At Skilljar, we spend a lot of time thinking about customer onboarding and success. Even after our customers have successfully launched on the Skilljar platform, there are many reasons why we'd like to stay in close touch.
Earlier this year, we started doing proactive Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) with select customers who are "post-launch" with Skilljar. These 60-minute sessions are an opportunity for us to learn more about our customers' upcoming business goals, get feedback on our product roadmap, and share best practices.
This post describes the typical agenda and template that Skilljar uses for our QBRs. Major kudos to the Preact team who created the master template that we use.
In designing Skilljar's QBR, we considered the desired goals for Skilljar and for our customers.
For our customers, it's an opportunity to:
For Skilljar, we aim to:
To prepare for the session, our customer success team reviews all aspects of the account, including previously discussed initatives, features utilized, and training metrics. While the specifics will vary from customer to customer, in general we'll put together a Powerpoint presentation similar to the following deck (customer-specific information has been removed):
We like to start with reviewing key metrics that relate to the specific goals of our customer. The example shown begins with a course-level summary view of registrations, completions, session time (hours spent in training), and completion rate. This gives our customers a quick glance of overall activity.
Slides 5-7 drill deeper into engagement metrics - lesson views per course, completion rates per course, and last activity day by month. In lesson views per course, this customer was surprised to see that one course has been viewed over ten thousand times. Completion rates are also higher than industry median, which is particularly significant since this customer does not require completion or provide particular incentives to do so. Finally, training usage has been very steady during months since launch, showing continuous engagement and value (November is a partial month in the example shown).
Next, our team reviews the customer's training portal and makes proactive suggestions for improving the user experience. In this example, the customer is always offering free training, so it may make sense to remove the repetitive word "Free" from the course catalog. In addition, with a growing number of courses, the customer may want to tag courses with attributes and provide more specific header text.
The course catalog is a great example of how our customers can grow with Skilljar - initially the customer only had 1 course, so a catalog was not required. As they launch more courses, our customer success team helps them use more of our feature set.
Slide 9 is an opportunity to share recent feature launches with our customers. While we communicate launches on our product newsletters and blog, customers may not always read these, or understand how they can be used in their own organizational context.
In the last part of the QBR, we review Skilljar features in progress, and collect feedback from customers on our roadmap. As part of this, we discuss the customer's upcoming goals and objectives, and how training fits into the overall picture. We wrap up the session with questions and next steps/follow-up, including emailing the updated deck after the call.
Have questions or feedback on our customer success QBR? Email us or leave a note in the comments!