Contact Centre Leadership Behaviours

Learning Level: Manager
Format: Multi-Session
Delivery: Virtual
Online

Great leadership is not about experience, it is about how you show up every day. Contact Centre Leadership Behaviours will help you strengthen your behaviours that build trust, drive accountability and improve team performance, giving you practical tools to lead with more clarity, confidence and consistency.  

Strong contact centre leadership behaviours do not happen by chance. They are built over time through awareness, reflection and your ability to apply simple, effective approaches in everyday moments. This virtual learning experience gives you the space to step back from the pace of the operation and focus on how you lead, how you communicate and the impact you have on others.

Across four engaging virtual sessions, you will build a clearer understanding of what leadership really looks like in a contact centre. You will explore how your behaviour shapes culture, influences performance and affects how your team experiences work day to day. You will also focus on how to create an environment where people feel supported and included, while staying clear on expectations and standards.

Each session is practical and focused on application. You will strengthen your emotional intelligence, adapt how you communicate with different individuals and practise coaching and feedback approaches that build ownership and trust. You will also work with proven models, including the Accountability Ladder and will-versus-skill, so you can apply them immediately in your own environment.

Between sessions, you will have space to reflect, test new approaches and bring real examples back into the group. This allows you to build confidence gradually, embed new habits over time and see a visible shift in how you lead and how your team responds.

Course Content

  • Leading yourself first: Explore leadership identity, self-awareness and the impact your behaviour has on trust and culture
  • Emotional Intelligence: Build greater self-regulation and recognise emotional triggers in everyday leadership moments
  • Growth mindset: Understand how growth vs fixed mindset shapes confidence, learning and team performance
  • Accountability Ladder: Use the Accountability Ladder to build ownership and reduce blame or avoidance
  • Psychological safety: Learn how to create supportive environments where standards stay high and people still feel safe to speak up
  • Power and avoidance: Recognise power dynamics, rescue patterns and the habits that weaken performance conversations
  • Transactional Analysis: Apply Transactional Analysis to understand communication dynamics and improve leader conversations
  • Motivational drivers: Identify what engages different people and adapt your communication with more awareness and flexibility
  • Coaching and feedback: Practise coaching structures and feedback approaches that develop rather than diminish confidence
  • Will vs skill: Distinguish between motivation and capability gaps so you can respond in the right way

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand how your behaviour shapes trust, culture and team confidence, shifting from task focused to people focused leadership without losing sight of performance
  • Create clear, fair and consistent accountability by setting expectations that support ownership, improvement and strong performance
  • Communicate with greater intention, adapting your style to build stronger, more inclusive relationships with different individuals
  • Coach and deliver feedback confidently using simple structures that make conversations more effective and impactful
  • Recognise whether performance challenges are driven by will or skill and respond appropriately to support improvement
  • Build confidence in your leadership role by showing up with clarity, consistency and authenticity in everyday situations
  • Manage time and focus more effectively, balancing operational demands with the space needed for development and improvement
  • Make more confident day-to-day decisions, even in fast paced or high pressure environments where clarity is essential
  • Reduce over-reliance on direction by building ownership and accountability within your team while avoiding rescuing, over controlling or avoiding behaviours
  • Create psychologically safe environments that encourage contribution, while increasing awareness of individual differences and adapting your approach accordingly

Who should attend?

People looking to develop their leadership behaviours

What will you learn?

Lead with confidence, clarity, accountability and stronger conversations

How much is it?

£1200 + VAT for members, £1440 + VAT for non-members

Format Info

Four 3-hour modules delivered virtually via Zoom

Group discount

Additional discounts available for group bookings

Who is it for?

People looking to develop their leadership behaviours

Why should you go?

Lead with confidence, clarity, accountability and stronger conversations

How much is it?

£1200 + VAT for members, £1440 + VAT for non-members

Upcoming Dates

Select a date to book. You will be taken directly to our registration page, which will open in a new browser window.
Fri 6 Nov 2026 – Fri 27 Nov 2026
9:00 – 12:00
Fri 5 Feb 2027 – Fri 26 Feb 2027
9:00 – 12:00

Meet the Trainer

Faye Bailey

Faye Bailey

Learning Partner

With 20+ years’ experience in customer service, quality management, training and coaching, Faye is passionate about helping people grow and creating impactful learning. A Level 5 Professional Coach, she is known for her supportive, engaging approach, helping individuals and teams build confidence, unlock potential, and deliver exceptional customer experiences. She has designed and delivered programmes from Customer Obsessed Service and Executive Complaint Handling to Neurodiversity and Sales Techniques.

Faye brings energy, empathy, and a genuine belief that when people feel valued and supported, they do their best work, driving lasting success for colleagues and customers alike.

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