14 Habits of Highly Effective Product Managers

Always start off each meeting with energy and positivity.Find something fun for the team to do regularly—a weekly happy hour, a monthly team-building event.Bring surprise and delight to regular events—a team band at your all-hands, goats on your Zoom calls, birthday surprises at your standup.

14. Great PMs bring good vibes to the team

Forward examples of great work to your teammates’ managers.Highlight team member achievements in your team meetings and email updates.Start a “#team-huzzah” type Slack channel to celebrate wins, big and small.

13. Great PMs amplify the successes and contributions of team members

At the end of meetings, check in with people who’ve been quiet to see if they have anything to add.Before finalizing your strategy, roadmap, or spec, give your team a chance to give feedback asynchronously.Organize brainstorms and ofter types of ideation sessions where team members can contribute their ideas.

12. Great PMs make sure everyone has a chance to be heard

Schedule a 30-minute meeting with yourself, each Monday morning or Friday afternoon, to look at your upcoming week and note meetings and deliverables you need to get ahead of.When you hear of priority or strategy changes happening up the ladder, ask yourself: how could this impact our team, and what could we start prepping now?When everything is go... See more

11. Great PMs anticipate what’s around the corner so that they can get ahead of it

Create systems where you and your team interact with customers regularly, like a weekly “Lunch with a customer,” a monthly CX rotation, or a quarterly customer visit.Make an agreement that for any feature that takes more than X weeks to design and build, you first talk to five potential users/customers to validate the desirability of the feature.Bu... See more