Product Manager Skills — Communication

What skills do you need to be a successful product manager?

When it comes to being a product manager, there are a number of core ‘soft’ skills that you need to have, or develop. These include:

• Critical thinking
• Strategic thinking
• Empathy
• Curiosity
• Facilitation
• Communication
• Leadership
• Coaching

In this story, we’re going to take a look at communication.

What are Communication Skills?

You use communication skills whenever you are giving and receiving different kinds of information, which can be written, spoken, typed or even in the form of body language. You might need to communicate ideas, feelings or what’s going on around you and they involve listening, speaking, observing and empathizing.

Demonstrating strong communication skills is about being able to convey information to others in a simple and unambiguous way.

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How do we utilize communication skills?

Communication skills are essential regardless of the job you work in or your level of…