Mastering Quality Assurance

Learning Level: Specialist
Format: Half-Day (3hr)
Delivery: Virtual
Online

Quality Assurance is not the score. It is the change it creates. If your contact centre QA isn’t changing behaviour, it isn’t working. High scores, recurring issues and limited impact are often signs your QA is reinforcing the wrong things. This course helps you reset what quality really means in the contact centre and helps you make QA drive measurable improvement.

Most QA already produces data. Scores are calculated, reports are shared and trends are visible. Despite all of this, the same issues repeat, behaviours don’t shift and customer outcomes don’t improve in a meaningful way. The problem is not a lack of information. It is what that information is reinforcing.

This learning experience is built for those working deeply within QA who need to move beyond maintaining a framework to making it matter. You will explore what your current QA approach is genuinely driving, where it may be unintentionally encouraging the wrong behaviours, and how to reshape it to reflect what actually matters to your customers, colleagues and your operation.

By the end, you will have practical tools and fresh perspectives to review your own quality framework with confidence, transform insight into meaningful action and ensure QA becomes more than a measure of performance. Instead, it will become a powerful tool for improving customer experience, developing contact centre people and driving lasting operational improvement.

Course Content

  • What QA is really doing: Challenge assumptions about what your QA is measuring.
  • Behaviour over score: Understand how QA reinforces behaviours, not just results.
  • Outcomes vs reality: Map intended outcomes against current QA impact.
  • Scorecard effectiveness: Assess whether questions drive the right behaviours.
  • Measuring what matters: Identify gaps in what is currently being captured.
  • Beyond percentages: Explore quality without reliance on pass or fail scoring.Evidence of quality: Use growth, impact and system signals to define success.
  • Insight to action: Turn unused data into practical change.
  • Control to catalyst: Shift QA from compliance to influence.
  • Immediate change focus: Identify one action to increase QA impact now.

Learning Outcomes

  • Apply advanced QA thinking to influence behaviours, decision making and measurable operational outcomes consistently
  • Identify what your QA framework is truly reinforcing through scoring, feedback and performance conversations across teams
  • Use insight and data to highlight trends, drive performance shifts and enable meaningful improvement activity
  • Strengthen QA approaches to better engage frontline colleagues and increase ownership of quality outcomes
  • Recognise clear evidence of growth, performance impact and underlying system issues within QA data
  • Position QA as a credible driver of change that influences leaders and shapes operational direction
  • Translate QA findings into clear, actionable changes that improve performance, experience and business results

Who should attend?

Those shaping QA strategy and accountable for QA delivery and credibility

What will you learn?

Turn QA insight into behaviour change and measurable impact

How much is it?

£300 + VAT for members, £375 + VAT for non-members

Format Info

Group discount

Additional discounts available for group bookings

Who is it for?

Those shaping QA strategy and accountable for QA delivery and credibility

Why should you go?

Turn QA insight into behaviour change and measurable impact

How much is it?

£300 + VAT for members, £375 + VAT for non-members

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.

Upcoming Dates

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Wed 23 Sep 2026
9:00 – 12:00
Thu 10 Dec 2026
9:00 – 12:00
Thu 11 Mar 2027
9:00 – 12:00

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