Improve your communication skills with visual mapping | Christoph Steinlehner, Product Coach

Christoph Steinlehner is a Product Management coach who helps product managers and leaders that are feeling stuck in their work caught and struggling to facilitate between different perspectives in a business.

In today's episode:

• The challenges of effective business-product communication
• How visual mapping can help improve communication
• The MAPPER method walkthough

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Christoph's contact info:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/csteinlehner
• Website: https://csteinlehner.com/
•  Substack contributor: https://mapperclub.substack.com/

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Where to find the host, Adam Wakeling:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamjwakeling

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-wakeling-26494b35/

In this episode, we cover: 

(00:00) Preview
(00:54) Intro
(02:01) Main challenges in effective communication
(03:40) X-department perspectives in communication
(05:20) The bigger picture
(08:28) What is visual mapping?
(11:48) Differences in types of visual maps
(16:18) Walkthough of MAPPER method
(25:20) Reflection part of MAPPER
(26:03) Similarity to Event Storming 
(27:53) Challenges in implementing MAPPER
(33:21) Resistance to new frameworks
(34:50) Leveraging AI with the MAPPER method 
(39:04) Outro

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