Jan 22, 2025
Recently I wrote about the most important skill for Product Managers.
Regardless of whether you are a Product Manager or not, the communication will help you with all aspects of your career. If you want to manage or be a leader, you have to be a good communicator. Specifically, you need to get better at framing.
What's your goal? Are you looking for feedback, sharing information, wanting to influence, asking for approval or something else entirely?
What are you sharing? Is it a problem? Maybe a solution? A vision? Or a mix?
How much detail are you planning to share? Is this a helicopter or detailed view? Or perhapse, both?
Who's your audience? Your team, the entire organisation or the executive group?
Your communication needs to be adjusted depending on the answers.
Early in your career, you use the same message no matter the context.
To grow, you need to get better at tailoring your message - what you say, how you say it and when to say it.
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