For team managers: Build an effective support team in Intercom

Create an efficient team that provides personal support at scale.

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About this course

Whether you're new to the role, or on the path to becoming a support team manager, this course brings you from the foundations of building a successful workspace through to managing your team's performance on a daily basis.

We pepper the course with introductions to key metrics to help you evaluate your team and workspace performance.

💡 This course forms part of the prep material for the Intercom Certification 'Design and implement a conversational framework for support teams'. Register for the exam and earn your certificate here. Best of luck!

 

 

Meet the course producers:

    • Ruth O'Brien

      Customer Support Senior Manager

    • Phil Byrne

      Product Education Manager

    • Jack Jenkins

      Product Education Manager

    • Brian Byrne

      Senior Product Education Specialist

    • Danielle Swanser

      Product Education Manager

    • Thomas Creighton de Farias

      Product Education Manager

Curriculum60 mins

  • Laying the foundations
  • Introduction
  • Get Ready - Adding Teams, Teammates, Permissions, Office Hours
  • Develop a consistent approach to categorizing your conversations
  • Create automated inbox workflows and route conversations to the right team
  • Remove ambiguity for your team
  • Your checklist
  • Laying the foundations
  • Managing day to day performance
  • Introduction
  • Scheduling, staffing and reacting to events
  • Inbox Views: Monitor the conversations that matter most in real-time
  • Start reporting on your support
  • Measuring Teammate performance for the ideal customer experience
  • Build a high performing team of continuous learners
  • Macros: Speed up your inbox workflows
  • Managing day to day performance
  • Optimizing and Improving
  • Introduction
  • Team Performance Metrics
  • Custom Reports: Track the metrics you care about
  • Conversation Topics: Unlock valuable insights using automatic categorization
  • Optimizing and Improving
  • Operational Measurement
  • Introduction
  • Operational Metrics - how are you providing the ideal customer experience?
  • Cost Metrics - How much is it costing to provide the ideal customer experience?
  • Operational Measurement
  • Recap

About this course

Whether you're new to the role, or on the path to becoming a support team manager, this course brings you from the foundations of building a successful workspace through to managing your team's performance on a daily basis.

We pepper the course with introductions to key metrics to help you evaluate your team and workspace performance.

💡 This course forms part of the prep material for the Intercom Certification 'Design and implement a conversational framework for support teams'. Register for the exam and earn your certificate here. Best of luck!

 

 

Meet the course producers:

    • Ruth O'Brien

      Customer Support Senior Manager

    • Phil Byrne

      Product Education Manager

    • Jack Jenkins

      Product Education Manager

    • Brian Byrne

      Senior Product Education Specialist

    • Danielle Swanser

      Product Education Manager

    • Thomas Creighton de Farias

      Product Education Manager

Curriculum60 mins

  • Laying the foundations
  • Introduction
  • Get Ready - Adding Teams, Teammates, Permissions, Office Hours
  • Develop a consistent approach to categorizing your conversations
  • Create automated inbox workflows and route conversations to the right team
  • Remove ambiguity for your team
  • Your checklist
  • Laying the foundations
  • Managing day to day performance
  • Introduction
  • Scheduling, staffing and reacting to events
  • Inbox Views: Monitor the conversations that matter most in real-time
  • Start reporting on your support
  • Measuring Teammate performance for the ideal customer experience
  • Build a high performing team of continuous learners
  • Macros: Speed up your inbox workflows
  • Managing day to day performance
  • Optimizing and Improving
  • Introduction
  • Team Performance Metrics
  • Custom Reports: Track the metrics you care about
  • Conversation Topics: Unlock valuable insights using automatic categorization
  • Optimizing and Improving
  • Operational Measurement
  • Introduction
  • Operational Metrics - how are you providing the ideal customer experience?
  • Cost Metrics - How much is it costing to provide the ideal customer experience?
  • Operational Measurement
  • Recap