
Main tasks and key functions in the company.
Impact on customer experience and business results.
Key KPIs: NPS, CSAT, CES, FCR.
Interaction with other departments (marketing, sales, product).
Leadership and change management in customer service.
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Audit Goals and Objectives: how to assess the current situation.
Customer Journey Mapping: analyzing the customer journey.
Data collection methods: surveys, interviews, feedback.
Evaluation of key processes and indicators.
SWOT analysis: strengths and weaknesses of the team.
Identifying bottlenecks and defining growth points.
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Building the vision and mission of customer service.
Defining long-term and short-term goals.
Development of service policy and standards.
Selection of service model: omnichannel, self-service and others.
Preparation and implementation of the strategy.
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Recruitment and adaptation of employees in the team.
Training and development: regular trainings and coaching.
Motivation systems: financial and non-financial.
Performance management: regular appraisals and feedback.
Building a culture of support and engagement.
Creating career tracks for employees.
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Analysis of current processes: how to determine what needs to be optimized.
Using CRM and CCM systems.
Implementation of automation: chatbots, AI and self-service.
Building SLAs (service levels) and SOPs (operational standards).
Monitoring and quality control of processes.
Cases of successful automation in customer service.
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Metrics for measuring customer experience: NPS, CSAT, CES.
Team performance metrics: AHT, FCR, SLA.
Analyzing feedback from customers.
Reporting systems and data visualization.
Using analytics for decision making.
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Types of difficult clients and basic approaches to working with them.
Conflict management: active listening techniques.
Escalation: how and when to involve the manager.
Standards of communication in crisis situations.
Building a plan to prevent negative feedback.
The role of empathy in working with clients.
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New technologies in Customer Care: what is important to know.
Trends and best practices at the global level.
The role of artificial intelligence and big data in customer care.
Innovative approaches to omnichannelization.
How to stay competitive in a changing world.
Building long-term plans for service development.
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A task map of 14 weekly Customer Success tasks and the hours they take
Five classes of AI tools for Customer Success, and CS platforms with built-in AI
AI agents in support, AI for meetings and customer feedback, and how they are priced
AI assistants: free tier and paid seat, with a free plan, trial or demo-only mark for every service
Data rules for AI chat: what you may paste, what you never paste and which settings to check
Tools: AI Stack Map (Excel) and a one-page Data Rules sheet
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Six sources for an account brief, with a source tag on every line
Microsoft Copilot Chat: free and paid features for account research
The 10-minute account brief procedure and a prompt pack for four AI assistants
A meeting prep sheet: agenda, questions, risks and one ask
A post-meeting recap: customer email and internal action items
Tools: Account Brief Kit (Word) and a Prompt Pack card
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Six signal groups of customer health and the formula: scores × weights
Weights calibrated on your churned-customer history
Red, yellow and green zones, each with an action
Gross and net revenue retention, logo churn and revenue churn
A churn risk forecast from leading indicators, and AI prompts that explain a red account
Tools: Health Score Model (Excel) with portfolio scoring, forecast and retention calculator
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The customer lifecycle in 6 stages
A playbook card: trigger, actions, owner, deadline, message
12 ready playbooks for 6 stages, and three levels: automate, AI draft plus human, human only
AI drafts and personalized messages inside a playbook
Playbooks in CS platforms and no-code tools, and a launch on 5 accounts
Tools: Playbook Library (Excel) with a playbook card, automation check and launch log
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An account context card in 7 fields and a prompt formula for a personal message
Onboarding and adoption messages
Bad news with AI: a bug, a delay, a price increase
Renewal, advocacy and risk messages
A tone and personalization check in 6 questions, and 6 red lines you never hand to AI
Tools: Message Bank with 15 messages, a prompt builder and a draft check
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Agent scope: the top 10 questions the AI agent takes
A knowledge base ready for an AI agent, plus tone and chatbot etiquette rules
Escalation rules and the handoff package for a human agent
A never list: 10 red lines for an AI agent in customer support
A pre-launch test checklist of 40 questions, quality metrics and the weekly review
Tools: AI Agent Specification (Word) and Agent Test Checklist (Excel)
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Feedback sources in one table; cleaning and anonymizing customer comments
A codebook of 8–12 themes
Theme and sentiment coding with AI, and a manual check on a 50-row sample
A priority score: mentions × revenue at stake
An insights report and closing the loop with customers
Tools: Feedback Analysis Workbook (Excel) and an Insights Report template (Word)
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A QBR data pack from five sources, with a source for every number
An AI data digest and story outline
A deck draft in Copilot in PowerPoint or free tools, and a number check before it goes out
What never goes to AI, and a rehearsal with AI as the customer
Follow-up within 24 hours
Tools: QBR Data Pack (Excel), QBR Runbook and QBR Outline for Copilot (Word)
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A baseline before AI: five numbers
CSM time saved in hours and dollars
Automation rate: involvement × resolution; response and resolution time before and after
CSAT in AI and human conversations, and cost per resolution: AI vs human
Coverage and retention with a control group
Tools: AI Impact Scorecard (Excel) with a one-page summary for leadership
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Features, benefits and value in the customer's money
Three value drivers: revenue, cost, risk, and the customer metrics behind each of them
Value framework: before, capabilities, outcomes, metrics; business value and personal value
A value driver tree for your product with a proof point for every branch
Tool: Value Driver Tree builder (interactive HTML)
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Questions that bring back numbers, not opinions
Current state, the problem behind it and its consequences in dollars
Desired state, success metrics, and who decides and how
A one-page discovery call plan and a recap email within 24 hours
Tool: Discovery Question Bank with a call plan (interactive HTML)
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Cost of inaction: the price of the status quo
Four buckets of loss: revenue, cost, people time and risk, with formulas on round numbers
Customer-validated inputs and a confidence level for every number
Cost of delay for N months and the ratio of inaction cost to your price
Tool: Cost of Inaction Calculator (interactive HTML)
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A buyer business case in the customer's numbers
Full investment: license, implementation and internal time; benefits by year with an adoption ramp
ROI, payback period and NPV in conservative and base scenarios
An assumption log with a source for every number, and a one-page business case for the CFO
Tool: Buyer ROI Model with a one-page business case (interactive HTML)
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Seven seats of the buying committee, with the business result and personal win for each
The metric and the risk behind every seat
A one-sentence value message by role and the proof each role trusts
A champion test and a contact status for every stakeholder
Tool: Buying Committee Value Map (interactive HTML)
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Value date instead of close date: customer goal, value date and cost of delay
Backward planning from the value date, with steps and owners on both sides
Decision points and the paper process: legal, security, procurement
Success criteria in the customer's money
Tool: Mutual Value Plan builder with the latest signature date (interactive HTML)
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Price anchored in the buyer's business case
The cost of a 10% discount in margin and volume; walk-away point and plan B
A give-get list for every concession
Answers to "too expensive", "cheaper competitor", "20% off", and quarter-end procurement pressure
Tool: Price Defense Sheet (interactive HTML)
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AE-to-CSM handoff of the value promised in the deal
A customer success plan built from the business case
A value tracker: baseline, target, actual, and value evidence the CFO will accept
A QBR and executive business review that lead to renewal and expansion
Tool: Value Realization Tracker with a QBR outline (interactive HTML)
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Claude plans for sales teams: Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise
10+ Claude features for sellers and when to use each
Task → feature → plan matrix for your team
Seat cost calculation and 7 rules for customer data
Admin setup checklist and the day-one test
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Which accounts deserve a Project
Project instructions template in 7 sections
8 knowledge files per account and file limits
The 5-minute update after every meeting
Sharing Projects with Can view and Can edit
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BANT, CHAMP, MEDDIC, MEDDPICC and more, decoded
Two-axis scoring: fit and intent
Points, negatives, decay and score bands with actions
A lead score calculator built as a Claude Artifact
Batch scoring with a lead-score Skill
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A one-page meeting brief in 9 sections
Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 connectors
Research for the company snapshot
CRM history via HubSpot, Salesforce or Pipedrive connectors
A 4-prompt chain and 11–14 discovery questions
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Skill vs prompt vs Project
SKILL.md anatomy in 4 parts
Team voice sheet from your 10 best emails
first-email, meeting-follow-up and inbound-reply Skills
Testing a Skill on 5 inputs and sharing it with the team
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How Artifacts and sharing work on each plan
ROI calculator with payback in months
Mutual action plan built backwards from go-live
Competitive battlecard in 8 sections
7 checks before a buyer sees an Artifact
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12 deal red flags
27 deal review questions by stage
A risk-flag prompt for the whole pipeline
Deal review trainer with 6 cases
A 30-minute pipeline review
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Plugin structure: skills, connectors, settings
The official Anthropic Sales plugin and its 36 skills
Your team plugin skeleton and the org marketplace
Scheduled tasks in Cowork
A 30-day rollout plan with usage metrics
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Compare banks, credit unions, insurers, asset managers, brokers, payment companies and fintech lenders using one reusable segment card.
Record the buyer workflow, revenue hypotheses, pressure, trigger, evidence and next question; keep unconfirmed facts visible.
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Working file (1): Finance Buyer Map.
Editable working parts (8): Account; Segment; Revenue; Pressure; Three Lines; Trigger; Evidence; Buyer map.
Ready to adapt on the slides (16): Eight-field finance buyer map; Financial buyer segment card; Revenue source record; Workflow pressure register; Hypothesis and verification record; Workflow and pressure question bank; Three Lines responsibility card; Responsibility confirmation questions; Buying trigger record; Buyer signal checklist; Trigger confirmation script; Evidence log; Confirmed, Hypothesis and Unknown field rules; Missing fact and next-contact record; Project boundary and action-owner record; Filled and confirmed field counts.
Connect regulatory and standard source cards to buyer scope questions, requested evidence and responsible vendor specialists.
Separate prepared responses from buyer acceptance; record the region, source, service boundary and open questions without making legal conclusions.
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Working file (1): Regulation Question Matrix.
Editable working parts (8): Buyer scope; Source cards; Buyer questions; Evidence; Owners; Open points; Response; Matrix.
Ready to adapt on the slides (16): Buyer scope intake; Regulatory source card; US bank service profile; Safeguard monitoring request; Service access record; DORA audit clarification questions; Personal data record; Exit preparation checklist; MAS scope clarification questions; Service dependency record; Evidence-type selector; Evidence review card and checks; Source-to-action matrix row; Vendor owner routing table; Scoped response constructor; Open-question action record.
Map buyer decision tasks, positions and authority evidence; a job title or supportive sponsor does not establish signing authority.
Plan nine example stages, parallel security and compliance checks, review inputs, exit records and waiting items; ask owners to correct the provisional route.
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Working file (1): Committee and Decision Planner.
Editable working parts (7): Committee; Position evidence; Gate cards; Decision path; Waiting items; Buyer questions; Confirmation.
Ready to adapt on the slides (16): Decision task, role and authority record; Fact, assumption and unknown evidence check; Buyer position scale with evidence basis; Buyer position card; Confirmed decision-task coverage calculation; Buyer and vendor decision-owner record; Review intake checklist; Acceptance condition and exit record; Review-owner question bank; Stage gate card; Nine-stage buyer decision path; Parallel-review elapsed-time calculation; Waiting-item and delay record; Review-start question bank; Provisional decision-path confirmation letter; Decision-plan submission checklist.
Use discovery question banks for operations, CFO, risk, compliance, CISO, procurement, legal, IT architecture and vendor risk.
Prepare a call plan, preserve the buyer’s wording and record evidence scope, unanswered questions, owners and a follow-up correction request.
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Working file (1): Finance Discovery Workbook.
Editable working parts (8): Call plan; Role banks; Control ownership; Evidence scope; Unanswered questions; Practice; Call record; Follow-up and export.
Ready to adapt on the slides (16): Role, decision and unknown record; Three-question discovery call plan; Discovery conversation opening; Operations discovery question bank; Workflow and decision follow-up questions; Workflow handoff record; CFO discovery questions and commitment context; Chief Risk Officer discovery question bank; Risk acceptance authority record; Compliance discovery question bank; Control ownership record; Security discovery questions and evidence-scope record; Procurement discovery question bank; Legal discovery questions and unanswered-question record; Buyer wording and requirement call record; Discovery follow-up letter and readiness checks.
Prepare the vendor review scope, document index and security questionnaire with answer authors, reviewers and approved sharing routes.
Record evidence gaps and buyer-confirmed exclusions; calculate internal answer readiness while keeping buyer risk decisions separate.
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Working file (1): Vendor Readiness Pack.
Editable working parts (8): Scope; Evidence index; Questionnaire; Answer review; Gaps; Readiness; Access; Pack.
Ready to adapt on the slides (16): Vendor review scope note; Vendor review intake question bank; Vendor review owner record; Document evidence index; SOC report scope preparation checks; Document sharing route record; Evidence currency checklist; Security questionnaire answer status rules; Scoped security questionnaire answer; Author and reviewer approval route; Not-applicable exclusion confirmation request; Evidence gap and return-action register; Buyer risk decision record; Applicable-answer internal readiness calculation; Document access approval request; Vendor pack delivery message and checks.
Check mandatory supplier gates, calculate a weighted bid score and prepare the request for proposal (RFP) response in the buyer’s order.
Assign experts and reviewers; record exceptions, commercial base charges, procurement approvals, proposed contract terms and implementation handoff conditions.
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Working file (1): Bid and Contract Workspace.
Editable working parts (9): Intake; Mandatory gates; Bid score; Clarifications; Response matrix; Response pack; Procurement; Contract issues; Handoff.
Ready to adapt on the slides (16): Mandatory supplier gates checklist; Procurement submission question bank; RFP submission rule record; Weighted bid score worksheet; Bid rating evidence anchors; Bid action scale and mandatory-gate override; Requirement clarification and buyer reply log; Requirement response matrix; Direct answer and evidence reference structure; RFP response exceptions record; Expert and reviewer assignment brief; Reviewed wording and open-gap record; Procurement record checklist; Commercial base-charge calculation; Contract issue log; Signed-commitment implementation handoff.
Adapt 12 scripts for cloud restrictions, assurance scope, data location, interruption, viability, compliance, incumbents, queues, funding, audit, dependencies and approval shortcuts.
Link each reply to evidence and its limitations; record the buyer reviewer, affected scope, next action and pause or restart decision.
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Working file (1): Objection Response Kit.
Editable working parts (7): Deal context; Objection cards; Role phrases; Evidence pack; Practice cases; Conversation record; Follow-up.
Ready to adapt on the slides (16): Buyer concern and next-action card; Evidence limitation card; Cloud restrictions objection script; Unconfirmed assurance scope objection script; Data location objection script; Service interruption objection script; Supplier viability objection script; Compliance assurance objection script; Incumbent supplier objection script; Review capacity objection script; Unapproved commitment objection script; Audit access objection script; Supplier dependency objection script; Approval shortcut objection script; Affected-scope pause and restart checklist; Objection conversation follow-up template.
Build a twelve-month plan covering handover, governance, service reporting, relationship coverage, actions, changes and incident contacts.
Keep future renewal terms, exit responsibilities and expansion approvals visible; proposed revenue and a complete record do not establish buyer approval.
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Working file (1): Finance Account Plan.
Editable working parts (8): Account and handover; Governance; Relationships; Service report; Actions and changes; Renewal and exit; Expansion; Twelve-month calendar.
Ready to adapt on the slides (16): Account handover register; Governance owner and authority card; Monthly, quarterly and event review schedule; Governance review agenda; Governance decision record; Main, backup and next-contact card; Confirmed account-contact coverage calculation; Sponsor departure handover questions; Service report structure; Buyer evidence request card; Due-action register and verified closure calculation; Service change request card; Incident facts and escalation record; Renewal preparation and unknown-notice worksheet; Controlled service exit checklist; Expansion readiness and approval record.
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This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
3,783 tools for customer leaders in one course: 2,778 ready-to-use files, templates, checklists, calculators and prompts, 54 services and apps shown on screen, plus 752 models and methods.
Open a lecture, take the tool, use it in this week's account review, renewal conversation or service fix.
Why customers leave quietly
Most customers do not complain before they leave. Usage drops, a champion changes jobs, a renewal meeting is postponed, and the account is lost before anyone noticed. Inside the company, support, success and sales each see a different part of the picture, and nobody owns the whole of it. The customer leader is asked for a retention number and has no instrument that produces one.
What changes after this course
You see the risk early and have a response ready. A health score that turns signals into a zone. A playbook for each trigger. A brief you can assemble in ten minutes before any customer meeting. A model that shows the customer what staying is worth and what leaving costs. A quarterly review that runs from data to deck. And an audit and strategy format that puts support, success and sales on one page.
What is inside: 3,783 tools, counted file by file
You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.
Where the tools are
Who is teaching
I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.
My experience with customer care began at Alfa-Bank, where I recruited people for the call center, customer support and sales. I observed how the call center operated and saw that different departments used different names for their roles. I also encountered different service models: community support for players at Wargaming, consumer support at Preply and business customer support at iDeals. These observations provide context for the customer care tools in this course.
How to use the course
Start with the customer care sections, then the two largest practical blocks: AI for customer success and value-based selling. After that, treat the rest as a reference library. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name, so you can find the right tool without watching everything in order.
What is included
Where to start
Pick the three accounts you would least like to lose. Open the health score lecture, fill in the workbook for them, and see which zone each lands in. Customer leaders who see risk early keep the revenue others have to win back, and every quarter without a health score is a quarter of renewals left to chance. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.