Being a successful product manager and 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. This requires the ability to build trustful connections with individuals, to skilfully deal with difficult people, and to achieve strong support for your decisions. Attending this workshop will increase your leadership skills, show you how to lead the stakeholders and the development team, and help you become an inspiring product leader.
Roman teaches his courses as instructor-led workshops with a mix of lectures, discussions, and hands-on exercises. This includes his online classes, which are live, interactive, and engaging. They cover the same content and use the same exercises as their classroom counterparts. You can find more information about Roman’s online training including testimonials on the online training page.
November 9, 2020 1:00 pm - 5:30 pm
November 10, 2020 1:00 pm - 5:30 pm
November 11, 2020 1:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Online , in English, Time zone: GMT / UTC (GMT+0)Learn how to influence people and encourage change
Understand why empathy is a key leadership quality
Strengthen the trust people have in your and improve the connections with key stakeholders
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
Create alignment, autonomy, and innovation
Choose the right cascading product goals to align and guide people
Get the division of power between line management and product management right
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 successfully 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
Learn to understand people’s underlying needs and interests
Improve your speaking habits and maximise the chances that your message will be received even when having a difficult conversation
Provide the right leadership to cross-functional, self-organising teams
Effectively collaborate with the development team and Scrum Master / agile coach
Learn to embrace a growth mindset
Improve your time management and learn to say no and to delegate more
Strengthen your awareness and become more mindful and successfully balance the needs of the stakeholders and dev team members and your own needs
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 OfficeI’ve learnt new techniques for defining shared goals and making effective decisions. The exercises were very useful and engaging. Thank you!
− Elizabeth Coles, Head of Product, Win TechnologiesThis 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 HawkProduct managers, product owners, product executives, and others in charge of digital products or product teams. Please note that this course teaches leadership and people skills. It assumes that you already have an understanding of important product management concepts and techniques, and that you are familiar with an agile framework like Scrum.
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 for classroom-based trainings and to 15 for online trainings.
Please read the chapter and the articles below. This will set you up for a good learning experience.
To participate in an online leadership class, you will need a computer with a webcam and a microphone, preferably a device with a large enough screen, like a laptop or tablet, as well as a stable Internet connection. Please familiarise yourself with the tools we will be using, Zoom and Trello, prior to the training course. You will have to be able to join a Zoom meeting, use the chat feature, and mute and unmute yourself. You will have to be able to add cards to a Trello board, adjust them, and move them between columns.
You can pay by credit card or by invoice. If you have any questions, please contact training@romanpichler.com.
We offer a 50% discount on the regular price to charities and early stage startups, or if you are currently unemployed or having financial difficulties. Please contact training@romanpichler.com.
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 key product management concepts and techniques.
If you are not sure if the course is right for you, take Roman’s Product Management Test or contact him.
