Customer Success Foundations: Onboarding Best Practices

If you are streamlining your existing Customer Success process, building a new Customer Success practice, or brand new to Customer Success, then this is the course for you. Have you ever wondered how to make customer onboarding a more tailored experience? Do you worry about delays in your customer’s time-to-value? Does your current onboarding process leave you guessing about what the customer sees as success and whether they’re likely to churn?

It’s never too early or too late to start learning onboarding best practices that will bring structure to your process and faster value to your customers. Whether you’re a true beginner in the Customer Success field or a seasoned professional, these best practices will help shape how you approach onboarding and your understanding of Customer Success as a whole.

During this series of lectures, you will:

- Develop the skills to determine what success looks like to your customers and how to achieve it

- Create plans and playbooks that will streamline your onboarding process and make it more customer-centric

- Discover why collaboration between the Sales and Customer Success teams is key to a good relationship with your customers

Customer Success is a fairly new field that’s grown by leaps and bounds over the past few years. Companies are seeing the benefits of Customer Success at other organizations, like reducing churn and increasing Net Recurring Revenue, and want that success for themselves. Customer Success, once thought of as a luxury or nice to have, is quickly becoming essential to a company’s ability to win over and maintain strong relationships with their customers.

What does that mean for you? This is the perfect time to establish a Customer Success process within your company or suggest exciting innovations to an existing process. With these best practices as part of your toolkit, you’ll be ready to establish strong foundations and build on that base with creative ideas of your own.

This course consists of 3-4 lectures per section, and each section includes at least one exercise that will help review what you’ve learned and get you thinking further about each best practice. Activities in this course include creating your own Customer Success Plan, practicing your meeting presentation skills, crafting the beginnings of an onboarding playbook, and more!

I’ve been working in Customer Success for the last four years and have learned so much from trial and error, as well as the wonderful Customer Success community. I’ve taught groups small and large how to build their own Customer Success practice, and I’m excited to share my knowledge with you! We’ll update this course with new information and resources as often as possible to keep you at the forefront of what’s considered best practice in the world of Customer Success.

Whether you’re new to Customer Success and onboarding or you’re a Customer Success leader looking for inspiration, this course can get you started. No matter what, you’ll leave this course with a new ally in your Customer Success journey. Take that step and let’s explore these best practices together!