💃 How to Make the Most Out of Repetitive Tasks 🕺

Good morning, Salesforce Nerds! Unfortunately being a Salesforce professional isn’t all fun and games…

Repetitive tasks can have you feeling some kinda way before you even start doing them 😫.

More bad news - repetitive tasks are not going away anytime soon, despite what the AI marketing tells you.

So, make the most of it!

But…how to make the most of repetitive tasks? Read on ⬇️

Agenda for today includes

• How to Make the Most Out of Repetitive Tasks

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How to Make the Most Out of Repetitive Tasks

Today we will discuss-

💃 The Suck → The Cure 🕺

💃 Continuous Improvement → Mastery 🕺

💃 Now What? 🕺

💃 Takeaways 🕺

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SCENARIO

Adam the admin prepared his spreadsheet for another dataload. The marketing team spun up a new lead source and had a nice list of leads for him.

“Hi Adam, there may be some duplicates in there. Sorry in advance. Love ya ❤️!”

Adam groaned 😩…

It’s a Thursday, and he needs to get started on his section of the Executive Summary to send to his manager.

But at least he already had tomorrow morning’s meeting agenda created.

😩 Dataloads

😩 Executive Summaries

😩 Meeting Agendas

😩 And 😩 So 😩 Many 😩 More 😩😩😩

“Salesforce professionals sure do have a long list of repetitive tasks,” Adam said, to nobody in particular…

THE SUCK → THE CURE

Adam is all of us 😭 😂.

You didn’t grind to get to where you are just to belt out repetitive tasks all day.

You got here by being smart, putting in the work, and elevating your way out of your previous role.

🤔 Hmmm….that sounds like a great approach to repetitive tasks, too 🙌!

Here’s what we mean ⬇️

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT→ MASTERY

First, work to achieve mastery of the task, via continuous improvement.

Look, you’ve probably already done this for most tasks-

✅ Password resets, you’ve mastered 🙃 

✅ Dataloads, not many shortcuts or steps that can be removed 🤷

But what about meeting agendas? No doubt you can crank these out…but what does mastery of a meeting agenda look like?

Something like this. But that’s not all! Here are some other ideas to master your meeting agendas-

💡 Dig For Wins

A good manager promotes their team’s wins to their boss. And not “Reset password…successfully 💪!”

“Automated Salesforce Lead creation of Marketing Teams new lead source, saving 1hr/week of manual work.”

💡 Move the Needle

Daily meetings, especially, can become routine and devoid of value, real quick. Sometimes it just is what it is - the whole team is tired and the stars are not aligned.

But move the needle 🧭. Get that one Jira card, or one task, onto the agenda and let everyone know it needs to be focused down and completed.

💡 Big Picture 🙌 

Really, truly understand the objective of the project(s) you’re meeting on. What needs to be done, by when, by who.

Literally everything on the agenda should be in direct service to completing the project on-time, on-budget. Does your meeting agenda align with this 🤔?

⬆️ Boom, there’s 3 (of many…) simple improvements you can make to get the most out of something as repetitive as meeting agendas.

With a focus on continuous improvement, you will discover new opportunities to challenge yourself AND add value to the task 🙌.

YOU’VE ACHIEVED MASTERY…NOW WHAT?

First, a ⛔️ WARNING ⛔️ - Do not fall victim to Parkinson’s Law. As you master your repetitive tasks, you will create more capacity for yourself! Don’t squander it!

Once you’ve improved some processes of your repetitive tasks, not only will you get more value out of your work, you may also find yourself with more capacity because you’re working so efficiently 💪!

You can continue optimizing everything around you 🥱

Or you can use your newly-minted bandwidth to level up-

⚡️ Professional or Personal Development - Create a presentation. Learn Game Theory or MECE.

⚡️ Current State Improvements - Search out defects or opportunities to help the business. “Hmmm why isn’t there a dwell report for Hot Leads?”

⚡️ Gather Feedback - As stewards of the enterprise CRM, we should be dialed into our users. Warning - tread carefully here. A friendly relationship is a good basis for outreach. Cold-Slack a random salesperson at your own risk ⚠️!

There’s also this option-

Do whatever you want 🤷.

Go for a walk outside 🏜🚶.

Check your Fantasy Football team 🏈 .

Read some entertaining, evergreen content 😉.

TAKEAWAYS

You’re not necessarily going to ever shed yourself of repetitive tasks.

But you can make the most of them.

The journey of achieving mastery will, over time, create more capacity, in addition to giving you a deep understanding of the task. Double win 🏆.

Then, utilizing that additional capacity for good 🦸! Whether that’s your own professional development or just for your personal health.

Daily Principle

and now....Your Daily Memes