Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd · RQF Level 2

FAQ Level 2 Certificate in Contact Centre Operations

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 2
  • Total credits13
  • Guided learning93 hours
  • Units in this qualification10

Awarded by Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd · on the Ofqual register

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

These are the units Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.

Principles and processes of systems and technology in a contact centreReal unit · Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to design reports in a contact centre
  • Understand how to optimise performance in a contact centre through systems and technology
  • Understand the use of contact centre systems and technology
Principles of communication and customer service in a contact centreReal unit · Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the rules of communication and customer service in a contact centre
  • Understand how to deliver customer service through a contact centre
  • Communicate with internal or external customers in written or electronic form in a contact centre
Principles of customer service in a contact centreReal unit · Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand customer service in a contact centre
  • Understand how to resolve issues in customer service in a contact centre
  • Understand how to monitor customer service performance and compliance within a contact centre
  • Understand how to communicate verbally and in written or electronic form with customers referred by others in a contact centre
Principles of handling incidents through a contact centreReal unit · Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the standards and procedures for dealing with incidents through a contact centre
  • Understand how to use contact centre communications systems to deploy incident management resources
  • Understand how to deal with incidents reported to a contact centre
Principles of health and safety in a contact centreReal unit · Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand health and safety procedures in a contact centre
  • Understand how to minimise health and safety risks relating to the job role in a contact centre
Principles of legal, regulatory and ethical requirements of a contact centreReal unit · Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand an organisation’s procedures for dealing with legal, regulatory and ethical requirements in a contact centre
  • Understand the legal, regulatory and ethical limits of contact centre work
Principles of personal effectiveness in a contact centreReal unit · Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the process for improving personal effectiveness in a contact centre
  • Understand the role of a team in improving personal effectiveness in a contact centre
Principles of sales activities and customer support in a contact centreReal unit · Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd
You'll understand the sales process within a contact centre, including building rapport and identifying customer needs. The unit also covers the use of sales data, leadership of sales teams, and handling customer complaints and compliance issues.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the key stages in the process of selling products or services in a contact centre environment.
  • Understand how to use contact centre sales data to improve performance and identify trends.
  • Understand the principles of leading a sales team effectively in a contact centre.
  • Understand how to address customer complaints and non-compliance issues that may arise in a contact centre.
Principles of selling in a contact centreReal unit · Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the process of selling in a contact centre
  • Understand the use of information for sales activities in a contact centre
  • Understand how to make sales through a contact centre
Principles of using systems and technology in a contact centreReal unit · Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Use features of systems and technology to handle customer contacts in a contact centre
  • Understand contact centre systems and technology

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

Your passport

Every credit is a stamp you keep

Level 2 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.

Principles and processes of systems and technology in a contact centrePrinciples of communication and customer service in a contact centrePrinciples of customer service in a contact centrePrinciples of handling incidents through a contact centrePrinciples of health and safety in a contact centrePrinciples of legal, regulatory and ethical requirements of a contact centrePrinciples of personal effectiveness in a contact centrePrinciples of sales activities and customer support in a contact centre

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

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Where this connects

Where these credits take you

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Skills it covers

What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

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How you’ll actually learn this

One-to-one, on your own real work

A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Principles and processes of systems and technology in a contact centreLevel 2

Applied to your own work

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.
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Built for FAQ Level 2 Certificate in Contact Centre Operations

10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd.

  1. Principles and processes of systems and technology in a contact centre
  2. Principles of communication and customer service in a contact centre
  3. Principles of customer service in a contact centre
  4. Principles of handling incidents through a contact centre
  5. Principles of health and safety in a contact centre
  6. Principles of legal, regulatory and ethical requirements of a contact centre

and 4 more in the full unit list below.

These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

Why it sticks

Most courses stop at remembering

There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

The value

Why the companion is worth £70 a month

You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.

That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.

Earned on your own work, taught to the top.

Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.

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