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Tools I use as a Solopreneur to create content, tools, templates, videos (Youtube Channel buff.ly/3G7kJgn) and my online courses at @ProductPathways.

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#BuildInPublic

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@ProductPathways 🎨 Graphics and templates:

@canva for stock videos, graphics and for making canvas' like this one 👉 buff.ly/41WSh9z

Canva is also great to create those carousel style linkedin posts.

I also use Keynote occasionally for content (+1 for carousel style posts).

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@ProductPathways @canva I use @NotionHQ for document style templates that people can duplicate and use like this 👉 buff.ly/3nck2LV

And @MiroHQ also for workshop templates (also occasionally use it for content graphics. Easy to make quick diagrams, etc - like this buff.ly/3pZyzfy)

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@ProductPathways @canva @NotionHQ @MiroHQ 🔗 Sharing:

I use Google Drive to share most of my resources and links. Easy to keep things in one place, leverage folder structures and be able to simply replace the file with a new version without having to update all the links.

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@ProductPathways @canva @NotionHQ @MiroHQ 🎥 Videos (like this):

@veedstudio for stock videos, audio, text and captions.

@capcutapp for captions & emojis.

Final Cut Pro for all the heavy lifting with editing. I typically edit > export from Final Cut > import into CapCut or Veed for captions and final touches.

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@ProductPathways @canva @NotionHQ @MiroHQ @veedstudio @capcutapp My blogging orginally started on Medium (>5k followers) 👉 buff.ly/3MmPT5x

I've now switched to my personal site which is run by @squarespace - this is a space I want to give more focus to. Watch this space I've been looking at both Substack and Convertkit.

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@ProductPathways @canva @NotionHQ @MiroHQ @veedstudio @capcutapp @squarespace 💻 Websites and online courses:

As mentioned, I use Squarespace for my personal site 👉 buff.ly/45v9Z6D

I use @LearnWorlds for @ProductPathways online courses. Course videos are hosted on @Vimeo bc of the ability to replace videos without having to update links.

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@ProductPathways @canva @NotionHQ @MiroHQ @veedstudio @capcutapp @squarespace @LearnWorlds @Vimeo Payments are through Stripe. I have @Wise business accounts to help with multiple currencies as I do work with companies all over the world.

@Xero for accounting and invoicing.

And that's about it.

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May 24
One week ago, I got a call from a friend at 10pm at night.
7 hours later I was on an international flight 🛫

I got a text on Saturday night from a friend who runs a training business

Sensing the urgency in his voice I replied and he immediately called.

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What had happened was the trainer had pulled out 24 hours before they were scheduled to start.

This was the first of several courses with a new client and was not the first time this person had cancelled. They had already rescheduled this training once before.

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With the impact of the economy globally right now, my friend really couldn't afford to lose this client.

His business was on the line and had no where else to go.

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May 23
Here are 8️⃣different Product Roadmap formats:

⏰ Timeline Roadmap (❌ best to avoid where possible)
🗺️ Now-Next-Later
🚀 Release Roadmap
🎭 Theme Roadmap
🌳 Tree Roadmap
🌟 Outcome Roadmap
❤️ Customer Journey Roadmap
💭 Dream Mapping (thanks @squadformers!)

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1) ⏰ Timeline Roadmap

First up, is the most common and controversial…
the ‘Timeline Roadmap’.

Timeline Roadmaps are common because of their dates. They're similar to project plans and can give a false sense of certainty about when something will be delivered.

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This makes Timeline Roadmaps one to avoid. However, they can still be effective when dates are communicated as indicative, not 'set in stone'.

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Apr 27
Asking better questions in your 1:1s 👥

Here's a list of prompting questions I compiled for the Stakeholder Management Essentials course on @ProductPathways to help you have better conversations in your Stakeholder. 1:1s. I use these questions regularly.

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@ProductPathways -What makes one-on-ones the most valuable for you?
-What are your current focus areas?
-What are your current concerns about this initiative / feature / opportunity / product?
-What’s top of mind?
-What are some things you’d like to discuss?
@ProductPathways -What are some things that went well last week?
-Is there anything you’re currently not completely satisfied with?
-What are your top priorities right now? And how can I help you with them?
-What can I help you with?
-Anything you’d like me to do more of? Less of?
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Apr 5
Great Product Managers don't say ‘no’ a lot.

Instead, they provide clarity and context so stakeholders can say ‘no’ to themselves.

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'No' without context can damage relationships and lose buy-in.

Instead a better way is to provide clarity and context so that stakeholders come to the 'no' conclusion themselves.

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Rather than saying 'no' ask:

-How does this fit our current strategy?
-Can you help me understand how this helps us achieve our current goal?
-Can you share the supporting data on this problem space?

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Mar 22
OKRs vs KPIs

Really the difference is often how you want to define them because really they’re just labels.

But how I like to use them are:

KPIs = baseline health
OKRs = things we want to change

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OKRs are the things we’ve chosen to ‘change’ (either be improve, reduce, achieve, etc)

KPIs are the indicators that we monitor to ensure that things are running smoothly.

You need both.

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In my training I use the analogy of flying a plane.

Imagine you’re a pilot coming in to land and your OKR is to decrease your altitude by 100m per second.

Now imagine that metric is the only dial you have on the dash.

You’re watching it tell you you’ve hit your OKR

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Mar 18
Don't scale agile.

Descale the work and organisation instead.

One of the best books on building an agile organisation is not what you'd expect.

But 'Team of Teams' is a bible for building a resilient and adaptive organisation.

Here's serveral enablers from the book 👇

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🧠 Share consciousness

Leaders must cultivate a shared consciousness across the organisation.

This is achieved through extreme transparency and sharing of information. As well as a shared purpose.

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🎯 Empowered Execution

Once we have a shared consciousness leaders much enable "empowered execution". A shared consciousness provides the necessary information to distribute decision making.

Teams need to be empowered to make decisions and pivot where necessary.

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