Product Leadership
👩🚀 Product Leadership Focus Week 🗺
On 25 April – 1 May, you joined us for Product Leadership Focus Week, thank you! Scroll down to explore the content we released each day and more.
Content
- 📝 Blog [MTP Leader members only]: In Developing a positive mental health culture as a product leader, we reveal simple strategies product leaders can use to implement and nurture a positive mental health culture in the workplace.
- 📝 Blog: In this #mtpcon London+EMEA session, The 5 ways Product Management prepares you to become a CEO, Kristina Walcker-Mayer, CEO at Nuri, explains the ways that being a product manager provides a great apprenticeship to becoming a CEO. Conference talk videos are usually exclusively for MTP members, but we’ve opened this one up to everyone!
- 🎧 Podcast: In Leadership challenges throughout the product lifecycle, Todd Olson, co-founder and CEO of Pendo, reveals how he climbed the leadership ladder and shares his advice for anyone keen to do the same.
- 📽 Live panel discussion on Learning to Lead [Members only]: In this panel, exclusive to MTP members, we’ll hear from a panel of product leaders about how they got their jobs and what’s worked for them (and what hasn’t!) as leaders. We’ll discuss the secret to success when moving into product leadership and how product people at all levels can start laying the foundations for becoming excellent leaders later on in their careers, and much more. Watch the recording here.
- 📝 Blog: High performing teams acknowledge the role of both optimism and pessimism and create systems of work that exploit their benefits equally. In this post, ‘Train your product team’s brain to embrace optimism and pessimism’ we’ll unpack optimism and pessimism, and look at ways to make the most of both in your team.
- 📽📝 Video + Blog [Members only]: In this #mtpcon Digital Americas session, Applied Product Management: Why you may be struggling as a product leader, Gijo Mathew, CPO at VTS, explains why we should be thinking of product management in the same way we think of applied mathematics — the application of methods and specialised knowledge.
- 📽📝 Video + Blog We go back to 2020 and a talk by Tobi Otokiti, How Influential Leadership Builds Winning Products. In it she asks us as product managers to consider ourselves as the product – to see ourselves as product leaders, not just managers, and to genuinely care for our teams.
LATEST POSTS
How to lead your product - Part 2: Problems and roadmaps
The next part of our ‘How to to lead your product’ series. Kate Cladis discusses how to lead your product by keeping calm and using roadmaps. […] Read more »
A designer, a product manager, and an engineer walk into a bar...by Karishma Irani
In this #mtpcon Digital Americas session, Karishma Irani, group product manager at LaunchDarkly explains a Triad process that can increase effectiveness when planning and scoping out new product ideas. […] Read more »
How to lead your product - Part 1: Leadership and management
What really is the difference between managing and leading your product. Don’t product managers need to be able to both manage and lead? In this piece, we’ll delve into why product leaders should care about both. […] Read more »
Prioritised Fireside Chat: Make better product decisions with JTBD
In this Fireside Chat for Prioritised members, product author and coach, Joe Leech and our Managing Director, Emily Tate explore how the Jobs to be Done (JTBD) toolkit can be used to make better product decisions. […] Read more »
5 lessons in product leadership
On Monday 27 September, product leaders gathered at the MTP Engage Leadership Forum in Hamburg for the first face-to-face event after a tiringly long break forced by the Covid-19 pandemic. The day’s hosts, Petra Wille and Arne Kittler, put together a curriculum that was more than just inspiring. It addressed some of the most important […] Read more »
How to encourage change by building trust
Relationships based on trust are vital in business. When you have the trust of your team you see morale lift and motivation soar, and without it things can easily become chaotic. How do you build trust as a leader and how can that help to encourage positive change in your organisation? Below, we speak to […] Read more »
Gaining confidence quickly, a story of product manager progression by Osaseri Guobadia
In this ProductTank London talk, Osaseri Guobadia, product director at Songkick, provides a framework for how you can gain confidence in yourself and encourage others around you to be confident in your capabilities. […] Read more »
Stress management for product leaders — the time is now
A “bulletproof soul”. For Executive Product Leader, Dominique Jost, this is the perfect way to describe what product leaders need in order to do their jobs well. And, over the last stressful 18 months, any product leaders who hadn’t yet developed one, probably had to do so pretty quickly. This topic — stress management for […] Read more »
Scaling product and design teams is not just about hiring
When working in early growth stage companies, being able to scale your teams quickly enough is a key element in keeping the human workforce aligned with advancement levers. Hiring might be the first thing to come to mind, right? But hiring is only part of the solution. […] Read more »
5 difficult conversations and how to have them
Sunsetting a product, poor performance, telling leadership something they won’t want to hear — these are all tricky conversations that many of us have to have. Difficult conversations come with the territory when you’re a product leader, so what’s the best way to handle them? In this post, we’re guided by Denise Jacobs, the author […] Read more »