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The AI skills emergency has already started

As the Salesforce ecosystem turns its attention to Dreamforce, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: accessing AI technology is only part of the challenge.
Agentforce and the wider shift toward AI-powered Salesforce environments are changing what organizations need from their people. Buying the tools may be straightforward. Building a workforce with the skills, experience and confidence to turn them into business value is harder.

Access to AI is not the same as AI readiness

Salesforce teams are evolving at pace.

AI capability increasingly needs to sit alongside platform expertise, data knowledge, governance, commercial understanding and the ability to redesign how work gets done.

That means workforce readiness cannot be measured simply by whether your organization has access to Agentforce or other AI capabilities.

The bigger questions are:

  • Are your roles evolving as quickly as the technology?
  • Do your existing teams have the skills to use AI effectively?
  • Do you have the specialist expertise needed to implement and scale it?
  • Can your teams connect AI capability to measurable business outcomes?

Agentforce needs more than administrators and developers

Traditional Salesforce skills remain critical, but AI is expanding the capabilities organizations need around them. Successful Salesforce teams increasingly require people who can work across data, AI, architecture, governance, automation and business processes. That could mean developing existing Salesforce professionals, bringing in new specialist expertise or redesigning teams around the capabilities AI creates. The strongest approach will rarely be hiring alone.

AI will redefine high performance across Salesforce

The question is no longer simply whether Salesforce professionals understand the platform.

Organizations increasingly need people who can understand where AI adds value, work effectively with new AI-enabled capabilities and help turn technology investment into better customer, operational and commercial outcomes.

For employers, that changes how teams are hired, trained and developed.

For Salesforce professionals, it changes which skills will create the greatest value next.

Salesforce expertise backed by a wider technology capability

Tenth Revolution Group helps organizations build the technology capability they need through Talent, Training and Transformation.

Through Mason Frank, our specialist Salesforce brand, we bring deep knowledge of the Salesforce talent market and the skills, roles and workforce trends shaping the ecosystem.

Together, we can help organizations understand what capability they need today, what they will need next and the best way to build it.

 

The AI skills emergency has already started

As the Salesforce ecosystem turns its attention to Dreamforce, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: accessing AI technology is only part of the challenge.
Agentforce and the wider shift toward AI-powered Salesforce environments are changing what organizations need from their people. Buying the tools may be straightforward. Building a workforce with the skills, experience and confidence to turn them into business value is harder.