People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Building on my previous post on Product Sense , at my Reforge workshop on Sharpening Product Sense , I revealed how top product minds transform market whispers into winning decisions. Share People-First Leadership 2. Your teams will see leadership backing the change, learn to speak the same language, and work better together.

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Gainsight

APRIL 15, 2025

Leading with Empathy In an age saturated with automation, the human touch in leadership is more critical than ever. Top CS leaders share their journeys, emphasizing that while technology transforms, leadership remains inherently human. Workshop Your Way to Growth The final ingredient in our potion for success is practical application.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

For me, Black History Month is a time of reflection and celebrationa reminder that triumph over adversity and dedication to innovation, leadership, and resilience are woven into the history of this country, says Cummings. Clarence Skip Ellis, and countless others whose contributions to data science and AI often went unrecognized.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 21, 2025

As you just read, Figma is where design work happens, so FigJam has an advantage that could force Miro out of its leadership spot in future years. Miro continues to stay ahead of FigJam in the virtual whiteboarding space, just barely In the battle to be the place where tech professionals think together, Miro remains the leader, but barely.

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Gainsight

JULY 31, 2025

During Pulse Unplugged, we talked about formats like onboarding cohorts, roadmap previews, and industry-specific workshops. That combo is what helps you make a compelling case to leadership – and improve your programs in real time. I wrote more about that balance in this blog on the new ROI of community.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 27, 2025

Leading Innovation: Strategies for Success Navigating organizational resistance to innovation requires a delicate balance of leadership approaches. Bruce emphasized that innovation leadership isn’t just about managing processes it’s about creating environments where breakthrough thinking can flourish.

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UX Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

That initiative was a calculated yet risky investment from leadership, and the controlling group of the organization. This solutioning endeavor was executed in 4 months, which included all Design work/research (workshops, iterative cycles, refinements, flows, wireframes, prototypes, visual design), development, and go to market strategy.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

Use your background in developing digital products, encouraging collaboration on growth projects across departments, ensuring product quality, and demonstrating effective leadership to support Firefox’s growth. Strong team leadership: 5+ years of direct PM management experience. Image] Who would be the best fit for this job?

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UX Planet

JUNE 13, 2025

But over time, especially in engineering-heavy organizations, you start to miss the designer’s mindset: the creative workshops where ideas bounce freely, the casual but inspiring community meetups, the abstract discussions, and the shared references to the broader artistic and cultural world. 22–27 (4) Russell L.

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Productside

APRIL 4, 2025

Discussing product leadership and challenges, Orly shares her unconventional path into product, the lessons she learned turning around a failed product, and how she builds high-performing teams in global tech companies. Product Leadership Through Challenges Nicole: That was incredibly boldand it really paid off.

Leadership

Business Acumen Institute

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

My journey through corporate leadership has shown that influence isn’t about titles but about connection and purpose – a lesson I’m passing on for you to apply in your career. As I alluded to, people in business require leadership. This way, they’re more likely to write the later chapters with you and come along for the ride.

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Business Acumen Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

And, the research is done sometimes to the workshops I deliver. There are high potential leadership development programs But if we look a little bit more deeply into the organization, let’s assume all those great high potential people become the future C suite people, who’s gonna move into those next higher level jobs.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Running a collaborative roadmapping workshop is a great way to engage everyone and create a shared product roadmap, as the following picture illustrates. Remember: Collaboration requires leadership. The best way to create agreement is to collaborate with the key stakeholders to create and update the product roadmap.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Discover insights from top industry experts with a variety of workshops covering product management, strategy, and leadership skills. Read more » The post A Q&A with our #mtpcon workshop leaders appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

This training set can be composed of workshops where I can transfer my product management knowledge (e.g. Allow for workshops where team members from other teams are invited to give a presentation (e.g., By taking on more responsibilities, I need to demonstrate leadership and gain the confidence and trust of my stakeholders.

Leadership

Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How product managers can navigate leadership challenges Today we are talking about four leadership motions that enable increased organizational effectiveness and productivity and alleviate organizational friction, waste, and indecision. Sharing the four leadership motions with us is Janice Fraser. Measure outcomes.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Three Types of Leadership. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. Providing the right product leadership is demanding; it requires a specific skills set and usually your full attention as the person in charge of the product. As the product owner, you lead the product and are responsible for its overall success.

Leadership

Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

Additionally, an inspiring vision helps you apply a visionary leadership style and become a visionary leader—someone who guides others through a big, motivating goal. A great way to ensure that your vision is shared is to create it together with the stakeholders and dev team members in a collaborative workshop, be it online or onsite.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

Last month I had the privilege of participating in SVPG’s ‘Coach the Coaches’ workshop in Europe. I soon found out that I was going to be the only one from Israel attending the workshop. primarily focused on product teams, helping them be great at the discovery work that is at the heart of what they do Leadership coaching?—?focused

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 17, 2023

If you’re a workshop leader or meeting facilitator, at some point you’ve probably observed the not-so-fun energies of resistance and aversion among your participants. The truth is, the workshop experience is going to be a waste of time if it isn’t grounded in a well-thought-out design. So, where does a winning workshop design begin?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Product leaders can’t succeed if they neglect people skills and leadership skills. A collaborative workshop with key stakeholders is a great way to kick off a new product development effort and create the initial vision. Product leaders can’t succeed if they neglect people skills and leadership skills.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

To build such a stakeholder community, try the following techniques, which I discuss in more detail in my book How to Lead in Product Management : Bring people together and have joint workshops instead of holding separate conversations with the individual stakeholders, see also the section below. Establish clear roles and responsibilities.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In a recent poll, many of my fellow facilitators shared that the most challenging part of designing a workshop lies in picking the right methods and activities to apply, then pacing against them. In my experience, most workshops follow a common arc from beginning to end, with five very distinct chapters along the way. Hey, I get it!

Workshop

Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Grow Your Leadership Skills. For example, you might decide that as an intermediate step, you aim to manage a larger product and use this opportunity to develop your leadership skills and understanding of product roles. Whatever you do, give yourself the time you need to get ready for the career move.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 18, 2022

The leadership side of product management reaches its pinnacle when you have the complete trust of executives, marketing, sales, engineering, finance, customer success, and customers. Product management leadership comes in two flavors. This is where persuasion skills are paramount to leadership. appeared first on Proficientz.

Leadership

Roman Pichler

AUGUST 16, 2022

Imagine that John is a sales rep and a key stakeholder who hardly ever attends the product strategy workshops you’ve invited him to. It might be that he is overworked and short of time or that there is an ongoing conflict with one of the other stakeholders that makes it difficult for him to participate in the workshops.

Product Manager

Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

This includes securing the necessary training budget and selecting the right training courses, as well as creating a training-on-the-job program, attending product strategy workshops as a stakeholder , and acting as a sparring partner for strategy-related questions.

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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. This is best done by having regular, collaborative strategy workshops as well as attending sprint review meetings. Additionally, it is based on my leadership work, especially my book How to Lead in Product Management. [2]

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Taking a break from the always entertaining/sometimes informative podcast Jake & Jonathan (formerly known as The Product Breakfast club, which he co-hosts with Jake Knapp), AJ&Smart CEO Jonathan Courtney joined us to chat about Design Sprints, workshops, and how to get groups of people collaborating. Quote of the Episode. Talk to us.

Workshop

Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Consider sharing the input beforehand when you run a strategy workshop so that people can prepare for the meeting. Listen to this article: [link]. 1 Set an Objective. What’s the meeting about?

Product Manager

Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

We’re thrilled to announce the first of our amazing line-up of speakers and announce all our deep-dive workshops, connecting international and regional thought leaders with the vibrant product and UX community across AsiaPac. Workshop Presenters. Product Leadership. Workshop tickets Conference tickets.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 24, 2021

Same with workshops or consulting. This is a part of the series of leadership tips. The post Leadership Tip 8: Stop Focusing on Happiness & Measure Satisfaction Instead appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. And I depend on my readers to read—and with any luck—comment on what I wrote.

Leadership

Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Three Pillars of Leadership: Know, Do, Be Effective product managers are more than just idea generators or task managers. To excel in this leadership role, focus on these three key areas: Know: Develop a comprehensive understanding of your product, market, and team dynamics. They are leaders who inspire and guide their teams.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 3, 2017

I really wish that for once, you gave us clear priorities,” Jane said accusingly at the end of the workshop and walked out of the room. [1] See it as an opportunity to improve your product management practice and leadership skills. It’s a Common Challenge. You just can’t make up your mind. How could she say something so wrong?

Construction

Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This includes sprint planning , Daily Scrum , sprint review , and sprint retrospective , as well as product strategy and product roadmap workshops. In theory, your Scrum Master should focus on providing people and process leadership. Meetings : Prepare and facilitate meetings. What the Scrum Master Should NOT Do.

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Nulab

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Traditional top-down managerial structures for leadership are being replaced with bottom-up styles of working. Organizations need to be dynamic if they want to attract and retain the best workers — and collaborative leadership is one way to do that. What is collaborative leadership? Here’s everything you need to know.

Leadership

Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

You manage the stakeholders, for example, by inviting them to roadmapping workshops and sprint review meetings or by having regular one-on-ones with them. You should therefore involve them in creating and updating the plans, preferably in the form of collaborative workshops.” Strategize , 2 nd ed.,

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