Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 12, 2021

You're a busy product person, a Product Owner. Workshops where we work as a team. The more often I support people in their preparation, the faster we can get to the topic under discussion or of the workshop. If you're a PO or a product manager, you might need to explain this product's strategy now.

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LSA Global

MAY 8, 2023

The cross-selling strategy was part of a strategic sales initiative to grow globally while achieving economies of scale across markets, regions, products, services, and suppliers. The post LSA Global Delivers Sales Leadership Workshop for an Industrial Technology Company appeared first on LSA Global. Learn more about getting aligned.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

100% Job Relevance 100% Satisfaction 50% Knowledge Gain 100% Net Promoter Score After putting their entire APAC sales team through customized solution selling training , this high growth technology client wanted to design and deliver a customized sales management training program for sales leaders to help meet aggressive growth targets.

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LSA Global

JULY 24, 2023

To help ensure that their sales teams bring strategic value to their customers, this highly customized Sales Leadership Workshop For SaaS Transportation focused on teaching sales leaders how to: Motivate a Sales Team to Higher Performance Top sales leaders balance sales rep. 100% Job Relevance 100% Satisfaction 143% Knowledge Gain 97.1%

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops Many of my middle-management and senior leadership clients want certainty about future work. One of these managers said, “I have so much uncertainty and ambiguity. But most of my business focuses on coaching, workshops, or consulting. That's why a manager's decision time matters.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 29, 2019

If you wondered why I've been so quiet here on the blog, it's because I've been managing my own product development. This announcement is that Esther Derby and I have teamed up to offer online workshops based on Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management. Who is the course for?

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Business Consulting Agency

JUNE 17, 2023

In today’s competitive business landscape, driving product sales is a top priority for companies aiming to achieve sustainable growth. Explore how business consultants can drastically assist companies in increasing product sales and the methodologies they employ to drive success. Want product sales success?

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LSA Global

JANUARY 12, 2023

Training Effectiveness and Post Workshop Learning Best Practices Most seasoned corporate training professionals understand instructional design consulting best practices. While all those steps are important, the most impactful step from the training strategy is missing — post workshop learning and reinforcement. The difference maker?

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

Several people on social media have denigrated the terms “project manager” and “program manager.” ” These people claim there is no need for either role in an effective team, especially an agile team because the team can manage its own deliverables. Facilitating the team's collaboration.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I have a new book: Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. See Manage Unplanned Feedback Loops to Reduce Risks and Create Successful Products.) That's because no product survives contact with the customers. Worse, sometimes the team doesn't demo or deliver.

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LSA Global

JULY 25, 2023

The Prioritization Workshop for Biotech employees helped individual contributors to better manage their workload when everything feels like a top priority. The Prioritization Workshop for Biotech employees helped individual contributors to better manage their workload when everything feels like a top priority.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. Their products and services did not ship outside the building—their products and services enabled the organization to make money. Adam, a product leader, has changed his meetings and workshops.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 24, 2023

That's the essence of a lot of effective product development. If this sounds like what you want to do, learn and practice with me in my upcoming writing workshop. But if you wish you could write faster and better, and not spend nearly as much time on editing, please join me in the Q2 2023 writing workshop.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As a consultant, I create many kinds of information products: both writing and speaking. That allows me the most flexibility in my product development. However, too many organizations don't differentiate between what they need to ship as experiments and when to finalize the product.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 30, 2023

For example, people know me for my expertise in managing product development. I offer custom workshops to my clients at a much higher fee. Sometimes, those facilitation techniques are part of a workshop, but more often as consulting. I added value by running internal workshops on how to hire my replacement manager.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 7, 2024

Priorities might include developing new products, expanding into new markets, enhancing the customer experience, increasing operational efficiency, or embracing sustainability. Unique advantages include strengths that distinguish a business, add value to its products, and give it a competitive edge over the competition.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 14, 2024

See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers. Use Timeboxes to Make Visible Progress I have a variety of larger work: Books, fiction, and some blog posts (the ones that turn into series) New workshops Presentations Client work, which can vary from proposal to implementation and back again. That doesn't help anyone finish.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 23, 2022

She said that as long as teams had sufficient hours of overlap, she didn't care where the managers hired people. However, now the managers have trouble reconciling how to offer fair compensation and benefits to all employees. You might have other benefits you're trying to manage across many locations. Reduced cycle time.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 8, 2023

Even when I've offered workshops about the topic at hand, I always learn when I write. If you want to experiment with me, please see Writing Workshop 1: Free Your Inner Writer & Sell Your Nonfiction Ideas. You still have time to register for the next workshop, which starts May 19. Check out the workshop.)

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

When we manage product development for organizations, we work for hire. When you’re creating a product larger than one person can create, this is an excellent proposition. While “one person” may have had the original idea, we need many people to refine the idea and bring that product to market.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 26, 2023

See Manage It! Then, in late 2019, a fellow consultant asked me to run a workshop about consulting. Would I please run a consulting workshop so he could learn those secrets? Unfortunately, the cohort was too late for his business—he took a job as a manager inside an organization. for more about that topic.)

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Just as product development teams need small stories to create a feature set in our products, writers need small ideas to get started so they can finish. If you want to learn how to do this with me, check out the writing workshop. If you read this later, don't worry—I offer the workshop once a quarter.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 11, 2022

Notes from previous workshops I wanted to integrate when I updated those workshops. Over the past year, as I realized the pandemic would probably change what and how I offered for workshops, I've slowly recycled or filed all that paper. The ideas for updating the workshops, not the notes themselves. Stop adding more.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 9, 2022

I was clever in the title for my Is Your Product Owner an Overloaded Operator? Many product owners are technical. I could have used a different title, such as “Product Owners: Overloaded and Underappreciated,” and helped my ideal readers feel smart. My title confused some of my ideal readers.

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Nash Consulting

MAY 6, 2020

Some of us have been managing remote teams for years, but for many this is a brand new (and slightly anxiety-producing) experience. This allows you and your team members to better organize and manage the flow of the day. Actually, you shouldn’t be trying to manage every aspect of any team, but that’s a topic for another day.)

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 20, 2021

However, every manager's micromanagement pervades all levels. Management—not the teams—often chose a Scrum board with three columns. Why do managers persist in demanding teams use a “standard” board, or use “standard” metrics, such as velocity? Managers don't trust the teams to do their work.

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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 18, 2024

Improved efficiency, productivity, and operational effectiveness. Faster time-to-market for new products or services. IT Project Management and Execution Consultants provide project management expertise, methodologies, and tools to ensure successful IT project execution. Accelerated innovation and competitive advantage.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 15, 2022

We will still conduct monthly or bi-monthly workshops, where we will workshop roadmaps, backlogs, architecture, and other product decisions in person. Please feel free to add your workshopping efforts to that list. The managers used principles to decide. New to the Pragmatic Manager? Online Workshops.

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Consulting Success

JUNE 11, 2018

a Sandler Training consulting firm specializing in sales and management productivity and effectiveness. in conducting public and private workshops, corporate programs, and one-on-one strategic sessions for corporate executives, business owners and/or individuals who find themselves in a sales/management role.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 5, 2021

Many managers want to know the answers to these questions: When will we see the first bit? That might be the feature set or the product. ). Your team manages its WIP. However, maybe this is a new product for you and you don't quite know how to do that yet. Your managers are asking you to give them the 50% confidence date.

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Nash Consulting

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

“You’re an excellent engineer/IT professional/accountant/[choose your own adventure]…we’re going to reward you by promoting you to a management role. Welcome to management. The second is that there really aren’t any specialized skills related to being a good manager. Congratulations! Good luck!” Again, untrue.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Instead of incurring the time and cost when you bring everyone together, consider the Product Value Team. (In In past writing and presentations, I’ve called this the Product Owner Value Team. I am trying to change my term to the Product Value Team.). The product value team is a different kind of a team.

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Nash Consulting

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

That said, here's what we've discovered through our 20+ years of training managers and building teams: A great starting point to building a culture of trust and respect is teaching your team to recognize the differences in the way people show up and the qualities (and otherwise) each behavior style brings to the workplace.

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The personal feelings workers have for their managers and for the executive leadership of their workplace can impact organizational commitment and performance. Some of these strategies include: Use Free Lunch Productively: Forbes reported on a study of 1000 workers nationwide within workplaces offering free meals (Cording, 2022).

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Consulting Success

JULY 17, 2017

Description: Steve Shu is a management consultant who has worked and consulted for Vodafone, Allianz, Nortel, Lucent and Wolters Kluwer, as well as taught courses in the business school at Irvine University. 4:50] To win a $200,000 project, start small — a $40,000 workshop can sell the end vision of a high value project. [11:15]

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

The number of companies adopting and managers leading remote work teams has increased significantly. Now however, controversy about the productivity challenges of leading remote work teams confront organizational assumptions about its effectiveness. Owl Labs date says they are 47% more productive. hours a week.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Now, your managers want people back in the office. Let's imagine a 6-person team: 3 developers, 2 testers, one product owner. Mondays and Wednesdays, the product owner, one developer, and one tester are in the office. While we might call all these things, “meetings,” let's assume the team will workshop.

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