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    Sales & Customer Success Alignment

    Foundations of Sales-CS Alignment
    • What is Sales & Customer Success Alignment
    • The Cost of a Broken Handoff: NRR Math
    • Sales-CS Alignment Maturity Model
    • Account Team Models: Pod, Swarm, Sequential
    • 8 Warning Signs Sales and CS Are Misaligned
    • Sales-CS Alignment from SMB to Enterprise
    The Handoff (closed-won → onboarded)
    • Closed-Won to Onboarded Handoff Process
    • Deal Context Transfer: What CS Actually Needs from Sales
    • Champion Transition from AE to CSM
    • Joint Kickoff Call: Agenda, Attendees, Outcomes
    • Preventing 'Sales Over-Promised, CS Under-Delivers'
    • Handoff Scorecard: Did Sales Hand Off Well?
    Shared Definitions & Customer Records
    • Sales & Customer Success Alignment Glossary
    • Single Source of Truth: The Customer Record
    • What 'Successfully Onboarded' Actually Means
    • Customer Health Scoring with Sales-Context Inputs
    • ICP Refinement: CS Feedback to Sales on Bad-Fit Deals
    Joint Ownership: Renewal & Expansion
    • Renewal Ownership: AE vs AM vs CSM
    • Expansion Ownership and the Upsell Motion
    • Sales Commission on Retention: Aligning Incentives
    • When Sales Gets Pulled Back into an At-Risk Account
    • The Joint QBR with the Customer
    • Multi-Product Cross-Sell Ownership
    Feedback Loops
    • The Won-Deal Review: Post-Close Sales-CS Debrief
    • Churn Root-Cause Feedback Back to Sales
    • Voice of Customer Pipeline to Sales Messaging
    • The 'This Deal Shouldn't Have Closed' Loop
    • Closed-Lost-But-Saved: When CS Rescues a Deal
    Joint Operations & Tools
    • Shared Customer Record Architecture
    • Account-Based Ops: Tier-1 Account Dashboards
    • The Joint At-Risk Account Review
    • Aligned Stack: CRM + CS Platform + Revenue Intel
    • Forecasting NRR Jointly
    Org & Incentives
    • Should the AE Retain the Account Through Renewal?
    • The CRO Over Both Sales and CS Argument
    • The Pod Model: Dedicated AE + CSM Pairs
    • Compensation Aligned on NRR
    • Territory Design Across Sales and CS
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    Foundations

    The Sales-CS Seam
    • What is Sales & CS Alignment
    • The Cost of a Broken Handoff
    • Alignment Maturity Model
    • Account Team Models
    • 8 Warning Signs of Misalignment
    • SMB to Enterprise Spectrum

    The Handoff

    Closed-Won to Onboarded
    • Closed-Won to Onboarded Process
    • Deal Context Transfer
    • Champion Transition
    • Joint Kickoff Call Agenda
    • Preventing Sales Over-Promised
    • Handoff Scorecard

    Shared Definitions

    The Customer Record
    • Sales-CS Alignment Glossary
    • Single Source of Truth Customer Record
    • Successfully Onboarded Criteria
    • Customer Health with Sales Context
    • ICP Refinement Loop

    Renewal & Expansion

    Joint Ownership
    • Renewal Ownership: AE vs AM vs CSM
    • Expansion and Upsell Motion
    • Sales Commission on Retention
    • When Sales Pulled Into At-Risk
    • The Joint QBR
    • Multi-Product Cross-Sell Ownership

    Feedback Loops

    Closing the Loop
    • Won-Deal Review
    • Churn Root-Cause to Sales
    • VoC to Sales Messaging
    • This Deal Shouldn't Have Closed
    • Closed-Lost-But-Saved

    Joint Operations & Tools

    Running the Joint Motion
    • Shared Customer Record Architecture
    • Account-Based Ops Dashboards
    • Joint At-Risk Account Review
    • Aligned Stack: CRM + CS + Revenue Intel
    • Forecasting NRR Jointly

    Org & Incentives

    Structure That Aligns
    • AE Retain Account Through Renewal?
    • CRO Over Both Sales and CS
    • Pod Model: AE + CSM Pairs
    • Compensation Aligned on NRR
    • Territory Design Across Both Teams

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