I had the privilege of delving into the world of product leadership with Randy Silver, a product management guru. Our conversation unearthed invaluable insights on cultivating empowered teams.

Randy's key lessons? True leadership involves trust and delegation and you can empower your teams by granting autonomy and providing guidance. Read more about his perspective on leadership and its impact on growth. #ProductLeadership #EmpoweredTeams #LeadershipLessons https://www.kateleto.com/articles/putting-product-leadership-lessons-into-action-a-conversation-with-randy-silver

Today’s nugget of wisdom #EmpoweredTeams

Pretty par for the course for Apple customer service, but still. I said to them how cool it is that #Apple gives their employees the latitude to make these kinds of decisions without having to go through 17 levels of management. #EmpoweredEmployees #EmpoweredTeams They agreed.

If you want to read a deep dive on this, I wrote one of my personal favourites almost 4 years ago: There’s No “I” in Product Manager — Why Ego Gets in the Way

👉 https://medium.com/p/20d0de237301

#ProductManagement #EmpoweredTeams #TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork

PMs leave your ego at the door and do these 8 things instead!

🤝 Collaborate with your team on ideas, and trust their expertise and experience
🧪 Give your team room to explore and experiment
😅 Allow them to fail
🎓 Learn from them
🥳 Celebrate your team, and give them credit
💬 Have an open feedback culture (this needs psychological safety)
💪 Take action based on their feedback
🤓 Be human

#ProductManagement #EmpoweredTeams #TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork

In November, I was in Åarhus for a conference together with @PetraWille and her talk was my favourite - it was all about people development in #ProductManagement 💖
👉 Fave quote: “The positive effect of making people development a priority is massive!”
Petra was then giving us 5 ingredients to do #PeopleDevelopment well:
📈 Know what good looks like
🤔 Where is everyone at now?
🤝 Shared vision of next steps
📋 Create a plan
🤓 Follow up
#EmpoweredTeams #ProductLeadership

When it comes to product mgmt tools, I believe they can be helpful in regard to your process/work flow.
BUT only if it resembles what works for you and your team, you should not model your workflow after the tool you are using.
Personally, I like my tools how I like my video games - not one strict path, open world and room side quests 🤷🏻‍♀️ For that, online whiteboards like MURAL are actually great.
#ProductManagement #EmpoweredTeams

I am a passionate product person working in coaching and consulting so you’ll see a lot about #ProductManagement #ProductStrategy #ProductLeadership and #EmpoweredTeams and probably a bit about #Roadmaps and maybe #OKRs - I believe that #StrategicSkills are more important than frameworks and I will talk about that as well 😌
I study #ForensicEngineering for fun - my only goal is to annoy people by saying “trust me, I’m an engineer!” 😬 Also, I love Penelope Garcia - iykyk! 💖

Communication is so important as a product manager. A large part of our job is to create an information balance between all stakeholders - business partners, design partners, and engineering partners!

We don't make all the decisions, we facilitate good decision-making!

#ProductManagement #EmpoweredTeams

There are other wins a product manager can have besides shipping something. Here are some intangible things that can be hard to measure but really help your team:

🌱 Nurture team health
👉🏼 Set strategy, direction, purpose
🔍 Discover & experiment
🚧 Improve structure & processes
🎓 Educate, coach, grow
🛑 Remove blockers

Sometimes I need to remind myself that these things are what success can look like, especially when working as a consultant/coach.

#ProductManagement #EmpoweredTeams