Service Desk Analyst

The SDI Service Desk Analyst Course provides the essential skills and knowledge required for delivering customer service and support excellence. Covering three days of learning, plus the qualification exam at the end of the course, analysts will fully explore the modules covered in SDI’s professional standard for Service Desk Analysts.

Watch this video on the SDA course to learn more about the content, delivery and value of this popular qualification:

Service Desk Institute (SDI) is the worldwide organisation for setting best practice service desk standards in the IT service and support industry. SDI and PeopleCert; global leaders in the examination and certification industry, update the Service Desk Analyst (SDA) and Service Desk Manager (SDM) professional standards together.

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Updated SDA Course Overview:

This course contains everything that is typically core to the role of a Service Desk Analyst:

Roles and responsibilities: learn everything you need to know about being a professional, efficient, and effective service desk analyst and the key features of delivering service excellence
Relationship management: discover the importance of collaboration, teamwork, customer relationships and cultural awareness across a global perspective
Effective communication skills and competencies: explore the principles of good verbal, non-verbal, formal, and informal communication skills, the benefits of active listening and the different ways which people communicate
Problem-solving: a close look at problem solving techniques, critical thinking, inductive and deductive reasoning, and enhancing your creativity to reach a resolution faster
Effective rapport and conflict management skills: learn how to develop rapport with your colleagues and customers, understand the importance of good emotional intelligence and how this can aid conflict management and negotiation
Resilience: understand and develop emotional resilience to help detect and manage both positive and negative signs of stress
Managing practices, processes, and procedures: establish the need for practices, processes, and procedures for interaction handling and how to create and maintain high-quality documentation
IT Service Management: learn about the purpose and roles within the service desk of key IT Service Management practices including incident management, service request management, problem management, knowledge management and information security management
Quality assurance program: review the importance of quality assurance activities, commonly used quality assurance practices, customer satisfaction surveys and the benefits of metrics
Managing customer feedback: understand the purpose, objectives, and components of successful feedback management
Support methods: gain an insight into the different methods of delivering support, including the benefits of remote support and self-service
AI & automation: identify common examples, benefits and challenges of AI and automation within service management

Who should attend?

The SDA qualification course is for front-line IT service and support analysts with some experience in a first line or second line service desk environment. This course is perfect for analysts looking to grow in their role and gain a recognised qualification in their profession. This course will help them to develop practical skills whilst earning a certificate that endorses their commitment and knowledge.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course you will have:

• Essential skills and competencies to deliver efficient and effective support in the Service Desk environment

• Practical knowledge of how to use these skills to deal effectively with a variety of situations

• A clear understanding of how to identify customer needs and motivations, and how to handle difficult situations

• Understand the importance of teamwork in the support environment

• A thorough grounding in the skills, competencies, responsibilities and knowledge required of a professional and effective Service Desk analyst

In- House Training

The Service Desk Analyst Course can also be tailored for in-house delivery for focused groups/ individuals or project teams at your premises or even delivered virtually.

Find out more by visiting our bespoke and in-house training page here>>

How to Book...

Online:

Visit the Find A Course page and use the filters to select Service Desk Analyst. Select your date and location, then click ‘Book Now’ to add to your cart. SDI member discounts will be applied automatically.

Phone:

Contact a member of our training team on +44 (0)1689 889100, we’re always happy to help!

Email:

Contact us at hello@sdi-e.com

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Expert Trainers

In 2021, 96% of people who took the SDA course with us passed the exam, with 25% of them achieving a higher mastery. Enquire below to receive this expert tuition:

SDI courses are delivered by experienced trainers who combine 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

“Many thanks for the boost of confidence this training has given me and for all the helpful tips and information. It was really refreshing to be guided by someone who has a clear passion in delivering great service and who also has lots of experience in helping others to do so.“

Service Desk Analyst

Watch this video on the SDA course to learn more about the content, delivery and value of this popular qualification:

Download Service Desk Analyst Leaflet

This course contains everything that is typically core to the role of a Service Desk Analyst:

Roles and responsibilities: learn everything you need to know about being a professional, efficient, and effective service desk analyst and the key features of delivering service excellence

Relationship management: discover the importance of collaboration, teamwork, customer relationships and cultural awareness across a global perspective

Effective communication skills and competencies: explore the principles of good verbal, non-verbal, formal, and informal communication skills, the benefits of active listening and the different ways which people communicate

Problem-solving: a close look at problem solving techniques, critical thinking, inductive and deductive reasoning, and enhancing your creativity to reach a resolution faster

Effective rapport and conflict management skills: learn how to develop rapport with your colleagues and customers, understand the importance of good emotional intelligence and how this can aid conflict management and negotiation

Resilience: understand and develop emotional resilience to help detect and manage both positive and negative signs of stress

Managing practices, processes, and procedures: establish the need for practices, processes, and procedures for interaction handling and how to create and maintain high-quality documentation

IT Service Management: learn about the purpose and roles within the service desk of key IT Service Management practices including incident management, service request management, problem management, knowledge management and information security management

Quality assurance program: review the importance of quality assurance activities, commonly used quality assurance practices, customer satisfaction surveys and the benefits of metrics

Managing customer feedback: understand the purpose, objectives, and components of successful feedback management

Support methods: gain an insight into the different methods of delivering support, including the benefits of remote support and self-service

AI & automation: identify common examples, benefits and challenges of AI and automation within service management