Main Takeaways: - Product career growth framework - Your core PM skills and how to build them - Your superpower and how to find it - Your impact and how to advocate it

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6. About Me
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7. Agenda
● Career Pillars as a PM
○ What they are?
○ How to work on them?
○ Exercise: personalize your path

8. Pillars of your PM career
Superpower
Core PM skills
Advocacy
Career
Growth
Proficiency & Impact Exposure, relationship & network
Foundation
How you
differentiate

9. Core PM skills
Product Strategy
Product Design
Problem Solving
Execution
Communication & Collaboration
Leadership
● Mastery of core PM skills help to
up level your performance as a
product manager
● Different companies might have
different versions of these
● Not all core skills are equally
important for where you are

10. Core PM skills
Product Strategy
Product Design
Problem Solving
Execution
Communication & Collaboration
Leadership
● Mastery of core PM skills help to
up level your performance as a
product manager
● Different companies might have
different versions of these
● Not all core skills are equally
important for where you are
Most relevant for junior PMs

11. Core PM skills
Product Strategy
Product Design
Problem Solving
Execution
Communication & Collaboration
Leadership
● Mastery of core PM skills help to
up level your performance as a
product manager
● Different companies might have
different versions of these
● Not all core skills are equally
important for where you are
At least
one of
these
are
highly
relevant
for
junior
PMs

12. Actions to improve core PM skills
● Evaluate where you are and find your focus area to improve in
● Inviting others in your organization/outside to support you
● Track your progress on an ongoing basis
Example core PM skill tracker

13. Activity - core PM skills
● Evaluate where your core skills from 0 - 5
● Circle one that you want to take action on
● Homework:
○ Do this exercise with your manager
○ brainstorm 5 specific ways you can improve this area and get your
manager’s feedbacks on
○ Start a tracker to document your progress overtime
Product Strategy
Product Design
Problem Solving
Execution
Communication & Collaboration
Leadership

14. PM superpower
○ What’s unique about you, what people
remember about you, what you do especially
well in
○ It could be one of the core skills mentioned
○ It will help you stand out among competition

15. Activity: PM superpower
● Think of 3 adjectives that others would use to
describe you
● Think of 3 adjectives that you want to be
known as
● Evaluate the theme of them and find a core
skill area that’s most relevant as your
superpower area
● Homework:
○ Brainstorm 5 specific actions you can
take to make your superpower area
stick
Product Strategy
Product Design
Problem Solving
Execution
Communication & Collaboration
Leadership

16. Advocacy
● Advocacy is an important part of PM responsibilities
● Good visibility for promotion
● Creates opportunities to grow outside of your team

17. Actions for advocacy
● Share wins and learnings proactively
○ Eg. newsletters, learnings presentation
● Create value for other teams or individuals from
your work
○ Eg. creating reusable frameworks
● Build your network of advocates
○ Managers & mentors
○ Peer to peer network

18. Activity: advocacy
● List three specific ways that you can
○ share wins and learnings proactively
○ create value for other teams or individuals
○ build your network of advocates
● Homework: make actionable plan to explore these actions
you think of

19. Make it counts!

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