"
One of the really fantastic things about product management, but also one of the real stresses of it, is that it is a very broad role.
You have to be able to be really good at strategy, be inspirational, and understand the long-term picture. At the same time, you have to be really good at the operational side and making things happen.
Richard Banfield
Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams
"
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT IS A HARD JOB
Product managers need to serve their users, their business and their teams, solving problems for all their stakeholders. This takes a whole range of soft and hard skills.
Great product managers are able to call on the right skills and techniques at the right time, from a wide, varied toolkit.
I help product managers acquire, develop and select the most relevant skills for their unique context, through guided one-to-one coaching sessions.
PRODUCT SKILLS WE MAY WORK ON
(NOT AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST!)
COMMUNICATION
EMPATHY
EXPERIMENTATION
LEAN
PRINCIPLES
RESILIENCE
AGILE CEREMONIES
VISION-SETTING
USER DISCOVERY