Being a successful product manager and Scrum product owner requires strong leadership: You have to direct and guide the stakeholders and development teams without having the authority to tell people what to do. This requires the ability to build trustful connections, to secure strong support for your decisions, and to skilfully deal with difficult people.
Attending this workshop will increase your leadership skills. It will teach you how to align the stakeholders and guide the development team, both in the office and in a remote setting, and it will enable you to become an inspiring, inclusive product leader. It is ideally suited for product professionals who want to move into a product leadership position and lead a group of product people.
Roman teaches his courses as instructor-led workshops with a mix of lectures, discussions, hands-on exercises, and plenty of Q&A. You can find more information about Roman’s online training approach by visiting the Training FAQs.
Learn how to influence people, strengthen your authority, and encourage change, in the office and when working remotely
Understand how to cultivate empathy and leverage it as a leadership quality
Increase the trust people have in you and deepen the connections with important stakeholders
Build a stakeholder community
Understand your leadership preferences and learn how to select the most appropriate leadership style
Increase your empowerment and authority
Avoid the mistakes of being a product dictator and feature broker
Align the stakeholders and dev teams by choosing the right goals
Understand how OKRs can be effectively used in product management
Track goals and hold people accountable
Choose the right decision rule and get strong buy-in to important product decisions
Understand how successful collaborative decision-making works
Learn when and how to negotiate
Understand your default conflict strategies
Learn to resolve conflict with Non-violent Communication (NVC)
Improve your ability to deal with difficult stakeholders and dev team members
Strengthen your capacity to effectively listen
Understand people’s underlying needs and interests
Offer helpful feedback and address issues effectively
Provide the right leadership to cross-functional, self-organising teams even when working with remote development teams
Empower the team to own the product details / solution
Effectively collaborate with the development team and Scrum Master or agile coach
Learn how to effectively support and guide the team and cope with the lack of an effective Scrum Master
How to lead a group of product people without being their boss: right roles and responsibilities, right division of labour
The path to becoming the head of product including the knowledge and skills you need to succeed
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 OfficeThis 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 HawkGreat workshop, enjoyable delivery, great learnings.
− Nick Falkowski, Product Lead at BionicGreat course, thorough, and meaningful!
− John Myatt, Lead Product Owner at PRS for MusicYou can pay by invoice if payment by credit card and PayPal is not an option for you. Please note that we may have to add a small surcharge for payments by invoice, as these significantly increase our overhead. Please contact us if you want to pay by invoice or if you have any payment related questions or concerns.
The following materials will help you prepare for the course:
For more information including discounts, class format and size, cancellation policy, please visit the Training FAQs.
This course is aimed at product managers, product owners, product executives, and others in charge of digital products or product teams. It assumes that you already have an understanding of 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.
