Top Goals for Salesforce Administrators in 2019

Top Goals for Salesforce Administrators in 2019

We recently took to Twitter to find out from #AwesomeAdmins what their top Salesforce goals are for 2018. If you would like to follow along, follow @ZynBit of twitter and post your goals! We have also curated a list of resources to help Salesforce Administrators achieve those goals!

1. Getting More Salesforce Certifications (named Sales Cloud & Pardot)
2. Governance
3. Documentation
4. Earning and Hitting Trailhead goals
5. Ranger Status!
6. Migrate to Lightening
7. Adopting SalesforceDX Dev Workflow
8. Salesforce Adoption
9. Better Work/Life Balance! (Such an important one, we think!)
10. AWESOMENESS!!!! (I mean who doesn't want that!)

Let's explore some great resources we curated on each of these goals!

1. 1. A Great Resource by Salesforce is the "Guide To Certification Paths" and a great place to start if you are trying to determine which certifications to go after and when. You can download the guide here- https://www.salesforce.com/assets/pdf/misc/certification-guide.pdf 
   2. Admin Hero has a lot of great guides and articles to help you navigate your certifications- here is a link to all of the content they offer on the topic- https://www.adminhero.com/?s=certification 
   3. Want to hear from other Admins on their journey- check out this blog post from a peer- https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2016/07/five-salesforce-certifications-one-day.html
   4. Two other great resources that you must not forget while on this journey are:
      1. COFFEE
      2. WINE (Other whatever you fancy!) :)

1. 1. Take the "Manage Change with Governance Framework" Trailhead - https://trailhead.salesforce.com/
   2. Check out this step by step guide by Red Argyle- https://www.redargyle.com/blog/a-step-by-step-guide-to-salesforce-governance

1. 1. Check out this post on How To Improve Your Salesforce Documentation- https://admin.salesforce.com/5-ways-improve-help-docs 
   2. Check out this Salesforce Live video by Amber Boaz - https://www.salesforce.com/video/193183/!
   3. If you like Puppies and want to learn best practices for documentation- this is the post for you- http://cloud4good.com/announcements/salesforce-administration-puppies/ 

1. 1. First things First- Set your Goal!
   2. Check out these 4 best practices for Learning on Trailhead- https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2017/07/4-trailhead-best-practices.html
   3. Read these helpful tips so each trailhead unit goes smoothly!

1. 1. Learn about all of the Trailblazer ranks here- https://trailhead.salesforce.com/trailblazer-ranks

1. 1. Take this trailhead to help determine when it's the right time for your organization to move to lightning. https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/modules/lex_migration_introduction/units/lex_migration_introduction_rightforme 
   2. Learn how to enable your users for success in Lightning with this Salesforce live video- https://www.salesforce.com/video/194013/
   3. From there check out these migrating to lightning insider tips- https://endiem.com/blog/10-insider-secrets-for-migrating-to-salesforce-lightning 

1. 1. Check out this slideshare on how to get started- https://www.slideshare.net/developerforce/get-started-with-salesforce-dx
   2. See how to use SalesforceDX here- https://bluecanvas.io/2017/11/27/how-to-use-salesforce-dx.html 
   3. Take this trailhead- https://trailhead.salesforce.com/modules/sfdx_app_dev 

1. Check out this webinar - https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5505069283729285634
2. Check out this case study from Allied Building Solutions- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXnk34Pnqg4&index=7&list=PLBPC67M12mBKUQbw2Cq31TYE_rnXsjRRv
3. Better Work/Life Balance!
   1. Check out these tips from Mental Health America- http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/work-life-balance 
   2. To kick start here are very simple things you can start doing today- http://ceoworld.biz/2017/12/20/10-work-life-balance-habits-youll-want-to-adopt-in-2018/  
   3. And subsequent to the advice in the article in #2 - here is some more supporting info on how getting up earlier can help improve your balance- https://www.inc.com/the-muse/why-should-wake-up-5-am-every-day.html

AWESOMENESS!!!!

1. Tip 1, if you achieve one of the goals above- You are awesome in our book!!

Cheers to 2018 and crushing your goals #AwesomeAdmin! We are cheerleading for you all the way!