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The Customer Research Checklist Tool Part One

First of four parts of a discussion about how to use the Customer Research Checklist Tool as a template for performing preparatory research for a new customer engagement. This part provides an overview and discusses the Customer tab. The Customer Research Checklist Tool: Overview The Customer Research Checklist Tool: Customer Tab [...]

The Customer Research Checklist Tool Part Three

Third of four parts of a discussion about how to use the Customer Research Checklist Tool as a template for performing preparatory research for a new customer engagement. This part discusses the Initiative and Stakeholders tabs. The Customer Research Checklist Tool: Initiative Tab The Customer Research Checklist Tool: Stakeholders Tab [...]

Customer Research Checklist

Download This template provides a structured checklist for researching and documenting key information about a customer, the proposed solution, and the initiative being supported. It organizes research across multiple worksheets covering customer details, solution components, initiative objectives, stakeholders, and engagement status to help Customer Success teams prepare for and manage complex customer engagements. Covers: [...]

Success Roadmap Template

Download This template provides a structured Success Roadmap used to present how a customer initiative will deliver business outcomes over time. It outlines the business initiative, expected targets and KPIs, the supporting solution and adoption strategy, and a phased roadmap showing when adoption and value realization will occur. The template also includes sections for [...]

Engagement Reporting Checklist

Download This template provides a structured format for documenting insights and outcomes from a completed customer engagement. It captures key reflections including challenges encountered and resolved, tools or templates created or improved during the engagement, lessons learned for future work, areas requiring improvement, and successes achieved. The template supports systematic review and knowledge sharing [...]

Engagement Evaluation

Download This template provides a structured engagement evaluation and learning log that Customer Success teams use throughout the lifecycle of a customer initiative. Separate worksheets capture insights from onboarding, adoption planning, adoption implementation, and multiple stages of value realization. Each stage records challenges solved, lessons learned, tools or templates created, supporting resources, process improvements, [...]

Value Realization Challenges and Changes

Download This template is used to track challenges or change requirements that arise during the value realization phase of a customer initiative. It allows Customer Success teams to document the issue, assess its impact on the adoption initiative, define corrective actions, assign ownership, and monitor progress toward resolution. By capturing deadlines, completion status, and [...]

Value Realization Activity Checklist

Download This checklist template helps Customer Success professionals verify that the key activities required for successful value realization are being completed throughout a customer engagement. It guides the CSM through a structured review of research, onboarding, adoption planning and implementation, progress measurement, customer communication, renewal readiness, expansion opportunities, and customer advocacy. Each item can [...]

Adoption Readiness Checklist

Download This resource provides an adoption readiness checklist used to confirm that all planning, preparation, and coordination activities required for a successful adoption initiative have been completed before launch. The checklist helps Customer Success teams verify that project outcomes, process changes, impacted users, training requirements, communications, resources, and risk mitigation plans have all been [...]