💡Product Circle ⭕ Chat - Mental Health for Product & Tech Professionals with Graham Reed
💡Product Circle ⭕ Chat 28 with Graham Reed on the Mental Health of Product & Tech Professionals
Product Circle Chat is runs every second week as a Zoom call that anyone can join to talk all things product, product management and problem solving. Creating value for customers and the business.
“Building the wrong things faster is not a path to success” - Graham Reed
This Product Circle Chat was run on the 28 August 2024 at 6pm (Sydney Australia time) with Graham Reed.
🎇Methodology Overload🎇
Product Management is suffering from 🎇Methodology Overload🎇
We're no longer at the intersection of UX, Tech and Business (got to love a good venn diagram).
We're at the centre of
⭕Sales/Marketing
⭕Customer Service
⭕Commercial
⭕Board/Investors
⭕Data Science
⭕Finance
⭕Product Analytics
⭕C-Suite
⭕Customer/User/Enterprise Buyer
⭕Product Marketing
⭕Product Design
⭕Engineering
That's a lot of circles!
And can lead to overwhelm.
But the 🧐 Product Management Solution Landscape is what got me!
🤔Which ones have you used?
🤔Or are quietly signing up to right now?
🤔Feeling imposter syndrome yet?
Product Circle Chat 28 - Topic
Topic: Mental Health of Product and Tech Professionals
Product Management is really hard, but not how you might think. Not for the technical and process-focused characteristics, but for the mental resilience specifically needed for this role.
Managing conflicts in requirements and priorities,
Dealing with complaints, from departments or customers,
Dealing with issues or disappointment
Pressures from all angles, teams and senior leaders
Upskilling in new platforms,
Challenging others or established norms,
Overcoming impostor syndrome
All of this is on top of the pressures of modern working life, in a market that demands more and more, faster and faster all the time, not to mention the personal life and challenges everyone faces.
In this session, Graham delved into the challenges a product professional faces, and how both ICs can look after themselves and managers can look after their teams (and themselves).
Product Circle Chat 28 - Video
As this is a personal topic and we wanted to have honest conversations, the discussion after Graham’s talk was not recorded.
Product Circle Chat 28 - Speaker
Product Circle Chat was run on the 28 August 2024 at 6pm (Sydney Australia time) with Graham Reed.
Graham Reed is a 15 year veteran product professional, now leading the field of Product Operations, from the UK. He is also the founder of the Product Mind Community, an free-forever online safe space for product professionals of all walks of life to talk, listen and share their challenges uniquely with like-minded professionals.
You can connect with Graham on Linkedin
Graham’s Slides
Product Circle Chat - Q&A
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❓ Will there be more sessions?
Yes. Fortnightly. Every second week.
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❓ Still have Questions?
Talk to me. Send me an email at irene@phronesisadvisory.com
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