Contact Centre Leadership Behaviours Masterclass

Learning Level: Manager
Format: Multi-Session
Delivery: In Person
2-day immersive in-person experience in Manchester

Great leadership is not about experience, it is about how you show up every day. Contact Centre Leadership Behaviours Masterclass is an immersive two-day learning experience that helps you strengthen the behaviours that build trust, drive accountability and improve team performance. You will discover practical tools to lead with more clarity, confidence and consistency in real situations, whilst building meaningful relationships with peers facing similar challenges. 

Strong contact centre leadership behaviours do not happen by chance. They are built through awareness, reflection and your ability to apply simple, effective approaches in everyday moments. This intensive, in-person masterclass gives you the space to step away from the pace of the operation and focus properly on how you lead, how you communicate and the impact you have on the people around you.

Over two immersive days, you will step out of the day-to-day and focus fully on yourself as a leader. You will explore what leadership really means in a contact centre environment, looking at how your behaviour shapes culture, influences performance and sets the tone for how people show up each day. You will also work on creating an environment where people feel supported and included, while being clear on expectations and what good looks like.

Through live discussion, facilitated reflection and hands-on practice, you will build confidence in real time. You will strengthen your emotional intelligence, improve how you handle accountability and performance conversations, and practise coaching and feedback approaches that drive ownership.

Alongside the learning, the masterclass experience creates space to connect with others. With overnight accommodation and a shared dinner, the informal moments often unlock the most valuable insight. You leave not just with new skills, but with new perspectives and a network you can draw on long after the course ends.

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?

£1995 + VAT per person. Includes evening meal and overnight stay

Format Info

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?

£1995 + VAT per person. Includes evening meal and overnight stay

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