Preferably interested in knowing the skills with which you up your game outside the work.
All the actual learning only builds up with execution. The more problem solving you are involved in, the more that muscle builds up. All these frameworks are pointless if you can’t apply them. It will remain as rote knowledge.
The other skill which you can put effort and compound is user research. Start improving on your ability to talk to users and bring actionable insights to the team.
For example, I learn with podcasts, read blogs, articles etc. but do not implement them in my daily work. Any good practices?
Depends upon what you perceive product management to be. If you think it is all that you hear in LinkedIn , then there are tons of resources you can find in LinkedIn or elsewhere.
If you want to build real skills, only way to be hands on. No amount of reading will come close to actual experience. In my experience, during interviews, smart interviews figure out if a person has execution knowledge or only theoretical understanding of product management.
Disclaimer - Not a PM.
Recommendation - read the SVPG books:
Inspired Empowered Loved
Also check out their blogs at svpg.com
These are great and my suggestion for anyone with customer facing roles is to consume the books and the blogs.
I am PM with around 5 yrs of experience. I’m struggling to take my skill to next level. always receive feedback from management that output isn’t good, mostly that UX isn’t good. what can I do to improve my work?
Hey. I have close to 6 years of Experience in Sales and Customer centric roles but recently I have developed an interest in Product Development. For reference, I have an Engineering degree in Computer Science and MBA as well.
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Hello All!! Needed some advice with upskilling to further my career in Product Management and add more dimensions to it.
For some context, I have 4.5+ YoE in the software industry, primarily functional roles including about 3 years in ...
