Positioning Workshop
Skill Verified ActiveRun a positioning workshop that surfaces target customer, unmet need, category, benefits, and differentiation. Use when your product messaging feels fuzzy, generic, or misaligned.
Run a positioning workshop to define and articulate product positioning, ensuring strategic alignment before product launches or messaging updates.
Features
- Interactive workshop facilitation
- Adaptive questioning based on user input
- Generates evidence-based positioning statements
- Covers key elements: target customer, unmet need, category, benefits, differentiation
- Provides examples of good and bad positioning
Use Cases
- Defining positioning for a new product
- Repositioning an existing product
- Aligning stakeholders on product strategy
- Preparing for product launch or marketing campaigns
Non-Goals
- Generating taglines or marketing copy
- Starting with product features instead of customer problems
- Being a consensus-driven or 'for everyone' exercise
Workflow
- Gather product context (website, docs, intel)
- Identify target customer segment via adaptive questions
- Uncover underserved needs using Jobs-to-be-Done lens
- Define product category and key benefits
- Establish competitive differentiation
- Output a complete positioning statement
Practices
- Product positioning
- Strategic alignment
- Customer-centricity
Installation
First, add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills/plugin install positioning-workshop@pm-skillsQuality Score
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