Contact Center Stress Management: Signs, Symptoms, and Solutions

Learn the essentials of stress impact and stress management to keep your contact center team charged up without burning out.

Is your contact center buzzing right along or sleepy and sluggish? Or is it on out-of-control overdrive? With too little stress, boredom sets in. But too much stress causes anxiety and burnout. Through ICMI’s Contact Center Stress Management: Signs, Symptoms & Solutions virtual classroom course, you’ll be able to gauge the energy level of your contact center and head off any stress build-up so you can retain more valuable employees who are more productive.

You’ll first examine the common causes of stress and learn reasonable ways to cope with them, including 90 ways to revitalize and re-energize. The top ten workplace stressors often seem magnified in a contact center environment. You’ll learn how the top ten are affecting your center, as well as contact center-specific action steps to take at the team level.

What stresses one person may not stress another. You’ve learned how to manage stress at the team level, but you’ll also need to manage stress on an individual level. Through stress type case studies, you’ll learn to recognize the five stress personality types, allowing you to help each employee prepare a personalized plan for coping with stress. You’ll learn how each stress type is best managed, so you can develop a strategy for stress relief.

The constant change in the contact center is one of its biggest stressors. In this course you’ll learn to use a change management worksheet to identify the challenges you face and which are non-negotiable, negotiable or controllable. Next, you’ll look at the phases of change that your team will go through and how you can use communication to make changes—big and small—easier.

Designed for contact center managers, supervisors and team leaders who want to manage stress levels to create a more productive workplace atmosphere, this course will help you:

• Examine the effects of stress, including the results of too much stress, as well as what happens when there is too little stress.
• Uncover the common causes of stress and ways to realistically cope with them, including more than 90 ways to manage stress.
• Learn the various stress profiles that individuals will fall under and how to manage stress for each profile.
• Manage change in a positive and productive manner that will reduce stress and errors using a “Take Charge of Change” worksheet.

Who should attend?

Call center managers and supervisors who want to make their contact center environment a less stressful place to work.

Course Length

This course is delivered in a two hour session. Purchasing this course on-demand will give you access to the recording (slide presentation with audio) and course materials for 30 days.

Course Materials

• Printable Slide Presentation
• Industry Articles
• Combating the Negative Effects of Job Stress in the Call Center
• The Human Side of Stress Relief
• Handouts
• 90 Ideas for Revitalizing and Energizing Yourself
• Resource List
• Stress Factor Checklist
• Taking Charge of Change Worksheet

Pricing

Pricing for live virtual classroom courses is for one computer and one telephone connection per session. An unlimited number of participants may attend through a single connection to WebEx.

Cancellation Policy

Please take a moment to read the cancellation policy.