Call Centre Team Leader Training must equip Team Leaders for the following key responsibilities:
To manage a team of Customer Services Advisers delivering first class, professional customer service to the public and a high quality front line service to the Company and its partners.
To supervise the workload of the team, allocating team members to optimise service provision and administrative support across the hours of the operation of the Customer Service Department.
To monitor the changing needs of service, liaising with internal and external customers to identify areas for improvement and make recommendations for service improvement and implementing those improvements to the satisfaction of internal and external customers.
To ensure that the team follows established procedures for each service request, including logging, processing and progress chasing enquiries, adhering to agreed Key Performance Indicators, Service Level Agreements and quality standards to maximise customer satisfaction.
To ensure statistical information is produced, collated and analysed on a daily basis to assist in evaluating the efficiency of the team and to inform resource allocation and service improvements.
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Who should attend
This program is prepared for call centre team leaders who lead the following teams:
Telesales
Customer Service
Debt collection
Live chat & Email response
Methodology
100% Activity based training
Group discussions
Case studies
Interactive storytelling
Video presentation
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Responsibilities of a Team Leader
Agreement on the required skills, knowledge and attitude to excel in telesales, service or debt collection through phone
Discussion: Brainstorming the list
Team development
Team development stages
Exercise: Identifying your own team’s development stage
Synergy through leadership styles
Your leadership style
Adjusting your leadership style according to your team’s development stage
Four Call centre leadership styles explained
Exercise: Action plans developed together with the trainee
Call monitoring and evaluation
Monitoring call quality
Trainer launches his own CALL QUALITY ASSESSMENT FORM
Exercise: Assessing pre-recorded calls and completing the form for each call
Review, encouragement and critique by the trainer
Coaching for success
Coaching model
Pre-coaching preparation
Exercise: Coaching interview and practice
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Decoding / picturing the statistics in order to develop improvement strategies.
Some common aspects to consider are:
Data cleanliness
Number of customer contacts per day
The time of day that produces most sales
The individual agent or team that produces most sales
Talk time or Average call duration etc
Average sales amount per FTE (Full time equivalent)
Exercise: Developing an action plan according to mock statistics provided by the trainer
Managing / creating time slots for call monitoring / assessment opportunities
Time activity quadrant
Prioritizing important and urgent
Time activity quadrant – alarming realizations about the team leader’s time
Exercise: Developing an intelligent Time management action plan
Motivating debt collection agents
Motivational morning briefings
Motivating through performance statistics
Motivational charts and scoreboards
Motivational games and activities (Daily, weekly, monthly etc)
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