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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
Cross Functional Team Leadership (Product Management Skills Series)
In best-in-class companies, product managers are assigned to run cross functional product teams. Rarely do PMs have any authority, but they generally have full responsibility! We will touch on why cross functional teams are so effective and spend most of the meeting on how…..
- How to handle team members that don’t commit or don’t deliver
- How to gain credibility as a new team leader
- How to run meetings and reach decisions
- How to be a leader and a manager
- How to handle a deadlocked team
- How to motivate your team
- How to support your team
- How to deal with conflict
- How to handle diversity
- How to communicate
- How to set up a team
- How to facilitate
If you have ever had one of these issues, please come to the meeting with your questions!
If you have ever solved one of these issues, please come to the meeting with your answers!
Presenter
Judy Iskovitz, Product Management Coach and Educator, Optimal Business Performance, LLC
Judy Iskovitz’s 25-year career spans product management, strategic planning, systems engineering, marketing, teaching, coaching, and leadership training. Her success and experience is exemplified in the results she achieved in her career at AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Avaya, and most recently at Optimal Business Performance, a company that she founded in 2003.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Ms. Iskovitz earned a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics at the University of Rochester and a Masters in Management from the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University.
Judy Iskovitz’s focus on full stream life-cycle product management and business operations during her corporate career enabled her to drive dramatic revenue growth and bottom-line profitability improvement for the products she managed. Her attention to the people dimension was integral to that success. As Director of Product Management, she was responsible for the professional development and mentoring of scores of product managers. Judy’s experience was enhanced through her participation in international business and marketing leadership programs through Duke University and Indiana University in the United States, France, and China.
Currently Ms. Iskovitz is the President of Optimal Business Performance, LLC, a product management coaching and education company specializing in helping product managers and team leaders improve the performance of their teams and their products and services in the marketplace. Judy Iskovitz coaches product managers to help them improve their effectiveness and optimize their product’s performance. The coaching sessions cover lifecycle issues from concept through exit focusing on anything from market segmentation, financial metrics, lagging sales and scenario planning to time management. She teaches product management, new products planning and marketing to professionals through Sequent Learning Networks and the Rutgers Mini-MBA program and to MBA students and undergraduates at Rutgers University’s and Montclair State University’s business schools. Ms. Iskovitz is the VP of academic relations for the NY Metro chapter of the Product Development and Management Association. She has been a guest lecturer at Fairleigh Dickinson (marketing course), Rutgers (human resources certification program) and the Junior League of the Oranges and Short Hills (volunteer organization leadership team).
Event Logistics
Time : 6:30 - 9:30PM Date : Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
Location: Hampton Inn, Somerset, NJ Dinner : Deli Buffet
Cost : $25 - PDMA, $35 - Non-Member, $15 - Student
Early-Bird (until April 26th): $20 - PDMA, $30 - Non-Member, $10 - Student
PDMA Members: If you bring someone, who is not a PDMA member yet, paying the above listed price, your attendance fee will be waived!
PDH : 2 PDH
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