Product Leadership Workshop

Being a successful product manager or product owner requires strong leadership: You have to direct and guide the stakeholders and development team without having the authority to tell people what to do.

Attending this workshop will increase your leadership skills, and help you become an inclusive and inspiring product leader. You will learn how to build strong relationships with powerful stakeholders, skilfully deal with difficult people, achieve firm support for your decisions, and negotiate successfully.

Choose the Right Leadership Approach

• Understand your leadership preferences and adopt the most effective leadership style in your context.
• Create an inspiring vision and align the stakeholders and development team through shared goals.

Succeed in Having Difficult Conversations

• Listen actively and build mutual trust and understanding.
• Speak clearly and empathetically even in difficult situations. 

Manage Challenging Stakeholders

• Skilfully resolve conflicts with powerful stakeholders.
• Understand people’s emotions, interests, and unmet needs.

Secure Strong Buy-in and Negotiate Successfully

• Choose the right decision-making approach, leverage the expertise of others, and create strong support.
• Employ the right negotiation strategy and develop mutually agreeable solutions.

Lead Agile Teams in the Right Way

• Provide the right leadership to cross-functional, self-organising teams.
• Effectively collaborate with the development team and ScrumMaster/agile coach.

Turn Setbacks and Failure into Learning and Growth

• Understand why failing is hard but unavoidable in product management.
• Learn how to develop a growth mindset and create a fail-safe environment.

Strengthen Product Leadership in the Organisation

• Choose the right product roles, responsibilities, skills, and career paths.
• Establish an effective product management function in your organisation.

Audience

Product managers, product owners, product executives, and others in charge of digital products or product teams.

Payment

You can pay by credit card or by invoice.  If you have any questions, please contact training@romanpichler.com.

Discount

We offer a 50% discount on the regular price to charities and early stage start-ups. Please contact training@romanpichler.com.

Format

The training course is taught as an instructor-led workshop with an appropriate mix of lecture, discussion and hands-on exercises.  The training materials are developed by Roman and are exclusively used by him.  We aim to limit the number of attendees to 20

Prerequisites

You should have work experience in a product role, for instance, as a product manager, product owner, product executive, or business analyst.