How Working Cross-Functionally Can Impact Your Career in Product Marketing Management
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A cross-functional mindset is crucial to advancing your career in product management. Building solid team relationships helps you understand needs and priorities, allowing you to collaborate effectively, deliver successful products, and have the greatest impact.
But how do you...
A cross-functional mindset is crucial to advancing your career in product management. Building solid team relationships helps you understand needs and priorities, allowing you to collaborate effectively, deliver successful products, and have the greatest impact.
But how do you identify the appropriate stakeholders to make game-changing decisions? How do you learn the languages every department speaks to ensure everyone’s on the same page? And how do you promote transparency and open communication to foster a company-wide culture of collaboration?
Lisa Friedrich, Product Marketing Manager at uShip, will share her experience on how she has applied a cross-functional mindset throughout her career. In addition, she’ll discuss all the skills that have worked for her along the way (including empathy-focused listening) and why a cross-functional mindset matters for long-term success.
You’ll take away:
- How to identify internal stakeholders & build strategic connections
- Tips for handling cross-departmental communication
- Resources to help you own a cross-functional approach
You’ll get your dose of vitamin “C” for collaboration. We can’t wait to see you there.
Meet The Speaker
As a product marketer specializing in collaboration, Lisa has a passion for creating meaningful connections between individuals and teams. With a background in marketing and product development, she has developed a deep understanding of how to facilitate communication, teamwork, and innovation.
Lisa has a proven track record of working with cross-functional teams to drive collaboration through empathy, trust and transparency.
Her ability to communicate complex ideas in simple terms makes them a highly effective collaborator themselves. Lisa is skilled in building relationships with stakeholders at all levels of an organization and has a keen eye for identifying opportunities for growth and improvement for the business – internally and in the market.
Outside of the product marketing world, Lisa is a co-owner of a comedy theater in Austin, TX.
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What if I'm a freelance product market manger? How to be confident in services and how can I gain clients in this field?
By: MoniquePosted on 2023-05-04 -
What do you mean by cross functionality?
By: Naz, Director Projects & Business LeadPosted on 2023-05-03 -
How do you work with a stakeholder when they are not willing to collaborate?
By: Gisela, Web ConsultantPosted on 2023-05-02 -
how to get different functional teams to be on the same page? For example, dev team thinks product requirements were not defined well enough for execution, but product team thought the problem was...
By: AnniePosted on 2023-05-01 -
What advice would you give specifically to peole that are/will be new to a leadership type role?
By: Audrey, Business AnalystPosted on 2023-05-01 -
How to interact cross-functionally when you are new to the team?
By: PilarPosted on 2023-05-01 -
What’s your approach towards bridging the gaps between tech and non tech teams?
By: Shilpa, Project managerPosted on 2023-05-01 -
How do you influence without authority?
By: Marina, Product ManagerPosted on 2023-05-01 -
How can I help bring out the best in others?
By: Tauri, SalesPosted on 2023-04-30 -
What strategy would you employ to collaborate with disenfranchised and marginalized community members who may be distrustful of authority groups?
By: Katie, Communications and Strategy ConsultantPosted on 2023-04-30 -
How do you redirect conversation to the point without being rude?
By: Francesca, Program CoordinatorPosted on 2023-04-30 -
How to collaborate as a newbie effectively.
By: Jill, SalesPosted on 2023-04-30 -
No questions at this time
By: Tracey, Program Project ManagerPosted on 2023-04-30 -
is there a question you've always wanted someone to ask you, but haven't had the chance to answer? What would it be?
By: NataliaPosted on 2023-04-30 -
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By: TatyanaPosted on 2023-04-30 -
How do you prioritize competing priorities and objectives when working cross-functionally with different teams?
By: LaurenPosted on 2023-04-24 -
What tips would you give someone who wants to become more cross-functional, but whose job doesn't regularly require them to work with other departments?
By: WhitneyPosted on 2023-04-18 -
Can a UX design or UI design background help me become a Product manager?
By: Miriam, TeacherPosted on 2023-04-16 -
How do you navigate stakeholders that have conflicting goals/agendas?
By: Patricia, Product ManagerPosted on 2023-04-13 -
What cross-functional skill is most sought in product management resumes?
By: Connie, Product ManagementPosted on 2023-03-28
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