Motivate and inspire the field organization and partners to achieve high levels of success through the acquisition and application of knowledge, skills and behaviors that improve productivity and accelerate growth
Design and deliver effective enablement solutions that grow field team members' and partners' expertise and confidence to drive efficient, predictable, and scalable growth for GitLab
You can find a read-out of Field Enablement team results by quarter – including overall team achievements, progress against OKRs and program-specific key accomplishments and results – in the Field Enablement Quarterly Readout decks below:
Learn how the GitLab Corporate Learning & Development team takes a Handbook-first approach to interactive learning.
Inspired by The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni
See our team mission in the Overview section.
On our best day, we show up with a positive attitude while demonstrating GitLab’s values along with the following behaviors to overcome the Five Dysfunctions:
See "How we do this" in the Overview section.
The below is a work in progress as we define success measures across each stage of the customer journey:
Activity does not equal Performance Knowledge does not equal Capability
Activity x Capability = Performance Knowledge x Practice = Capability
If you have a great training idea and/or enablement request, we'd love to hear it! Please make an enablement request by following this quick process:
FE priority::new request
and FE status::triage
FE priority::1
FE priority::2
FE priority::3
FE status::wip
FE status::backlog
If you have a Field Communications request (process change, announcement, etc.), please see the request process outlined here.
field enablement
- issue initially created, used in templates, the starting point for any label that involved Field EnablementFieldOps
- label for issues that we want to expose to the VP of Field Operations; these will often mirror issues with the FE priority::1
labelFE:CS enablement
- label for Field Enablement issues related to enabling Customer Success (CS) rolesFE:sales enablement
- label for Field Enablement issues related to enabling Sales rolesFE:partner enablement
- label for Field Enablement issues related to enabling Partnersfield accreditation
- label for issues related to /handbook/sales/training/field-certification/field communications
- label for items that include work by/with the Field Communications team within Field Enablementfield events
- label for Field Enablement-supported events (e.g. QBRs, SKO, President's Club, etc.)force management
- label for issues related to Force Management engagement
vff
- label for Value Framework Feedbackvff::new
- starting point for Value Framework feedbackvff::accepted
- Value Framework feedback that will be actioned onvff::deferred
- Value Framework feedback that will be deferred until more information is gatheredvff::declined
- Value Framework feedback that is declined (no action will be taken)lxp
- label for GitLab Learning Experience Platformsales onboarding
- label for issues related to sales/field onboardingQBR
- requests from Sales QBRsFE: Revenue Programs
- label for issues related to Field Enablement-led pipeline growth & acceleration programssales enablement sessions
- label for weekly virtual sales enablement seriessko
- label for issues related to Sales Kickoffstatus:plan
- used in conjunction with sales enablement sessions to indicate when a session topic has been prioritized but not yet scheduledstatus:scheduled
- used in conjunction with sales enablement sessions to indicate when a session topic has been prioritized and scheduledstrategy
- plans, methods, or series of maneuvers or stratagems for obtaining specific goals or resultsFE status::triage
- assigned to new requests before priority status is determinedFE status::wip
- work in progress that has been accepted and assigned to a DRIFE status::backlog
- things in the queue not currently being workedFE priority::new request
- label for new requests that have not yet been prioritizedFE priority::1
- work that directly supports an OKRFE priority::2
- work that does not directly support an OKR but has a large impact on the field teamFE priority::3
- work that does not directly support an OKR and has a low to medium impact on the field