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How to Have a Successful Meeting with Your Boss’s Boss

Harvard Business Review

In this article, the author offers practical tips for holding a successful skip-level meeting. After all, leadership is not only about managing those below you, but also navigating the complexities above.

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How to Give Bad News

Destination Innovation

Here is a plan for that meeting. Do not dash off after the meeting. Allocate time for one-on-one meetings. This meeting is challenging and there is a temptation to get it over with quickly. The post How to Give Bad News appeared first on Destination Innovation. You owe them that. Start with the facts.

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How to Discuss the Undiscussables on Your Team

Harvard Business Review

In this article, the author explains how to spot the classic signs of undiscussables — meetings marked by quick consensus, a lack of productive debate, or uneven participation — and offers strategies on how to uncover those unexpressed thoughts and feelings to help your team work more productively.

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Arrange Your Meeting Schedule to Boost Your Energy

Harvard Business Review

Most meeting advice focuses on how to make meetings more effective or how to cut down on the number of meetings you have altogether. But what about how to schedule your meetings alongside other work tasks to best manage your productivity?

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6 Best Practices for Operational Reporting

Meeting requirements alone is no longer enough. In our eBook, you’ll learn the do’s and don’ts to embedding operational reports, and how to avoid common reporting mistakes. Today’s users need insightful reporting built on accurate, real-time data.

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4 Distractions that Derail Meetings — and How to Handle Them

Harvard Business Review

Poorly run meetings negatively affect team performance, cohesion, and ultimate success.

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5 common challenges with hybrid meetings – and how to solve them

Svava

Hybrid meetings have become something of a standard practice in offices worldwide. Here are the 5 most common challenges with hybrid meetings, and how to improve them. Challenge 1: Engagement When you are holding a meeting in real life, you have the ability to see whether or not the attendees are engaged or zoned out.

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Tough Bosses, Unrealistic Goals, and Other Corporate Challenges That a Customer-Centric Product Strategy Can Empower You to Solve

Speaker: Bob Caporale, Founder of Strategy Generation Company

Have you ever had internal financial goals handed down to you that seem nearly impossible to meet? going to learn how to do in this webinar! In this talk, you will learn how to: Empower both yourself and your company by developing a truly customer-centric product strategy. And that’s exactly what we’re.

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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

How much value could you add? This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Mixing Qualitative & Quantitative Data with Storyboarding

Speaker: Tristan Kromer, Lean Agile Coach, Kromatic

Both are necessary to have a complete understanding of where the desirability of the product meets the viability of the business. Storyboarding is a simple way to start integrating both perspectives into a complete picture of how the user experience impacts the business model. How to instrument qualitative metrics and when not to.

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Navigating the Product Tightrope: Balancing Innovation and Current User Demands

Speaker: Jason Brett - Founder & Chief Product Officer, Product Coffee

In today's rapidly evolving market, product managers face the challenge of driving innovation while also meeting the needs and expectations of their existing user base. This webinar aims to equip you with strategies and insights to successfully navigate this delicate balancing act.

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Choosing the Right Tech Stack –– The Only Way to Grow

Speaker: Pulkit Agrawal - CEO and Co-Founder of Chameleon

But how do you choose the right tools to meet team and business objectives now and in the future? In this can't-miss webinar, join Pulkit Agrawal, CEO and Co-Founder of Chameleon, to learn: How to justify purchasing the best tech stack (and how to choose the right one). How to choose the right products for your company.

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Living With Technical Debt: Balancing Quality and Perfection

Speaker: Cliff Gilley, The Clever PM

Are we willing to live with some level of technical debt in order to ship product and meet deadlines? Can we mitigate technical debt to get to an MVP faster?