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Topic 1: What topics do you want to learn more about next year?

  • AI - using AI to improve my craft, to be more productive - make better decisions and have more impact

  • Understanding my industry (energy) better

  • Getting better at leadership.

  • Unfix

  • Agentic AI, Design Agent talks to engineering AI, etc.

  • How PM shifts as AI enables change in the role

  • Security

  • How Boards can be so full of people that don’t understand digital


Topic 2: OKRs. Are there too much of them these days?

    • The intent of OKRs is great… and when done well can be clarifying and aligning

    • But good OKRs/processes to generate them often aren’t as strong. 

    • What’s better?

    • Which are they - starting point or finishing point? 

    • They’re great as a forcing function to focus on Outcomes, when used well

    • They can be a starting point for change

    • But if the culture is shit, your OKRs will also be shit

    • It’s just goal setting/strategic planning/management by objectives by any other name

    • It works well in firms that are already good at setting goals. It fails in places where the management is incapable of creating SMART goals

    • All tools suck. Some are useful. They’re useful when we use them to have better conversations so we can make better decisions, faster.


Topic 3: Meeting people where they are in a transformation

    • Explore the pain - understand the problem, for both teams and leadership. Try to address them with minimal baggage - both internal issues and customer problems.

    • How do you get under the skin of whether people CAN or WANT to change? Be clear about whether a change brief is achievable.

    • Inertia is a real thing

    • You can facilitate/enable change, but not force it. People have to have a reason to change.

    • Language is key

    • Drive the change from within after exposing the system - make the system see itself. Start with mapping things

Topic 4: What are you most satisfied  using AI at work with recently? 

    • ChatGPT - developing good metrics and the data to drive that

    • Developing leads from a LinkedIn post, ordered by revenue and current customer status

    • Working at a consultancy with an FMCG client: Claude got us 70% there in research for the research brief and a marketing brief

    • Google suite can now run Javascript. I use Claude/ChatGPT to write scripts to automate tasks from Sheets. Great for Productivity

    • Case workers write impenetrable, complex notes. We used it to lower the reading age to 7 and clarify - not 100% success, but a great first step.

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