Call Center Executive Management Boot Camp
5-day consultant-led on-site workshop
RCCSP
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Overview

Executive Boot Camp is a one-week intensive management program on the science and practice of contact center management. Relish five uninterrupted days of strategic and tactical learning, collaboration, discussion and action planning with your entire management team.  This consultant-led workshop will culminate in a contact center process improvement and performance improvement plan that can be put into action immediately.

What's Covered

Topics covered in this program include:

  • Assessing the maturity, capability and viability of your current contact center
  • Managing with a high-impact, strategy-driven focus
  • Standard technologies and understanding alternative call distribution models
  • Scalability, service capacity, and customer ease of access
  • Implementing efficient hiring and workforce utilization practices
  • Critical continuous quality improvement processes and standard operating procedures
  • Phases, durations, and mediums for best practice call center training
  • Attrition-busting management methods supported by occupational psychology science
  • Managing high performance with the right metrics and scorecards
  • Drivers of customer satisfaction
  • Interdepartmental collaboration and contributions to the contact center
  • Mrthods for reducing the cost of compensation and operations

Within five information-packed days, your leadership team will learn industry best practices for contact center operations and a common lexicon to clarify communications and enable interdepartmental synergy. 4 days of intensive contact center management training is followed by 1 day of hands-on action planning, business plan preparation, presentations and Q&A, with one-on-one professional guidance of an RCCSP consultant and no distractions.

Agenda Highlights

  • Assessing the Current Viability and Scalability of the Contact Center
  • Contact Center Strategy
  • Performance Management
    • Capacity, Utilization, Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Productivity Metrics
    • Performance Scorecards That Drive Positive Change
  • Contact Center Capacity Management
    • Technologies
    • Speedy Access to Services
    • Decreasing Wait Time with Contact Center Engineering Techniques
    • Business Models that Maximize Utilization
  • Contact Center Human Resource Utilization Management
    • Forecasting Service Demand, Scheduling Resources, and Calculating Hiring Needs
    • Lowering Costs of Hiring and Recouping Costs of Attrition
  • Continuous Quality Improvement Management
    • Training and Skill Development Phases
    • Shadowing, Nesting and Mentoring Functions
    • Efficient and Cost-Effective Coaching Sessions
    • High-Impact Quality Monitoring and Affecting Change
  • Contact Center Performance Improvement Management
    • Prioritizing Process Improvement and Performance Improvement Projects
    • Focusing on Strategy and Cause and Effect Metrics
    • Cost and Change Management Considerations
  • Building the Contact Center’s 6-Month Action Plan
    • Setting Project Goals and Defining Objectives
    • Identifying Meaningful Project Metrics and Taking Baseline Measurements
    • Estimating Resource Commitments, Costs, and Timing of the Effort
    • Project Deliverables
  • Group Think
    • Management Team Comment, Critique and Input
    • Finalizing the 6-Month Improvement Plan

Deliverables and Tools

  • Current call center assessment
  • SWOT analysis template for assessing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to your call center's viability
  • Templates for creating service level and operating level agreements
  • Template for creating a standard operating procedures manual
  • Revelation by RCCSP™ - a leading workforce planning, scheduling, and performance analysis software tool.
  • Quality monitoring form templates
  • Sample metrics reports and tools
  • Skill needs analysis template
  • Phone screening interview template
  • Sample hiring letter
  • Sample rejection letter
  • Sample employee satisfaction survey tools
  • Coaching discussion planner template to plan and script coaching discussions based on readiness levels
  • 5 days of instructor led training, with activities, discussion, and practical application of new skills
  • Student course manual and call center management reference
  • USB drive containing tools, templates, and software used in class
  • Post-course instructor coaching and email support

Who Should Attend the Executive Management Boot Camp

Many critical best practices in contact center operations can seem counterintuitive to business experience. For example, strategic metrics such as service level, abandonment rate, and calls per agent, while useful measures of overall contact center success, will not reflect, drive, manage, or improve the efficiency of customer-facing contact center activity. Organizations that benefit most from Executive Boot Camp are those where the program is attended by the entire management team, including goal-setting executives, so that contact center concepts, mathematics and dynamics can be learned, processed and understood by all.

Recommended participants include:

  • C-suite executive, operational, and financial leadership
  • HR, IT, Training, Quality, Sales, Marketing, and Program leaders
  • Contact center operations directors and managers
  • Other executives, directors and managers with responsibility for:
    • Improving contact center performance
    • Overseeing contact center performance
    • Overseeing customer satisfaction strategy

Prerequisites

Attendees should possess a basic understanding of what a call center is, how calls flow into a center, and basic call center terminology. Course materials are in English, and attendees must possess a high level of English fluency.

Certification and Testing

The Certified Call Center Manager (CCCM) certification is officially recognized by the RCCSP Professional Education Alliance and its members.  This is an internationally-recognized certification.

The certification process consists of three parts:

  • Class attendance
  • Achieving a passing score on the online certification exam
  • Completion of a certification project

Demonstration of Learned Skills: Participants will complete a five-day instructor-led training course, where they will participate in hands-on learning and group exercises and demonstrate competencies under the observation of a Certified RCCSP instructor.  Upon successful completion of the course, an online login and password will be sent by email with instructions for accessing the knowledge-assessment certification exam.

Certification Exam: After the course, participants will have four weeks in which to take the online knowledge assessment exam. The certification exam is comprised of 75 questions and candidates are given 90 minutes to complete the exam. Candidates must achieve at least an 80% score in order to obtain certification.

Certification Project: To be completed within 6 months of completing the course.

Participants will be given a list of project topics and will submit their topic for approval within two weeks of completing the certification exam.

Topics will include items covered in the certification class such as creating and implementing:

  • A call center Service Level Agreement
  • A marketing plan
  • A metrics report using a balanced scorecard approach
  • A coaching discussion planner
  • A staffing or hiring business case
  • A quality monitoring form or calibration process
  • A call center team skills gap analysis
  • A customer satisfaction survey
  • Quality monitoring standard operating procedure manual
  • Agent standard operating procedures manual
  • And many other options

To increase the likelihood of every participant successfully completing the certification project, feedback will be provided by the Certification Project Review Committee for the first four weeks after project submission. The Certified Call Center Manager CCCM certification will be awarded upon approval and acceptance of the candidate's completed project.

Your Boot Camp Course Facilitator and Consultant

Your facilitator and instructor for this session will be a industry professional with over thirty years of experience in contact center and IT support management training and executive leadership that will share insightful business-oriented approaches to managing and improving performance in contact centers. Boot Camp facilitators’ breadth of experiences encompass inbound, outbound, and collections service operations; in business-to-consumer and business-to-business environments; from for-profit, I&R, and government support centers, to IT support and global outsourcing service centers.

With a passion for the Call Center Sciences, RCCSP Executive Boot Camp leaders share, discuss, and help participants deploy scientific research results impacting call center management and caller satisfaction. Research in call center business modeling culminated in the RCCSP Call Center Business Process Framework is presented in a way that synchronizes performance measurement terminology across accounting, industrial engineering, business management, and call center operation disciplines, vastly improving knowledge and information sharing between call centers and other corporate functions.  

Having led successful open-enrollment and private training and certification courses for years, RCCSP’s elite group of Executive Boot Camp facilitators are popular speakers at US and International call center and outsourcing conferences They are certified to instruct management at multiple levels of contact center responsibility, from strategic executives and directors to operational managers and front-line supervisors.

RCCSP Executive Boot Camp facilitators are skilled industry consultants, each with a decade or more of experience as a corporate executive.

Contact Center Executive Management Boot Camp Pricing

Pricing for an on-site CCEMBC program at your location is determined based on a "Base Fee" for up to six attendees, and a per person fee for each attendee thereafter. On-site fees are all inclusive:

  • Base Fee for up to 6 participants - $18,995 includes:
    • 5-day instructor-led training course
    • All workshop materials
    • USB-based toolkit
    • DiSC communications profiling tool
    • Instructor's travel and lodging expenses (for onsite presentations of 16 or less participants, in the continental US)
    • Certification exam fees for those leaders who will be pursuing a Certified Contact Center Manager (CCCM) designation
    • Certificates of completion (CEU credits are available)
    • E-mail and phone support to provide post-workshop project guidance
  • Additional participants - $1895 each

Additional travel surcharges will be charged for travel outside of the continental USA and for seminars scheduled within three weeks, or paid for within three weeks, of the delivery date.

The customer site must provide suitable meeting space, any desired meals or refreshments, and the following presentation supplies:

  • Flip chart easel with self-stick-backed flip chart paper pads and markers
  • LCD projection unit and projection screen
  • Comfortable boardroom or U-shaped configuration with ample individual work space
  • Participants will require laptops on Thursday and Friday.

Arranging the On-Site Boot Camp

An Executive Boot Camp can be confirmed by calling or emailing the RCCSP at (708) 246-0320, or filling in the form below and registering through the shopping cart.

Call Center Executive Management Boot Camp On-site Training, up to 6 participants, $24,995
Additional Attendees, $1895 per person

For more training course options, see the entire Contact Center Training Calendar of dates and locations.

For more IT, technical and field support training course options, see the Help Desk, ITIL, and Support Center Calendar.


Terms & Conditions

Seminar agenda and assigned instructors are subject to change.

Payment is due prior to the seminar.

Public seminar cancellation policy.  Registrants may cancel up to fourteen days in advance of the seminar start date for a full refund, less administrative fees of $400.  Or, you may transfer your registration to another date or member of your company at no additional charge.  Please notify us as soon as possible. Registrants cancelling within fourteen days of the seminar will receive credit, less administrative fees of $400, toward any other Resource Center seminar.

On-site training scheduling and cancellation policy.  On-site training fees must be paid to reserve a training date.  Additional travel surcharges will be charged for travel to training locations outside of the continental USA and for training courses scheduled within three weeks, or paid for within three weeks, of the on-site delivery date.Organizations may cancel up to 21 days in advance of the seminar delivery date for a full refund, less administrative fees of 25% of the base fee.

If for any reason you are unsatisfied with the training, please notify the instructor by the end of the first day. If you decide to cancel the remainder of the training program, the instructor will collect all training materials.  Fees paid, less a prorata one-day on-site training base fee plus any travel surcharges, will be refunded.

Cancellation by provider. In the unlikely event that a seminar must be cancelled by seminar provider due to unavoidable circumstances, you will be notified at least two weeks prior to the seminar date, and your payment will be refunded.

Seminar provider is not responsible for losses due to cancellation including losses and penalties on advanced or non-refundable airfares.

In all circumstances, seminar provider's liability shall be limited to fees received.

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What some past attendees say...

"This is a wonderful resource for providing best in class education and development for our leaders. There is now a stronger footing for engaging our executive leadership and other management teams at large. The amount of actionable information from this course that can be utilized immediately is tremendous."
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-- Quality Control Program Manager, U.S. Department of Defense, Finance and Accounting Services

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"The RCCSP trainer was very knowledgeable and able to apply that knowledge to our scenario quickly. In other call center courses I've attended, information was presented in a way that was difficult to apply to day to day operations. Not here. This entire course was extremely helpful, practical, easily understood, and applicable to our daily operations."
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Certified Quality Management Professional

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