Service Desk Manager Course & Examination

This Service Desk Manager course provides a thorough understanding of service desk management and leads to a globally recognised qualification.

Held over 4-days this course qualification course is designed for existing and aspiring service desk managers and supervisors who wish to develop their understanding of service desk management best practice and how to run an effective support operation. 

Course Overview

This course contains everything that is essential to core roles and responsibilities of a successful Service Desk Manager:

• Defining strategic requirements: review the purpose, activities, and requirements of a successful service desk from a global perspective, discover the benefits of complying with industry standards and examine ethics in the service and support environment
• Developing a strategic role: examine the requirements for creating an effective service desk strategy that underpins business goals, learn about the purpose and objectives of vision and missions statements, examine the benefits and challenges associated with various sourcing models, and review the objectives and activities of financial management
• The role of the service desk manager: review the characteristics, skills and competencies required to be an effective service desk manager, review the roles and responsibilities of a service desk manager, discuss the reasons why we should promote the service desk, and review the key activities of a successful promotion campaign
• Organisational change and project management: identify the elements of successful project management and the importance of building persuasive business cases, example the purpose and benefits of effective organisational change, identify opportunities for participation in strategic decision making, and review the knowledge requirements to build good strategic awareness
• Teamwork and communication: review the characteristics of effective teams, examine the importance of excellent communication skills from a management perspective, learn the requirements of effective presentation skills, and enhance listening, information gathering and negotiating techniques
• Staff recruitment, retention & development: examine the requirements for effective recruitment strategies, review the features and benefits of a structured and on-going approach to induction, training and development, and explore the behaviours required to retain staff, maintain effective working relationships and address individual performance issues
• Management and leadership: review the activities of an effective manager and an effective leader, identify the elements of successful planning and co-ordinating activities, and examine the benefits of and how to achieve motivated teams
• Resilience: examine the importance of emotional resilience, recognising signs of positive and negative stress in yourself and your staff, and effective stress management
• Effective management of resources: examine the challenges and benefits of commonly used support delivery methods and technologies, explore the benefits of workforce management and resource planning models, and discover the challenges and benefits of adopting self-service
• AI and automation: identify the benefits and challenges of increasing automation and AI opportunities within the workplace and explore common examples of rules-based AI and neural networks
• IT service management: explore IT service management and its objectives, recognise the difference between a practice, a process and a procedure, identify the need to effective practices, processes and procedures and the importance of following them, and discover ITIL 4 practices and their purpose and place within the service desk environment
• Quality assurance activities: review the purpose and objectives of a comprehensive quality assurance program, identify common quality assurance practices, examine the purpose, benefits, and methods of interaction monitoring, and explore the role of benchmarking in the service desk environment
• Managing the customer experience: discover the importance of managing the customer experience and the need for a coherent approach, identify opportunities for capturing feedback, and learn how to use feedback effectively in decision making
• Management information & performance results: examine the relationship between critical success factors (CSFs), key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics, and identify a range of service desk metrics and their success criteria

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, delegates will gain:

• A thorough grounding in the skills required to lead, motivate and manage a service desk team.
• The complete service desk management toolkit covering strategy, leadership, employee development, relationship building, service improvement, ITSM processes, performance measurement, finance and tools and technologies.
• An internationally recognised SDM qualification from Peoplecert.
• A new network of colleagues in similar roles from other organisation

Who should attend

This interactive four-day qualification course is designed for existing and aspiring service desk managers and supervisors who wish to develop their understanding of service desk management best practice and how to run an effective support operation.

This course is suitable for those with at least three years experience in a service desk environment.

Prerequisites

There are no mandatory prerequisites. However it is recommended that candidates have more than 3 years experience within the Service Desk environment before attending this course.

Exam & Certification

• All methods of delivering this course include the exam in the fee
• The exam is 60 minutes in duration & includes 60 multiple choice questions
• Exams are administered online (proctored) by an independent examination body
• Participants are provided an exam voucher so they can schedule the exam at their convenience after completion of the course
• A passing mark of 65% is required to receive your SDI SDM certificate
• An exam review is included in the course to help you prepare for the final exam 

Course Material & Inclusions

This course comes with access to accredited course materials.

Our virtual instructor-led classes include a $25 lunch voucher for each day, this means you can get your lunch organised whether you do it from home or the office. The voucher is provided via email on the first morning of the course.

SDI Service Manager online exam voucher, valid for 12-months

A Take2 exam re-sit is included if there is a 'failure' result from the first attempt. Take2 will not be available from a missed or absent exam attempt.