TEI 178: How to create a guided directed learning group to accelerate product ma

Global Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next
episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister,
PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation
and managing products become more successful, grow their careers,
and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: This is where you
make your move from product manager to product master.
A product master means having the influence you want and need
to drive product strategy. Product masters are leaders. You make
that move by listening to this podcast. And I appreciate that you
are because organizations need you — product masters. This
discussion is focused on another tool to help you become a product
master and accelerate your career. It is a study group approach you
can facilitate with a group of product people in your organization.
My guest calls them Group Directed Learning experiences. He has
been using them for years and found them to be a very effective way
to learn and apply new concepts. It is also a tool I have been
using for many years with groups. It results in personal ownership
of what is being learned and real behavior change that increases
performance.  It is actually how I met my guest. He
participated in a public study group I facilitated for product
managers and then brought the approach to his organization. He uses
it each year as part of the training for new product managers. My
guest is John Spero, a chemical engineer who has worked in research
and development, operations, and business management for several
companies and in several industries. He is now at Praxair. He is a
certified New Product Development Professional (NPDP) from PDMA and
a certified scrum master from Scrum Alliance.