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How to be the best coach to product people | Petra Wille (Strong Product People)

27 Nov 2022 18 published claims 2 attributable people

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18 published records

01 / recommendation

Recommends The Art of Thinking Clearly. Recommends Outcomes Over Output.

“The Art of Thinking Clearly by Dobelli. It talks about human biases in a really nice and illustrated way. Then what I use a lot in my coaching practice, especially with senior executive, is Outcomes Over Output because it's a super strong concept, I'd say. And then maybe I want to mention two books that are not yet written, but two concepts that I hope will make it into books, and one is Martin Eriksson's Decision Stack. And then there is another book about public speaking that hopefully might come out if some people are supporting it on Kickstarter. And that is called Present Yourself, a public speaking book.”
Speaker
Petra Wille
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

05 / belief

I loved it. That's actually a medical director, Matt, and he's finding very unconventional ways to solve problems and I think he's a great leader, so maybe that's a nice framing for watching the show.

“I loved it. That's actually a medical director, Matt, and he's finding very unconventional ways to solve problems and I think he's a great leader, so maybe that's a nice framing for watching the show.”
Speaker
Petra Wille
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

06 / belief

I think two weeks ago, one of my coaches told me that he stopped reading a lot of books and consuming a lot of content and he instead dedicates the whole year to using one methodology or book.

“I think two weeks ago, one of my coaches told me that he stopped reading a lot of books and consuming a lot of content and he instead dedicates the whole year to using one methodology or book.”
Speaker
Petra Wille
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

08 / belief

Let's see what's out there that's awesome. And maybe save it for the future, but there's so much stress, I think, that goes into like, "Oh my God, I got to read everything all the time.

“Let's see what's out there that's awesome. And maybe save it for the future, but there's so much stress, I think, that goes into like, "Oh my God, I got to read everything all the time.”
Speaker
Lenny Rachitsky
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

10 / preference

I'm totally not into product management SaaS tool these days because as I'm just coaching people on hourly basis, I'm no longer the one looking into the SaaS tools they're using.

“I'm totally not into product management SaaS tool these days because as I'm just coaching people on hourly basis, I'm no longer the one looking into the SaaS tools they're using.”
Speaker
Petra Wille
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

11 / recommendation

So product leads, your life will get so much easier if there is a product community of practice. And it's actually a pretty cheap way of doing people development because trainings are expensive, conference tickets are expensive, getting external product coach, expensive.

“So product leads, your life will get so much easier if there is a product community of practice. And it's actually a pretty cheap way of doing people development because trainings are expensive, conference tickets are expensive, getting external product coach, expensive.”
Speaker
Petra Wille
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

12 / recommendation

Something that I did with my PMs that was so effective was every time we did a performance review, every six months, we had a performance review, we put together a Google Doc with all of the things that we agree they should be working on and we pick, say, five themes or three themes, and then we pick very concrete things they should do over the next six months that will help them develop these things.

“Something that I did with my PMs that was so effective was every time we did a performance review, every six months, we had a performance review, we put together a Google Doc with all of the things that we agree they should be working on and we pick, say, five themes or three themes, and then we pick very concrete things they should do over the next six months that will help them develop these things.”
Speaker
Lenny Rachitsky
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

13 / recommendation

Really build rapport, really be there for your product folks. And I think creating this list of coaching questions as a go-to list could improve the quality of your one on ones because, let's face it, we often run into those ones.

“Really build rapport, really be there for your product folks. And I think creating this list of coaching questions as a go-to list could improve the quality of your one on ones because, let's face it, we often run into those ones.”
Speaker
Petra Wille
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

14 / recommendation

Don't use it just by copy paste because sometimes you have just rather technical PMs in your organization and then all these assessment points about user interviews and discovery are maybe not that applicable in your situation, right?

“Don't use it just by copy paste because sometimes you have just rather technical PMs in your organization and then all these assessment points about user interviews and discovery are maybe not that applicable in your situation, right?”
Speaker
Petra Wille
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

15 / evaluation

Because as the line manager has no clue about the product community out there and the craftless product management, they often struggle to point them in the right direction to say, "Hey, I think that's a problem somebody else already had.

“Because as the line manager has no clue about the product community out there and the craftless product management, they often struggle to point them in the right direction to say, "Hey, I think that's a problem somebody else already had.”
Speaker
Petra Wille
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

16 / evaluation

I think there's a lot of beauty in story as a design tool, so to say, because it's even easier to change a story than it is to change a prototype, right?

“I think there's a lot of beauty in story as a design tool, so to say, because it's even easier to change a story than it is to change a prototype, right?”
Speaker
Petra Wille
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

17 / evaluation

Because the peers tend to give you the harsher critique, so to say, where the strangers are more polite, but they're not so familiar with the work you do or with the story that you want to tell so they can spot some gaps in your storytelling technique or something like that.

“Because the peers tend to give you the harsher critique, so to say, where the strangers are more polite, but they're not so familiar with the work you do or with the story that you want to tell so they can spot some gaps in your storytelling technique or something like that.”
Speaker
Petra Wille
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

18 / preference

I think for both parties, it's more likely and more pleasant if you have small chunks of people development in your calendar. And that's why I like your story, right, because you were focusing on regular check-ins more than into the big bang 360-degree reviews.

“I think for both parties, it's more likely and more pleasant if you have small chunks of people development in your calendar. And that's why I like your story, right, because you were focusing on regular check-ins more than into the big bang 360-degree reviews.”
Speaker
Petra Wille
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast
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