Certified Service Desk Manager (CSDM) Course Outline
This course has been carefully designed to provide Service Desk Managers and Supervisors with a coherent understanding of the Service Desk and Support Environment. This course is set out in a modular format:
Module 1: Defining Strategic Requirements
- Define Service Desk
- Roles and Responsibilities of Service Desks
- Strategy Planning
- Best Practices
Module 2: Developing a Strategic Role
- Service Strategy
- Service Generation
Module 3: Essential Management Skills
- Introduction to Essential Management Skills
- Individual Change Readiness
- Creating a Change Management Plan
- Dealing with Resistance
- Communication Techniques
- Effective Communication Skills
- Problems with Communication
- Handling Users
- Improving Your Verbal and Email Communication
- Internal Communication
- Common and Overcoming Barriers to Communication
- AIDA Model
- Effective Communication Guidelines
Module 4: Integrating the Service Desk
- Importance of Effective Work Relationships
- Continual Service Improvement Model
- Activities Supporting CSI
Module 5: Promoting the Service Desk
- Overview of Promoting the Service Desk
- Principles of Stakeholder Engagement
- Strategies for Mobilising Stakeholders
Module 6: Quality Assurance Activities
- Introduction
- Purpose of Customer Feedback
- Ways to Collect Customer Feedback
- Importance of Customer Satisfaction Surveys
Module 7: Effective Management of Tools and Technologies
- Automated Call Distribution (ACD)
- Computer Telephony Integration (CTI)
- Benefits of Self-Service
Module 8: Staff Recruitment and Retention
- Introduction to Staff Recruitment and Retention
- Devising an HR Agenda and Strategy
- HR Policy Documentation
- Creating an HR Policy Manual
- HR Policy Reviews
Module 9: Professional Development
- Introduction
- Benefits of Professional Development
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Benefits of Coaching and Mentoring
Module 10: Leadership and Management
- Defining Management
- What is the Role of the Manager?
- Descriptions of the Role of a Manager
- Responsibilities of a Manager
- Objectives of a Manager
- Discuss
- Succeeding as a Manager
- Useful Skills to Have
- Types of Management Style
- Leadership Vs Management
- Qualities of a Good Leader
- Visionary Leaders
- Connective Leaders
- Storytellers
- Adaptive Leaders
- Transformational Vs Transactional
- Dispersed Leadership
- Goleman – Leadership Styles
- Choosing the Appropriate Leadership Style in Any Given Situation
- Situational Leadership
- Leadership and Management
Module 11: IT Service Management
- Introduction to ITSM
- Key Concepts
- Guiding Principles
- ITSM Framework
- Problem Management
Module 12: Service Management Framework
- Service Life Cycle
- Core Component
- Service Strategy
- Service Transition
- Service Operation