Product Leadership Workshop

Understand how emergent and assigned leadership applies to different product roles.

Learn how to effectively influence people and encourage change using the Behavioural Change Stairway model.

Become aware of the empowerment level you and the product team members currently have and learn how you can increase your authority.

Understand common leadership behaviours with their strengths and weaknesses.

Become aware of your preferred leadership style.

Learn how to select the right leadership approach for a given situation.

Staff the team with the right people and organise the team around a product.

Choose the right level of empowerment and autonomy for the team.

Drive innovation and creativity in your team.

Learn how psychological safety and stable team composition influence team dynamics and motivation.

Determine the key stakeholders and perform a stakeholder analysis for your product.

Involve the key stakeholders and form an extended product team.

Establish a continued and close stakeholder collaboration by involving the individuals in the right decisions.

Set the right outcomes using Roman’s goal-setting framework.

Effectively capture goals using the product vision, product strategy, and product roadmap.

Understand how OKRs can be effectively used in product management.

Determine if your current goal-setting approach including the goals you use is effective and how it can be improved.

Learn how decision rules help you make effective decisions and when each rule is best used.

Understand when and how to involve stakeholders and dev team members in decisions, when to decide on your own, and when to delegate.

Use the right decision-making process to develop an inclusive decision.

Avoid common decision-making traps including design by committee and HIPPO.

Reflect on your listening habits using Covey’s listening levels.

Learn how to strengthen your capacity to deeply listen and improve your ability to understand people’s interests and needs.

Understand how you can offer constructive feedback and effectively address performance issues using Roman’s feedback framework.

Learn how to effectively say no even to powerful, senior stakeholders.

Understand common but ineffective ways of how people and organisations deal with conflict.

Learn how to resolve conflict with Non-violent Communication (NVC).

Improve your ability to deal with difficult stakeholders and team members.

Understand the responsibilities of the role, which is also known as Director of Product Management, VP of Product, or Chief Product Officer.

Know the skills required to succeed as the head of product.

Understand common product roles, desirable skills, and career progression.

Learn how to form effective product management teams.

Roman’s online workshop is live, interactive, friendly, and engaging. Think of it as an instructor-led remote workshop with the appropriate mixture of lectures, group and individual exercises, and Q&As so that you can get your questions answered by Roman. Additionally, you’ll be able to try out the techniques and tools covered and apply them to your own products in the form of hands-on exercises. The workshop contents are developed and exclusively used by Roman, and he teaches all classes himself.

But see for yourself:

Here is what the attendees say:

• The online delivery of the workshop was excellent. I was concerned that it may not quite give the same interaction with the trainer as classroom-based training, but it absolutely did. Roman used the online tools extremely well. Tom Brian, Product Owner at Petrofac
• Kudos to Roman for delivering a fantastic, engaging, and interactive online workshop course. Nhung Nguyen, Product Manager at Eurail & Interrail
• We got the same out of the workshop training as if we had been all in the same room. I really like Roman’s on-the-fly PowerPoint presentation. Kristina Underwood, Product Owner at HiHi

We limit the number of employees from the same company to four attendees per workshop. This ensures a balanced class, and it avoids specific challenges of one company dominating the discussions.

You will need a computer with a webcam and a microphone, preferably a device with a large enough screen, like a laptop or tablet, and a stable Internet connection.

Additionally, you will have to be able to use Zoom, Miro, and Google Docs. This includes the following:

• Join a Zoom meeting, use the chat, mute and unmute yourself, and use reactions.
• Add cards to a Miro board and edit them.
• Access a shared Google doc, save a new version, edit it, and share it with Roman.

Carrying out the recommended prep work will help you reflect on your understanding of the subjects covered and familiarise yourself with Roman’s teachings. This will make it easier for you to participate in the exercises, and it will give you a better learning experience. You can find the prep work on the individual workshop pages.

You will receive a PDF document that contains the slides Roman shows in class, screenshots of all the artefacts created in the group exercises, as well as references and links to books and articles. We share the document after the workshop has taken place, usually on the next day.

Roman’s classes are limited to 15 attendees. This ensures that they are small enough to answer specific questions and big enough to have a sufficiently diverse group and engaging discussions.

When you have joined the waitlist of one of our workshop, we will email you as soon as we receive a cancellation, along with everyone else on the list. We then offer the place on a first come, first served basis.

It is unfortunately hard to know if and when someone will cancel. But if you sign up for the next available workshop, we will rebook you free of charge if we can offer you a place on the fully booked one.

If you would like to join a waitlist, please get in touch and tell us which workshop you are interested in.

Yes, Roman offers company-specific workshop. If you are interested in having Roman teach one of his workshop for your organisation, please get in touch.

Roman started teaching his Product Strategy and Roadmap workshop as a public workshop in 2014 and his Product Leadership training in 2016. Both workshop have significantly changed over the years, and Roman regularly updates the training materials and exercises to incorporate his latest insights. For example, the latest edition of his strategy course covers how AI can help product managers make effective strategic decisions.

Yes, you can pay by invoice if payment by credit card and PayPal is not an option for you. To do so, please contact us and tell us which workshop you want to attend and how many places you want to book.

Please note that a place is guaranteed when the invoice has been settled, and the attendee has registered for the workshop using the code we will provide. Additionally, we may have to add a small surcharge for payments by invoice, as these significantly increase our overhead.

If we receive your notification at least four weeks before the start of the course, we will offer you a full refund for the workshop ticket.

Please contact us if you want to cancel your ticket or if you have any questions or concerns about your booking.

We offer the following discounts on the regular ticket price:

• Group: 15% discount when three or more tickets are purchased together.
• Startup: up to 50% discount for early-stage startups (no older than two years and no more than 20 employees).
• Charity: up to 50% discount for registered charities that directly improve people’s lives or the environment/the planet.
• Hardship: up to 50% discount for anybody who is unemployed or experiences financial difficulties.

If you would like to request a discount or if you have any discount-related questions, then please get in touch.

You can transfer your booking to the same workshop on an alternative date if you notify us by email no later than four weeks before the start of the workshop.

To change your booking, please contact us.

Yes, you can buy a voucher to attend Roman’s workshop. Please contact us and tell us which training course(s) you are interested in and how many places you need.

You can transfer your ticket to another person if you notify us by email no later than four weeks before the start of the workshop.

If you would like to pass on your ticket to someone else, please contact us.