Main takeaways: Product managers need soft skills to help them build great products and lead great teams. - Interpersonal Effectiveness - Lead Without Authority - Communicate Efficaciously - Persuasion - Delegation

1. Soft Skills Product Managers Need to Be
Successful by PayPal Sr PM
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2. CERTIFICATES
Your Product Management Certificate Path
Product Executive
Certificate™
Product Leader Certificate™
Product Manager
Certificate™
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3. Corporate
Training
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Management skills

4. Free Product Management Resources
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5. Soft Skills Product Managers Need to be Successful
Ronke Majekodunmi
Senior Product Manager, PayPal
OF G
www.productschool.com

6. Ronke
Majekodunmi
Senior Product Manager,
PayPal
Financial Industry
B2B, B2C

7. My PM Superpower
I thrive in finding opportunities beyond the sight of others

8. My Favorite
Books
◦ Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting
Ahead at Work (and in Life) by Cathie Black
◦ Emotional Intelligence 2.0 Kindle Edition by
Travis Bradberry
◦ How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's
Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
by David M. Rubenstein
◦ The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People:
Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by
Stephen R. Covey
◦ The New One Minute Manager by Ken
Blanchard
◦ Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way
to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your
Life by Spencer Johnson

9. Great Product Managers Build People and Products

10. Being a product manager is a humbling opportunity. Our actions
motivate our cross-functional teams to think big, become more
versed, meliorate and blossom into more. This is the embodiment
of leadership

11. Soft skills are essential characteristic for product management
professional development

12. Main Takeaways
Communicate Efficaciously
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Lead Without Authority
Persuasion

13. Communicate
Efficaciously
Storytelling Collaboration Seek Feedback
& Advise

14. Interpersonal
Effectiveness
Be Present &
Listen
Leadership
Voice
Cultivate
Allies

15. Lead
Without
Authority
Recognize
Cross-functional
Team Members
Humility Empathy

16. Persuasion
Objective Stories Anticipate
Objections

17. Main Takeaways
Communicate Efficaciously
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Lead Without Authority
Persuasion

18. My PM Superpower
I thrive in finding opportunities beyond the sight of others

19. Ronke Majekodunmi
hello@ronkepm.com
https://www.ronkepm.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronkemajek/
https://twitter.com/ronkemajekodun1

20. www.productschool.com
Part-time Product Management Training Courses
and
Corporate Training