Fri.Nov 04, 2016

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Mentorship and expectations

bpma ProductHub

The mentorship program at the Boston Product Management Association and how to make the best out of it. Why you might need a mentor in your life. Directing your own life can be equally exciting and daunting thing to do. Oftentimes we may feel stuck and need a little push on the way. It seems like all the books we’ve read, all the knowledge we’ve acquired, all the people we’ve met are still not enough to guide us take a direction, adjust our perspective or make a decision.

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Designing Your Way to Better Team Collaboration by Alison Coward

Mind the Product

As the founder of Bracket Creative, Alison Coward spends her working life advising creative teams on how they can collaborate better. She’s an experienced facilitator of workshops, so at this year’s London #mtpcon she shared some practical ways to get teams to work together more productively. Many of the techniques used to run workshops can also be applied to the day-to-day running of a creative team, says Coward.

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Product management truth seeking–and other innovation insights for product managers Nov 4, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Product managers collaborate and build teams by being truth seekers. Some product managers are defensive when their ideas are challenged. This erodes collaboration that product managers need. Instead by listening carefully to opposing viewpoints, evaluating data, and weighing opinions, they can build influential coalitions.