The Customer-Centred Contact Centre

Learning Level: Manager, Strategic Leader
Format: 3 Hours
Delivery: Virtual
Online

Customer centricity isn’t a slogan. It’s how decisions get made. This interactive practical course helps you create a contact centre that reduces customer effort, builds loyalty and consistently delivers better customer outcomes. 

Most organisations say they’re customer-focused, yet many contact centres are still designed around internal processes, performance measures and organisational priorities. The result is often unnecessary customer effort, repeat contact, frustration and missed opportunities to build loyalty. 

This highly interactive course helps you see your operation through the customer’s eyes. You’ll explore what customer centricity really means in practice and how customer expectations, journeys and emotions are shaped by the decisions made every day across the contact centre. Rather than treating customer experience as a separate initiative, you’ll learn how to embed customer-centred thinking into operational management, performance improvement and leadership behaviours. 

You’ll examine the relationship between customer experience, colleague engagement, operational performance and business success, helping you move beyond metrics and create a clearer blueprint for success. Through practical discussion, real-world examples and facilitated activities, you’ll identify where friction exists and how to reduce customer effort while balancing commercial and operational priorities. 

Designed for people leading customer-facing operations, customer experience initiatives or service improvement programmes, this course provides practical frameworks that you can immediately apply in your contact centre.  

Learning alone does not change culture, application does, so you’ll leave with clear actions to help create a more customer-centred contact centre where people, processes and measures are aligned around what matters most to customers. 

Course content

  • Customer-centred principles Understand what customer centricity means and challenge common assumptions and misconceptions.  
  • Evolving expectations Explore changing customer needs, expectations and perceptions of great experiences.  
  • Customer journeys Identify moments that matter and understand the realities customers experience.  
  • Customer effort Recognise friction points that drive dissatisfaction, complaints and repeat contact.  
  • Operational alignment Connect processes, policies and measures to customer-focused business outcomes.  
  • Decision making Balance efficiency, productivity and customer expectations more effectively.  
  • Customer-centred culture Build ownership, accountability and customer-focused mindsets across teams.  
  • Leadership behaviours Strengthen visible leadership that helps create a climate of success.  
  • Stakeholder engagement Influence others to support customer-focused change and improvement priorities.  
  • Action planning Create practical measures of success and embed customer-centric behaviours sustainably. 

Learning outcomes

  • Define what customer centricity looks like within a modern contact centre operation. 
  • Understand how customer experience influences operational performance, loyalty and business success. 
  • Identify organisational barriers that prevent customer-focused decisions and sustainable service improvements. 
  • Reduce customer effort by recognising friction across journeys, processes and interactions. 
  • Apply customer-centred thinking when making operational, performance and leadership decisions. 
  • Evaluate existing measures and processes through a stronger customer-focused perspective. 
  • Create practical actions that strengthen customer-centric behaviours, culture and accountability.

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Who should attend?

Contact centre professionals shaping customer experience, service delivery and operational improvement.

What will you learn?

Align operations, culture and decisions around customer outcomes.

How much is it?

£375 + VAT. Members receive a 20% discount.

Format Info

3 hour online workshop, using Zoom.

Group discount

Additional discounts available for group bookings

Who is it for?

Contact centre professionals shaping customer experience, service delivery and operational improvement.

Why should you go?

Align operations, culture and decisions around customer outcomes.

How much is it?

£375 + VAT. Members receive a 20% discount.

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