10. Build networks with clicks
Automate data with Lightning Platform
Easily connect partners
Complete the NEW Salesforce Blockchain
Module on Trailhead
Read the Intro to Blockchain for Admins
blog post on admin.salesforce.com
The fast and easy way to build trusted partner networks
Introducing Salesforce Blockchain
12. Learn New Skills
KEY ANNOUNCEMENTS
NEW Trailhead Modules:
1. AI Ethical Use
2. Indeed resume writing strategies
NEW Marketing Cloud Developer Cert
NEW Trailblazer Connect
NEW myTrailmoji
13. Video From Opening Keynote - RAD Women
Click here to play the RAD Women Video!
14. Introducing
Amplify
Denver/Boulder
Save the Date for our next gathering:
October 16th | Galvanize, Boulder Campus
Amplify Mission:
Empowering underrepresented voices in the Salesforce.org
ecosystem and those who support them to be fearless
leaders in technology.
Examples of Underrepresented Voices:
People of color, women, and people who identify as
transgender, nonbinary, LGBTQIA+, differently abled, and
neuro-diverse.
WeAreAmplify.org@Amplifydenverb
15. Build Modern Apps
KEY ANNOUNCEMENTS
NEW Lightning Web Components
Open Source:
Developers can now use the same
framework on and off the Lightning
platform, learn by exploring the
source code, and help drive the
roadmap by contributing code
NEW Einstein Platform Services:
Einstein Predictions Service
Einstein Optical Character Recognition
Einstein Translation
16. Video From Opening Keynote - Susannah St-Germain
Click here to play Susannah’s Trailblazer Story!
17. Integrate Any Data, App or Device
KEY ANNOUNCEMENT
NEW MuleSoft API Community Manager:
A tool that empowers everyone to share
integrations, and personalize experiences with clicks
18. Video from Keynote: Phil Connaughton
Click here to play Phil’s Trailblazer Story
21. Highlights from the Top 6 Breakout Sessions for Admins
Create a Vision for Salesforce
Shannon Gregg
Michael Gerholdt
How To Rock Your Salesforce
Demo (and why it matters)
LeeAnne Rimel
Decluttering Your Org: Steps
to a More Optimized
Salesforce
Christopher Marzilli
Intro to Object Oriented
Programming (OOP) for Admins
Kieren Jameson
Measure Pipeline Performance
with Historical Tracking Reports
Liz Skaates
Make the Move to Lightning
Experience in 60 Days
Rebecca Saar, Kelly Walker,
Melanie Head
22. Create a Vision for Salesforce in Your Company
How Do You Create a Salesforce Vision and Get Your Stakeholders on Board?
1. Build the Vision
• What: Unfreeze old behaviors, change thought patterns,
refreeze new habits.
• How:
• Unfreeze: Interview execs, stakeholders on what they’d
love to see Salesforce do for the company.
• Change: Deliver the “art of the possible” by
demonstrating the capabilities of the Salesforce
platform.
• Refreeze: demonstrate the new vision and orient
stakeholders to it.
2. Shape the Environment
• What: Model the new way, inspire the vision, challenge
the process, enable others to act.
• How
• Communicate the Vision: Use all of your methods
to communicate the vision of how Salesforce can
be your company’s central source of truth: email,
text, Chatter, team meetings, town halls, leadership
retreats.
• Teach the Vision: Join team meetings to find ways
to replace non-collaborative methods with
Salesforce (i.e. using Excel for tracking).
• Host “Office Hours”: a time when users can come
to you with current challenges.
Unfreeze Change Refreeze
23. Create a Vision for Salesforce in Your Company
How Do You Create a Salesforce Vision and Get Your Stakeholders on Board?
3. Deliver the Results
• Determine the results and outcomes you’ll measure prior
to the start of your effort.
Take an Orientation of Power and Influence
• No one knows Salesforce better than you in your company.
You’re the expert!
• How: Benchmark the attitudes and adoption prior to
launching your vision project. This will help you to
measure your delivery.
Deliver on a Behavioral Approach
• Can someone do their job outside of Salesforce? If so, the
vision isn’t yet complete; develop an end to end grand
vision.
Resources
Salesforce Admins Website
admin.salesforce.com
Access to blogs, podcasts, webinars, and more
Salesforce Index Score
bit.ly/SFIndex
24. Step 1: Consider Your Audience and
The Goals of Your Demo
When do we demo?
Training End Users, Executive Sponsorship, Project
Updates, Community Groups, Salesforce Sessions,
Job Interviews & more!
What are our demo goals?
Adoption & training, support, encourage innovation
(release features, proof of concepts
Steps to Deliver an Impactful Salesforce Demo
How To Rock Your Demo
Step 2: Build Your Demo
The Demo Formula:
Business Need + Feature + Impact = AWESOME!
Apply the Formula
Use this formula for every feature/tool/customization you
want to show. This will help your audience understand
why you are showing them a particular area, and why it
will be impactful to them
25. Step 3: Deliver an Awesome Demo
Pre-flight checklist: Clean up or hide any
distractions on your desktop & browser. Turn on Do
Not Disturb, close all unrelated apps, hide
bookmarks
Get Ready: Write out your click path, rehearse,
make sure you know where you will click and what
you will type
Take-off: Slooooow down, don’t overuse your
mouse, pause and let your audience review what
you are showing them
Helpful Demo Resources:
Trailhead: Reach Your Audience with Rad Content:
bit.ly/contenttrail
Podcast: Demos are the Ultimate Adoption Tool:
bit.ly/demopod18
Blog: 5 Tips to Rock Your Next Salesforce Demo:
Bit.ly/5tipsdemoblog
Steps to Deliver an Impactful Salesforce Demo
How To Rock Your Demo
26.
27.
28. Inspect Deals and Measure Pipeline Growth
Which deals have shrunk in value or been pushed out since last week?
Historical Tracking Reports Show Changes To Your Pipeline
Over the past few months, have we been building pipeline?
29. Other Use Cases
Time Period:
• Show changes for
current month and prior
3 months
Supported Objects:
• Opportunity
• Case
• Forecast
• Up to 3 Custom objects
Historical Tracking Reports Show How Your Business Has Changed Over Time
30.
31.
32. Keep Blazing Trails!
Salesforce Admins Website
admin.salesforce.com
Access to blogs, podcasts, webinars & more
Trailhead
sforce.co/summer19
Skill up for the future and start a life-long
learning journey
Join us for the The MOAR You Know
sforce.co/buildspiration
Get #Buildspiration with Summer '19 features
Trailblazer Community
sforce.co/AdminTrailblazerGroup
Join thousands of peers in the Admin Trailblazers
Chatter Group
Notas do Editor
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Welcome to the Fort Collins TrailheaDX '19 Global Gathering for Admins!
My name is Betina as you all know, I own a consulting company called Cloud2b we work mainly with nonprofits, education organizations and CPG. Even tough I have been involved with the Salesforce environment for 7 years I’m working now in my admin certification that I hope to get done until October of this year. And I have to confess that this group here is helping me a lot to grow my knowledge in this area.
Today we’re going to share some of the key highlights and announcements from the event, which was held in San Francisco in late May.
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Today’s Global Gathering is one of over 170 events being held all around the world for Admins.
Thank you for taking the time to learn and connect with our local Salesforce community!
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Here is the agenda for today. First, we’re going to give you a quick overview of the event.
Second, we’ll share some highlights and announcements from the opening keynote, and the low code super session.
Last we’re going to give you a high level overview of 6 of the top breakout sessions for admins.
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- Let’s start with the event overview!
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The event was held in San Francisco’s Moscone West Centre on May 29 & 30 – the same place that Dreamforce is held.
The event kicked off with an opening keynote hosted by Parker Harris.
There were also 4 super sessions: 1/ Innovation 2/ Code 3/ Low Code 4/ MuleSoft
The Low Code Super session content was largely geared towards Admins, and provided insights as to how Admins can use the Salesforce platform to build amazing solutions.
In addition to the opening keynote and super sessions, there were also over 400 breakout, theatre and workshop sessions.
Following the conference part of the event, there was also a bootcamp.
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Like any Salesforce event, the Twitterverse was on fire! Lots of tweets about how Admins were learning and connecting to the community!
Check out these hashtags on Twitter to see some of the action!
#TDX19
#AwesomeAdmin
#CodeGoals
#Lightning
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- Let’s now talk about the opening keynote which kicked off TrailheaDX!
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The keynote was hosted by Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO of Salesforce.
Other speakers included Sarah Franklin, Leah McGowen-Hare, Ryan Ellis and Zayne Turner.
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The overarching theme of the opening keynote was EMPOWERMENT – Trailblazers are empowered to deliver continuous innovation on the Salesforce platform.
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The big announcement at TrailheaDX was Salesforce Blockchain – the fast and easy way to build trusted partner networks. It’s a new way to build trust into any app easily and empower businesses and people to connect in new, trusted ways across any industry.
For Admins, this means we can build blockchain apps fast, with clicks – we can declaratively build apps, networks, and smart contracts that extend CRM to partners and are unique to our business.
We can automate blockchain data with the full power of Lightning and make blockchain data actionable with built-in support for Flows, Search, AI, and Bots.
Salesforce Blockchain will also allow us to engage partners easily by connecting apps to share data quickly and securely across your network with complete transparency and traceability.
For more information about Blockchain you can:
Check out the new Salesforce Blockchain module on Trailhead: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/salesforce-blockchain-basics?trailmix_creator_id=strailhead&trailmix_id=blockchain-trailmix and
Read the Intro to Blockchain for Admins blog post: https://admin.salesforce.com/introduction-to-salesforce-blockchain-for-admins
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The keynote addressed how Trailblazers are empowered to:
Learn New Skills
Build Modern Apps
Integrate Any App, Data or Device
Let’s now take a look at some of the key announcements and takeaways from each of these sections.
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Sarah Franklin, EVP, Dev Relations and GM, Trailhead, talked about how Trailblazers are empowered to learn new skills, and how Salesforce is committed to skilling up the workforce of the future.
Sarah also discussed how the Salesforce economy is creating millions of jobs and millions of Trailblazers, and how over 14M Trailhead badges have been earnt by Trailblazers all around the world.
Lots of other announcements were also made:
2 new Trailhead modules - 1. AI Ethical Use. 2. Indeed resume writing strategies
A new Marketing Cloud certification for Developers
Trailblazer Connect, a new program that aims to help you connect to job opportunities. We’ve included a link to a blog post to read more about the amazing career fair that took place at TrailheaDX, which offered resume services, personal pitch feedback, photo headshots and career coaching : https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2019/04/trailheadx-19-career-fair.html
And of course a fun new feature on Trailmoji was announced – myTrailmoji – which invites users to join a new adventure by creating and sharing versions of Salesforce characters that reflect their personal style, hobbies, and interests. Now you can customize Astro!
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- The RAD Women Trailblazer Story was also featured in this part of the keynote – it’s an inspiring story about a group of passionate Trailblazers that are using the Salesforce Platform to help close the equality gap that exists in technology.
- Radical Apex Developing (RAD) Women have been teaching women to code on the Salesforce platform since 2015, promoting diversity in tech. Through an ever-growing community of empowered Trailblazers, RAD Women fosters a pay-it-forward culture in which women learn, inspire and share their knowledge of Apex developing with others.
Mission: To support and elevate under represented voices in the Salesforce zecosystem
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Ryan Ellis spoke about how Trailblazers are empowered to build modern apps using the Salesforce platform.
Ryan spoke about how Lightning Web Components represents an exciting change for how Developers can build on Salesforce. What does this mean for admins? As Admins, it is important to be aware and educated on changes that impact roadmap planning across declarative and programmatic building. As the architects of Salesforce implementations, Admins need to understand all of the elements that contribute to a finished product (your Salesforce environment) even if you aren’t going to be building those particular elements.
Ryan made 2 key announcements in his section: Lightning Web Components Open Source and also Einstein Platform Services.
With Lightning Web Components Open Source, Developers can now use the same framework on and off the Lightning platform, learn by exploring the source code, and help drive the roadmap by contributing code.
With Einstein Platform Services, Ryan announced Einstein Predictions Service, Einstein Optical Character Recognition and Einstein Translation.
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- Susannah St.Germain’s Trailblazer story was featured in this part of the keynote – it’s an inspiring story about how Susannah, who started as a Salesforce Admin, is using the Salesforce Platform to create impact at her company, in her career and in the community.
- Susannah St-Germain creates time-savings apps for Boston Scientific enabling the company to focus on creating life-saving devices. A former musician, Susannah, used Trailhead, Salesforce's free self-directed teaching module, to propel her career, blazing a trail for herself while inspiring others with non-technical backgrounds.
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Zayne Turner spoke about how admins and developers are empowered to Integrate Any Data, App or Device.
She made the key product announcement of MuleSoft API Community Manager, a tool that empowers everyone to share integrations, and personalize experiences with clicks.
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- This part of the keynote also featured an inspiring story about a young engineer, Phil Connaughton, and his team at Asics, who together transformed the Asics digital commerce strategy using the Salesforce Platform.
- Phil and his team of developers created the e-commerce platform for ASICS Digital using MuleSoft and Salesforce technologies bringing the famed 70-year-old company into the digital future. Phil is dedicated to being on the bleeding edge of technical development while inspiring those around him to reach their potential.
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A reminder that you can also watch the keynote in it’s entirety on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I0A_Mj0gHA is the link.
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- Now we are going to give you a very quick overview of the 6 top Breakout sessions for admins at TrailheaDX.
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Shannon Gregg and Michael Gerholdt delivered an amazing presentation on how you can create a vision for Salesforce in your company. They answered the question: how do you create a Salesforce vision and get your stakeholders on board?
First, they spoke about how to build the vision. To do this you can use “change management theory”, a proactive process that individuals in the organization conceive in a vision, which they articulate and persuade others to work together to fulfill. This involves: unfreezing old behaviors, changing thought patterns, and refreezing new habits.
How:
Unfreeze: Interview execs, stakeholders on what they’d love to see Salesforce do for the company
Change: Deliver the “art of the possible” by demonstrating the capabilities of the Salesforce platform
Refreeze: demonstrate the new vision and orient stakeholders to it
Second, they spoke about how you can shape the environment – how you can model the new way, inspire the vision, challenge the process, enable others to act
How
Communicate the Vision: Use all of your methods to communicate the vision of how Salesforce can be your company’s central source of truth: email, text, Chatter, team meetings, town halls, leadership retreats
Teach the Vision: Join team meetings to find ways to replace non-collaborative methods with Salesforce (i.e. using Excel for tracking)
Host “Office Hours”: a time when users can come to you with current challenges
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- Third they spoke about how you deliver the results. How do you determine the results and outcomes you’ll measure prior to the start of your effort:
Take an Orientation of Power and Influence
No one knows Salesforce better than you in your company. You’re the expert!
How: Benchmark the attitudes and adoption prior to launching your vision project. This will help you to measure your delivery.
Deliver on a Behavioral Approach
Can someone do their job outside of Salesforce? If so, the vision isn’t yet complete; develop an end to end grand vision.
They also provided you with some amazing resources to help you create a vision for Salesforce, including admin.salesforce.com – where you can access blogs, podcasts, webinars and more.
They also suggested that you take the Salesforce Index Score, which measures the three key stages for successful adoption of Salesforce: Build the Vision, Shape the Environment, Deliver Results. This index also includes two personal measures that are important for Salesforce admins, developers, and product owners: Ability to Influence, Confidence. By answering a short series of questions over five days, you’ll learn your Salesforce Index Score so you know exactly where to focus your efforts.
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LeeAnne Rimel gave an awesome presentation about how to rock your demo and gave practical steps about how you, too, can deliver an impactful Salesforce demo.
She broke up the presentation into 3 bite sized sections:
1/ Consider Your Audience and The Goals of your Demo – she gave examples of when we might demo, for example, when we are training end users. And also, encouraged us to consider what our demo goals are.
2/ Build Your Demo – LeeAnne introduced us to a demo formula: Business Need + Feature + Impact = AWESOME! She encouraged us to use this formula for every feature/tool/customization we want to show.
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3/ Deliver an Awesome Demo - LeeAnne also offered practical tips about what to do before you give your demo – for example, turning on Do Not Disturb, and closing unrelated apps.
Here are a bunch of resources LeeAnne suggests to rock your Salesforce demo, please check them out:
Trailhead: Reach Your Audience with Rad Content: bit.ly/contenttrail
Podcast: Demos are the Ultimate Adoption Tool: bit.ly/demopod18
Blog: 5 Tips to Rock Your Next Salesforce Demo: Bit.ly/5tipsdemoblog
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Christopher Marzilli gave an amazing presentation about how you can declutter your org. He spoke about how you can:
1/ Assess your org’s technical debt – including, how you can leverage tools like Optimizer
2/ Define the corrective action – including how you can leverage Lightning as an opportunity to re-think and clean up
3/ Execute on your plan – including developing a comms plan to inform end users
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Christopher also provided these helpful org Cleanup resources, please check them out:
Trailhead: Salesforce Optimizer
Blog: Time to Clean up Those Unneeded Salesforce Customizations5-Step Process for decommissioning old and unused Salesforce Customizationshttps://sfdc.co/cleanup
Blog: Help! My Role Hierarchy is a MessDetailed process with multiple options for cleaning up Roleshttps://sfdc.co/rolemess
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Liz Skaates gave a presentation about how you can measure pipeline performance with historical tracking reports.
If your company has a direct sales team, they will most likely want to inspect each deal and review their pipeline. They will want to know if any deals are at risk – usually by looking at the deals that have shrunk in value, or where the close date has been pushed out. They also want to know if their pipeline is growing, to maximize their changes of hitting their annual quota. Historical tracking reports provide that information.
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Liz spoke about how Historical Tracking reports can also show how other areas of your business have changed over time, as well.
You can track how Support Cases have changed over the past few months, or Forecasts, and up to three custom objects.
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- Rebecca Saar, Kelly Walker and Melanie Head delivered an impactful presentation about how you, as an admin, can move to Lightning in 60 days!
- They put together a timeline that is aimed to help you achieve this goals, with 3 stages – Discover, Roll Out and Optimize:
Discover (T-60 Days)
Evaluate your org’s readiness for Lightning Experience with the Readiness Check
Create a plan for your rollout
Align with stakeholders
Roll Out (T-45 Days)
Pick champions and assign them Lightning Experience
Plan for change management
Implement Lightning Experience features & adjust existing customizations
Optimize (T-0 Days)
Go Live! And have a party!
Leverage in-app adoption drivers to keep users in Lightning Experience
Plan your next phase and repeat
Also, they created a Trailmix for you to help you learn as much as you can about Lightning and how to roll it out.
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- Melanie Head summarized her experience in moving to Lightning Experience, and what worked well at her company.
- She encouraged people to put together a rollout strategy in the discovery phase, including prioritizing communication and training.
- In the Rollout phase, she suggested that you hold “office hours” where people can drop by and ask any questions they want about Salesforce.
- In the Optimize phase, she suggested that you collect feedback through focus groups and on Chatter.
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- Here are some way that you can keep blazing trails to learn more:
Visit the Salesforce Admins Website where you can get access to blogs, podcasts, webinars and more: admin.salesforce.com
Visit Trailhead to skill up for the future and start a lifelong learning journey. Here’s the link to the Summer ‘19 badge: sforce.co/summer19
Join us for the The MOAR You Know at sforce.co/buildspiration to Get #Buildspiration with Summer '19 features.
Join thousands of peers in the Admin Trailblazers Chatter Group at sforce.co/AdminTrailblazerGroup
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Thank you all again for attending this Global Gathering for TrailheaDX. We hope that you have found it helpful and that you feel empowered to deliver innovation at your company using the Salesforce Platform.