How do you think about balancing your time between meetings, emails, and work that needs to be done with relationship building and even trying to ensure you still have personal time?

This is a tough one and one that I still struggle with myself. Here are a few things I like to do:

• Prioritize tasks: Focus on high-impact work and block off deep work time. I like to set time to do deep thinking work either at the start of the day or at the end of the day.

• Use productivity tools: Leverage tools to streamline tasks and automate routine activities like ChatGPT, or Notion, etc.

• I count meetings and relationship building both as work in my role:

  • Optimize meetings: Only attend essential meetings, keep them concise, and stick to the agenda.

  • Build relationships: Schedule regular check-ins and integrate relationship building into other activities

• Protect Personal Time: Clearly define and respect your personal time. Prioritize self-care as you would any task.

• Review and adjust: I attend to assess and tweak my time management to stay balanced and productive week by week. Product marketing is so cross-functional that our schedule every week looks pretty different.