6. Agenda
• My Career Path
• Motivation
• Team Meetings
• Team Activities
• Other Methods
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7. About Me
How I became a Product Leader
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8. About Me
How I became a Product Leader
• 20 Years Product Experience
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9. About Me
How I became a Product Leader
• 20 Years Product Experience
• 18 Years in News, Entertainment & Sports
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10. About Me
How I became a Product Leader
• 20 Years Product Experience
• 18 Years in News, Entertainment & Sports
• 5 Years R&D
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11. About Me
How I became a Product Leader
• 20 Years Product Experience
• 18 Years in News, Entertainment & Sports
• 5 Years R&D
• Product Methodologies - Rational Rose, Agile, Scrum
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12. About Me
How I became a Product Leader
• 20 Years Product Experience
• 18 Years in News, Entertainment & Sports
• 5 Years R&D
• Product Methodologies - Rational Rose, Agile, Scrum
• Stanford d.school
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13. About Me
How I became a Product Leader
• 20 Years Product Experience
• 18 Years in News, Entertainment & Sports
• 5 Years R&D
• Product Methodologies - Rational Rose, Agile, Scrum
• Stanford d.school
• Women in Cable Telecommunications Leadership Programs
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33. ashy) work of every individual
• Boost collaboration
• Increase empathy
• Connect on a personal level
• Find inspiration
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34. What We’re Doing &
What’s Inspiring us
Entertainment & Kids
Bi-Weekly Status
Your Name Here
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35. Last Two Weeks
• Three things
• The team should be aware of
• Not just the fancy, shiny projects
Your Name Here
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36. Next Two Weeks
• Three things
• The team should be aware of
• Not just the fancy, shiny projects
Your Name Here
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53. 4.3
Help to be inspired and motivated
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54. Quotes on Team Meetings
“I absolutely loved the "What Inspires Me" section. I looked
forward to that every session especially during the pandemic.
Sometimes people would say nothing is inspiring them, but
that was okay.”
“I loved how it allowed me to get to know my teammates better,
especially during the pandemic. It also allowed me to share with
others what's going on in my personal life, which I wouldn't
normally do in a regular meeting setting”
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55. “Sometimes employees feel like their work goes unnoticed. The
great thing about our team meetings is that we talk about and
even show screenshots of the work we were doing. Because of
this we never would have to feel our work was going unnoticed.”
Quotes on Team Meetings
“I liked the balance that was struck between learning about team
member's projects, but also the things that interested them
personally.”
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56. “Due to the size of our team, there were times where it felt a bit too
time consuming, but now that we don't have the meeting anymore, I
feel disconnected from my teammates. I think if size of the team was
smaller, we probably could've gotten through everything in less than
an hour, and the timing would be perfect.”
Quotes on Team Meetings
“It was informative and insightful to understand my team
members statuses. However, since we were two teams
working on di
ff
erent projects, sometimes I felt it dragged
when we listened in depth on the other teams ongoing tasks.”
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57. Collaborative Team Meetings
Tips
• Plan and communicate individual speaking time and stick to it.
• Ensure slides are limited to three things
• Have a point person to collect slides and watch time
• Encourage more detailed follow up conversations
• Modify as needed to
fi
t your team’s personalities and needs
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59. Team Events
Goals
• Remember Walt’s vision
• Boost creativity
• Find Inspiration
• Get outside of our day to day
• Connect team members
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64. Happiness Events
Guidelines
• Rotate organizers (2 - 3 People)
• One event each month
• Organizers reviewed ideas prior
• Low budget
• Pushed creativity
• Kept focus on purpose
• Never raised senior leadership concern
• Pool leftover funds for future
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65. Happiness Events
Pre-pandemic Events
• Baseball game
• Lunch and Museum
• VR Experience
• Disney Studio Animation Tour and
Lunch
• Escape Room
• Bowling
• Cake Decorating
• Cook out in park
• Playlist Friday - games & cocktails
• Ice Cream Sundays
• Volunteer Project
• Movie
• Disneyland
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68. Happiness Events
Pandemic Events
• Online Pictionary
• Psyche - Mobile app game
• Drawing Disney Characters (search
YouTube)
• Net
fl
ix Party “Princess and the Frog”
with Trivia
• Virtual Escape Room
• Online SFW version of "Cards Against
Humanity"
• Scavenger Hunt
• Scattergories
• End of year gift exchange (elfster.com)
• Houseparty Hang with Trivia
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75. Help to be inspired and motivated
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76. 4.8
Help to be inspired and motivated
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77. Like rotating the planning of Happiness Events
within the team?
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78. 4.8
Like rotating the planning of Happiness Events
within the team?
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79. “I loved these. I think this is one of the main activities
that got our teams more deeply connected with one
another.”
Quotes on Happiness Events
“My favorite was going to Disneyland and seeing all my
coworkers in their favorite Disney ears!”
“It was always something fun to look forward to, as long as it
wasn't too close to a work deadline. It was a great way to
break up the monotony of the work week, and make working
with our teammates much more enjoyable.”
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82. FOMO
Goals
• Hear from people outside of our team
• Learn something new
• Connect with other teams
• Be Inspired
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83. “I really liked FOMO because it gave me an opportunity to learn
about something outside the realm of my day-to-day activities.
For example, one month we had the director of the horror movie
‘Ouija’ speak to our group, then a few months later we had one
of the members of the Goo Goo Dolls talk to us about what it’s
like to be in a world-famous rock band.
It was fascinating to hear their stories and experiences.”
Quotes on FOMO Speakers
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87. Takeaways
• Know your team
• Be conscious of time and current demands
• Experiment
• Get feedback and take action
• Empower your team
• Be humble
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