Service Desk Team Leader

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01st - 02nd June 2027 (2 Days)
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM GMT

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Transforming Senior Analysts into Effective Team Leaders

Becoming a Team Leader is one of the biggest steps in a Service Desk career. Overnight, your success stops being about the tickets you resolve and starts being about how well your team performs, how consistently it delivers and how people feel about coming to work. The Service Desk Team Leader (SDTL) course gives you the skills, tools and confidence to make that step a success.

This two-day, highly interactive course focuses on the day-to-day realities of the role. It covers leading former peers, holding one-to-ones, coaching, managing performance, having difficult conversations, planning resources and reporting on your team’s performance. Around half of the course is practical: role plays, coaching practice, case studies and real-time simulations, all set in a realistic Service Desk.

The course is aligned to the SDTL Professional Standard and the SDI Global Best Practice Standard for Service Desk V9. It uses the same definitions as SDI’s Service Desk Analyst (SDA) and Service Desk Manager (SDM) qualifications, so you have a clear, consistent career path.

Pricing includes the exam fee – candidates can sit the exam remotely up to 12 months after the date of the course.

“The Service Desk Institute is a globally recognised organisation, advocating the highest levels of performance and service within our industry.” – Patrycja Sobera, Unisys.

This training course supports the senior analyst’s career progression by developing their knowledge of industry best practice, preparation for the roles and responsibilities of a Team Leader role and skill development and enhancement to better support Service Desk teams and functions.

The Senior Analyst to Team Leader course provides a bridge between the Service Desk Analyst and the Service Desk Manager qualifications.

Prefer to run this course in-house? This training course can also be tailored for in-house delivery for focused groups or project teams at your premises or virtually. Find out more by visiting our bespoke and in-house training page.

Course Content

This practical two-day course consists of twelve core skills-based modules:

This practical two-day course is made up of nine interactive lessons:

- Leading Yourself and Your Team – The Team Leader role, the move from analyst to leader, leadership styles, emotional intelligence, decision making, Challenger safety and leading change.
- Strategy, Stakeholders and Ethics – Turning the Service Desk strategy into team goals, mapping and engaging stakeholders, managing competing requests, ethics and ESG.
- One-to-Ones, Feedback and Coaching – Recruitment and onboarding, structured one-to-ones, S.M.A.R.T objectives, feedback models, coaching with GROW, skills matrices and succession planning.
- Performance, Difficult Conversations and Teams – The performance management cycle, capability and conduct, improvement plans, difficult conversations, mediating conflict, absence management and building high-performing teams.

Teamwork and Leadership Skills– Develop effective leadership and team-building skills.

Customer Relationship Management Skills– Learn about the importance of customer relationship management in the support environment, managing requirements and expectations, techniques to develop win-win negotiation skills, dealing with difficult customers.

Assertiveness– Develop behaviours for effective and assertive customer service.

Project Management Overview– Review a step-by-step guide to plan, control and manage projects effectively and efficiently.

The Service Desk and The ITSM Marketplace– Examine the principles of ITSM, ITIL and the business benefits.

Promoting the Service Desk – Discover the essentials and benefits of marketing the Service Desk.

Who Should Attend

This course is for new and aspiring Team Leaders, supervisors and senior analysts who lead people in a Service Desk or IT support environment. It’s ideal for anyone preparing to step into a leadership role, or already leading a team with or without the formal title.

Outcomes

By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:

Explain the Team Leader role and manage the move from analyst to leader, including leading former peers
Hold effective one-to-ones, give feedback and coach team members using proven models such as SBI and GROW
Manage performance fairly and hold difficult conversations with confidence
Plan resources, build rotas and manage the queue in real time
Engage stakeholders, manage competing priorities and say no constructively
Analyse team performance, spot “watermelon” reporting and produce clear management reports
Motivate the team, lead inclusively, support well-being and lead change, including AI adoption
Create a personal 90-day plan to put the learning into practice

Requirements

This is not a pre-recorded webinar and you will need:

A computer with a webcam (We ask that webcams are turned on throughout the duration of the course.)

Microphone/headset

High-speed internet connection

Ensure you connect 15 minutes before the session starts and log-in as a guest.

To help with the set-up, please download the  Adobe Quick Start Guide.

Preparation

Prior to attending the online course, delegates will receive a workbook of Student Notes which includes a course outline and learning outcomes.

In addition, delegates are given details of the virtual room to test their setup before the training begins.

Virtual - Login from anywhere

01st - 02nd June 2027 (2 Days)
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM GMT

Price: £1,170
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