Service Desk Manager - Virtual

This course contains everything that is essential to core roles and responsibilities of a successful Service Desk Manager:

• Defining strategic requirements: review the purpose, activities, and requirements of a successful service desk from a global perspective, discover the benefits of complying with industry standards and examine ethics in the service and support environment
• Developing a strategic role: examine the requirements for creating an effective service desk strategy that underpins business goals, learn about the purpose and objectives of vision and missions statements, examine the benefits and challenges associated with various sourcing models, and review the objectives and activities of financial management
• The role of the service desk manager: review the characteristics, skills and competencies required to be an effective service desk manager, review the roles and responsibilities of a service desk manager, discuss the reasons why we should promote the service desk, and review the key activities of a successful promotion campaign
• Organisational change and project management: identify the elements of successful project management and the importance of building persuasive business cases, example the purpose and benefits of effective organisational change, identify opportunities for participation in strategic decision making, and review the knowledge requirements to build good strategic awareness
• Teamwork and communication: review the characteristics of effective teams, examine the importance of excellent communication skills from a management perspective, learn the requirements of effective presentation skills, and enhance listening, information gathering and negotiating techniques
• Staff recruitment, retention & development: examine the requirements for effective recruitment strategies, review the features and benefits of a structured and on-going approach to induction, training and development, and explore the behaviours required to retain staff, maintain effective working relationships and address individual performance issues
• Management and leadership: review the activities of an effective manager and an effective leader, identify the elements of successful planning and co-ordinating activities, and examine the benefits of and how to achieve motivated teams
• Resilience: examine the importance of emotional resilience, recognising signs of positive and negative stress in yourself and your staff, and effective stress management
• Effective management of resources: examine the challenges and benefits of commonly used support delivery methods and technologies, explore the benefits of workforce management and resource planning models, and discover the challenges and benefits of adopting self-service
• AI and automation: identify the benefits and challenges of increasing automation and AI opportunities within the workplace and explore common examples of rules-based AI and neural networks
• IT service management: explore IT service management and its objectives, recognise the difference between a practice, a process and a procedure, identify the need to effective practices, processes and procedures and the importance of following them, and discover ITIL 4 practices and their purpose and place within the service desk environment
• Quality assurance activities: review the purpose and objectives of a comprehensive quality assurance program, identify common quality assurance practices, examine the purpose, benefits, and methods of interaction monitoring, and explore the role of benchmarking in the service desk environment
• Managing the customer experience: discover the importance of managing the customer experience and the need for a coherent approach, identify opportunities for capturing feedback, and learn how to use feedback effectively in decision making
• Management information & performance results: examine the relationship between critical success factors (CSFs), key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics, and identify a range of service desk metrics and their success criteria

This interactive four-day qualification course is designed for existing and aspiring service desk managers and supervisors who wish to develop their understanding of service desk management best practice and how to run an effective support operation.

This course is suitable for those with at least three years experience in a service desk environment.

At the end of this course, delegates will gain:

A thorough grounding in the skills required to lead, motivate and manage a service desk team.
The complete service desk management toolkit covering strategy, leadership, employee development, relationship building, service improvement, ITSM processes, performance measurement, finance and tools and technologies.
An internationally recognised SDM qualification from Peoplecert.
A new network of colleagues in similar roles from other organisations

This course will be delivered by an experienced trainer who combines service desk knowledge and real-world experience with the latest learning techniques. That’s why we are the choice of so many of the UK and Europe’s most successful service desks.

“I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and found the course very informative. As well as learning the standards, it gave me more confidence in my role. It was great to meet other people from different areas and discuss different ideas and opinions. I feel that I am more in tune with what my analysts do and how they do it, helping us work together.“

– Cindy Sikkema-Bridger, Customer Service Co-ordinator, Brett Group

This is not a pre-recorded webinar and you will need:

• A computer/laptop with a webcam (we ask for these to be switched on throughout the course)
• Microphone/headset
• High-speed internet connection
• Ensure you connect 15 minutes before the session starts and log-in as a guest.

To help with the set-up, please download the Adobe Quick Start Guide.

Adobe Connect only requires that you have an internet connection, a web browser, and Adobe Flash Player version 13 or greater to attend the web conference. If you have problems connecting whilst using IE or Edge browsers then please try Firefox.

Prior to attending the online course, delegates are sent a full training course manual and hand-out pack containing the latest SDM Professional Standards.

In addition, delegates are given details of the virtual room to test their setup before the training begins.