2021 Product Leadership Development Journey with Product Tonic Lab Community
Product Tonic Lab (PTL) is a 6-month, interactive online-based program that focuses on developing product leadership in Southeast Asia through experiential learning.
The program was developed by the Product Tonic Community leaders for senior product managers, product designers and software engineers who want to develop their leadership style, advance in their career and build more impactful products .
Rather than theoretical content, this program approaches learning through experience and facilitated dialogues instead of passive consumption of the program’s content. Participant are invited to co-build a safe space to discuss macro issues around emerging topics and practices (e.g. climate, education, ethics and sustainability) in product development. It also focuses on coaching/mentoring and walks with participant the journey to becoming a product leader.
It has been privilege and enriching journey for the past 6 months — not just how much relevant topics covered but also how inspiring support and positive vibes from the fellow cohorts. Lest I forget, these are some notes and key discussion taken throughout the journey so far:
Notes from my PTL Journey
- PTL Retreat #Day 1
“Cowtopia: Leadership in Chaos” - PTL Retreat #Day 2
“Leadership : How do you show up as a Product Person?” - PTL Retreat #Day 3
“Self Awareness : How do you find out about your blind spots as a leader?” - PTL Retreat #Day 4
“Open Space : Emerging topics for PTL” - PTL Meetup 1 : Anatomy of a Meetup
“Understanding The Circle Way and TBR ” - PTL Meetup 2 : Decisions
“How might we make good decisions?” - PTL Meetup 3 : Trust
“How might we build trust within product teams and the process?” - PTL Meetup 4 : Sustainability
“How might we build more ethical and sustainable products?” - PTL Meetup 5 : Resilience
“How might we build resilient product leaders?” - PTL Meetup 6 : Mentorship
“How might we learn to be a great mentor?” - PTL Meetup 7 : Ownership
“How might we build a sense of ownership to create success together?” - PTL Meetup 8 : Culture
“How might we influence a “Product Led” culture?” - PTL Meetup 9 : Economy
“How might we use product skillset in pushing economies into the green circle of the doughnut economy?” - PTL Meetup 10 : Self
“How might we increase self-awareness and understand leadership style?” - PTL Closing Retreat #Day 1 and PTL Closing Retreat #Day 2
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Attributions
This is a personal summary notes for Product Tonic Labs 2021 that took place from April — Nov 2021
Product Tonic Lab is open source
This work is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0). This work is derivative of Prime/OS, Theory U concepts, #ProductBeer, #ProductTonic and The Collab Folks (TCF) “The Learning Circle v1-v3” and “TCF v1-v5.5”.
Materials in Product Tonic Meetups
This work is based on “The Collab Folks”, Cactus team and many sources.
