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Generalist Product Management

Alex Karim Howard

Product strategy

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Machine learning

Amplitude

Balsamiq

Miro

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Talk to other immigrants about the nuances and challenges of working in the tech industry.

Being an immigrant in tech

Keeping your sanity, career growth and job satisfaction.

Surviving a merger or acquisition

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

AI-first hotline scaling the process of consulting regenerative agronomists for farmers. 
On a mission to make regenerative farming knowledge accessible to all!

Self-designed learning and work experiences on farms around Europe to learn about regenerative agriculture.

- Fontaine Pataux (Switzerland): Working on a sustainable biodynamic organic farm. Learning about permaculture, herbal medicine, eco construction and crop management.
- Permaculture Design Course (Portugal, Projeto Novas Descobertas): A course introducing all the main concepts around permaculture design, with practical experience around how to design terrain to be most energy efficient and wildlife regenerating.
- A Quinta De Lage regenerative project https://www.aquinta.org/

I have the ambition of learning about the regenerative ecosystem and seeing how I can integrate it within the tech world and enter the climate-tech space.

Overlooking Public Relations for CHAR with crossover on Hotel Indigo Shanghai on the Bund. The work includes press relations, corporate events, as well as VIP loyalty guest relations. Directly reporting to F&B Director and GM. Later, expanding responsibility at Hotel Indigo into general business development. Focused on collaborations with PR agencies, brands and design companies that are aligned with Indigo's boutique image. Development includes meetings, events and room stay. Done in cross-work with CHAR's PR operations. Event venues include CHAR private, CHAR bar, CHAR dining as well as meetings@indigo.

IHG’s first Hotel Indigo® in Asia Pacific – Hotel Indigo Shanghai on the Bund – designed by award-winning HBA/Hirsch Bedner Associates and opened in December 2010. The hotel will meet the needs of the next generation of customers who demand a stylish, individual hotel experience that is authentic and unpretentious.

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