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Developing STRONG Product People
The 5 Main Ingredients for Being
the Best Coach Your Product
Managers Have Ever Had
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Petra Wille | @loomista
Petra Wille is an independent product
leadership coach and author of STRONG
Product People who’s been helping product
teams boost their skill sets and up their
game since 2013. Alongside her freelance
work, Petra co-organizes and curates Mind
the Product Engage Hamburg, Germany.
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Let’s talk about
developing product
managers
We expect a lot from our product
people
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Ingredients
#1: A solid definition of what you think it takes to be a competent PM
#2: A clear idea of where each PM is today and what their next step should be
#3: A shared vision of how they’ll take the next step
#4: The development plan
#5: A commitment to following up
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Ingredient #1
A solid definition of
what you think it takes
to be a competent PM
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Share your vision with them.
Inspire them. Help them to
picture a bright future.
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Ingredient #4
The development plan
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Your goal is to find one topic
your PM wants to improve on
and help them come up with
some easy, actionable steps
on how they could improve.
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https://www.petra-wille.com/blog/a-lightweight-way-to-create-a-development-plan-for-pms-the-future-self
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Ingredient #5
A commitment to
following up
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The positive effect of making people
development a priority
• Your product managers will feel really valued
• They will learn and they will therefore tend to stay with the company.
• The product will evolve a lot because, if the product manager is getting
better, the product will get better, too.
• Hiring gets a lot easier
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Recap of the 5 main ingredients
#1: A solid definition of what you think it takes to be a competent PM
#2: A clear idea of where each PM is today and what their next step should be
#3: A shared vision of how they’ll take the next step
#4: The development plan
#5: A commitment to following up
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Further Reading
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https://www.petra-wille.com/blog https://www.amazon.com/dp/3982235103 https://strongpp.link/nl
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