Stakeholder Management
Engaging your stakeholders early on in the product process is key. Getting them on board early means that they can be a supporter of the vision that they’ve helped co-create, ensuring that your product gets out the door!
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Easy ways to engage your stakeholders
Very often we focus our attention on stakeholder management and all the things that can be difficult about that area of product management. How about we skip that part completely and simply talk about the easy ways to achieve some stakeholder wins?
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How to navigate tricky work relationships
In this MTP Leader panel, our line-up of experts joined Emily Tate, Mind the Product’s Managing Director, to discuss how to navigate tricky work relationships. […] Read more »
SUNDAY REWIND: Keeping your stakeholder relationships in CREDiT
In this Sunday Rewind episode, we look back to when Leadership coach Julia Whitney, shared her words of wisdom on keeping your stakeholder relationships through her CREDiT model. […] Read more »
What's your emergency? - Nathan Henry on The Product Experience
There’s no better training ground than working in Emergency Services for learning how to deal with stress, uncertainty, prioritisation with imperfect information, and challenging stakeholders. Coincidentally, these are all skills that are key to working in product. Nathan Henry joins us on the podcast this week to chat about how he leverages the skills he […] Read more »
Managing misaligned stakeholders
In this #mtpcon Digital APAC session, Product Leadership Consultant Rich Mironov explains how to prioritize ticket requests and define a strategy for dealing with misaligned stakeholders within an organization. As Rich points out, requests can come in various categories with different metrics and rationales. It’s, therefore, up to product managers to figure out a way to […] Read more »
So long stakeholder problems
In this blog post, we revisit an episode of Mindset in which Singapore-based Tamara Moona, Associate Director of Product at Pivotal Labs, and Priscilla Nu, Head of Digital Experience and Design at SP Group, share their advice on developing organisational alignment and tackling issues with stakeholders. Product practice is relatively new in many regions around the world, […] Read more »
Negotiating with Sales: A Guide for Product Managers
As a product leader, you’ve likely been in this situation. The sales team needs one specific feature to close a new opportunity with a large new prospect. Your gut instinct tells you that you’ve done right through customer interviews and competitor research. You have a solid roadmap to execute, and you wonder if maybe the […] Read more »
Product Manager's Secret 2020 Weapon: Remote Workshops
As product managers we are, at our core, facilitators. It is ultimately up to us to get all interested parties to align and collaborate on building the right thing for our business and making sure we understand our users so it’s the right thing for the market. As such, we spend a lot of our […] Read more »
3 ways the Curse of Knowledge can Sabotage Product People
The dreaded curse of knowledge! <thunderclap> One of the few psychological phenomena that’s actually as scary as it sounds. If you’ve done any reading on cognitive biases, you’ve probably heard of it. Here’s a common definition: “The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when an individual, communicating with other individuals, unknowingly assumes that […] Read more »
How Influential Leadership Builds Winning Products - Oluwatobi Otokiti
An inspirational first-time talk from Tobi Otokiti asking us as product managers to consider ourselves as the product. See yourself as a product leader, not just a manager, and genuinely care for your team. Don’t be the aloof CEO of the product, but become a team player and get excited about your product – it will […] Read more »