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Your 3-step approach to delivering effective constructive criticism

Atlassian

Making sure you, as the feedback giver, are in the right frame of mind before delivering constructive criticism is an important step. of managers strongly agree that they’re effective at delivering constructive criticism. Here’s why you shouldn’t avoid constructive criticism. What is constructive criticism?

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Decoding Product Leadership

Roman Pichler

This is necessary, for example, to establish an effective product management function and to secure the necessary level of empowerment for the product people as well as to resolve cross-departmental issues—think of sales reps who routinely promise features to customers without first consulting the appropriate product managers.

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Retire These Metaphors & Reframe the Discussion to be More Effective

Johanna Rothman

FTE for full-time Equivalent (as in human beings!) “Resources” instead of the words: people, or human beings Construction metaphors, such as: build, which describes how we organize and create a usable product. I've been part of several construction projects, and they all used an iterative lifecycle.

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474: Emotionally fit leadership for product managers – with Dr. Emily Anhalt

Product Innovation Educators

Dr. Emily Anhalt is a psychologist, emotional fitness consultant, and the co-founder and Chief Clinical Officer of Coa, your gym for mental health. Your positive feedback should be as detailed as your constructive feedback. 16:18] How should we respond to constructive feedback? We’ll call this emotionally fit leadership.

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What does psychological safety mean, anyway?

Atlassian

Behavior #5: engaging in constructive conflict or confrontation. They found that consultative and supportive leadership styles promote psychological safety, while an authoritative style has the opposite effect. It’s a more flavorful sauce, a more complex group of ingredients, but the end result is simpler. They don’t let it fester.”.

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344: State of product management performance in 2021 – with Greg Geracie

Product Innovation Educators

Returning with us is Greg Geracie the CEO of Actuation Consulting, a global provider of product management training, consulting, and advisory services to some of the world’s most well-known organizations. I’ve known Greg for several years, as we both volunteer with PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association.

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“The Modern World We Live In Was Designed and Executed From An Office.”

The Product Coalition

According to research from K2 Space , a UK-based design consultancy, we found the following account of what’s reportedly the first office: “The first office building was built in 1726 in London and became known as The Old Admiralty Office. Here’s what we’ve uncovered. Source: K2 Space The Admiralty Office.