Customer Success Workshops2026-07-21T20:45:45+00:00

For teams

Customer Success workshops and
instructor-led courses

Led by experienced practitioners on the Practical CSM Framework and delivered live online, with 2,500+ hours already delivered to teams. We are not an off-the-shelf course vendor. We listen to your situation first, then draw on years of our own training content and shape it around your team, your customers and real exercises built from your accounts. You get training that fits the problem you are actually solving.

  Align your team       Improve consistency       Scale how you deliver value

Who delivers your training

Rick Adams, Founder of Practical CSM

Rick AdamsFounder & Executive Director, 25+ years in Customer Success

Your sessions are led by Rick Adams. He started as a systems engineer at Microsoft, built and sold his own SaaS company, then designed Cisco's Customer Success training and helped their teams shift from product-led selling to outcome-based selling. He is the creator of the Practical CSM Framework, published by Taylor & Francis and now used by Customer Success teams at Fortune 500 companies. He has also been named among the industry's top Customer Success influencers and strategists. Since then we have delivered 2,500+ hours of training to teams. So when we say we can build the right program for your team, or draw it from content we already have, it comes from 25 years of doing the work. We know what teams need, and we have the experience, content and infrastructure to deliver it. We have you covered.

2,500+ hours
delivered to teams
25+ years
of Customer Success expertise

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Customer Success teams that trust Practical CSM

Trusted by Customer Success teams at

Customer Success teams that trust Practical CSM

How training is delivered

Three formats, all delivered live online and tailored to your team: an interactive workshop, an instructor-led course, or a blend of online self-study and live sessions.

Alignment and application

Interactive workshops

Instructor-led, hands-on sessions built around exercises and team alignment, sized to keep everyone involved.

Scalable knowledge delivery

Instructor-led courses

Live, instructor-led sessions for larger or distributed teams, for consistent understanding across the organization.

Self-study plus live guidance

Blended learning

A mix of online self-study and live sessions with a trainer. The team learns the fundamentals at their own pace, then applies them together with expert guidance.

Not sure which format fits your team?

Tell us the problem you are solving and we point you to the right one, or see how the programs are priced.

Our core training solutions

These are proven programs, not off-the-shelf products. We take the content that fits your team, add your angle and real client scenarios, and deliver it as an interactive workshop or an instructor-led course.

For teams building or moving into Customer Success

Customer Success Bootcamp

A shared operating model, so the team delivers consistently across onboarding, adoption and value realization.

Delivery: 6 half-day online classroom sessions, 3 full days, or a customized workshop.

Sessions include

  • CS fundamentals and the Practical CSM Framework
  • Phases 1-2: Preparation and Commitment
  • Phases 3-4: Onboarding and Adoption Planning
  • Phase 5: Adoption Implementation
  • Phase 6: Value Realization
  • Phase 7: Engagement Evaluation, summary and close

For teams managing complex or strategic accounts

Mastering Stakeholder Management and Influence

Help the team influence stakeholders, align priorities and drive decisions in complex, multi-level accounts.

Delivery: a 4-day workshop.

Sessions include

  • Architecting effective stakeholder relationships
  • Enabling decision-making through structured communication
  • Maximizing revenue through stakeholder alignment
  • Securing influence in difficult stakeholder situations

For leaders building and scaling CS teams

Customer Success Team Leadership

A customized program for leaders on building structure, improving performance and scaling the team.

Delivery: shaped by the customization you choose.

Sessions include

  • Modern demands and challenges for CS teams
  • Leadership and management fundamentals
  • Capability assessment and gap analysis
  • Training, coaching and performance management
  • Measurement, reporting and incentives

For executives defining CX and business strategy

CX Strategy Development

A leadership workshop to define a clear Customer Experience strategy and tie it to business performance. The output is a working strategy, not just training.

Delivery: a facilitated leadership workshop.

Sessions include

  • As-is experience and CX objectives
  • Customer insight and research foundations (optional)
  • Analysis and to-be CX strategy
  • Templates and strategy framework
  • CX Strategy Blueprint and roadmap outline

Targeted training for specific challenges

These are popular focused topics, not the whole list. Need something else? We build it, and often we already have material authored. Tell us the gap and we put the right session together.

  • Customer research and journey mapping
  • Measuring Customer Success and health (KPIs, value tracking)
  • Engaging and influencing senior stakeholders
  • Difficult client conversations and risk management
  • Business partnering and strategic account management
  • Presentation, storytelling and communication skills
  • Negotiation and business case development
  • Workload management and scaling Customer Success

Additional topics can be selected and combined based on your team’s needs. If we do not already have it, our subject-matter experts build it.

Pricing

Pricing and engagement model

Typical programs run$10,000 to $25,000A typical range, not a hard floor. Almost every engagement is a multi-session program, scoped and quoted to your goals, so we price the program, not the hour.
Recommended cohort sizeUp to 16 peopleWe advise up to 16 people per cohort for the best results, and can facilitate larger groups when needed. Teams usually split into cohorts, or by team.

How pricing works

Programs are built from these per-unit rates. Almost no one buys a single unit; we scope the right mix to your goals.

Service Time Price
Full day of delivery 6h delivery (3h + 1h break + 3h) $4,800
Half day of delivery 3h delivery (1.5h + 30min break + 1.5h) $2,900
Add-on coaching session 1 to 1.5h $1,750
Content authoringOne-time. Typically gets you a new half-day session, authored for your team. from 6h build from $3,200
Minor customizationOne-time. For example, exercises built around your own customers for an existing session. from 1 to 1.5h from $1,200
Onsite (Europe, on request) per day (6h) from $7,500/day plus travel and expenses

Prices in USD for live online delivery. Content authoring and minor customization are one-time add-ons on top of delivery. Every quote is different because we build to your needs.

Share your situation

Tell us about your team and the gap you are trying to close. We reply with a straight recommendation on the right workshop or program, drawn from real team engagements, not a high-pressure sales pitch.

Share your situation. A consultative sense-check by email. Use the form.

Training discovery call. A 30-60 minute call to audit your team and its friction points, no pressure.

A straight recommendation. The right workshop, course or program for your goals, scoped and quoted to you.

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Questions

Workshop questions

Who is the training for?2026-07-21T20:44:18+00:00

This is team training, not individual sign-ups. We work with whole Customer Success teams at any stage, from teams moving into Customer Success through to experienced teams and their leaders, and we set the level and content to match the group.

What is the difference between a workshop and an online classroom?2026-07-21T20:44:18+00:00

A workshop is intensive and hands-on: exercise-driven sessions where the team applies the material to your own accounts as they learn. An online classroom is a taught course, delivered as scheduled instructor-led sessions (for example six half-days), working through the material in sequence. Workshops suit solving a specific problem or aligning a team fast; online classrooms suit building broad, consistent knowledge across a larger group.

Are the workshops delivered live online?2026-07-21T20:44:18+00:00

Yes. Everything shown here, the formats and the pricing, is for live online (virtual) delivery, so your team can join from anywhere, whether in one room or spread across regions. In-person delivery is available in Europe on request, but it costs significantly more.

How customized is the content?2026-07-21T20:44:18+00:00

Every session is shaped to your business, using your customer scenarios and real challenges. Our workshops are often only part-written until we build the exercises around your accounts, and if we do not already have a topic, our subject-matter experts create it.

Do participants get materials or a certificate?2026-07-21T20:44:18+00:00

As standard, each participant gets a student guide to follow along during the session. Certificates, surveys and post-program reporting are available too, but only when they are agreed as part of your quote.

How large can a group be?2026-07-21T20:44:18+00:00

We suggest up to 16 for an interactive workshop to keep it hands-on, but we have run larger, up to 25. For bigger or distributed teams, instructor-led courses and online classrooms scale the same content across the organization.

What does a typical engagement look like?2026-07-21T20:44:19+00:00

The rates are per unit (a day, a half day, or a session), and almost no one buys a single unit. A typical engagement is a program: for example six one-day workshops, or six half-day online classrooms rolled out over three months across several global teams, or a series of consulting sessions that support a cohort through online self-study. We scope the shape around your goals.

What does a full day of training include?2026-07-21T20:44:19+00:00

Six delivery hours, run as two three-hour sessions with a one-hour break in between, so the team stays fresh and focused rather than sitting through a straight clock-day.

Let us build the right program with you

Tell us the problem you are solving. We shape the right session or program around your team and your customers.