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You don’t build a business, you build people. And then people build the business.
Zig Ziglar
I love this quote. And with 2022 winding down and 2023 on the horizon, the idea of building people is forefront in my mind. As I was thinking about ‘how can we end this year well and get the new one off to a flying start’, an opportunity presented itself. PI Planning for Q12023 was coming upon us, and as my boss so poignantly reminded me … how we execute in Q1 will set the tone for the rest of the year. What better time to bring the team together a day early for an all-day Product Summit.
From an agenda perspective, there were several things on my mind. First, this is a new team. Partially blended together because of internal changes organizationally, partially because we’ve added several new members to the team. One objective was finding a way to accelerate the Form/Norming stages of new team development. The second objective centered on ensuring expectations for the new year were firmly rooted.
It was in preparing for this Product Summit I had an aha moment … where several ideas from this blog began to coalesce into something I hadn’t seen before. And I thought it worth sharing.
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