Written Sparks
A collection of articles, thoughts and resources on OKRs, Product Management, Leadership, Communication, Gen AI & More
Gemini Nano Banana Prompt For Consistent Image Styling
Ever since Gemini realeased their new imagea creation model, I've been working on a Nano Banana prompt that can deliver images with a consistent and unified style, coloring and composition. The reason behind the prompt experimenting has to do with me needing images...
How To Run An OKR Workshop: A Practical Guide
OKRs (Objectives And Key Results) can be a powerful tool and goal system, but only if it's introduced and used in the right way. Otherwise we end up with yet another process slapped on top of an...
Using Gen AI As A Coach To Work Through Your Triggers
This article explores how product managers and leaders can use Gen AI as a self-coaching partner to reflect on triggers and triggered reactions and understand their root causes.
Over 42 OKR Examples For Every Team
Below you'll find practical OKR examples for various teams, themes or industries. Very often in my workshops and OKR coaching people and teams ask me for good and bad OKR examples so I crated the...
Challenge Every Request To Start Thinking In Outcomes
Challenging every request isn’t about slowing things down with endless questioning. It’s about developing this new “muscle” to think in outcomes instead of stopping at the outputs. It’s not a confrontation but a conversation – sometimes just with yourself.
Gen AI Use Cases In Product Management
We discover more and more Gen AI use cases every day for all roles and industries and the field of product management and product managers are no exception. As a product manager, I’ve always...
A Broad Objective Statement Can Get Your Team Lost
Defining Too Broad Of An Objective One recurring pattern I've seen over the years as an OKR coach and facilitator - particularly at department and company level - is the tendency to choose or start...