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Found 185 Skills
Advanced Personal Branding - Systematic Brand Architecture from Content Creator to Industry Thought Leader
Stop being a "nice" manager. Learn Kim Scott's framework for caring personally while challenging directly—the combination that builds trust and drives performance. Use when: **Giving feedback** (positive or constructive); **Building trust** with direct reports; **Performance conversations** that need to happen; **Team culture building** for high performance; **New manager development** learning to have hard conversations
Plans PM career growth using frameworks from 40+ career episodes and Ami Vora's advancement strategies. Use when planning promotions, identifying skill gaps, navigating career transitions, or choosing between IC and management paths.
Top-down vs bottom-up quota models. Historical attainment, market growth assumptions, ramp periods, territory complexity.
Help users delegate effectively. Use when someone is struggling to let go of tasks, deciding what to delegate, building team autonomy, or balancing being hands-on vs hands-off.
Coaches Directors and executives through the transition to VP or CPO across four situations: preparing, interviewing, newly landed, or recalibrating at executive level.
A 30-60-90 day playbook for VP and CPO leaders entering a new role: diagnose before acting, surface unwritten strategy, assess people, and build the body of evidence that informs all decisions.
Guides managers out of the bottleneck role — provides the Team Rep pattern, Epic Ownership model, Task-Relevant Maturity framework, kingdom ownership, and three-layer assignment strategy. Use when the user wants to delegate work or says "I'm doing everything," "team isn't taking ownership," "I can't let go," "team rep," "project ownership," "I'm the go-to person," "bus factor," "I work weekends," "how do I delegate," or "engineers don't take initiative." Do NOT use for managing a specific underperformer (use performance-reviews) or deciding what work to prioritize (use roadmap-planning).
Use when an ops leader (Director of CX, Head of Support, VP Ops, Head of BizOps, Head of IT ops, Head of Finance ops) is sizing ops capacity, building a headcount plan, modeling utilization risk, planning Q3 capacity or annual support capacity, or designing CS coverage — and needs Erlang-C queueing math, P90 demand sizing, shrinkage-adjusted FTE, manager-trigger thresholds, and a quarterly hiring sequence with ramp + attrition. Apply when sustained team utilization is above 80% or when the team is growing >50% in 12 months. Run before committing the headcount budget. This is NOT engineering capacity (see vpe-advisor for DORA + cycle time) and NOT strategic 3-year workforce planning (see chro-advisor).
Coach product managers with evidence-based feedback, growth plans, and operating cadence.
Think like Intel's legendary CEO. Apply Andy Grove's management operating system to maximize your team's output through leverage, OKRs, and systematic decision-making. Use when: **Scaling a team** when individual contribution isn't enough; **Performance management** to measure and improve output; **Meeting optimization** to make meetings productive; **Decision-making** in management contexts; **New manager transition** from individual contributor
Helps EMs assess their own effectiveness, avoid common traps, navigate bad days, and handle recurring tensions in their own mindset and behavior. Use when the user says "I feel stuck," "am I doing this right," "personal development," "EM effectiveness," "blind spots," "bad days," "sanity check on my behavior," "the same problem keeps coming back," "made a mistake with someone," or "my team isn't motivated." Do NOT use when the issue is about the user's relationship with their own manager (use managing-up) or giving specific feedback to someone (use feedback).