I take every coachee of mine through Ravi Mehta’s excellent Product Shape Exercise: What’s Your Shape? A Product Manager’s Guide to Growing Yourself and Your Team.
This exercise helps all PMs quickly identify their current Product Manager profile, the next profile they want to grow into, and which skills they need to focus on in order to get there.
Ravi is the former Chief Product Officer at Tinder, and led product teams at Facebook, TripAdvisor and is an Executive-In-Residence at Reforge. I use his Product Manager Shape framework to help my coachees pinpoint the dimensions of product where they are strongest, and where they need the most work. Then, we create a plan and execute on that plan.
It is amazing to see how quickly Product Managers grow when they identify their shape and focus their learning efforts through coaching and on-the-job.
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