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What Does the Future Hold for Salesforce Administration with AI Enhancements?

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Today on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, we talk to Lizz Hellinga, Consultant and Salesforce MVP.

Join us as we chat about why product management principles Salesforce are crucial if you want to take advantage of new AI tools.

You should subscribe for the full episode, but here are a few takeaways from our conversation with Lizz Hellinga.

AI enhancements and what they mean for admins

The last time I had Lizz on the pod, we talked about why clean data is crucial for AI tools. But with everything that Einstein Copilot and Prompt Builder make possible, I wanted to bring her back to help us understand how to approach AI enhancements.

The big thing to get your head around is that these tools make it easier than ever to implement changes to your org. However, as Lizz points out, that means it's even more important to think through how Salesforce fits with your business processes. How you gather requirements and communicate with your stakeholders is more important than ever before.

Apply project management principles to your Salesforce org

To get the most out of everything that's possible with AI enhancements, Salesforce Admins need to brush up on product management. "It's kind of like the operations around your operations of Salesforce," Lizz says. She wants everyone to think through three questions:

1. How are you taking in change requests?

2. How are you working with your stakeholders to determine if those requests are aligned?

3. And, finally, how do you go through the process of enabling that change and then extending it for adoption?

As Lizz points out, what you need to do hasn't changed. You might be able to do things faster with AI tools, but big-picture thinking is even more essential so you can deliver the right solutions at the right time.

Communication with stakeholders is a two-way street

So how do you get started? For one thing, you need to figure who you're trying to talk to. As Lizz puts it, "it's never too late to run a report and do a stakeholder analysis." You can look at profiles or roles to determine who the main people are in your organization and what they need from Salesforce.

You need to build trust with your stakeholders, and that means establishing two-way communication about requests and what you're working on. Lizz recommends creating a transparent system for tracking requests, whether that's using case objects or custom objects in Salesforce, or even (gasp!) creating a shared spreadsheet.

It can often feel like there's a lot of heat on you to get everything done as quickly as possible, but that's why bringing stakeholders into the conversation around enhancements is so important. If people understand why bumping something up on the roadmap will push other changes back, it can really turn the temperature down. It's all about creating a feedback loop that turns stakeholders into collaborators.

Be sure to listen to the full episode for more from Lizz, and don't forget to subscribe for more from the Salesforce Admins Podcast.

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