FSM850 - Financial Services Contact Centre Management

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Subject Title
Financial Services Contact Centre Management

Subject Description
This course introduces the learner to contact centres. The main focus of this course is to explore the human and technological factors affecting performance in contact centres. Solutions to service and quality challenges are introduced. Actual business contact centre cases are used as practical problem solving situations.

Credit Status
FSM850 is a required subject in the Financial Services Management Program.

Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this subject the student will be able to:

  1. Analyze corporate business objectives and situations and make appropriate corresponding decisions with a view to a positive impact on the customer contact centre and customer services.
  2. Apply Customer Relationship Management (CRM) principles consistently and efficiently.
  3. Understand and apply leading and best industry practices to contact centre environments.
  4. Apply an understanding of call centre processes and disciplines to a variety of call centre environments.
  5. Apply effective team-building and leadership skills, including coaching and mentoring, in a contact centre environment.
  6. Develop and administer a contact centre operations budget cost-efficiently and effectively.
  7. Design, develop and execute call centre strategies and project plans from start up to re-engineering of people processes and technologies. Create and administer business plans and customer access strategies.
  8. Demonstrate the ability to recruit, hire, motivate, coach, and where necessary, implement progressive discipline and termination processes.
  9. Demonstrate an understanding of contact centre environments, including technology and its impact on performance.
  10. Act as a leader and participate as a member of a customer contact team, assuming responsibility for execution of strategy.
  11. Apply project management principles.

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