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Join me for tomorrow's Talk UX Strategy live discussion: Leading UX Through A Major Organization Transformation Monday, April 22 at 2pm ET (18.00 GMT) Transformations are excellent opportunities for UX Leaders to shine. Fortunately, organizations go through transformations all the time. Your organization is trying to be more digital, more profitable, more innovative, more streamlined, more customer-centric, more efficient, more AI-driven, or more global. It wants to deliver better customer service, offer broader product offerings, or be more specialized. There's always something better or more to strive for. As a UX leader, you can thrive in a transformation. These periods often initiate a wake of confusion and chaos. You can provide a vision of how your executives' buzzword-laden directives translate directly into improved experiences. You'll provide clear goals and direction for the organization's new journey. In this inspiring session, I will explore how prepared UX leaders have stepped up to provide the necessary detail and clarity when their executives have pronounced their latest transformation objectives. You'll discover how delivering a vastly improved experience for your customers, users, and fellow employees is a compelling vision for your organization to latch on to. Uncover how you'll… … Craft a compelling vision of how your customers, users, and employees will significantly benefit from whatever transformation is currently the priority. … Attract the attention of executives and stakeholders by supporting their mission with a clear demonstration of how the transformation will manifest. … Demonstrate that every strategic decision your organization makes translates directly into improvements (or new problems) in your products and services. RSVP & Connection instructions: https://lnkd.in/eraz5Qyg #UXskills #UserExperience #UX

Catch up on this recent Talk UX Strategy Session: Raising UX Visibility Through Experience Metrics It's the wrong time to be invisible. Invisibility means your executive management and senior stakeholders aren't seeing the contributions you and your UX team make to the organization. Invisibility is never a good look when many organizations are laying people off or making budget cuts. Visibility is a life (or a job) saver. Well-chosen experience metrics make the invisible visible. They demonstrate the value and importance of delivering exceptional UX. You will get called into strategic discussions when your team's efforts are visible. Your research will be valued, and your design work will be seen as a competitive advantage. Everything your team does will be visibly essential to your organization's long-term success. You'll be too good to lose. Join me in this career-changing exploration of how effective UX leaders use UX metrics to capture the attention of their management and executives. You'll discover how to pick the right metrics to immediately get your executives to see your UX team's value and contribution. Uncover how you'll… … Connect the dots for executives to see how great UX contributes to achieving their most pressing business objectives. … Select the perfect metrics that communicate UX's value to the users and customers and then back to the business. … Win over your peers in development and product management by inspiring them to adopt goals and metrics that center on better experiences. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/e7UdBt5s #UXskills #UserExperience #UX

Join Jared Spool live to talk about Making a UX Contribution to Your Org’s Transformation Tuesday, September 3 at 2pm ET (18.00 GMT) Transformations are excellent opportunities for UX Leaders to shine. Fortunately, organizations go through transformations all the time. Your organization is trying to be more digital, more profitable, more innovative, more streamlined, more customer-centric, more efficient, more AI-driven, or more global. It wants to deliver better customer service, offer broader product offerings, or be more specialized. There’s always something better or more to strive for. As a UX leader, you can significantly contribute to an organizational transformation. These periods often initiate a wake of confusion and chaos. You can provide a vision of how your executives’ buzzword-laden directives translate directly into improved experiences. You’ll provide clear goals and direction for the organization’s new journey. In this inspiring session, Jared Spool will explore how prepared UX leaders have stepped up to provide the necessary detail and clarity when their executives have pronounced their latest transformation objectives. You’ll discover how delivering a vastly improved experience for your customers, users, and fellow employees is a compelling vision for your organization to latch on to. Uncover how you’ll… … Craft a compelling vision of how your customers, users, and employees will significantly benefit from whatever transformation is currently the priority. … Attract the attention of executives and stakeholders by supporting their mission with a clear demonstration of how the transformation will manifest. … Demonstrate that every strategic decision your organization makes translates directly into improvements (or new problems) in your products and services. RSVP and get the connection details in our Leaders of Awesomeness community:https://cstu.io/6868fa (It’s free to join and attend. We ask people to register to keep spammers out.)

Join Jared Spool this afternoon for our Talk UX Strategy live discussion: When Great UX Competes Against Shiny New Objects Today at 2pm ET (18.00 GMT) Each year, Shiny Object Syndrome afflicts many product managers, stakeholders, and executives. Symptoms emerge when confidence in the organization's ability to build what customers want suddenly drops in the middle of projects. It's often transmitted at industry conferences or acquired from brief exposure to excessive technology hype. UX leaders have tools that preventatively treat Shiny Object Syndrome. The most effective treatments are when UX leaders establish clear UX outcomes, create a compelling vision of customer benefit, and build up the organization's expertise in their users' experiences. If you give infected stakeholders a more compelling UX goal than the shiny new object, they will quickly lose interest. In this captivating session, Jared Spool will explore the successful strategies for competing against shiny new objects. You'll discover you already have the mechanisms you'll need to rein in those stakeholders who falsely (albeit passionately) believe the shiny, new thing will result in a better experience. Uncover how you'll… … Establish solid UX outcomes that define your team's success, which can eliminate any shiny object that falls outside that definition. … Inspire your team with an alluring and compelling vision that clearly shows everyone where the value is for customers and the business. … Build a deep, shared understanding of where customer experiences need improvement to fend off unhelpful shiny objects. Reserve your spot and get the connection instructions:: https://lnkd.in/eJr_JWf4 #UXLeaders #UXDesign #UXDesigners

Redux: What Executives Need From UX Metrics November 11 at 2 pm ET (19.00 GMT). This session falls on a Holiday in the U.S.A., so we're going to try something a little different. We're going to play a recording of one of my most requested sessions from this year, and then I'll answer questions live. When executives look into your organization, they see numbers. These numbers represent sales, production, and other critical operations across the organization. Every essential part of the organization shows its value through the numbers it provides. For your executives to see your UX team, you must also provide your executive team with strategic numbers in the form of UX metrics and goals. These UX metrics must show the team’s value and your contribution. The last thing you want is for your UX team to be invisible to your executives. That’s not good when times get tough, and the executives start considering where to make reductions across the organization. In this strategically important session, I will explore how UX leaders use UX metrics to increase the visibility of high-quality user experience within their organizations. You’ll discover how choosing the right metrics makes all the difference when you need to show your UX work as essential to the organization’s success. Uncover how you’ll … … Align the goals of your efforts with your executive’s top organizational priorities by connecting the dots between great UX and business success. … Establish how great user experiences are essential to your organization’s success with UX metrics that are clear and understandable to everyone. … Uncover residual expenses from constantly delivering poorly designed products and services and how your UX efforts will eliminate those costs. Join in on the conversation live in our Leaders of Awesomeness community: https://lnkd.in/dP3rr3B (It’s free to join the community and attend the session. We ask people to register to keep spammers out.)

Join me for Monday's Talk UX Strategy live discussion: When Great UX Competes Against Shiny New Objects March 11 at 2pm ET Each year, Shiny Object Syndrome afflicts many product managers, stakeholders, and executives. Symptoms emerge when confidence in the organization's ability to build what customers want suddenly drops in the middle of projects. It's often transmitted at industry conferences or acquired from brief exposure to excessive technology hype. UX leaders have tools that preventatively treat Shiny Object Syndrome. The most effective treatments are when UX leaders establish clear UX outcomes, create a compelling vision of customer benefit, and build up the organization's expertise in their users' experiences. If you give infected stakeholders a more compelling UX goal than the shiny new object, they will quickly lose interest. In this captivating session, we will explore the successful strategies for competing against shiny new objects. You'll discover you already have the mechanisms you'll need to rein in those stakeholders who falsely (albeit passionately) believe the shiny, new thing will result in a better experience. Uncover how you'll… … Establish solid UX outcomes that define your team's success, which can eliminate any shiny object that falls outside that definition. … Inspire your team with an alluring and compelling vision that clearly shows everyone where the value is for customers and the business. … Build a deep, shared understanding of where customer experiences need improvement to fend off unhelpful shiny objects. RSVP & Connection instructions: https://lnkd.in/eE-Jm4ib #UXLeaders #UXDesign #UXDesigners

Join Jared Spool this afternoon for our Talk UX Strategy live discussion: Working for a Manager Who Doesn't Get UX Monday, April 1 at 2pm ET (18.00 GMT) One way to look at it: It sucks when your manager doesn't understand what you do. A manager who doesn't get UX will struggle to assign you meaningful work, assess whether you're doing a great job, or provide needed assistance when you encounter significant challenges. Another way to view it: This situation is a huge opportunity to step into a more significant leadership role. Your manager can still appreciate UX's immense value even if they don't understand the mechanics and philosophies behind what you do. When you deliver great UX that contributes to your manager's top objectives, they'll appreciate you even more. (I don't know how ice cream is made, but I genuinely appreciate well-made ice cream.) Join Jared Spool in this barrier-smashing session and explore how successful UX leaders use this opportunity to deliver a new level of UX value to their organizations. You'll discover the breakthrough moments when UX leaders step up their contributions and focus on more strategic UX work. Uncover how you'll… … Identify and use your manager's top priorities as a guide for where your UX efforts will make their most influential contributions. … Establish a new way of thinking about UX in your organization that focuses everyone on improving the lives of customers and users with innovative products. … Build a personal network of valued resources to give you the support and confidence you'll need to grow as a trusted UX leader. RSVP & Connection instructions: https://lnkd.in/eyBAgNSs #UserExperience #UX

A few weeks ago, I shared about a survey ZoCo was conducting with UX/Product leaders and now we have the results! Check out this article to learn about what skill gaps are holding product teams back—the answer may surprise you! #productdesign #productskills #upskilling https://lnkd.in/gDVJQYS8

Join me for tomorrow's Talk UX Strategy live discussion: When Great UX Competes Against Shiny New Objects March 11 at 2pm ET Each year, Shiny Object Syndrome afflicts many product managers, stakeholders, and executives. Symptoms emerge when confidence in the organization's ability to build what customers want suddenly drops in the middle of projects. It's often transmitted at industry conferences or acquired from brief exposure to excessive technology hype. UX leaders have tools that preventatively treat Shiny Object Syndrome. The most effective treatments are when UX leaders establish clear UX outcomes, create a compelling vision of customer benefit, and build up the organization's expertise in their users' experiences. If you give infected stakeholders a more compelling UX goal than the shiny new object, they will quickly lose interest. In this captivating session, we will explore the successful strategies for competing against shiny new objects. You'll discover you already have the mechanisms you'll need to rein in those stakeholders who falsely (albeit passionately) believe the shiny, new thing will result in a better experience. Uncover how you'll… … Establish solid UX outcomes that define your team's success, which can eliminate any shiny object that falls outside that definition. … Inspire your team with an alluring and compelling vision that clearly shows everyone where the value is for customers and the business. … Build a deep, shared understanding of where customer experiences need improvement to fend off unhelpful shiny objects. RSVP & Connection instructions: https://lnkd.in/eE-Jm4ib #UXLeaders #UXDesign #UXDesigners

Join me for our next Talk UX Strategy live discussion: The Critical Move from Process-First to Vision-First September 16 at 2pm ET (18.00 GMT) Many UX leaders don’t realize that a UX vision is far more potent than a well-defined UX process to motivate organizational change. Their push to implement a process harms their efforts, driving away the people they need most because they haven’t defined a compelling end goal. When you start with an inspirational, well-crafted UX vision, you immediately inspire your development and product team peers, along with your critical stakeholders, to embrace what you want to accomplish. They now see why the organization needs to change and welcome your process changes. In this not-to-be-missed session, I will explore how a Vision-first approach raises the importance of involving UX earlier in the product-delivery process. You’ll discover the essential techniques for faster adoption of human-centered design practices across your organization, with substantially reduced resistance from your stakeholders and peers. Uncover how you’ll … 👉 Inspire everyone to adopt the necessary process changes when you start by sharing your vision of great UX for your customers and users. 👉 Identify the most compelling attributes of your UX vision to gain the essential buy-in from stakeholders and peers. 👉 Leverage your storytelling skills to get everyone excited about integrating a human-centered approach into every decision they face. RSVP for the session for connection details in our Leaders of Awesomeness community: https://cstu.io/1232a6 (It’s free to join the community. We ask people to register to keep spammers out.)