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I'm part of Maven's upcoming free High Performing Teams series! I’ll be sharing ways product teams can get more done in less time. Tools help product teams be more productive, but they can also be a hindrance. In this session, I’ll cover: ⚡️ The upsides of processes and tools. ⚡️ When to focus on processes and tools with your team. ⚡️ How to make less plans for plans. Join with your colleagues on Sep 13, 2024 at 12pm ET (it's free): https://lnkd.in/eEC5uvYi

Hill I'll die on: Most companies need more conflict. Not less. In our effort to avoid unproductive clashes, we also throw away the fuel that drives high-performing teams. What's the difference? Unproductive Conflict ❌ Political ❌ Personal ❌ Persistent This toxic conflict depletes all involved and doesn't advance our mission. Productive Conflict ✅ Diverse ✅ Data-driven ✅ Decided This type of creative conflict blends multiple perspectives into our irreplaceable competitive advantage. From two good ideas emerges an even better third. Does it take more effort to help your team... - Separate good conflict from bad? - Develop a language to resolve disagreement? - Celebrate the differentiated outcomes produced by dissent? Absolutely. But as leaders, that's what we do. The hard things. If you found this helpful, please repost ♻️ it and follow me at Dave Kline. Even better, why not bring your team to my free 30-minute workshop on Creating More Productive Disagreement? https://lnkd.in/eKCeBPpp On Tuesday, September 10th at 1 pm ET, we'll cover... - 3 Rules That Separate Healthy Debate from Destructive Chaos - 2 Tactics For Nudging Nice People To Disagree Productively - 1 Framework To Resolve Any (Good or Bad) Conflict

Organizing a design system's variables within Figma can be a biiiig challenge! Not only do we have to decide what to name them, but we have to think about where to create and store them, all to make the correct variable to use the easiest to find. Several projects I've taken on within the last few months have involved creating, organizing, and maintaining variables for product teams, and I'd love to share everything I've learned with you! How I approach variables in Figma may be different from how you decide to, but that's the best part about how the design system works. There are many ways to arrive at the best spot for you and the team. If you want to learn more about how I create and organize variables within Figma, I'm hosting a free 45min. workshop with a Q&A through Maven on this topic, and I would love to see you there! 😊👋 🗓️ RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gjs5JHa5

Many stakeholders don't understand Design's value, because many design teams *aren't allowed* to show how valuable they can be. They: • Are told to push pixels—not participate in strategy • Report to Product Management—instead of having our own voice • Aren't given time to do good work—even though the business would benefit That's why I'm doing a live interview on Maven with Airbnb's former Chief Design Officer, Alex Schleifer. I learned career-changing lessons from Alex when I was at Airbnb. And, thanks to him, I got to feel what it's like when Design is unblocked. But I never asked him exactly how he built a design team with so much clout. Here's my chance—and yours! On Sep 10, bring your whole team as we jump into: • Why Design teams should have more influence • What holds Design teams back from being more impactful • What role every designer can play in building your team's influence See you there. #design #ux #productdesign #airbnb https://lnkd.in/gvC68xNS

The Maven team is working like magic right now. 18 people and shipping constantly. Most have been here 2+ years, so we all know each other and how to work together. This was hard-fought… The first year is always great because everything is shiny and new, but year 2-4 is a reckoning point for all teams. You expand your hiring so you get people who don’t quite fit. You start to see conflicts amongst team members. You ship features that don’t work. We had to work hard to keep things magical. We expect team members to resolve conflicts quickly and amicably. We restructured teams based on new business realities (and let some people go). We helped grow our key ICs and pushed them by expanding their responsibilities. We reminded folks that the team is more important than any one individual. There are many learnable skills involved in creating great teams. That’s why we’re bringing a free series on High Performing Teams to Lightning Lessons on Maven. We’ve got some amazing instructors lined up to share hands-on lessons on how teams can work better together: - Joey Banks, former Product Designer at Webflow, Twitter, Figma - Kate Syuma & Viktoria Kharlamova, ex-Miro growth leaders - Marily Nika PhD, AI Product Lead at Google - Dave & Marsden Kline, former execs at Bridgewater & Goldman Sachs - Yan Wang PhD, Staff Applied Scientist at Samsara - Ryan Scott, former design leader at Airbnb & Doordash - Catt Small, Staff Product Designer at Dropbox - Hamza Farooq, Lecturer at Stanford, founder of Traversaal Sign up for free here: https://bit.ly/4dEjHXq. Bring your teammates!

The secret to earning respect as a leader isn’t what you think. It’s not about your title or your years of experience. And it’s definitely not about barking orders or flexing authority. That often erodes trust, damages team morale, and weakens your influence. To truly command respect: ✅ Listen more than you talk ✅ Empower your team rather than micromanage ✅ Lead with empathy, not ego ✅ Consistently follow through on promises Respect isn’t given to those who demand it — it’s earned by those who deserve it. If you want to learn how to command respect and exactly what to say, I’m hosting a free live lesson on Maven with the incredible Lorraine K. Lee, who helps leaders supercharge their professional presence. Come join us on August 15th at 2:30p.m. EST. We already have over 400 leaders signed up to join. Can’t wait to see you there! Sign up to join us: https://lnkd.in/eFsv8NZf

Succeeding in your tech career is not something that should be left to chance! Being good at your job and making sure that people know it are two different things. Stakeholders need to know you and need to see you bringing your projects to success. There is a framework to efficiently communicate with stakeholders and bring impact to the business in such a way that you can use it to move forward in your career! On Aug 14th, Daliana Liu is hosting a free live session on how to create business impact and get recognized as a Data Scientist, and I will participate as a guest. Make sure to register: https://lnkd.in/gm6G_s5x Share with a friend who might find it useful.

⚡ 💡 The "best ideas" are always controversial! ⚡ 🤔 They are not as obvious, and not everyone in the company can see how it will come to life. If something is so obvious and easy, every other competitor and player would have already done it. That's why getting alignment for your most promising product ideas or business strategies is never easy. The bigger the idea, it typically requires more engineering and other types of investments; this makes it even more challenging to get executive buy-in. I've experienced this often in my work as a product executive and leader in companies such as Fitbit, Teladoc, and Cleo as well as in my work with clients at Raya Advisory. Come join me, MAHESH YADAV, and 200+ people who've already signed up (Wow!) to hear how to unlock multi-billion dollar opportunities for your company and how to align executives and teams to implement those strategies. I will talk about key soft skills, business acumen, and technical skills you need to effectively influence others and build alignment. I will share stories about: - How we got executive alignment and support to build Fitbit's Female Health category which was a controversial topic at first since most of male executives couldn't see the big opportunity around cycle tracking and fertility windows -- which ended up being widely adopted and had over 2.4M users in the first month. - How collaboratively with involving all the functions and leaders at Cleo, I solidified a product strategy and north star to expand beyond female health and early-stage family support to become an end-to-end caregiving company -- unlocked $270B market opportunity for the company. - How in our work with Raya clients today we help them assess, present, and implement AI strategies and solutions that are right for their organization. Huge thank you to Maven team and Gagan Biyani for this Influence at Work Series and for including us. Also, a big thank you to Chilann Chan who has supported us behind the scenes to make this a reality. Join LIVE on 8/13, 12:00pm. Link is below in comments. #Productmanager #AI #productstrategy #AIstrategy #GenAI #Influence

Excited to share that I'm speaking on a panel hosted by Annie Duke and Maven on "How great leaders make hard decisions!" I'm looking forward to diving into some of my favorite decision making frameworks and learning from my impressive co-panelists Gillian Heltai and Michael Brown We’ll get into: Building consensus for difficult decisions, Leading through organizational conflict, When to pivot, quit, or persevere Join LIVE on Aug 12 (it's free): https://bit.ly/4dkJUdk 

⚡ One of the questions that Rachel K. and I are often asked is how to accelerate your design leadership career. On Friday, August 9, we’ll talk with Maven CEO and Co-founder, Gagan Biyani about how to: ✔ Become an industry standout ✔ Build and leverage your network ✔ Make informed career moves 🗓 RSVP to join the conversation on August 9th (it’s free to join) https://lnkd.in/di67j2zh