Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

” It's too hard to find time to meet. We can't find a place to meet. If we're back in the office, we have no meeting rooms. Or, we have some remote people, so we need several “places” to meet and the technology to support all those places. about meetings. We all have them. Most of us hate them.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 11, 2023

Tim, a C-Level leader, loves his skip-level meetings. He feels the meetings offer him a chance to connect with people he doesn't normally see. Sharon, a different C-Level leader, never conducts skip-level meetings. She feels that those meetings might cause her managers to feel unsafe, as if she doesn't trust them.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 29, 2022

Experiences from a product leader, ex-McKinsey consultant, and current Stanford MBA student Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The Solutions Consulting (SC) team is a vital part of that vision, and I’m thrilled to have a hand in making it come to pass. You’ve made a career in Solutions Consulting, what is special to you about the profession? I often say the solutions consultant is often the most versatile player on the technology sales team.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

You need a senior person at a meeting. The meeting is supposed to start at 2 pm. When I've asked why the person is late, they often say, “I had another meeting that ran long.” Note: Before you judge a person's intent, you might want to ask why someone is late to your meeting. The leader strolls in at 2:15.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 27, 2020

In this ProductTank London talk, Lucy Gill, Founder of Digills Consulting gives some insight into these challenges. In her role as a consultant in the edtech space, Lucy finds that there are a few things that catch companies off guard when they try to develop digital products. Why established businesses struggle.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2020

I've had the pleasure—and displeasure—of many remote meetings over the past few weeks. The difficult meetings had a common root cause: the meeting leaders attempted to do a direct transfer of how they lead an in-person meeting to remote/WFH meetings. What do I mean by respect in remote meetings?

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Back in January 2020, I led a Hudson Bay Start to create/build a consulting practice. Not because everyone became a consultant. However, the people who chose to consult found their ways to succeed. And, even more importantly, some people decided not to consult yet. I'm happy to say it was a success.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

As a consultant, author, and founding partner of CMX, Carrie’s journey epitomizes the transformative power of community to foster belonging and drive meaningful change. The post CS in the City: Meet the Trailblazers Transforming Customer Success appeared first on Gainsight Software. We’re moving toward a need.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 27, 2020

I found the biggest change when I started to work remotely was how meetings changed. When we meet in a conference room, we can see each other. The cameras mimic how we meet in person. I see too many meetings (in-person or remote) where the people don't know what to expect. Well, facilitate the people in the meeting.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

UX studio is one of the global innovation design consulting firms focusing on UX design, research, and strategic consulting. We researched the top design consulting firms’ competency level, experience, and portfolio to define the most reliable design thinking companies you can trust and partner with in 2021. UX studio .

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2019

Photo by Cytonn Photography on Unsplash Get on the same page early in the project to avoid unnecessary conflict Before I was a grad student in OD, it hadn't occurred to me that the PM disciplines (product, project, program) are like consulting. Because PMs, like consultants, get work done only through other people. Pair of hands.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 12, 2021

You have information the team needs, and you want to meet. You see the need for these meetings: Standups. Except, the team thinks you want to meet too often. Instead of calling every gathering a “meeting,” use the meeting's purpose to guide your decisions. If so, that might be a meeting.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

From the initial discovery meeting or demo (many times it’s the same meeting), do your best to build a strong rapport with someone that seems to favor your solution. And finally, every company does its best to sell their strengths from the first meeting. Sometimes, they just don’t like your competitor’s sales team.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 21, 2018

Last year, I made the switch from technology consulting to product management. As a technology consultant, I would move from client to client, spending about 6 months on average with each before moving on to the next. Building Rapport Consulting also instilled in me the importance of building rapport.

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2020

Meet George Korkejian, he joined our team last summer and dedicated himself to supporting entrepreneurs through Bain Public. As a product management consultant, he acts as a coach and a mentor to his clients, providing them with frameworks that guide them toward making the best product decisions. How, you ask?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 26, 2020

Considering a career in management consulting or product management? A typical day as a PM may entail discussing design decisions, weighing pros and cons of various features to build with engineering, or meeting with users to better understand their needs. There may be a consultant out there who can help.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Meet teams throughout Uber, and collaborate with them to adapt their features and plans for business travellers.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Meet teams throughout Uber, and collaborate with them to adapt their features and plans for business travellers.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

Alison Coward will be leading an interactive breakout session at BoS Conf Spring.Online 26-27 April on the topic: “Running Better Remote Meetings.” ” At the heart of most teams lies The Team Meeting. It’s where issues are raised, decisions are taken, and plans are made. Who is Alison Coward?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 26, 2019

One outstanding way to do that is to run great team meetings. By team meeting I don’t mean your staff meeting (if you are a manager), daily stand-ups or reviews with your execs. It’s rare for the engineers or even the designers to say, “hey, can we meet on that?”. And they don’t consider meetings to be “work”.

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Modus Create

APRIL 4, 2019

Welcome back to our series about how to facilitate meetings with people who have challenging personalities. I learned that good facilitation goes beyond what happens in meetings; it starts with involving the right people at the right time. For example, when Cindy was able to attend our meetings, she was thoughtful and attentive.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2017

The topic of customer advisory board (CAB) meeting agendas is a popular one at our training events and at other CAB industry events we attend. Internal Prep Meeting. The host company should plan to have an on-site prep meeting before the face-to-face CAB meeting begins.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 28, 2018

Back in Time You Spend in Agile Meetings (near the bottom of the post), I enumerated all the possible meetings. When the team reduces its WIP, the team might be able to reduce the number of meetings. The PO needs to be an integral part of the team and needs to participate in any board-walking meeting. Columns are cheap.

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Modus Create

APRIL 30, 2019

Welcome back to our series about how to facilitate meetings with people who have challenging personalities. Our scrum master was also present to facilitate the meeting. Why did this meeting fail? First, every person had a different understanding of the meeting’s desired outcome. A Cautionary Tale. Lessons Learned.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 24, 2020

Customer technical consulting, including admin office hours. On average, I have two hours of sprint meetings and 1-on-1s with direct reports and skip-levels to keep the many workstreams of a CS Ops team pointed in the most useful direction. User adoption programs ranging from webinars to newsletters to Sightline Vault solutions .

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

They guide the stakeholders , development teams, and in the case of large products, other product people, to meet the agreed product goals , create the desired outcomes, and achieve product success, as Figure 1 shows. Consequently, a product manager and a Scrum product owner are leaders, too.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 10, 2024

For the first four years of my software career, I was a pre-sales solution consultant, a.k.a. Meet Your Target Customers in Their Comfort Zone. And it’s a lot easier to do when we meet customers in their comfort zone instead of trying to bring them into ours. I think of demos as verbal product positioning. It was an aha moment.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

Sam Lightowler’s Advice: Use a Diagram to Demonstrate Value Meet Sam Lightowler, Senior Manager of OTT Operations at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Himanshu Swaroop’s Advice: Get Everyone on the Same Page with Clear Strategy and Tactics Meet Himanshu Swaroop, Transformation Consultant.

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Iteratively Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Justin Fiedler joins us from being an independent software consultant but previously had worked with Patrick at Hightail and Skinit. We're excited about how each one of them will contribute to making Iteratively a better place to work, and a better experience for our customers.

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Bain Public

MARCH 21, 2020

Here’s the story of how Bain Public came to be: The Beginning of Bain Public Meet Paul. Converse to a project manager, who focuses more on the assignment of tasks, release dates, and meeting organization deadlines, the product manager assesses the why behind each decision.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 2, 2021

One of the key things to do in any product lifecycle is to review if it’s meeting your user’s needs. One of the key things to do in any product lifecycle is to review if it’s meeting your user’s needs. We called our pal Mike Belsito, product pro and a veteran podcaster in his own right, to give us some tips.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 31, 2022

When salespeople think like designers, they can zero in on the customer’s needs and design a solution that meets them. The research bears this out: Two-thirds of customers expect companies to meet their needs and expectations. particularly the differences between transactional and consultative sales. to meet that need.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Up until now, I offered this workshop with a real-time meeting component. But even when I recorded the public debrief, some people chose not to take the workshop because they could not make the meeting. So I'm no longer offering the meeting. .” That's my promise to you. I would love to read your writing.

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DISQO

APRIL 2, 2020

It’s everyone’s responsibility to prevent the spread of COVID-19,” Richard Crone, a payments expert and CEO of Crone Consulting LLC told NerdWallet. Financial institutions should continue to meet their target audiences with advertising where they are, which is increasingly seeking out the latest news on COVID-19.

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DISQO

APRIL 2, 2020

It’s everyone’s responsibility to prevent the spread of COVID-19,” Richard Crone, a payments expert and CEO of Crone Consulting LLC told NerdWallet. Financial institutions should continue to meet their target audiences with advertising where they are, which is increasingly seeking out the latest news on COVID-19.

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DISQO

APRIL 2, 2020

It’s everyone’s responsibility to prevent the spread of COVID-19,” Richard Crone, a payments expert and CEO of Crone Consulting LLC told NerdWallet. Financial institutions should continue to meet their target audiences with advertising where they are, which is increasingly seeking out the latest news on COVID-19.

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