💡Product Circle ⭕ Chat - The Hard Truth About Product Leadership
💡Product Circle ⭕ Chat 13 with Christian Idiodi on The Hard Truth About Product Leadership and how to grow great product teams.
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.
“It’s the obligation of modern product teams to tackle value, usability, feasibility and viability risks before an engineer writes a single line of code” - Christian Idiodi
Topics discussed are from the Product Circle Chats Trello board.
This Product Circle Chat was run 18 January 2024 at 10am (Sydney Australia time).
Product Circle Chat 13 - Topic
The Hard Truth About Product Leadership
✨Context & Culture✨
The role of a Leader is to provide context and culture.
Empowered Teams need Psychological Safety and Trust
💡Leadership serves to inspire people to greater accomplishments
💡Management exists to motivate them
The key role of Management is to find, attract, recruit, and hire talented people, coach them to their potential, create and maintain a culture conducive to achieving the objectives.
Of these, ✨Coaching is the Number 1. ✨ Because that is the Day Job. That is what Managers do Every day.
Creating a strategy, vision, culture, doesn't happen every day. Coaching happens every day.
💡 5 Actions to be a better Leader and Coach
People can only give what has been given to them
➡ Create a user manual for the boss and give one to your team
User Manual:
- how do you view success
- how you like to be managed
- how you like to communicate
Understand how your boss works
Let your team Understand how you workDo not substitute good coaching with processes
➡ duplicate yourself. Not what you do. Have a succession plan
"Who am I coaching to be better at my job?"
Create many people competent or better at the job than you are.If Everyday is game time, when do you practice?
➡ Create practice and learning opportunities
Practice:
- in onboarding
- in one on one - personal and professional development of the individual
- team sessions. Team meetings = time to practice, time for meetingWho really is your team? Your employees or your peers?
➡ A team is people with a common goal
Find a Peer and share your strengths and opportunities.
Reveal 1 thing you want to get better at. Ask them if they're great at what you're weak at.
Ask them to lead with you to support your team.If you don't know why your team memeber joined or why they are staying; it will suprise you when they leave
➡ Pitch your existing employees
If managers is the numer one reason people leave a company, in your next one on one with someone who works for you - ask them:
- why did you join this company?
- why are you still here?
Then pitch your existing employees - inviting them to achive the goals
Product Circle Chat 13 - Video
Product Circle Chat 13 - Speaker
Product Circle Chat 13 on 18 January 2024 was presented by Christian Idiodi.
Christian Idiodi has been a product leader for over 15 years, building teams and developing enterprise and consumer products that have shaped companies such as welcomeCareerBuilder and Merrill Corporation as well as clients such as Microsoft, Starbucks, and Squarespace.
He’s passionate about helping companies implement the discipline of product management to build world-class products and new technologies.
Christian is currently a Partner at Silicon Valley Product Group alongside Marty Cagan. You can follow Christian Idiodi on Linkedin or find him at SVPG.
Product Circle Chat 13 - Slides
Product Circle Chat - Q&A
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