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I love to help others succeed and the opportunity to be on the other side of the implementation process where I could use both my technical skills, with the soft skill and human side of it, felt like the best of both worlds. I had spent years being on the receiving end of an implementation strategy and felt Eagle Point and my role was natural fit with what I love to do and thrive on. I also fell in love with the Pinnacle Series platform when I saw it. I could see so many potential opportunities to help managers and human resources departments with delivering training, tracking and reports, sharing of information…all challenges I had faced in through out various roles in my career.
Building long lasting relationships with our clients and my colleagues.
As the mother of four very active children, most of my free time is spent at a baseball field, skate park, swimming pool or simply enjoying whatever activity or latest video game they are into. I am also the youngest of seven (yes, I’m the baby), so there are always invites on my calendar to meet up with them and their extended families. I also married in a “KC Chiefs” family (my husband is from Kansas), so during football season it’s watching football and an occasional trip to a game.
Yes, an English Shepard, Rocky.
The farm where I grew up, still in our family and run by my brother and his sons.
CSMs partner with our clients throughout the lifespan of their subscription to drive value and success by ensuring alignment between their goals and the Pinnacle Series platform. They are the main point of contact for our clients and assist with things like goalsetting and the platform’s rollout.
But we aren’t the only members of the Customer Success team you’ll interact with – learn more about the other Customer Success roles here.
During the initial Implementation Planning meeting, I’ll get acquainted with your organization and learn who will be impacted by the upcoming implementation of Pinnacle Series. Click through the questions below to prepare for this meeting.
Leveraging the information our team learned during the sales process, I’ll use this conversation to get to know your organizational structure, culture, and values on a deeper level. The target of this conversation is to align the Pinnacle Series solution implementation with your company’s mission and initiatives to ensure it will be well received by the staff you expect to utilize the solution.
To prepare for this initial call, I recommend first considering who needs to be a part of this initial implementation planning meeting (see “Who should be involved with implementation planning?” below). Then invite them to join our implementation team.
The following questions will help you better prepare for the meeting by helping you think about how your organization wishes to get value from the Pinnacle Series.
What will implementation and utilization of Pinnacle Series produce?
First and foremost, your organizations’ main contact person or people (1-3 people) for the implementation of Pinnacle Series should be present on this initial call. In addition, I recommend that you invite individual(s) who understand your organization’s 2–5-year strategic plans and vision. This higher-level understanding will help ensure strategic alignment to drive long term value for your team. Lastly, we often encourage teams to engage with individuals leading your users.
Engaging with these team members as direct stakeholders will ensure cohesive messaging throughout your organization.
Setting clear and measurable goals gives me precise directions for your Pinnacle Series implementation project plans.
Setting clear and measurable goals will help us to articulate the exact value your team is wishing to obtain through implementing Pinnacle Series. During this call I will ask questions like: who will this implementation be impacting, how many users will you have, and where are they located? We will be working to generate alignment between the organizational mission and initiatives you have already shared with me to create specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time lined goals.
For goal setting, I recommend you invite individuals who understand your organization’s 2-5 year strategic plans and vision; individuals who oversee the teams of employees that will be using Pinnacle Series; and the individuals or group of people in charge of implementation.
I encourage you to think about the following questions prior to your goal setting call:
What does success look like utilizing Pinnacle Series?
Many of our most successful clients have taken the opportunity to meet internally before implementation gets underway to review some of the above processes and questions. This ensures your inactions with your Customer Success Manager are effective and efficient. Also, understand a CSM is a dedicated resource to help increase your success rates. If there are any questions or concerns throughout the life of your subscription, we are here every step of the way to make this an easy process for you and your team!
A CSM acts as a strategic partner who is dedicated to your overall success. To ensure I understand your organization’s definition of success, it is important that I fully understand your definition of success, how to strategically communicate with your users, and the key stakeholders we will want to engage with throughout this process.
From this understanding, I’ll draft a custom implementation plan to ensure we are continuously working in the same direction together. I also collaborate cross-functionally with additional resources to ensure the Pinnacle Series solution will continuously evolve to support your organization’s changing needs and initiatives.
“SA Power Networks chose Pinnacle Series out of a couple of other market contenders finding the platform’s ease-of-access (being remotely accessible through any web-browser) and off-the-shelf content far superior and friendlier than others.
The customizable content and online and offline searching features were both appealing to the user test group, as well as the dynamic and agile approach to the pinnacle teams onboarding Is delivered. The majority of users have been leveraging the AutoCAD content, brushing up on their skills and learning some new techniques whilst at home a little more. Whilst others have been exploring newer software’s and alternative ways of designing – keeping busy, occupied and current.”
“Those were the two big issues that we wanted to solve: how do you get good talent in and assess their skill set? And then how do you give technical training to our technical experts in a consumable fashion that’s high-impact but not long in length? We were already using Pinnacle but in a very limited fashion; I think we had four licenses. It really wasn’t robust, it really wasn’t being used to its capability. When Mike Lyons shared with me the enterprise solution, and all of the things that we can help us with, that’s what I said, ‘Listen, we’re done with the four seats – we’re going enterprise-wide.’ The implementation went great. [The customer success team] was really instrumental in getting us off the ground. Once they got us going, it’s been great ever since.”
“I’m contacting you to express my gratitude for the exceptional support I’ve received working with Tara Verdia. I’ve been the CAD Manager for GAI Consultants since the position was created in 2012. Serving in this capacity has been both an honor and a privilege but, as you can imagine, it hasn’t always been overly joyful or pleasant. However, it has not only been an honor and a privilege working with Tara but also a truly pleasurable experience as well. From the start, I was impressed with her knowledge of the Pinnacle Series platform and her exceptional communication skills. Tara is not only well spoken but she is also an outstanding listener. Tara’s poise conveys confidence and professionalism as one might expect, however, she’s also personable and unpretentious. From my perspective, you employ a very valuable asset equipped with unique characteristics and I hope you appreciate the efforts and skills of Tara Verdia as much as I do. You’re welcome to share this communication with others as appropriate.”
“More than anything, I believe in giving credit where credit is due. Our team launched Pinnacle today, and we are so grateful to Amanda for all of her support and guidance over the past year. She is an incredible brand ambassador for Pinnacle! One of the things that we always talk about with our employees is being a trusted advisor to our clients. That includes being responsive, providing helpful resources, and making things easy for our clients to understand so that they can make good decisions for their businesses. Amanda certainly checked all of those boxes in working with us and became a trusted advisor to our team! Amanda was also really pleasant to work with and easy going with our (at times) silly stories or questions. Anyway, as I said, just wanted to give credit where credit is due, so wanted to let you know how much we appreciated all of Amanda’s support.”
“With Pinnacle, I have a one-stop shop that I send people to for training. And I just love that I don’t have to think about it – I know this is good content, I know this is on brand for what we’re doing. And then from the leadership perspective, I think what leaders gain from it across our company is they’re getting better candidates with the assessment function, but also they know where their teams are, and that’s huge; that’s half the battle. So they get a new hire, they take the assessment, they know where they’re at, and they know where to work from.”