Having a time and a place when you know you’ll need to present your ideas (such as at a big meeting) to an audience is a good way to force you to structure your approach. Then, I’ll ensure there’s a specific deliverable and audience for the proposals. Next, I’ll make a list of potential features, then group those features into themes. If I want to create a new product roadmap, my first steps may include finding all the various Google Docs and Asana projects where we’ve done roadmapping in the past. If I have big goal, I will generally procrastinate on tackling it unless I immediately choose the first steps. For example: How can I help the designers who report to me be as effective as possible? Solutions: Establish a mentorship program or a process for critique.
Identify a problem and several solutions. If they do, decompose them into smaller pieces until each one feels doable. If you want to redesign your product, break down this ambition into more specific actions that have a finite timeline: For example, I want to write a draft for the product roadmap over the next two years, broken up into a hierarchy of themes.īig questions are worth asking but they should be framed in a way that doesn’t feel burdensome or insurmountable. Unpacking your big-picture thinking into a handful of specific goals will make it that much more actionable. I’ve had long, strategic, and productive dialogues with my computer by simply writing out questions and answering them in free-flow form.
Through this exercise, your teammates will get a sense of ownership over the conclusions you come to together, while you’ll gain focus and clarity.Īlternately, you can have a conversation with yourself by buddying up with a text editor or journal: start asking yourself the big questions and write out your answers.
If you’re in a management position, consider buddying with someone who reports to you: teammates who don’t often get the chance to strategize will be energized by the opportunity to do it with you.
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