Product Leadership Training
Succeed in Leading Stakeholders and Product Management Teams
Achieving product success is not possible without strong leadership. This training course will teach you how to effectively lead others and be an inspiring and inclusive leader. You will learn proven leadership techniques that you can immediately apply to secure stronger buy-in and achieve greater alignment, and you’ll have the opportunity to use them during the training course to address the leadership challenges you face in your role. The training is ideally suited for product professionals who want to take on a senior product role, lead a group of product people, and get better at managing challenging stakeholders.
Roman teaches this course as an instructor-led workshop with a mix of lectures, discussions, hands-on exercises, and plenty of Q&A so that you can get your questions answered by him. You can find out more about Roman’s online training by visiting the Training FAQs.
If you would like this course to be taught for your company, please get in touch.
Upcoming Classes
May 16, 2023 13:00 - 18:00
May 17, 2023 13:00 - 18:00
May 18, 2023 13:00 - 17:30
Online
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Time zone: BST (GMT+1)
Ticket price:
£1,250-£1,400
(plus VAT)
Agenda
Increase Your Influence and Strengthen Your Authority
Learn how to effectively influence people and encourage change.
Increase the trust people have in you and deepen the connections with stakeholders and other product people.
Choose the right leadership style and get better at managing up.
Set the Right Goals and Effectively Align Stakeholders and Teams
Align the people by setting the right goals and outcomes: visionary, strategic, and tactical goals.
Understand how OKRs can be effectively used in product management.
Track goals and hold people accountable.
Make the Right Decisions and Secure Strong Support
Choose the right decision rule and get strong buy-in to important product decisions.
Understand how successful collaborative decision-making works.
Learn how to avoid that the highest paid person’s opinion (HIPPO) wins.
Successfully Deal with Challenging People and Resolve Conflict
Understand your default response to disagreements and conflicts.
Learn to resolve conflict with Non-violent Communication (NVC).
Improve your ability to deal with difficult stakeholders and team members.
Succeed in Having Difficult Conversations
Strengthen your capacity to deeply listen and improve your ability to understand people’s needs and interests.
Offer helpful feedback and address performance issues effectively.
Learn how to effectively say no even to powerful, senior stakeholders.
Successfully Work as a Head of Product
Understand how you can help establish product management in the organisation and foster a product-oriented way of working.
Know the responsibilities of a head of product (aka. Director of Product Management, VP Product, or Chief Product Officer).
Be clear on the path to becoming the head of product and understand the skills you need to succeed in the role.
Learn techniques for scaling and growing product management teams including introducing new roles and organising around products.
Reviews
An inspiring course that allowed me to think more strategically on how to lead teams in a large and complex organisation. I am taking away some great techniques to try out.
− Mark Sheldon, Product Manager, Digital Cabinet Office
This course was really great. I’ve taken some product and leadership training courses but I still learned a lot and got plenty out of Roman’s course. Lots of value!
− David Haynes, Digital Product Manager, Beer Hawk
Great workshop, enjoyable delivery, great learnings.
− Nick Falkowski, Product Lead at Bionic
Great course, thorough, and meaningful!
− John Myatt, Lead Product Owner at PRS for Music
Prep Work
The following materials will help you prepare for the course:
More Information
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Is this Course Right for You?
This course is aimed at product managers, product owners, product executives, and others in charge of digital products or product management teams. It assumes that you already have an understanding of core product management concepts and techniques and that you are familiar with an agile framework like Scrum. If you are not sure if the course is right for you, then please contact Roman.