Empowering Everyone to Reskill for the Future of Work with Personalized, Intelligent Learning

During the lead-up to our first-ever virtual TrailheaDX — a completely reimagined event that connects makers, builders, doers, and dreamers looking to expand their Salesforce skill set — we introduced brand new Trailhead features to make learning more accessible and guided for everyone.

Sarah Caporusso
The Trailblazer
5 min readJun 23, 2020

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Desktop and mobile device showing Trailhead against a purple background. Trailhead character, Einstein, stands in front.

With Thursday’s kickoff of our first-ever virtual TrailheaDX, we’re thankful for the opportunity to connect with our Trailblazer Community globally.

Together, we’re navigating a changing world where our mission of democratizing education and providing an equal pathway into the tech industry with Trailhead — regardless of race, gender, or socioeconomic status — has never been more vital.

In today’s accelerated digital transformation, we’re focused on empowering everyone to learn the skills needed to transform their career with Trailhead or reskill to help their company go digital fast.

We’re excited to deliver new product innovations that make it easier than ever for everyone to learn new skills for the future of work.

Introducing Einstein Recommendations for Trailhead

With more than 800 badges of marketable skills on Trailhead, we’re empowering everyone with the tools to succeed. And we’ve been listening to you.

With weekly content releases of new badges, you’re looking for Trailhead to make your learning experience personalized, frictionless, and easy — so you can spend your time skilling up.

Desktop showing Trailhead. Badges recommended “Because you are a Developer” with new “Powered by Salesforce Einstein” button.

We’re excited to announce Einstein Recommendations for Trailhead, embedding Salesforce’s industry-leading AI into the Trailhead platform for the first time — making learning more personalized and intelligent than ever before.

This new guide provides tailored learning recommendations powered by Einstein just for you. The best part? The more you learn on Trailhead, the smarter and more tailored the recommendations become.

Mobile phone screenshot of recommendations. “Here’s what we recommend next” followed by three badge suggestions.

Einstein Recommendations are surfaced for you in two ways — right on your homepage and after you earn a badge.

On your Trailhead desktop homepage, these new intelligent rows surface the right content for you based on your role or career path, your recent activity, and the skill set you’re building.

Whether you’re learning on your desktop or Trailhead GO, directly after earning a badge, Einstein Recommendations will provide you with the next best steps for your learning journey.

You can seamlessly dive into one of the Recommendations or favorite the suggestions to easily return to at a later time.

Visit the Salesforce Newsroom to read the Q&A with Sandeep Bhanot, SVP Trailhead Product, and Tony Pizza, Senior Director of Product Management, for Einstein Recommendations for Trailhead deep-dive.

New Daily Reminders on Trailhead GO

Trailhead GO, our free iOS app, has proven to be an incredible companion to learning on desktop for our seasoned Trailblazers, and it has also proven to be a great entry point to Trailhead for new learners.

Mobile phone screenshot of a new notification via Trailhead GO. “Morning Emily. Let’s learn something new today :)”

With new Daily Reminders, we’ve enabled regular notifications to encourage learners to dive into Trailhead GO once a day.

From the notification, learners can either launch the Trailhead GO mobile app or go straight to Trailhead LIVE to watch a live-streamed or on-demand session.

Daily Reminders are an invaluable feature for new learners, helping you to build your learning muscle and embed Trailhead into your regular routine.

You can manage notification settings at any time. Feel in the groove and no longer need the prompt? Simply turn off the notifications.

And if you ever lose your way, you can seamlessly turn the reminders back on.

Introducing Trailhead LIVE Subscriptions

With the launch of Trailhead LIVE, we reinvented the classroom experience by providing learners with live-streamed and on-demand, expert-led videos covering today’s most in-demand skills for free.

Trailhead LIVE constantly delivers new and engaging sessions spanning career pathways, levels, and topics.

Mobile device showing the Trailhead LIVE schedule page.

And more than ever, we’ve seen that Trailblazers are turning to LIVE to learn new skills and also connect with instructors and fellow community members.

In fact, we’ve seen a 306% increase in Trailhead LIVE viewership from March to June.

The ability to connect virtually with Trailhead LIVE has made our live-streamed sessions even more valuable.

Now, with new Subscriptions, Trailblazers are able to add upcoming LIVE sessions directly to their calendars — including from the Trailhead GO app — ensuring you never miss a session. Plus, seamlessly add upcoming sessions from the new Weekly Schedule.

Drive your company’s digital transformation with Customer 360 Guides

We know that, more than ever, many of you are utilizing Trailhead to learn the skills needed to help your company go digital fast. Now, we’re launching Customer 360 Guides on Trailhead — proven blueprints, architectures, and best practices that empower you to achieve your Customer 360.

The first guide, Transform the Consumer Experience, walks you through delivering a connected experience across Commerce, Marketing, and Service — critical to the digital imperative. Get started with Customer 360 Guides with the new Trailhead module, Customer 360 Guides: Quick Look.

TrailheaDX: Trailblazing together, innovating through change

Looking to see these innovations come to life and so much more? Experience the best of TrailheaDX, the Salesforce event of the year for admins, developers, and architects.

Check out the range of on-demand TrailheaDX videos for inspiring Trailblazer interviews, content episodes and demos highlighting the latest technology, and Q&A with product experts.

Experience the best of TrailheaDX at Global Gatherings with your local community. trailblazercommunitygroups.com

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