director-readiness-advisor
Guide the PM-to-Director transition across preparing, interviewing, landing, and recalibrating. Use when leadership scope is changing and you need practical coaching.
npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill director-readiness-advisor --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
## Purpose Guide PMs and Directors through the specific challenges of the PM-to-Director transition using adaptive questions and targeted coaching. Diagnoses where you are in the journey and delivers practical, war-story-backed guidance calibrated to your situation — not generic leadership advice. This is not a readiness checklist. It's a coaching conversation that names what's actually hard, why it's hard, and what to do about it. ## Input **Works best with:** Where you are in the PM-to-Director journey: preparing for the jump, interviewing, newly landed, or recalibrating after a rough start. **Also useful:** Your org context (team size, who you'd report to) and the specific friction you're feeling. Anything supplied with the invocation itself — text after the skill name, a pasted context dump, or an appended `ARGUMENTS:` line — counts as answers already given. Use it and skip whatever it covers; don't re-ask. **Arriving empty-handed? That works too.** The advisor opens by asking which of the four situations describes you, then branches. **Example invocation:** `I'm 60 days into a Director role and my old peers now report to me — it's awkward and I'm still doing PM work. Coach me.
- Purpose
- Input
- Key Concepts
- The Four Transition Situations
- The Underlying Model
- Facilitation Source of Truth
- Application
- Step 0: Session Start
- Question 1: Where Are You?
- Branch 1: Preparing to Make the Leap
- Branch 2: Interviewing for Director Roles
- Branch 3: Newly Landed
- Branch 4: Recalibrating
- Examples
What does the director-readiness-advisor skill do?
Guide the PM-to-Director transition across preparing, interviewing, landing, and recalibrating. Use when leadership scope is changing and you need practical coaching.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill director-readiness-advisor --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, a repository with 6,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.