My toolkit

Here's my leadership toolkit for growing people and shaping organizations:

• I care a lot about the "how" of collaboration and have a list of questions to align on these requirements
• I prioritize people management and lateral leadership: only a good product team can reach big goals, not the leader and not one product manager alone. How do I do it? Have async Kanban boards to help directs to move topics, over-offer hel and have weekly one-on-one with everyone you lead – and come prepared. See this article about how I do that.
• I put learning and growing first and am a coaching leader: I have been coaching my directs, other people in my organization and product people from other organization since 2020. See my coaching profile. I also help product managers on Reddit.
• I know when and how to lead async and sync: I hop on a call to make blurry things clear and give direction. I take things async when it is about details. I make sure that my directs have time and headspace to work deeply. Here is my guideline for async leadership.
• I excel at product management by shaping great collaborations. And to make them great, the most important thing is to set clear expectations. A simple document that you draft together and revise regularly can be enough.
• I ask a lot of open-ended questions when working on a problem
• I have the mindset of hypothesis → rapid test → learn.
• Instant, constructive and bite-sized feedback is what I give and take with gratitude (see 1 and 2 on how I do it)