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How to keep KPIs meaningful for your customer support team

Intercom, Inc.

Key Performance Indicators are a series of measurements which allow a company to track the success of their operations in relation to achieving their goals or objectives. They help managers evaluate how their employees are doing, the value they bring to a team and how their work can be improved. What KPIs should you track?

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Go to Market Strategies That Led To Divvy’s $2.5B Exit with Divvy’s Former CRO, Sterling Snow (Podcast 672 + Video)

SaaStr

The Team Matters More Than The Operating Model Snow’s greatest piece of advice is to choose your team wisely. He believes the team is more important than the operating model because you can have the best models in the world. But if you don’t have the underlying team and structure, it won’t work. They didn’t.

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Motivate your star performers with meaningful career conversations

Intercom, Inc.

Imagine walking into the office one morning and having your star team member ask if you have a few minutes to talk. These create more meaningful relationships with people on your team, uncover what motivates them and as a result increase their impact and engagement in their current role. What’s your current development focus?

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Short on time?

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SaaStr Podcast #377 with Hashicorp CEO Dave McJannet

SaaStr

As you can tell from that list, it was really a team effort, so huge thanks for that. And after a bunch of moving around, I ended up working in product development, actually, for a middleware company, and I did that for four years. ” But really, it was the team side of it. How do you think about that?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. Does one have to expand the product line to retain customers? First, what is continuous customer development?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week With Rippling and Salesforce — May 31, 2019

SaaStr

Why does Parker believe it is fundamentally better to wait for as long as possible before hiring customer support? Why should engineers also be doing customer support? * Why should your engineers be heavily involved in the customer support hiring process? The first is customer support.