Weeknote: Understand your meeting audience (#RookieMove)

Weeknote #9

Angela Obias-Tuban
Sep 2, 2018 · 1 min read

Favorite lesson from co-workers: Underpromise and overdeliver.

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What did I learn this week?

That I’ve forgotten how to present to the C-suite.

In the most amazingly embarrassing way.

Specific advice to myself:

  1. Understand the underlying meeting objective: e.g. Vision alignment over tracking
  2. Only the necessary details
  3. PM content needs are not the same as C-suite content needs

Also, note to self:

  • Finally recraft how you share userflows.

You’ve gone through three presentations where the way you presented userflows was for a design team, not for a business unit. Keep your audience in mind.

The best lessons are learned on-the-job.

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Angela Obias-Tuban

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Researcher and data analyst who works for the content and design community. Often called an experience designer. Consultant at http://prioritystudios.com

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Content strategy, product management and UX research. Sharing what I’ve learned, mostly from projects that assumed redesigning a website meant shuffling the layout.

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