Genesys Cloud CX Customer Contact Operations Training Course

Course overview

Customer contact operations teams need more than agents who can answer calls and emails. They need supervisors, service managers and operational leads who can use Genesys Cloud CX to see what is happening across queues, channels and teams; respond to rising demand; improve interaction quality; and make routing and workforce decisions using reliable operational data. Without a clear operating model, organisations risk long wait times, inconsistent customer handling, avoidable transfers, poor schedule adherence and dashboards that report activity without explaining what action to take.

This five-day course develops practical capability in Genesys Cloud CX customer contact operations. Participants work with queue and conversation views, performance dashboards, analytics, routing concepts, Architect flows, workforce management forecasts and schedules, quality evaluations, knowledge content and customer journey data. They learn to interpret service-level, abandonment, occupancy, adherence, handle-time and quality metrics; identify operational causes behind poor results; configure and test controlled improvements; and communicate performance findings to managers and frontline teams.

Instructor-led sessions combine guided platform demonstrations with realistic contact-centre scenarios covering voice, email, messaging and digital interactions. Participants complete hands-on exercises in a Genesys Cloud CX training environment, including queue monitoring, interaction review, schedule management, quality calibration and flow analysis. Each participant leaves with a documented Customer Contact Operations Improvement Plan: a practical pack containing a KPI scorecard, queue diagnostic, escalation actions, quality-calibration approach and 30-day implementation priorities for their own operation.

The course is suited to professionals moving into Genesys Cloud CX operational responsibility as well as experienced contact-centre practitioners who need a structured method for managing performance across channels. It is designed for both the person expected to run the service day to day and the manager accountable for customer experience, staffing efficiency and measurable service outcomes.

Course objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Interpret Genesys Cloud CX queue, agent and conversation metrics to diagnose service-level, abandonment and productivity issues
• Configure and use views, filters, alerts and dashboards for daily intraday contact-centre monitoring
• Analyse routing, queue membership, skills and capacity settings to identify avoidable transfers and delays
• Review Architect inbound flows and data actions to trace customer journeys and isolate flow-related failure points
• Produce workforce forecasts, schedules and intraday adjustments using Genesys Cloud Workforce Management
• Conduct interaction evaluations and calibration sessions using Genesys Cloud Quality Management scorecards
• Build a KPI scorecard linking service level, occupancy, adherence, handle time, quality and customer outcomes
• Create a 30-day Customer Contact Operations Improvement Plan with owners, measures, risks and review points

Benefits of attending

Target competencies

Who should attend

• Contact Centre Managers — who are accountable for service performance, staffing decisions and customer experience results
• Customer Service Operations Managers — who need to translate Genesys Cloud CX data into daily operating actions
• Contact Centre Supervisors — who monitor queues, coach agents and manage intraday exceptions
• Workforce Management Analysts — who forecast demand, create schedules and investigate adherence or capacity gaps
• Quality Assurance Leads — who run interaction evaluations and calibration programmes across customer channels
• Genesys Cloud CX Administrators — who need operational context for queues, routing, flows and reporting decisions

Requirements and prerequisites

This is a foundation-to-intermediate course. Participants should understand the basic purpose of a contact centre, including queues, agents, customer interactions, service level, average handle time and escalations. Experience using Genesys Cloud CX as an agent, supervisor, administrator or reporting user is helpful but not essential. Participants should be comfortable using a web browser, spreadsheets and operational reports. No coding, API development, telephony engineering or prior Architect-flow build experience is required. Complete beginners should expect a guided introduction to the Genesys Cloud CX interface before working through operational scenarios and data-led exercises.

Training methodology

The course is delivered through instructor-led explanation, live Genesys Cloud CX demonstrations and hands-on work in a controlled training tenant. Participants investigate a simulated operation with fluctuating demand, missed service targets, routing defects and inconsistent quality results. Small-group workshops use queue views, conversation records, WFM schedules, evaluation forms and Architect flow maps to reach operational decisions. Daily exercises produce components of a final improvement plan, which participants review with peers and refine into actions they can apply in their own customer contact environment.

Course outline

Day 1: Genesys Cloud CX operating model and service performance

• Genesys Cloud CX navigation, roles, permissions and operational workspaces
• Customer contact operating model across voice, email, messaging and digital channels
• Queue structure, memberships, skills and agent status management
• Service level, abandonment, average speed of answer and average handle time definitions
• Queue Performance and Agent Performance views
• Conversation detail, interaction timelines and participant data
• Daily operating rhythm, escalation thresholds and service-recovery actions

Workshop: Participants use queue and conversation views to diagnose a simulated morning service failure and produce a prioritised intraday action list.

Day 2: Routing, journeys and Architect flow operations

• ACD routing concepts, evaluation methods and queue selection
• Skills-based routing, preferred agent routing and bullseye routing use cases
• Capacity rules, utilisation and channel concurrency considerations
• Architect inbound flow structure, reusable tasks and flow versioning
• Data actions, participant data and CRM context in routing decisions
• Flow troubleshooting using execution data and customer journey evidence
• Controlled change management and testing for routing and flow updates

Workshop: Participants map a failed customer journey, inspect an Architect flow and propose a tested routing-and-escalation correction.

Day 3: Workforce management and intraday control

• Genesys Cloud Workforce Management forecasting inputs and historical data
• Erlang-based workload assumptions and planning intervals
• Scheduling rules, work plans, shifts, activities and constraints
• Schedule generation, publication and agent self-service considerations
• Real-time adherence, conformance and exception management
• Intraday reforecasting and schedule adjustment decisions
• Occupancy, shrinkage and staffing trade-offs in service planning

Workshop: Participants create a staffing response for a demand spike, adjusting a forecast and schedule while documenting service and cost trade-offs.

Day 4: Quality management, coaching and operational insight

• Genesys Cloud Quality Management policies, evaluations and assignment workflows
• Evaluation form design using critical, behavioural and compliance criteria
• Interaction search, recording review and screen-recording evidence
• Quality calibration method and inter-rater consistency checks
• Coaching actions, performance feedback and follow-up tracking
• Speech and text analytics concepts for recurring customer-contact themes
• Linking quality scores to repeat contact, handle time and customer outcomes

Workshop: Participants evaluate recorded interactions against a scorecard, complete a calibration comparison and create a targeted coaching brief.

Day 5: Performance governance and improvement planning

• KPI scorecard design for customer experience, efficiency, quality and workforce performance
• Dashboard and report selection for supervisors, managers and executive stakeholders
• Root-cause analysis using queue, conversation, WFM and quality evidence
• Operational review meetings, action logs and decision rights
• Risk controls for permissions, recordings, data retention and performance reporting
• Continuous-improvement prioritisation using impact, effort and dependency assessment
• Thirty-day implementation roadmap and benefits-measurement approach

Workshop: Participants present a Customer Contact Operations Improvement Plan containing a KPI scorecard, diagnostic findings, named actions and a 30-day review schedule.

Tools & standards covered

Genesys Cloud CX, Genesys Cloud Architect, Genesys Cloud Workforce Management, Genesys Cloud Quality Management

A typical training day

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in the East Africa Time zone, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

How you can take this course

Certification

Participants who complete the full five days receive the Skillset Development Certificate of Completion, stating the course title, course code, dates and delivery format — suitable for professional-development records and employer reimbursement.

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