Customer Success Onboarding Program Framework and KPIs


Overview

This tool helps commercial leaders cultivate a best-in-class customer success (CS) organization that drives value for customers by focusing on six core CS functions:

  1. Customer Onboarding - Properly introduce new customers and users to products, functionality and best practices
  2. Customer Life Cycle Management - Understand the customer lifecycle and the key leverage points to orchestrate 
  3. Value Creation & Community -  Identify, generate, and communicate product value to build customer community 
  4. Advocacy Process - Leverage successful relationships to generate references and referrals 
  5. Opportunity Management Process - Build an opportunity management process for CS to uncover additional sales opportunities
  6. Sales Handoffs - Design cross-functional processes for CS and sales to foster retention and account growth

The program framework includes templates and examples CS leaders can customize for in-person customer onboarding, peer onboarding, and customer lifecycles management, in addition to behavioral, leading, and lagging metrics to gauge the effectiveness of CS initiatives.


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