How Trailblazer Community Groups can help you become the consultant you’ve dreamt of ?
Imagine that you can meet, learn, and get advice from top salesforce consultants (MVPs, Senior Developers, Senior Admins…) for free.
Imagine you are facing a problem with salesforce.com but you don’t know anyone who can help you or has the time to help you. What should you do?
You are new to salesforce and you don’t know anyone who can guide you through your learning path?
You want to meet salesforce users near your location but you don’t know how?
Trailblazer community groups let that become real and easy for you.
What is the Trailblazer Community groups website?
Trailblazer community groups is a platform where you can find all the Salesforce trailblazers’s groups & meetings in any location in the world, join & meet them, learn from them and why not teach & help them.
How to use it?
You should log in there to register a seat for upcoming meetings and join community groups.
1. Find a meeting near you :
Are you enthusiast to join your first meeting with the community ? you can search for it or see the upcoming meetings near your city or even in other cities where the meeting is hold and RSVP for this event.
The meeting could be onsite or online but due to Covid-19 and to get a global audience most of the meetings have gone online.
If you are in a city (or country) where the trailblazer community is not active at that moment (for any reason), you can join other meetings in other cities as you can understand their language.
It is also recommended to read the “about” of that meeting to know if this meeting corresponds to your skills, products you are familiar with, and what you want to learn or discuss about.
Timezones could be sometimes the only gap between reaching these events, because of that some events are recorded and so you can watch them later. So try to manage your time to benefit the most from the events.
2. Find community groups near you :
The meetings are organized by different groups in various cities over the world. Its purpose is to encourage learning by groups which are the greatest characteristics of the #SalesforceOhana compared to other communities.
If you want to join other groups you should choose the right type of groups and also the timezone or country that fits your availability and languages.
Here are some types of groups that exist and described at the trailblazer community groups website:
- Salesforce User Group: Explore a broad range of topics and networking for all types of Salesforce users.
- Salesforce Admin Group: Deliver innovation with declarative tools and solutions.
- Salesforce Developer Group: Build incredible apps with developer tools and code.
- Salesforce Marketer Group: Deliver effective marketing with Pardot and Marketing Cloud.
- Salesforce Nonprofit User Group: Fund and run your entire mission with Nonprofit Cloud.
- Salesforce Higher Ed User Group: Empower your institution to become a connected campus with Education Cloud.
- Salesforce Women In Tech Group: Build your career with fellow female leaders in the Salesforce ecosystem.
3. Create your local community group:
Maybe there isn’t any group in your city or your country (for any reason or circumstance) or there are but they’re not active. You can become a co-leader in those groups and do some meetings or invite some others to share their experience or simply create a new one right now by filling that form.
How it can help you?
Know, meet, and learn from highly experienced people.
I can say that we’re really lucky to be part of that active technology community.
If you are new to this platform seeking advice, if you are facing a problem within your org, if you don’t know how to manage projects, if you are new to a tool or trying to master it, if you are preparing for certification, you are new to salesforce development …etc. Keep in mind that there are meetings where people discuss a topic related to yours, some others let a Q&A section where you can ask them.
They are also some meetings where they invite anyone facing a problem to join and ask for solution and advice.
There are chatters groups (All Collaboration Groups) for these trailblazers community groups where they share news, information, and courses without forgetting that you can share your thoughts and questions there.
Improve your communication skills.
Trailblazer community groups is a great place where you can improve your communication skills in the following ways :
- Improve your listening skills where you learn to listen to others to understand the conversation.
- Improve the way you express your problems and the situation you’re in.
- Learn to take keynotes for the information you get through meetings.
- Improve your second or third language by practicing it with groups who speak in that language.
Improve your connections.
Trailblazer community groups is a great place where you can meet other persons and build your network & connections. So, you’ll be up to date on what happens in the industry and the ecosystem. There are also meetings dedicated to job fairs & recruitment where you can participate if you’re looking for a job or new role.
Benefit from some prizes.
Some groups and events offer some prizes (Certification vouchers, courses coupons, …) to using a quiz to the attendants. This is a great way to motivates you to attend, participate, and learn more.
Improve your MVP skills.
The spirit of the Salesforce Ohana is #SuccessTogether , so helping others is one of the common traditions between trailblazers.
Here are key MVP Skills and how trailblazer community groups can be the right way to achieve it.
- Expertise: if you participate as host or you’re an active member, that let you jump out of your comfort zone and start enhancing your ex-information and knowledge by looking for more details about some subjects and products , which really pushes your expertise to a higher level.
- Leadership: Being a leader or co-leader at a group lets you develop a vision and a strategy for that group according to the attendees’ needs to help them improve their skills.
- Generosity: we all know that meetings are held most of the time outside of work-time, even with family and house duties they arrange their schedule to spend time (their irreplaceable asset) with other trailblazers so they can help them.
