National Certificate: Contact Centre Support (ID 71490)

Qualification ID 71490, NQF level 2, 130 credits

Massive Tax Savings for Learnerships

According to Section 12H of the Income Tax Act, by implementing a learnership within your organisation you can benefit by gaining a R60 000 tax rebate per learner. The objective of this tax incentive is to encourage job creation by reducing the cost of hiring and training employees through learnerships and to encourage human capacity development.

A further learnership grant is available from the various Seta's to the value of R18 000 per learner.

"Recognition of prior learning (RPL) is a process whereby, through assessment, credit is given to learning which has already been acquired in different ways". – SAQA

Should you wish your staff to be RPL'd, they will not lose any time in training and will use the knowledge they have gained through workplace experience to complete their PoE. Alternatively the learners will training. Learners have between six and 12 months to complete our qualifications.

The National Qualification in Contact Centre Support: Level 2 is designed to meet the needs of those learners who enter the field of Contact Centres. Contact Centres have become key business tools - integral to the way organisations achieve their business objectives. Contact Centres are a new industry - there is a need to develop career paths in this field, and it is a high growth industry constantly in need of skilled people.

The Contact Centre industry is also fast becoming the next knowledge worker industry. All Contact Centres are currently recruiting, training and performance managing agents.

Who Should Attend

  • Contact Centre Agent/Consultants
  • Contact Centre Supervisors
  • Customer Service Representatives
  • Customer Care Consultants
  • Telemarketers
  • Data Capturers
  • Administration Clerks
  • Receptionists
  • Switchboard Operators

Course Objectives

On completion of this course, learners will be able to:

  • Deal with more customers, more efficiently
  • Reduce call queuing
  • Reduce personal stress
  • Reduce call wrap up time
  • Reduce data entry errors
  • Reduce abandoned calls
  • Improve in customer service
  • Increase management information without needing further support staff

Course Outline

Module One – Contact Centre Culture
This module provides the Learner with an understanding of a Contact Centre, identifying the customer needs from a Contact Centre and instilling a Contact Centre Culture.

Module Two – Telephone Skills
Telephone Communication deserves the most attention in a Contact Centre. Oral communication, listening skills, responding to enquiries and complaints, accuracy in capturing data and taking messages are of extreme importance and requires specific skills.

Module Three – Computer Skills
This module covers using the World Wide Web and producing spreadsheets and word processing documents for business

Module Four – Working in a team
Successful Contact Centres require teamwork. Teamwork requires the ability to identify and respect diversity of team members and managing any conflict that may arise in a team. Problem solving within a Contact Centre contributes to a productive environment.

Assessment Process

We assess each individual outcome and assessment criteria and then also assess them on an integrated and holistic viewpoint. Our extensive experience of training this content has shown that the more practical and applied the assessment tool, the better.

The tools used fall into the following categories:

  • Formative and Summative assessment during the contact-time with the facilitator
  • Post-programme activities (including the final assessment against the unit standard outcomes) an integrated view