10 Product Management Skills to practice in 2021

If you're thinking about getting into Product Management or looking to level up your skills.

The PdM's role is very difficult to master and in reality, the PdM's role varies between companies and industries.

Here are 10 Product Management Skills to practice in 2021.

1. Lead by influence
2. Build trust
3. Customer research
4. Ability to look at the bigger picture
5. Sales
6. Communications skills
7. Storytelling
8. Understand Tradeoff's
9. Prioritization and Sequencing
10. Ship that Product

I tend to favor people skills over technical skills.

What skills would you add?

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1. 10 Product Management Skills to practice in 2021 Technical Skills People Skills
2. 10 Product Management Skills to practice in 2021 Technical Skills People Skills Lead by Influence You'll need to learn how to persuade, influence, and negotiate effectively with zero authority and all the responsibility.
3. 10 Product Management Skills to practice in 2021 Technical Skills People Skills Build Trust Trust is something very easy to lose yet, very hard to earn.Trust takes time and consistent showing up to build.
4. 10 Product Management Skills to practice in 2021 Technical Skills People Skills Customer Research As Katelyn Bourgoin says “Companies that invest in ongoing customer research grow 2-3X faster. Yet, studies show that only 3 out of 10 teams do it regularly — crazy, right?”
5. 10 Product Management Skills to practice in 2021 Technical Skills People Skills Ability to look at the big picture Product Vision, Strategy, and Roadmaps
6. 10 Product Management Skills to practice in 2021 Technical Skills People Skills Sales You'll need to understand the buying process of your user/ customer. You'll need to sell internally as well.
7. 10 Product Management Skills to practice in 2021 Technical Skills People Skills Communication Skills Communicating effectively will facilitate a better understanding of people. Helping build trust, find solutions for conflicts, and create a healthy working environment.
8. 10 Product Management Skills to practice in 2021 Technical Skills People Skills Storytelling Storytelling can help you cut through the noise and connect with your audience, internally and externally.
9. 10 Product Management Skills to practice in 2021 Technical Skills People Skills Understand Tradeoff's Using quantitative and qualitative data. You’ll need to make decisions that shape the direction of the product.
10. 10 Product Management Skills to practice in 2021 Technical Skills People Skills Prioritization and Sequencing Help you evaluate different ideas and the amount of work needed to ship those ideas. While providing value to the user (as fast as possible).
11. 10 Product Management Skills to practice in 2021 Technical Skills People Skills Ship that Product Finally, every product manager needs to be able to get shi*t done and ship that product. Ship products people want to buy and use.