Tasks vs Playbooks vs CTAs vs Success Plans

  • 31 July 2019
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CTAs, Tasks, Playbooks, and Success Plans are closely related, but are distinct features with their own use cases. We get questions from administrators, CSMs, and others, so I wanted to help people understand how they work together.



First, let’s take a quick look at a flow chart that helps to set up the big picture:







So these four features have a lot to do with one another - that’s for sure. But let’s zoom in a little to observe each element’s distinct qualities.



Let’s start with CTAs, as this is the one thing the other three features have in common! A CTA (Call to Action) is a “to do” that can be created manually by a user, or automatically by the Rules Engine. OK great! CTAs have been established. But what if I want some more detail and to be able to plan my steps in a CTA? This is where the “smallest” item on our list comes in - Tasks. In making Tasks, however, it should be noted that there is one caveat - they must live within a CTA!



The next item on our list is Playbooks. Let’s say a CSM has one particular type of CTA that comes up often. A Playbook, then, is a pre-set list of tasks, so the CSM can have them ready to go the minute a CTA is created! This is ultimately the only function of a Playbook - that is, to set up Tasks to be applied easily to a CTA. In making Playbooks, a user can either apply it to a CTA manually, or the Rules Engine can apply the Playbook as it creates a CTA.



Finally, we have Success Plans, whose function is to capture, track activity, and share progress on a customer’s key goals using Objective type CTAs and their associated Tasks. These Success Plans can be created manually or through the Rules Engine. Success Plans were developed to group together CTAs for a project and manage that work in custom fields. Success Plan Templates were then developed to make it easy to set up a project that happens often - like a customer onboarding process - and to ensure a consistent approach to delivering against customer goals.



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@sstone Thanks for posting it here! really helpful for the new joinees.



Happy posting!


This really helps!
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This is great, thanks for sharing. It’s something I’ve been struggling with for a while. We currently use more tasks - as entries on Timeline - than CTAs and I’m looking to see how we can improve this.

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In our Company we have reports to show tasks created by other teams (Non GS users) in order to have our CSM acting on those. They are not CTAs. 

Do you have any kind of guidance on what should be a CTA and what can be purely kept as a task?

 

Thanks 

 

The diagram above does not show a relation to Success Plans and Playbooks. Is there a reason for that? Also, what are the primary reasons we’d use Success Plans over Playbooks?

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@mpatra any updates to this original logic diagram?

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@Anil Raj Pujari for any updates?

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@anirbandutta this diagram appears to still be accurate!

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