Quality Assurance

Learning Level: Specialist
Format: Half-Day (3hr)
Delivery: Virtual
Online

Quality does not happen by accident. It is designed, built, and continuously improved. When quality varies, so does customer trust. This course introduces the foundations of Quality Assurance (QA) in contact centres, helping you create consistent, fair, and insight led evaluations that actually improve performance, not just measure it.

Contact centre QA can quickly become a tick box exercise. The focus shifts to scoring, consistency becomes the aim, and the real purpose gets lost. The result is frustration for you and your frontline colleagues, with limited impact on what actually matters – better conversations and improved customer outcomes. This course helps you reset that focus, positioning QA as a tool to drive performance, not just measure it.

Built around real contact centre scenarios, you will explore what QA is really there to achieve and why it matters beyond scores alone. You will look at how core QA principles remain consistent, while approaches can flex depending on whether you are working in a heavily regulated or more informal environment. You will build confidence in assessing interactions consistently, understanding what good looks like, and aligning quality standards more closely to customer expectations.

You will also focus on how to turn QA outputs into meaningful, practical feedback that your colleagues can act on. Rather than simply identifying gaps, you will learn how to use QA to support stronger coaching conversations, clearer expectations and better ownership of performance. Along the way, you will challenge whether your current framework is reinforcing the right behaviours.

Whether you are new to QA or looking to strengthen your approach, you will leave with greater confidence and practical methods to create a fair, balanced and effective QA process that supports both performance and engagement.

Course Content

  • Reframing Quality Assurance: Challenge common myths and assumptions about QA and explore its true purpose in a modern contact centre
  • Why QA matters: Understand the impact of QA on customers, the frontline, leaders and organisational performance
  • The colleagues experience: Step into the perspective of the frontline colleague and examine what drives trust, engagement and defensiveness
  • From evaluation to feedback: Shift the focus from scoring interactions to enabling meaningful, confidence-building conversations
  • The core components of effective QA: Explore the foundations of QA including calibrations, reporting and continuous improvement
  • Roles and responsibilities in QA: Clarify how QA fits across roles including QA teams, team leaders, operations and leadership
  • Importance of celebrating success: How recognising achievements supports motivation, engagement and a positive team culture

Learning Outcomes

  • Explain what Quality Assurance really is and why it matters for frontline colleagues, customers and the wider business
  • Identify the core components that make QA fair, consistent and trusted
  • Understand how frontline colleagues experience QA and what drives engagement or resistance
  • Move confidently from evaluation to meaningful feedback conversations
  • Recognise different QA approaches and when to use them, including how to apply principles across both regulated and non-regulated environments
  • Understand the roles and responsibilities of colleagues involved in QA
  • Describe what good quality looks like in practice, beyond a score

Who should attend?

Ideal for people new to QA or looking to understand the foundations for strong QA

What will you learn?

Apply QA frameworks with confidence to improve contact quality and coaching

How much is it?

£300 + VAT for members, £375 + VAT for non-members

Format Info

Group discount

Additional discounts available for group bookings

Who is it for?

Ideal for people new to QA or looking to understand the foundations for strong QA

Why should you go?

Apply QA frameworks with confidence to improve contact quality and coaching

How much is it?

£300 + VAT for members, £375 + VAT for non-members

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Upcoming Dates

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Tue 22 Sep 2026
1:00 – 4:00
Wed 9 Dec 2026
1:00 – 4:00
Wed 10 Mar 2027
1:00 – 4:00

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