UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

This is not just a design exercise; its the essence of building long-term trust, loyalty and engagement. Consider the following elements: Brand Strategy and Positioning: Before embarking on a digital brand makeover, financial institutions must clarify their mission, values and brand promise.

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UX Planet

JULY 2, 2025

It sparked itself due to repeated occurrences of utilizing some applications that produced substantial frustration on my part, and that propelled this reflection on what it means to respect your users, cultivate a positive customer experience, and why some brands don’t care in the least about digital commitment levels with their users.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 8, 2025

” Our work helped him believe a positive future was possible, and the type of company he sought became clearer. Explore the exercises above or try this one out to begin the process: Identify two limiting beliefs about yourself that you want to change, like "I'm not strategic enough" or "I can't handle conflict."

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 15, 2025

” exercise. Build your team’s confidence to speak in meetings by teaching them they’re “paying a cost” by staying silent—every additional person makes meetings less candid. Help them earn their seat through valuable contributions. Ask yourself: “In what world does this make sense?”

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Sequent Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

You can’t dictate to anyone because you don’t have positional power like a CEO might. Understanding what influence is and how it operates lays the groundwork, but to effectively exercise influence, you must first establish yourself as someone worth following (this is fundamental to effective leadership).

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People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

You'll learn how to: Influence decisions without formal authority Transform rigid hierarchies into adaptive collaborations Introduce positive organizational change, even in resistant environments Are you ready to become the person who inspires without needing a title? Ask yourself, how can I lead from my current position?

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Satisfaction leads to positive reviews, recommendations, and increased user retention. However, dont pick every nice move: consider your products philosophy, branding, and positioning. Better analytics and feedback mechanisms: A responsive design incorporates analytics tools to track user progress and engagement.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 1, 2025

My advice is to approach the interview as a game with clear rules rather than a casual conversation, and spend the first minute making a handful of assumptions at the start of the interview that narrow the scope to a manageable exercise without prematurely limiting the solution space. Focusing on the U.S.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Similarities Identical Rounds: Expect many of the same rounds, including coding exercises, behavioral interviews, and a recruiter screen. " Be ready to discuss any short tenure on your resume with honest, positive explanations. They're not as common as in data analyst or data scientist positions.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

1 ] In fact, some people argue that product leadership can only be exercised by a management role. Leadership can therefore be exercised without being a boss. As the individual is a peer and not the boss, they cannot tell people what to do and they are usually not in a position to offer rewards like a promotion.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 11, 2023

That is until I got a chance to participate in a mindfulness exercise. I learned that with a quick mindfulness exercise, I could shift my perspective, silence the doubts and concentrate on the possibilities instead. They need to feel positive, focused, and supported to do their best work. It was truly eye-opening!

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 25, 2024

She is also a product leadership instructor on Maven and has held leadership and advisor product positions. Positive leadership character: Show traits such as integrity, responsibility, forgiveness, and compassion. 5:37] Tell us more about the aspects of positive leadership character. Another exercise I use is called a Read Me.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

A lot of them worked in other positions before moving to product management, like engineers, analysts, marketers and project managers, and learned by taking on extra responsibilities. It was a mind expanding exercise and set a clear structure for me to rethink what is really the differentiation factor in our product. .

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Mind the Product

APRIL 8, 2020

Read on for Silja’s thoughts on boosting resilience, embracing positive change in challenging situations, and for her unique three-week isolation resilience challenge. At the end of week 2, try these simple exercises. Exercise 1. Exercise 2. A great way to exercise your attention is mindfulness meditation.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 29, 2024

With physical fitness, we know you should eat healthy, sleep enough, and exercise, but we don’t have a lot of clarity around what exactly you should do to build a proactive mental health practice. The more work you can do proactively, the better a position you’ll be in when life throws you a curveball. [7:54]

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This year, it’s estimated that approximately one in four people have quit their jobs , and those positions are remaining open for much longer than expected. These feedback loops are fuel for your team’s morale; they have a positive influence on your team’s productivity and power each team member’s happiness and job satisfaction.

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Productside

OCTOBER 8, 2024

To meet these objectives, Productside delivered a tailored Optimal Product Management course featuring custom exercises designed to tackle the company’s unique challenges. Over the years, Charles River has expanded through strategic acquisitions, positioning itself as a comprehensive early-stage contract research organization (CRO).

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The influence you exercise should therefore be a positive one, see my article Should Product People be Servant-Leaders? It’s important for me to point out that effective leadership must be based on the intention to support the people you want to lead, not on the desire to control or manipulate anyone.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Go for a walk, do some exercise, chat with colleagues (but try not to talk about work). Tip #5: Be Positive. But I recommend that no matter how challenging things are, you should look for the positives, the healthy traits in people (without ignoring unhealthy habits and wrong behaviour). Creativity needs space.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 29, 2018

I experiment a lot with retrospectives, usually mixing different exercises that share the same goal but differ in structure. Asking what your team should keep doing highlights the positive things that are deep in the culture of your organization that are necessary for future success. Experimenting with your retrospectives.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Former Staff UX Designer Maureen Rodaro was also key to implementing and evangelizing this type of exercise and a driving force behind pairing product managers and designers. Going through this exercise also revealed that some tasks are in between roles. This means that each trio can adjust the RACI to their own experiences.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 4, 2023

– Tweet This I’ve written before that date-based “ roadmaps are exercises in futility.” At worst, it sets the wrong expectations and puts the product team in a position of having to always defend their deviations from the plan. They set unrealistic expectations and destroy trust when you can’t uphold them.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

When I was a student, I took part in a negotiation exercise. The whole exercise quickly descended down into what the lecturer politely described as a study in realpolitik. Focus on Interests, not Positions. It’s a good position to be in, as people want to tell you how you can make your product work better for them.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

Introduction: The Product Manager’s Unique Challenge Product managers often find themselves in a unique position: responsible for a company’s future success but lacking the formal authority to implement changes directly. Mentoring is crucial for developing future leaders and sustaining a strong organizational culture.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

A Product manager tasked to lead and manage her team while still providing product management capabilities; that was my position when I was selected to be part of the product mentorship program and paired with Amanda Ralph, my new mentor. This is a relative quick exercise and the matrix can be adjusted over time.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. The vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product and the positive change it should bring about. To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1] Let’s take a look at them.

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Product Talk

JULY 6, 2022

But the positive side of that is that we’re living in a time period where anybody can get product experience. But the positive side of that is that we’re living in a time period where anybody can get product experience. I can still run through a hypothetical exercise. Nobody wants to hire somebody without experience.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

A good vision exercises pull—it describes a future state that people want to bring about. Solution : Describe the ultimate purpose of your product, the positive change the product should bring about like “healthy eating”. Additionally, such a vision is hardly inspiring. Cause : A confusion about what an effective product vision is.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Prioritization is mostly a rational exercise. Especially when traffic in mobile is lower than other channels, you can overcome some of the ROI-based prioritization challenges by positioning mobile as a great place to test and reduce risk. Q: What holds companies back from prioritizing their investment in mobile customer experience?

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Mind the Product

MAY 27, 2019

Neville started with a “nine dots” exercise (you must link all nine dots using four straight lines or fewer, without lifting the pen). He explained the rules and challenged us to complete the exercise. His strategy was planning and positioning, and his tactics were his sequence of moves. Opening Game.

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Mind the Product

JULY 1, 2019

In this post, I look at the value of asking great questions, cover a few strong sample questions and suggest some exercises to help you generate your own insightful questions. This is not a “one size fits all” exercise. The Cardinal sin: no Questions for Your Interviewers. A Starter List of Solid Questions to Consider.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2020

Rare are the Apps that genuinely attempt to do good to users and thus positively impact society at large. They also have dedicated focus for improving sleep quality and iPad version of their App also includes guided physical training exercises. Milestones in the early stages are intentionally closer and grow farther very soon.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 16, 2019

We had many experienced engineers who had been part of on call rotations at other companies, we ran basic postmortem exercises and overall our frequency and duration of outages was pretty good for a company of our size. As a result of this work, we’re in a much better position. Excerpts from our documentation for Incident Commanders.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 29, 2018

I experiment a lot with retrospectives, usually mixing different exercises that share the same goal but differ in structure. Asking what your team should keep doing highlights the positive things that are deep in the culture of your organization that are necessary for future success. Experimenting with your retrospectives.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Assets and liabilities is an exercise I often facilitate with teams to take an inventory and drive a shared understanding of what’s working for and against the team. I like to crowdsource items for the assets column first because they tend to be positive and help maintain an optimistic energy in the room.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 17, 2023

By the time we finish, you should have a good understanding of the structure and methods that will support a positive experience for all and help your groups reach their desired outcomes. Last, let participants know what supplies they’ll need in order to prevent a scramble when you’re ready to start an exercise.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 18, 2018

This first post covers Positioning Documents, which I bought to Onfido from Pragmatic Marketing training, and Line of Business Meetings, which Kevin brought with him. The Positioning Document and Line of Business meeting act as communication devices. Positioning Document. Positioning statement (25 words or fewer).

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