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

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The leaders in the Facilitative Leadership Workshop faced the following challenges: High expectations to take, promote, and encourage a cross-functional and program focus vs. the predominant product and function focus that most of their internal customers follow and are rewarded for. Learn more about getting aligned.

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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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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Being a High Performing Sales Manager Ensure sales team members are accountable to the defined processes and critical productivity metrics by identifying the sales KPIs necessary to achieve results and ensuring sales team members embrace the plan. Learn more about getting aligned.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2023

Unlike traditional product sales, SaaS requires a different type of selling. The highly customized solution selling training program module called Engage, was a First Sales Meeting Workshop for sales reps that focused on: How to Get Access to the Buyer The amount of information buyers receive daily is staggering.

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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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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? Please do join Make the Most of One-on-One Meetings.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2022

My updated writing workshop. If I wait too long to complete some of these, such as the updated writing workshop or some of the slides, I won't be able to deliver them when I want to. The post How I Manage My Product Development: Ease with Continuous Flow (Day 1) appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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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

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. So I wrote a book.

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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 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

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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Alan Weiss

MARCH 5, 2024

What about your products and services? And what about your clients’ products and services? At a basic level, workshops need to be accessed remotely or by tape to accommodate time zones, not just in person. They may still be effective and efficient, but do they include the most modern technology?

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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

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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On the Brink Podcast

APRIL 10, 2023

Hear how planning for the future means loving change I worked with Jennifer Kluge several years ago on a Blue Ocean Strategy workshop. Her organization, the National Association for Business Resources , was focused wholly on businesses in Michigan, offering important services from insurance products to support with accounts receivables.

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Business Consulting Agency

JANUARY 9, 2024

Home Based Business Ideas E-Commerce Store Launch an online store selling products ranging from handmade crafts to curated goods. Online Courses or Workshops Develop and sell courses or workshops on platforms like Udemy or Teachable. Being your own boss comes with benefits.

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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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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.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 26, 2023

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? At the time, I thought I had the right user journey for the workshop and the eventual book—because I used my journey as a consultant. (I What were my secrets?

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Productivity, on the other hand, has little to do with busy. Productivity requires bringing soft skills (real skills) to the table in service of the generous work you seek to do. Productivity is learned. And productivity takes guts. Learning is not the same as education, and busy is not the same as productive.

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 18, 2023

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). These lunch breaks reduce stress, allow people to feel more productive, and boost mental clarity plus happiness. Do not wait until the annual performance reviews.

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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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Consulting Matters

JUNE 22, 2023

About the guest: Sarah is a Certified Enneagram Coach, host of the Enneagram MBA podcast, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Whether you are a consultant, coach, or simply someone interested in personal growth, the Enneagram offers a unique and transformative approach to understanding yourself and others.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 23, 2022

And she wants the teams to create products the customers want to buy. Jenny has experienced what many of you have, too: Collaborative teams with diverse experiences can develop products customers want to buy. Over her career, Jenny has learned that it's easier to sell more product than to manage costs. Learn with Johanna.

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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. Online Workshops. Managing Product Development Blog. Learn with Johanna. Johanna's Fiction.

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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

(That might be the feature set or the product. ). ” Many managers now realize they don't have to see everything to get an idea of where the team is going with the product. However, maybe this is a new product for you and you don't quite know how to do that yet. I also offer workshops on this. That's good.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

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. See Your Satellite Teams Traps.

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Consulting Success

JULY 17, 2017

He helps incubate technology-oriented startup initiatives within other companies, including new business units, innovation areas, and new product development. Consultants can also sell starter engagements, and you’ll want to hear how workshops can create the vision for the company that will lead to larger value projects.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 20, 2021

The first morning of a two-day workshop, the taxi picked me up, put all my stuff in the trunk, and then the door closed locking his keys in the taxi—and all my stuff. I was over an hour late to the workshop. Then, the person I spoke with said, “We would really appreciate you setting an example while you're here.”

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 26, 2023

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? At the time, I thought I had the right user journey for the workshop and the eventual book—because I used my journey as a consultant. (I What were my secrets?

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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. But most of my business focuses on coaching, workshops, or consulting. Agile teams don't assume they make a final product the first time out. I feel as if I can't make a good, final decision.”

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

Now however, controversy about the productivity challenges of leading remote work teams confront organizational assumptions about its effectiveness. The Council on Foreign Relations shares global research on how productivity increases in remote work settings. Owl Labs date says they are 47% more productive. hours a week.

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