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PM Branding: Building Your Personal Brand as a Product Manager

The Product Guy

Why Your PM Brand Matters Your personal brand as a product manager is essentially how others perceive your skills, expertise, and leadership. Open doors to new opportunities, such as speaking engagements, leadership roles, or consulting work. This clarity helps shape how you position yourself both internally and externally.

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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

He emphasized the importance of role clarity and how the lack of it often leads to frustrated product managers leaving their positions. Its success relies heavily on the thoroughness of the preceding market research phase while setting the stage for subsequent product positioning and vision development.

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Driving Impact Through Influence and Experimentation: Key Insights from TPG Live

The Product Guy

Featuring an engaging discussion with Inis Hormann (Marketing Director Germany, Cepheid) and Steve Kury (Leadership Development Consultant, SHK Leadership Consulting), the session provided actionable insights for PMs at every level. The Future of PM Leadership As we approach 2025, product management roles are transforming.

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Tackling the Challenges of Personal Branding for Product Managers

The Product Guy

Balancing internal and external perceptions, managing expectations, and aligning your brand with your teams identity can present unique hurdles. Internally, you may be known for your ability to manage cross-functional teams, while externally, you may position yourself as a visionary product leader.

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Roadmap Personas: The Best Way to Set Expectations for Teams, Clients, and Leadership

Speaker: Johanna Rothman - Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Learning objectives: How to create a roadmap that helps the team focus on what they need now, while offering a look-ahead to the future How to leverage your product's position on the technology adoption curve to choose the right customer-focused roadmap How to present options in a rolling wave roadmap, especially if your product is novel and not yet (..)

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Overcoming Challenges in Stakeholder Management: Strategies for Navigating High-Stakes Decisions

The Product Guy

However, product managers often face even greater challenges when navigating high-stakes situations with senior leadership or dealing with conflicting priorities across departments. Use data to support your position and explain the trade-offs. Suggested Solution : The key is to respectfully push back when necessary.

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527: The truth behind “CEO of the Product” – with Francesca Cortesi

Product Innovation Educators

While the role still requires strong leadership skills, the most successful product managers approach their work differently than what the “CEO of the product” phrase might suggest. As we’ll explore in this article, effective product management requires a unique blend of skills that goes beyond traditional leadership models.

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The Key to Agile Team Motivation

Speaker: Robert Webber, Author and Innovation Leader

The Agile community was confident that management would recognize the benefits of Agile and adopt its servant-leadership style. Management was never taught how to establish the positive and supportive environment necessary to motivate self-directed teams, resulting in disappointing Agile transitions.