Team Leader Development Pathway · course 3 of 4

Live online · 2 × 4.5 hours · with Daniel Ord

Leadership & People Management for Team Leaders

The Team Leader role is pivotal and demanding. Most Team Leaders are promoted because they were great advisors, then expected to manage performance, support wellbeing and keep everyone engaged.

This course gives Team Leaders a practical way to lead people: where to focus their time, how to build trust and how to have the conversations that drive performance and growth.

  • Led by global expert Daniel Ord
  • Real contact centres, not theory
  • Part of a four-course pathway

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

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What’s in it for you

What you’ll be able to do

Without a clear framework, Team Leaders spend their days firefighting, rescuing or avoiding the conversations that matter most. That’s exhausting for them and confusing for the team.

You’ll leave with a structured, practical approach to the people side of the role, grounded in real contact centres, not generic leadership theory.

  • Time spent where it counts
  • Trust and engagement
  • Conversations that lift performance
Team Leader supporting a team member at her desk

Know the whole role

The four parts of the Team Leader role, and where your time should go.

Use time well

A time and motion review that shifts effort towards developing people.

Lead, not just manage

Connect purpose, values and service vision to everyday leadership.

Build trust

Move from a judging mindset to a connecting one.

Lift engagement

Practical actions built on autonomy, mastery and purpose.

Have better conversations

Praise, improvement, poor performance, reviews and huddles.

The course

Four modules over two live sessions

Leadership & People Management for Team Leaders runs live online over two 4.5-hour sessions on consecutive days: nine hours with Daniel Ord.

Day one covers the scope of the Team Leader role and the foundations of leadership. Day two moves into engagement and conversations, with practical ways to bring leadership to life with your team.

Sessions are practical and interactive, with models, reflection and real contact centre examples.

  • 2 × 4.5 hoursTwo live sessions on consecutive days
  • Live onlineVia Zoom, join from anywhere
  • For Team LeadersNew, experienced and aspiring
  • Pathway course 3Stands alone, or with the other three

What’s covered: four modules

You move from clarifying the Team Leader role, to leadership, to engagement, and finally to the conversations that bring it all to life.

Module 1

Team Leader roles and responsibilities

What the organisation expects from Team Leaders, and what great looks like.

  • The four categories of the Team Leader role
  • Time and motion exercises
  • The KSAA framework and Advisor Success Profile
Module 2

Leadership

Connecting leadership concepts with daily practice in the contact centre.

  • Purpose, values and Service Delivery Vision
  • Leadership versus management
  • Self-leadership: from judging to connecting
Module 3

Employee engagement

Turning engagement principles into practical actions for Team Leaders.

  • The four aspects of engagement
  • Autonomy, mastery and purpose
  • Applying insights to real challenges
Module 4

Having conversations

The operating rhythm and the essential conversations Team Leaders need to have.

  • Praise and recognition
  • Improvement, poor performance and behaviour
  • Monthly reviews and team huddles

Choose how to take part

Book tickets on a public course, or run it privately for your Team Leaders, on its own or as part of the full pathway.

Public course

Join a scheduled live online class

  • 2 × 4.5-hour live online sessions
  • Learn with Team Leaders from other organisations
  • Book one ticket or several
  • Save 15% when you book 3 or more
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Private team course

Your Team Leaders only, live online

  • Discussion focused on your own team challenges
  • Add the other pathway courses for a full program
  • Live online, on dates that suit you
  • Minimum 6 participants
Talk to us about your team

Want to coach for service quality as well? See Quality Management & Coaching for Team Leaders

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

★★★★★
I’ve acquired skills that I can implement immediately in my role to help create and maintain an environment and culture where our people thrive.
Clarence VigoLeadership & People Management for Team Leaders participant
★★★★★
Hearing the group, not just the facilitator (Daniel) discuss their thoughts openly, gives perspectives that connects to the focus points of the training. I loved it!
Noel LamadridTeam Leader, Virtual Gaming Worlds (VGW Holdings Limited)
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I have done similar courses in the past but Daniel was by far the best facilitator – He was engaging and very knowledgeable and very helpful.
Angela KoyaTeam Leader, Customer Services, Moorabool Shire Council

Getting sign-off?

Everything your manager needs, in one PDF

Download a four-page fact sheet with the outcomes, modules, format, price, the full pathway and options, ready to forward or attach to an approval.

Leadership & People Management for Team Leaders fact sheet

2 × 4.5 hours live online with Daniel Ord, $897 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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Team Leader Development Pathway

One of four courses in Daniel Ord’s Team Leader pathway

Most Team Leaders step up because they excelled on the frontline, then find that operations, quality, leadership and CX need a completely different toolkit.

The pathway covers all four. Each course stands alone and can be taken in any order, or run all four privately as one Team Leader program.

  • Four standalone courses, in any order
  • Same format: 2 × 4.5 hours live online
  • $897 per course, per person ex GST
  • Run all four privately for your Team Leaders

The four courses

See how this course fits with the other three. Compare the full pathway.

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

View course
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

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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

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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

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Course overview

A short interview with Daniel Ord introducing this course

Daniel explains the focus of the course, who it’s designed for, and how Team Leaders apply it with their teams.

Learn more about Daniel Ord

Upcoming live public courses

Book tickets for one Team Leader or a few

Public courses run live online over two 4.5-hour sessions on consecutive days, on a few dates each year.

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
  • Two consecutive days2 × 4.5 hours, live online
  • 15% off 3 or moreBooked in one transaction
  • 25% off for membersACXPA member pricing
Next available27Oct2026

Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 October 2026

  • Session 1 Tue 27 Oct · 12:30–5:00pm AEDT
  • Session 2 Wed 28 Oct · 12:30–5:00pm AEDT

Online via Zoom · Bookings close Mon 26 Oct, 6:30pm

$897per person, ex GSTBook tickets15% off 3 or more tickets 4.9/5 · 374 reviews

More dates

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Who it’s for

Who is this course for?

Team Leaders and Supervisors in contact centres and customer service teams, new or experienced, who want more confidence leading people day to day. No prerequisites are needed.

Team Leaders and Supervisors

Leading performance, behaviour and engagement.

Senior Team Leaders

Supporting other leaders and setting standards.

Emerging leaders

High-potential advisors preparing to step up.

Coaches and QA partners

Working with Team Leaders on development.

Contact centre managers

Wanting stronger people leadership in their teams.

Organisations investing in culture

Building consistent, confident frontline leaders.

Looking for other team leader training? Browse all team leader courses

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 to save $224.25 on this course?ACXPA members pay $672.75, not $897, plus a year of coaching tools, WFM calculators and live expert support

Whether or not your Team Leaders book a course, ACXPA membership gives each of them their own login to a practitioner-built, vendor-neutral platform of coaching tools, WFM calculators, templates and training, plus live access to experienced practitioners every fortnight.

  • 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.

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 $897 course saves $224.25.

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

Two 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 participants say about Daniel

Verified reviews from leaders who’ve trained with Daniel Ord at CX Skills.

4.9

374 verified reviews across all CX Skills courses

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On Google · 39 reviews
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FAQs

Leadership & People Management for Team Leaders FAQs

Delivery, pricing, content and who the course suits.

Still have questions? Get in touch
Who should attend?
Team Leaders and Supervisors, new or experienced, plus senior Team Leaders, emerging leaders and the coaches who work alongside them.
How is the course delivered?
Live online via Zoom over 2 × 4.5-hour sessions on consecutive days, so Team Leaders go deep without losing full days away from their teams. The times are shown with each date.
How is it different from Quality Management & Coaching?
This course covers leading people: trust, expectations, engagement and everyday conversations. Quality Management & Coaching for Team Leaders covers coaching for service quality: standards, monitoring and calibration. Together they cover both sides of the role.
How is it different from How to be a Great Team Leader?
Both build Team Leader capability. How to be a Great Team Leader is a course with Marc Carriere on the core skills of the role. This course, with Daniel, focuses on the people side of leadership. Both run on public dates or privately.
Do I need to do the other pathway courses?
No. Each of the four courses in the Team Leader Development Pathway stands alone and can be taken in any order. Together they cover operations, quality and coaching, leadership and CX.
Can we run the pathway for our Team Leaders?
Yes. Any course, or all four as one program, can run privately and live online on dates that suit you, for a minimum of 6 participants. Talk to us about your team.
How much does it cost?
Public courses are $897 per person (ex GST). Save 15% when you book three or more tickets in the same transaction, and ACXPA members save 25%. Private courses are quoted.
What do participants need?
A computer with a stable internet connection, Zoom, and a headset and camera for the best experience. You’ll receive your join link before the course starts.
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 tickets on the next public course, or talk to us about a private course or the full pathway for your Team Leaders.