getting started with salesforce- deploy and empower your users
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO GET UP AND RUNNING WITH SALESFORCE
Getting Started
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Engage with your users and take action to achieve your goals
Deploy and empower your end users
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Your Getting Started with Salesforce Community Team
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Your Getting Started Journey
Objective: Determine how to effectively train, support, motivate, and engage your users.
We will share examples and proven approaches to help you:
• Select the best way to train your users
• Learn ways to support, motivate and engage your users
• Track and measure success
Poll
How many employees will be using Salesforce at your company?
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO GET UP AND RUNNING WITH SALESFORCE
Getting Started
Select the best way to train your users
Set the stage
• Answer “What's in it for me?”
Tell your users what they can expect from Salesforce and what is expected of them.
• Be clear to users how success is measured
• Establish “If it isn't in Salesforce, it does not exist”
Worksheet: Create your communication plan
Getting Started Workbook
My Communication Plan (SAMPLE)
Timing Key Topics
Pre-Launch
Program vision
Key players
Business goals
Note: Many of the pre-launch topics can be sharing the information you
have captured in Step 1 of this workbook
Launch Instructions on how to access Salesforce
How to get help (questions, training)
Post Launch
User recognition
User Tips/Tricks
Reminder of how to get help/ask questions
Step 3
Define your
training paths
Step 2
Determine
relevant user
scenarios
Plan your training Three steps to planning
Step 2
Determine
relevant user
scenarios
Step 1
Identify your
audience
Identify your audience
• Who needs to be trained?
• What processes are
relevant for the audience?
• What scenarios are
covered by Salesforce?
Key Questions:
Activity Tracking
Reports &
Dashboards
Sales Process
Account & Contact
Management
Training Areas Sales Rep Sales Manager Executive
Leads Process
Determine your scenarios
1. Prep for meeting with prospect – review account,
contact and activity history
2. Capture meeting outputs – update opportunity
and set follow-up activities
3. Use Salesforce1 to capture the information when
on the road
SAMPLE “Day in the Life” Sales Rep Scenario:
Define your training paths
Sample training path
Before Go Live
1. Salesforce Basics
• Getting Started: Navigating Salesforce
• Getting Started: Using the Sales Cloud
• Getting Started with Reports and Dashboards
After Go Live
2. Scenario Training
“Do my job” training
• Home page
• Sales processes
• Key reports and Dashboards
3. Refresher Topics
• Salesforce navigation refreshers
• Top tips based on questions asked by users
Self Paced Training In Person Training Ad Hoc Meetings
Audience (SAMPLE)
Training Scenarios (SAMPLE)
Training Path (SAMPLE)
Worksheet: Plan training
Getting Started Workbook
Audience (SAMPLE) Training Scenarios (SAMPLE) Training Path (SAMPLE)
Maximize your admin time, minimize your training time
• Plan for the future, as Salesforce releases
3x a year
• Use Chatter to deliver self-serve materials
• Develop a train the trainer program
• Build an ongoing training process
• Track training
Salesforce Administrators: Drive your own career
Salesforce Certification
• Get trained and certified
• Join a local User Group
• Leverage the Success Community to learn from your
peers
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO GET UP AND RUNNING WITH SALESFORCE
Getting Started
Support, engage, and motivate your users
Drive User Adoption
• Executive leadership
• Emphasize the value
• Motivate by recognition
• Develop incentives
Motivate Support Engage
• Utilize super users
• Document your support
process and share
• Address problems
quickly and publicly
• Offer refresher training
• Develop a
communication plan
• Create feedback loops
• Reach out to resistors
• Utilize Chatter
• Walk the floor
Best Practice: Use Chatter to accelerate training and adoption
Training
• Use Groups to consolidate training materials
• House training schedules and announcements
• Connect your users
• Provide a space for conversations and Q&A
• Share best practices and how to’s
Engagement
• Reinforce from your executives – provide a forum to champion the implementation
• Increase transparency
• Celebrate achievements
• Showcase super users, MVP’s or early adopters
• On-board and mentor employees
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO GET UP AND RUNNING WITH SALESFORCE
Getting Started
Track and measure success
Best Practice: Measure Salesforce usage
Adoption Dashboards from the AppExchange
Salesforce usage is a valuable metric for measuring success
Success Indicators:
• Login rates
• What data are they creating/updating?
Suggestions:
• Opportunities created, last 30 days
• Activities completed, last 30 days
• Login rates, last 7 days
• Users who haven’t logged in, last 7 days
Best Practice: Measure data quality
Salesforce Data Quality Dashboards from the AppExchange
Data quality is a valuable metric for measuring adoption
Examples:
• Account Data Quality
• Opportunities Data Quality
• Missing Account Data
• Sales Reps Opportunity Quality Scores
Best Practice: Assess User Satisfaction
Survey tools on the AppExchange
User feedback will help you drive adoption
• Are your end users finding Salesforce easy
to use?
• Are Sales Managers managing their teams
more effectively?
• Are Sales Reps finding content faster?
The appexchange has tools for surveys, check
them out!
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO GET UP AND RUNNING WITH SALESFORCE
Getting Started
Track achievement of business outcomes
What should you do now?
• Start the discussion with your stakeholders
• Implement the strategy
• Build dashboards that highlight your
key metrics
• Start driving performance with actionable
data and dashboards!
• Need a jumpstart? Use the AppExchange
Worksheet: Define your success metrics
Getting Started Workbook
My Usage/Data Quality Measures (SAMPLE)
Key Questions Metrics
Are users logging in? % of users logging into Salesforce
Are users using the application? # activities created
# of active licenses
Who is logging in most frequently? Login leader board
Hall of Fame
Are key functionalities being utilized? # accounts/contacts/opportunities created
# of accounts with activities
Are users interacting with the application? Average # of opportunities associated to an account
Are users taking advantage of the functionalities? % of opportunities w/opportunity line items
% of users running pipeline reports
Reports and Dashboards available on the AppExchange 100+ more reports and dashboards from partners to explore as you expand and grow your business.
• Salesforce CRM Dashboards
• Sales Activity Dashboards
• Service and Support Dashboards
• Salesforce Mobile Dashboard for iPad
Validate your solution
Ensure user adoption by
testing their experience.
• Is your training preparing your users?
• Does your feedback process create
engagement and trust?
• Do your users feel supported?
• Are you measuring the right
business outcomes?
Meet the new user experience in Salesforce Lightning Experience is a new, modern user experience in Salesforce
Lightning Experience Salesforce Classic
Getting Started Series
On Demand Videos
www.salesforce.com/gettingstarted
Demonstration
• Chatterize your rollout
• Use standard reports to track key
metrics
• Download prebuilt dashboards
from the AppExchange
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO GET UP AND RUNNING WITH SALESFORCE
Getting Started
Resources for your success
Recap & Next Steps
What you learned:
• Considerations when creating your training plan
• Techniques to support, motivate and engage your users
• Best practices for tracking and measuring success
What you should do next:
Download the Getting Started Workbook
Develop your training and communication plan
Create chatter groups to collaborate with the project team and end users
Review our Reports & Dashboards quickstart
Resource Links
Getting Started:
Getting Started Quickstart
Getting Started Workbook
Videos
Data Import Video Series
Help & Training Articles
Reports & Dashboards Quickstart
Salesforce Certification
AppExchange
Survey tools on the AppExchange
Salesforce Data Quality Dashboards
Salesforce Adoption Dashboards
Salesforce CRM Dashboards
Service and Support Dashboards
Salesforce Mobile Dashboard for iPad
Trailhead Modules:
Lightning Reports & Dashboards
Chatter Basics
Success – Getting Started: A User’s Guide
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Getting Started
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