Thank you so much for reading the 14-part blog series, Skills for Success. Over the past 12 weeks, we’ve shared some amazing content to help Salesforce Admins better understand and develop the skills needed to be successful. Written by admins, for admins, the series featured a great lineup of #AwesomeAdmins who have real-world experience and knowledge of how to apply each skill in this role. If you’d like to go back and read any of the blog posts, here’s a list of the 14 skills we covered:
I personally want to offer a big thank you to all of the contributors—we couldn’t have done this series without you! I also want to thank Salesforce for making this happen. It’s been an amazing experience to be a part of, and I truly appreciate everyone who contributed.
I hope you find this series to be extremely useful. The whole purpose behind it is to help you, as Salesforce Admins, understand these skills better so you can apply them to the work you do each and every day.
As we wrap up, I’d like to offer my biggest takeaways from the series. There’s been a lot of amazing content to digest. I’m sure we can all think of highlights from each post that we want to apply to our work and share with others.
Here are my three biggest takeaways:
If you’re looking for next steps following this series, here’s what I recommend:
Thank you again to everyone who contributed in some way to make the Skills for Success series what it is, especially the amazing authors who offered their time and shared invaluable insights. Thank you to Juliette Warren and the Admin Relations team for making this series a reality. And thank YOU for taking the time to read it! We’d love to hear your thoughts about this series, so let us know how it helped you using the hashtag #AwesomeAdmin on social. Don’t forget to put into practice your takeaways from Skills for Success and share what you learned with your fellow admins.
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