Topic: skills
17,247 skills in this topic.
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sales-compensation
Help users design sales compensation plans. Use when someone is hiring their first sales rep, restructuring sales comp, trying to align sales incentives with business goals, or dealing with comp plan issues like sandbagging or churn.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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organizational-design
Help users design effective organizational structures. Use when someone is thinking about team structure, deciding between functional vs. divisional models, planning a reorg, or figuring out how to structure product teams.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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running-decision-processes
Help users run effective decision-making processes. Use when someone is facing a high-stakes decision, dealing with analysis paralysis, needs to align stakeholders on a choice, or wants to establish decision frameworks like DACI or RAPID.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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writing-north-star-metrics
Help users define their North Star metric. Use when someone is choosing their primary success metric, trying to align the team around a key measure, struggling with metric proliferation, or setting up their measurement strategy.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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having-difficult-conversations
Help users navigate tough feedback, performance conversations, and conflict. Use when someone needs to give hard feedback, have a performance conversation, fire someone, address conflict with a colleague, or deliver disappointing news like a denied promotion.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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analyzing-user-feedback
Help users synthesize and act on customer feedback. Use when someone is analyzing NPS responses, processing support tickets, reviewing user research, synthesizing feedback from multiple channels, or trying to identify patterns in customer input.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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delegating-work
Help users delegate effectively. Use when someone is struggling to let go of tasks, deciding what to delegate, building team autonomy, or balancing being hands-on vs hands-off.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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conducting-interviews
Help users conduct effective hiring interviews. Use when someone is designing an interview loop, crafting interview questions, evaluating candidates in real-time, or building a structured interview process.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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launch-marketing
Help users plan and execute product launches. Use when someone is planning a product launch, preparing PR outreach, coordinating a go-to-market campaign, launching on Product Hunt, or asking how to generate buzz for a new feature or product.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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platform-infrastructure
Help users build and scale internal platforms and technical infrastructure. Use when someone is deciding whether to build vs buy tooling, designing developer platforms, creating shared services, or managing technical debt at scale.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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writing-specs-designs
Help users write effective specs and design documents. Use when someone is creating technical specs, feature specs, design docs, or trying to communicate product requirements to engineering and design teams.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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design-systems
Help users build and scale design systems. Use when someone is creating a component library, establishing design tokens, scaling brand consistency, or deciding when to invest in a design system.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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managing-imposter-syndrome
Help users work through feelings of inadequacy and self-doubt. Use when someone feels like a fraud, doubts their qualifications, is anxious about being "found out," or struggling with confidence in a new or challenging role.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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design-engineering
Help users understand and build design engineering capabilities. Use when someone is creating a design engineering function, hiring design engineers, or bridging the gap between design and engineering teams.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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managing-tech-debt
Help users manage technical debt strategically. Use when someone is dealing with legacy code, planning refactoring work, deciding between rewrites vs. incremental fixes, trying to get buy-in for tech debt reduction, or balancing new features with maintenance.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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positioning-messaging
Help users craft product positioning and messaging. Use when someone is launching a product, differentiating from competitors, writing marketing copy, struggling to explain what their product does, or working on value propositions and taglines.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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sales-qualification
Help users qualify sales leads effectively. Use when someone is wasting time on bad leads, struggling with low conversion rates, needs to build a qualification framework, or wants to improve their discovery process.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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brand-storytelling
Help users craft compelling brand narratives. Use when someone is defining brand strategy, writing company positioning, creating pitch narratives, developing messaging frameworks, or trying to make their company story more memorable.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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designing-growth-loops
Help users design and optimize growth loops. Use when someone is building viral mechanics, designing referral programs, creating product-led acquisition, or figuring out how to make their product grow itself.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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writing-prds
Help users write effective PRDs. Use when someone is documenting product requirements, preparing specs for engineering, writing feature briefs, or defining what to build for their team.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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platform-strategy
Help users design and execute platform business strategies. Use when someone is building a marketplace, creating an ecosystem, deciding on API strategy, thinking about multi-sided network effects, or building developer platforms.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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post-mortems-retrospectives
Help users run effective post-mortems and retrospectives. Use when someone is reviewing a project that succeeded or failed, wants to establish learning practices, is dealing with failure aftermath, or needs to improve team learning loops.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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scoping-cutting
Help users scope projects and cut features effectively. Use when someone is defining an MVP, dealing with scope creep, trying to ship faster, or needs to make tradeoffs about what to build.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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behavioral-product-design
Help users apply behavioral science to product design. Use when someone is designing for habit formation, reducing friction, applying psychology to UX, increasing retention through behavioral principles, or using nudges to influence user behavior.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604