 per person (ex GST). Save 15% when you book two or more tickets in the same transaction, and ACXPA members save 25%. Private courses for your team (minimum 5 participants) are quoted.
What’s included?
Four live 4.5-hour sessions with Daniel, a workbook, post-course support and a certificate of completion.
Will the course definitely go ahead?
Public courses need a minimum number of participants to run, so we reserve the right to reschedule or cancel a date if too few people book. If that happens, we’ll let you know as early as possible and you can move to another date or get a full refund.
How do I book?
For a public course, choose a date in the upcoming dates and book online by card or invoice. For private training, talk to us or call +61 3 9008 7287.

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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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