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Helios To-Do List
The Helios To Do List was redesigned to support the primary objectives of the Account Manager I (AMI) role to:
1. Actively prevent account attrition and decline
2. Ensure customer retention by frequent contact with customers
3. Achieve daily activity goals and performance metrics
The AMI To Do List ranks the most critical accounts, in priority order, to contact based off severity of decline
and/or likelihood to churn.
Decline = An account in which their purchasing has a negative spend trend over the course of at least 4 months,
compared to similar customers. For instance, if similar customers are growing, and the account is declining, then
the account is really declining. If similar accounts are declining as well, then the account’s decline would be
considered in comparison. Seasonality is also taken into consideration.
NOTE: “Similar” customers refers to customers that have a comparable tenure with Staples, industry, contract type
with Staples, company size and company sales.
Churn = An account that is predicted to significantly slow or stop purchasing with Staples. Data is pulled based on
customers that order less than 3 times in a 6 month period and used to predict future customers that will behave
the same way.
NOTE: Helios aggregates data from SFDC, Sunrise, Contract Data Mart, Omniture, MRKDM and CustExo. When
applicable, source of data is referenced in this guide.
NOTE: Google Chrome is the preferred Internet Explorer to access Helios in order to receive the most optimal
experience.
The To-Do List is comprised of 6 main sections: Help & Training, Name of logged in Rep, Today’s Progress, This
Week’s Progress, Prioritized Call List and Account Details.

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Help and Training: The Help and Training section provides associates with access to technical
support and training guides. To access these, click on the “Help & Training” hyperlink in the
top/center of the Helios To-Do List. The dropdown menu will display along with two options for
associates to choose from:
• Help: allows the associate to access the Help Desk in the instance that technical assistance is
needed and provides them with the ability to submit new suggestions or ideas for future Helios
enhancements. The associate also has the ability to directly contact the Helios technical
support via email to Helios_SA_appsupt@Staples.com or suggestions/ideas to
helios_sa_bussupt@Staples.com.
• Training: Gives associates access to helpful training documents if they need to refer back to or
have any questions

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Name of Logged in Rep: The Name of Logged in Rep section displays the name of the individual
user that is logged into Helios.

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Today’s Progress: The Today’s Progress section provides the associate with visibility into their
progress towards accounts actioned today. An account where a call attempt has been made or
email sent and a disposition was logged and saved to Salesforce; as well as opportunities created
by clicking on the Create New Opportunity link in Helios. The associate must record the
disposition in Helios, as dispositions recorded directly in Salesforce do not count toward the
accounts actioned total in Helios.
The following information is displayed within the Today’s Progress section:
• Real-time progress tracking (%) toward the daily goal of 50 Unique Accounts Action (left side)
• Today’s date (upper right corner)
• Daily total of accounts actioned (lower right corner)
Below are the associated dispositions that count as an account actioned.

Dispositions
Create New Opportunity

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This Week’s Progress: This Week’s Progress section displays the associate’s weekly progress of
accounts actioned. It is a helpful reference point to ensure that the associate is tracking towards
performance objectives for the week and ultimately ramping properly for the month.
The following information is displayed:
• Chart depicting how the associate is trending for the week, from the beginning of the week to
the current weekday, based on their daily progress with accounts actioned
• Current week date range, Sunday – Saturday (upper right corner)
• Total number of accounts actioned for the week (lower right corner)

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Prioritized Call List: The Prioritized Call List is a prioritized ranking list of all the Customers /
Companies assigned to the associate, which is their book of business (BOB). It lists customers to be
called, based on order of importance.
• The Prioritized Call List is determined based off of two criteria: Business Rules and Data Science.
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Business Rules: Used to determine if recent contact was made to the account, based on
the criteria below. If a business rule applies to the account, it will fall to the bottom of the
Prioritized Call List, appearing without a Call Ranking and phone icon
Ø Last Live Contact in the previous 21 days
Ø Two Contact Attempts in the span 14 days
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Left 2+ Voicemails/Emails within a 14 day span, the last of which was
within the past 14 days

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Data Science: Uses account attributes such as Severity, Responsiveness and Potential
Call Value to determine an Account Score
Ø Severity is the rate at which a customer is declining or likelihood of churn compared
to similar customers; the higher the value, the more severe is the account's
decline/churn status

Ø Responsiveness is the likelihood that a Customer / Company will make a
purchase due to contact; the higher the value, the more likely a purchase will
occur
Ø Potential Call Value is the amount of sales that may be gained over the next 30
days if the Customer / Company reverses current decline/churn status
Ø Accounts to contact are ranked based off of Account Score which is calculated
from severity, responsiveness, and potential call value
• Within the Prioritized Call List, accounts to contact are ranked based off of severity of decline
and/or likelihood to churn, as seen in the first image below
• The Prioritized Call List will re-rank accounts every night. Accounts will be color coded as you
work them during the day so you do not lose your place
• Accounts that are not declining or at risk of churn are not ranked and will fall to the bottom
of the Prioritized Call List, appearing without a Call Ranking and phone icon, as seen in the
second image below
• Accounts without a Call Ranking and phone icon do not need to be contacted that day
Prioritized Call List

Non-Prioritized Call List

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The Prioritized Call List has 3 main sub-sections: Call Order, Company Name, and Potential Call
Value.

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Category

Description

Call Order

The Call Order is based on a pre-defined call order prioritization.
The accounts ranked at the top of the list are calculated to be the
most critical accounts to contact, thus it is important for associates
to follow the numbers by priority when calling customers i.e. the
top customer on the list should be called first, then the second
customer should be called second, and so on.
• Ranking prioritization is based on the applied business rules and
data science previously discussed (Refer to page 5 for the
“Business Rules)
Ø If any one of the business rules apply to an account, the
account will not be ranked.
Ø If an account does not meet a business rule, then the
company will be ranked based on Severity of Decline/Risk
of Churn, Responsiveness to make a purchase after
Contact and Potential Call Value.

Phone Icon

The phone icon is clickable and links directly to the main Salesforce
Account page for the respective account, which will allow the
associate to call the customer directly via the “Click to Dial”
functionality.

Account Time Zones

The Account Time zone section lists the current time zone for the
respective account. It can be filtered by Select Time Zones based
off the zip code listed under Company Profile.
• The Call Order dropdown contains filters for Eastern (EST),
Central (CST), Mountain (MST) and Pacific (PST) time zones as
well ‘Not Available’ when zip code listed under Company Profile
is blank.
• The default Time Zone will be ‘Select All’ until a filter is applied.
Ø It is imperative to pay attention to the time zone. Be
sure to call the customer when they are available and
when the associate will have the highest likelihood of
reaching them.

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Category
5.1

Account Time Zones

Description
NOTE: Color Designations within the Phone Icon and Account Time
Zone columns are gray, orange and blue and are used to indicate
actioned and un-actioned accounts for the day/week.
Gray – Account has not been actioned yet
Orange – Account was actioned today, aligns with Today’s
Progress Tracker
Blue – Account was actioned this week, aligns with This Week’s
Progress Tracker
During the nightly refresh, all orange accounts will drop to the
bottom of the list and transition to blue. All previous blue accounts
will remain at the bottom of the list and in blue. As a new week
begins, all color coding will be cleared and revert back to gray.

5.2

Company Name

The Company Name section list the name of the associated
account.

5.3

Potential Call Value

Potential Call Value is based on the account’s transactional history
(past 13 months for decliner and past 36 months for churn) and
projects the potential revenue gained over the next 30 days. It is
important for the associate to contact the customer, as they will
have the ability to change the customer’s behavior by contacting
them to influence their spend.
NOTE: Potential Call Value will be blank if the account is not at risk of
potential revenue loss or meets a business rule (Refer to page 5 for
the “Business Rules).

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Account Details: The Account Details section provides the associate with detailed insight into
account information and opportunities that will provide the ability to create a sales game plan
prior to calling the customer.
The following is displayed:
•
Search Bar
•
Last Live Contact Details
•
Plays, Talking Points, and Dispositions
•
Account Contacts
•
View Account Dashboard (which will link to the Helios Dashboard)
The 5 sections below will be described next.

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Description

6.1

Search Bar

The associate has the ability to search for an account by Company Name or
Customer Number by utilizing the Search Bar

6.2

Last Live
Contact
Details

Last Live Contact Details is the default window for all accounts.
It contains the following information, which is extracted from Salesforce:
Ø A snapshot of the Last Live Contact such as Company Name, Date, Contact,
Subject, Status and Comments
Ø Customer Type, which is the Membership Program or Contract type on the
account
Ø Customer ID, which is the master account number

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Category

Description

Plays, Talking
Points, and
Dispositions

Plays, Talking Points, and Dispositions will be present if the account qualifies.
This section will outline the specific Call to Action for the Account –Decline
and/or Churn.
NOTE: If the account has both a Decline and Churn Call To Action, the Churn
call to action should be the priority, as those customers are most severely at
risk of being lost.
Based on the Call To Action, it will have an associated call approach that will
guide the associate on how to handle the call. It also contains supporting
talking points that are to be used as guidance when speaking to the customer
about their decline or churn in purchasing.

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Category

Description

Plays,
Talking
Points and
Dispositions

The two Call to Actions (CTAs) that will be available are Decliner and Churn.

Decliner
If an account is identified as a decliner, insights about
the account will be exposed around the customer’s:
Ø Log In behavior: This information is present to
help identify if there is a change in the account
purchaser.
• Is the currently primary purchaser still
purchasing?
• Has there been any new purchasers to the
account?
Ø Ship To behavior: This information is present to
help identify a change in other locations inclusive
their purchasing trend.
• Is activity by Ship To declining?
• Are there any new Ship To addresses for the
account?
Ø Price Sensitivity: This information is present to
help determine if price is a driving factor into why
the account could potentially be declining.
• Is the primary purchaser purchasing or
browsing on Staples.com?
• Are they purchasing Staples Brand or other
value brands?
• Does their order history suggest that they
are cherry picking based on deals?

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Cont.

Category

Description

Plays,
Talking
Points and
Dispositions

The two Call to Actions (CTAs) that will be available are Decliner and Churn.

Churn
Once an account is identified as likely to Churn, the
Churn CTA will provide assurance and support to the
associate to prevent the customer from actually
churning.
Ø As such, this CTA is meant to guide the
conversation in a positive direction and to
un-earth customer discontent in order to address
any issues surrounding Product Selection, Delivery
and Price.

Dispositioning allows the associate to enter the Subject, Disposition, Contact and Comments for the
customer interaction and save to Salesforce.com.
• Both the Subject and Disposition field are mandatory
• Contact and Comments fields are optional
• Like the existing Helios disposition screen, the associate has the option to create a new opportunity,
which will link to SFDC New Opportunity Select Opportunity Record Type page
• Once the “Save to SFDC” button is clicked, the activity is automatically viewable and editable under
the “Activity” tab for the respective account in Salesforce.

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6.3
Cont.

Category

Description

Plays,
Talking
Points and
Dispositions

Follow the steps below to record a disposition:
1. Click the Subject dropdown and choose the applicable subject type for
the customer interaction i.e. Attempt 1, Attempt 2, Attempt 3,
Contacted, etc.
2. Click the Status dropdown and choose the applicable status type for
the customer interaction based on the action completed i.e. Task
Completed, Task Completed E-mail, Left message with Customer, etc.
3. Click the Contact dropdown and choose the appropriate account
contact that was attempted/interacted with.
NOTE: If a contact is not displayed within the Contact dropdown, they
must be added to Salesforce via the Add a New Contact link. The newly
entered contact will then display in the Contact Dropdown in Helios,
within 24 hours.
4. Then click the Save to SFDC button in order to save the disposition in
Helios and Salesforce.

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6.4

Category

Description

Account
Contacts

Account contacts list up to three primary account users and is pulled from
Salesforce.
The following information will display when present in Helios or Salesforce:
• Phone Address, Email Address, Primary Contact indicator, Job Title and
Last Site Visit data, and Contact Name, if the data is available
• Last Person to Visit Site, Last Person to Purchase and Biggest Spender Last
365 Days will all be indicated via a Flag icon, if the account possesses these
attributes, as shown in the image below.
The associate can use the “flags” to target the appropriate contact, plan your
conversation, and reduce clicks to SFDC by leveraging contact data in Helios.
Eyeball

6.5

View Account
Dashboard

Last Person to Visit
Site

Paper

Last Person to
purchase

Dollar

Biggest Spender Last
365 Days

Brings the associate to the Helios dashboard page of the selected account
which contains historical spend and category sales by year and period as well
as modules for users, orders and Ship Tos data

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