The Minnesota Chapter of HDI will be hosting a Support Center Analyst and a Support Center Manager training session the first week in April. These classes are open to the public; both HDI members and non-members are welcome. HDI certification and training is built upon globally-recognized industry standards developed by an international committee of industry experts and practitioners. Learn from the best instructors in the industry; participate in exercises and discussion, and network with your peers from other local companies.
We hope that you will be able to participate in this exciting chance to learn, network, and prepare to get certified as a Support Center Analyst orManager. Class size is limited to 20 attendees per class. If you’re interested in attending, contact Tina Buchberger (contact info below) right away.
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HDI Support Center Analyst
HDI Support Center Analyst training focuses on strategies for effective customer service, emphasizing problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, call-handling procedures, incident management, communication skills, and an introduction to ITIL® processes.
When: April 9-10, 2012 from 8:00-5:00 pm CT
Where: Infinite Campus, 4321 109th Ave NE, Blaine, MN 55449
Cost: $1295 for HDI members, $1395 for non-members (includes the cost of the HDI certification exam)
What You Will Learn:
- How to assess customer business needs and exceed customer expectations
- Critical thinking skills to resolve incidents quickly and consistently
- Active listening skills and effective communication strategies
- How to identify and defuse challenging customer behavior
- Ways to create win-win interactions with customers, management, and team members
- An awareness of ITIL® processes
HDI Support Center Manager
HDI Support Center Manager training explores how the support center’s strategy drives everything the support center does: service delivery, infrastructure implementation, operational processes, workforce management, and support center marketing. Designed for both new and experienced support center managers, this course helps support center managers satisfy operational demands and build a support center that aligns with the organization, adds value to the business, and delivers on its commitments.
When: April 11-13, 2012 from 8:00-5:00 pm CT
Where: Infinite Campus, 4321 109th Ave NE, Blaine, MN 55449
Cost: $1795 for HDI members, $1895 for non-members (includes the cost of the HDI certification exam)
What You Will Learn:
- Characteristics of an effective support center manager
- How to create service level agreements, operational level agreements, and standard operating procedures in support of a service catalog
- Steps to cost-benefit analysis, total cost of ownership, and calculating return on investment
- The relationships between IT service management processes
- The difference between and the importance of strategic, tactical, and operational planning
- Benefits and challenges of self-service technologies
- Processes for building and managing effective security policies
- Staffing models
- The value of outsourcing
- Tactics for screening, hiring, training, and managing high performance teams
- The metrics and key performance indicators essential to your performance reporting
Please contact Tina Buchberger for these classes (p: 773-417-2238). Also, feel free to forward this message to anyone you believe could benefit from HDI training and certification. The more the merrier! For additional information on these or other HDI training opportunities, please click here.
If there is a training session that you’d like us to bring to Minnesota, please let me know. Did you know that we meet the 3rd Wednesday of every month?! Want to learn more about your local HDI chapter? Please visit: http://www.hdimn.com/
All the best,
Gina Montague
President
Minnesota Chapter of HDI
president@hdimn.com