Onboarding and Adoption Best Practices for Customer Success Management
1h 16mBeginner2020-05-21
Authors

PracticalCSM
Training, Certification, and CPD for the Customer Success Profession
Course details
Onboarding and adoption are two of the essential activities for new customers that CSMs are responsible for. Learn how to guide customers through these two important stages, and prepare them for the upcoming value generation and realization work that lies ahead of them if they are going to attain successful outcomes from using your company's solutions. This course takes customer success managers through the processes and steps needed to ensure that their customer's stakeholders are fully prepared and ready to proceed with making the customer's initiative successful. It then provides guidance on how to help those stakeholders to train and prepare their end users to adopt and use the solution that they purchased. This course can be taken on its own as an introduction to the topic, or as one in a series of courses from PracticalCSM.com that build upon each other to cover the entirety of CSM best practices in greater detail.
Skills covered
Customer Service SkillsCustomer ServiceOne-Off
Concepts
1. The Customer Onboarding Process
- 01 - Overview
- 02 - What is onboarding
- 03 - Why is onboarding important
- 04 - Onboarding vs. adoption vs. value realization
- 05 - Selecting an onboarding service model - Part 1
- 06 - Selecting an onboarding service model - Part 2
- 07 - Managing the onboarding process
2. The Customer Adoption Process
- 08 - Adoption fundamentals
- 09 - Knowledge, skills, and attitude (KSA) concepts
- 10 - Directly and indirectly impacted users
- 11 - Adoption implementation roles
- 12 - Project management principles and best practices