Congrats! You have just been promoted, or you were hired into a new product leadership role. That’s super exciting, and also the best time to make an intentional plan for how to succeed in it. The first three months count in setting you up for success (or learning fast, that this particular role is notContinue reading “Your first 90 days in your new product leadership role”
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The core Jobs To Be Done for a product leader
Whenever I coach a newly promoted product leader one of the first questions they ask is what the job of a product leader even is. They often feel very insecure about their new responsibilities and lost as to where to get started and whose input to trust. Product Leaders are often advised to develop aContinue reading “The core Jobs To Be Done for a product leader”
Finance skills for product people
Every executive team is focused on the financials. They care about revenue and their organization’s financial results. Understanding how to relate the value of what we do in product storytelling to business results and money is a key factor in getting teams funded and being trusted with our roadmap priorities. Ideally, product initiatives make senseContinue reading “Finance skills for product people”
So you want a high performing product team?
Many years ago, I started pondering this question. What makes a high performing product team? What can I learn about this and how do I apply my findings in practice? The theory is pretty simple: Build something both customers and your organization value, do it with a great team. But the practice of this isContinue reading “So you want a high performing product team?”
Mastering Focus: Strategies for busy Product Leaders
Do you know that feeling of dissatisfaction with your day because you feel like you made no meaningful progress? That too many distractions got in the way of you focusing on deep work today. You may also know this vague feeling of failing because direction, strategy and what to prioritize are not crystal clear forContinue reading “Mastering Focus: Strategies for busy Product Leaders”
The art of persuasion
Persuasion is about influence. It is a super useful skill to invite your team to co-create with you. So often in product roles, this is exactly what we could use more of. Persuasion skills could help you to be able to agree on a strategy, or to get to alignment on our OKRs or theContinue reading “The art of persuasion”
Vulnerability – a key skill for product leaders
It takes a healthy dose of courage and self-awareness to be ok with vulnerability. To become aware of how it affects your relationships and to start consciously using it to improve your working relationships. It took me quite a few loops to become aware, start experimenting with it and start learning how vulnerability turns intoContinue reading “Vulnerability – a key skill for product leaders”
How to make difficult product decisions with more clarity?
One of the key skills any product person (or leader) has to master is making decisions. There is likely not going to be a single day in the life of a product person where we’re not asked to make at least 30-50 decisions. They could be simple things like reviewing the request pipeline from theContinue reading “How to make difficult product decisions with more clarity?”
How to find your authentic leadership style?
When you are female and leading in Tech, you will find some of the leadership behaviors of your successful white male peers in conflict with what you care about. Their leadership style works for them, yet it is simply not what you want to copy or how you want to be as a leader. YourContinue reading “How to find your authentic leadership style?”
Resilience boosts your effectiveness as a leader
Resilience is the ability to bounce back from adversity. It’s about navigating life and its challenges with resources in your toolkit, despite all those curveballs life throws at you. It’s your ability to keep living and creating, after your spouse died, despite the war in your country, in spite of a pandemic and/or despite aContinue reading “Resilience boosts your effectiveness as a leader”
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