This document discusses applying product management skills to leadership roles. It provides examples of challenges leaders face, such as managing direct reports, creating roadmaps under tight deadlines, and giving negative feedback. For each challenge, it recommends specific product management tools to address the challenge, such as setting clear expectations, understanding people's working styles, building relationships, and getting curious about the underlying problem. The document is presented by the VP of Product at Peloton and promotes product management training courses.

1. What Got You Here CAN Get You There
Applying PM Skills to Leadership
by Peloton VP of Product
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5. What got you Here CAN get you There
Applying Product Management Skills to Leadership

6. Betina Evancha
VP of Product Management at Peloton
Team of 60 Product Managers, Product
Analysts, User Researchers, and Product
Documentation Experts
2.3 million Connected Fitness Subscribers
2021

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8. Betina Evancha
Product Manager at Peloton
Individual Contributor
Peloton is a private company
2016

9. Very good fortune.

10. And a very helpful toolset.
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11. What got you Here CAN get you There
Applying Product Management Skills to Leadership

12. Challenge 1:
Managing your first direct report
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Two Truths and a Lie…
1. It’s better not to mention that you’re a
new manager
2. You should share written expectations,
even if that’s awkward.
3. It’s a good idea to interview your direct
about their working style.

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Two Truths and a Lie…
1. It’s better not to mention that you’re a
new manager
2. You should share written expectations,
even if that’s awkward.
3. It’s a good idea to interview your direct
about their working style.

15. Product Management Tool
Context is your friend
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16. Example
Managing a current colleague

17. Product Management Tool
Expectation Setting
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18. Product Management Tool
Interview to Understand
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19. Challenge 2:
Leadership wants your roadmap...
yesterday.
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20. “Good product managers decompose problems.
Bad product managers combine all problems
into one.”
Ben Horowitz

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1. Help this leader today.
2. I need more time in the future.
3. I don’t have a roadmap.

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1. Help this leader today.
2. I need more time in the future.
3. I don’t have a roadmap.

23. Product Management Tool
Get Curious about the
Problem
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1. Help this leader today.
2. I need more time in the future.
3. I don’t have a roadmap.

25. Product Management Tool
Build Relationships
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1. Help this leader today.
2. I need more time in the future.
3. I don’t have a roadmap.

27. Product Management Tool
What game, how to win.
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28. Challenge 3:
Negative Feedback on a Team
Member
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29. Product Management Tool
Pitch your vision
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30. Product Management Tool
Pitch your vision
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31. Leadership Tool
Giving & Receiving Feedback
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32. PM Tools for Leadership
☑ Context is your friend
☑ Expectation Setting
☑ Interview to Understand
☑ Get Curious about the Problem
☑ Build Relationships
☑ What game, how to win
✷ Giving & Receiving Feedback
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33. Thank You!
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