the new habits of a successful salesforce admin
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This year for Dreamforce I wanted to rethink what it means to be a successful Salesforce Admin and what habits Admins should be following. Our approach was a bit different than in previous years, rather than just adding more habits we took a look at the habits I had proposed in previous years and tried to put them into context. In addition, we took at look at the timeliness of each habit- because let’s be honest, we can’t do everything everyday. And we don’t need to tackle that much on a daily basis. Our approach this year was to make the habits consumable and easy to follow. Believe me, I’ve been in your shoes and being a Salesforce Admin can be a tough job because there really isn’t a user manual to success. To help we broke the habits into daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly activities that will help you stay informed, keep your users up to date, and ensure that you completing what you need to get done to keep your org healthy.TRANSCRIPT
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The New Habits of a Successful Salesforce AdminThe New Habits of a Successful Salesforce Admin
Mike Gerholdt, Red Argyle
@MikeGerholdt
Jared Miller, Configero
@JaredeMiller
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Mike GerholdtMike Gerholdt
Director of Client Engagement, Red Argyle
@MikeGerholdt
Director of Client Engagement, Red Argyle
@MikeGerholdt
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All about Red Argyle
Red Argyle is a Salesforce consulting and ISV partner that
focuses on bringing Tailored Goodness to the Salesforce
Platform
Custom Development – Enhance Salesforce or build products
Consulting – New Salesforce implementations
On Demand Administration – Small business scalable support
Products – Several free and paid offerings on the AppExchange
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Jared MillerJared Miller
Senior Project Manager
@JaredeMiller
Senior Project Manager
@JaredeMiller
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Configero At-A-Glance
400+ CRM Projects
250 Custom Apps
7 Force.com Apps
Top 30 Out of 4,200 Salesforce Alliance Partners Globally
Proven Experts Clients/Expertise
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A long time ago
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In 2011… I presented The 7 Habits
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In 2012… I presented The 12 Habits
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Photo Credit: Evil Erin via Flickr
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Hacks
What is a habit
1hab·it noun \ˈha-bət\
: a usual way of behaving : something that a person does often in a regular and repeated way.
Tips&
Tricks
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Engage
• Be a Social Leader
• Engage with your users
• Use Chatter Groups to answer questions
• SABWA• Salesforce Administration by walking around
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Explore
• Visit the AppExchange
• Subscribe to the Newsletter
• Download
• Check your documentation
• Got a Data Dictionary?• Does it need updating?
• Create User Tips to Drive adoption• Post to Chatter- youtube
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Explore
• The Community
• Check blogs for resources
• Utilize Answers & Ideas• SteveMo
• Matthew Lamb
• Salesforce Community Groups
• Social Channels• #Askforce
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Communicate
• Connect with stakeholders
• Stakeholders
• Buy2 v. Build
• Governance
• Identify areas for improvement
• New user on-boarding• Checking your documentation
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Evaluate
• How fresh is your Sandbox?
• Manage refreshes
• Manage Change
• Plan for Salesforce releases – i.e. Read the release
notes!
• Plan for your releases
• Communicate change
• Meet with leadership
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Evaluate
• Attend a Salesforce User Group
• Evaluate your org’s progress with others
• Connect
• Learn Best Practices
• Knowledge Check
• Present once a quarter
• Evaluate Reports & Dashboards
• Eat & Delete
• Report Templates
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Refresh
• Run refresher training for your users
• Your users are your customers
• “It’s so easy, I don’t get why they won’t do it.”
• Create an app to track user training
• Review Salesforce Help Text
• Hover to Discover
• Are terms still relevant?
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Refresh
• Keep yourself up to date
• Make a plan to return to Dreamforce
• Continue with your Training & Certifications
• Administrator
• Adv. Administrator
• Developer
• Sales/Service Cloud Consultant
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Mike GerholdtMike Gerholdt
Red Argyle,@MikeGerholdt
Jared MillerJared Miller
Configero,@JaredeMiller
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