Communication and Alignment for Product Managers takes place in two (half-day) remote workshops. These workshops are designed to empower product people to align their organisation around the product process and practice. Join the workshop to learn important tactical skills and how these can be used to add a layer of strategic thinking that will help you to better collaborate with your stakeholders.

Why Attend

Reasons to attend? We'll give you 10! By attending this workshop you will learn:

How to build a strategic layer onto your core product practices
How to evaluate a potential product idea
How to extract maximum value from your research activities
How to use process as an alignment tool within your company
How to build effective relationships with stakeholders
Where you should include your stakeholders as collaborators
How to effectively facilitate discussions
How to create a communication strategy within your organisation
Communication strategies to foster trust and collaboration within your organisation
Tools and techniques you can use right away

Timings

Your workshop will take place over two half-days on Thursday August 11th and Friday August 12th. The workshop will start at 9am AEST (7am SGT) and end at 1pm AEST (11am SGT) each day. Join us online from 8.50am AEST (6.50am SGT), to connect calmly and help mitigate accessibility issues

Workshop Size

With a maximum of 10 people per virtual workshop, you will benefit from active and involved group discussions, the careful guidance and expertise of your trainer, the opportunity to closely collaborate with your peers from around the world, and plenty of time to ask questions.

Your Trainer

All of our trainers are seasoned product managers who've worked with multiple products and domains. Their experience enriches the curriculum by delivering diverse perspectives and examples on best practice in different scenarios. Our trainers’ main goal is not to provide you with all of the answers, but rather to help you ask the right questions.

How you'll learn

Using Zoom and other digital collaboration tools, you will participate in a series of modules that cover the theories and mindsets driving the core elements of the product role.

Modules include live online lectures interspersed with regular discussion, Q&As, and group activities to encourage hands-on learning. To keep you energised and engaged, expect warm-ups, icebreakers, and regular breaks.

See below for a detailed module breakdown.

Module Breakdown

Strategic Impact

Your role as a product manager within your organisation
The role of ‘process’ in your product practice
The importance of influence

Stakeholder Management

How to build valuable relationships that benefit your product
Identifying and mapping your stakeholders
Extracting valuable insights from your stakeholders
Uncovering your stakeholders' motivations and using them to drive alignment

Team Communication

Build an effective communication strategy.
Break down the characteristics of your report.
Structure and format a report that serves your audience
Identify situations where bias can influence your report

Alignment

Highlight the importance of alignment when presented with new opportunities
Build a methodical, defensible framework for evaluating opportunities as a team
Identify what information you might need to evaluate

Prioritisation

Different prioritisation methods and frameworks
Prioritisation as a collaborative process
Placing evidence-driven decision-making at the heart of your priority conversations

Facilitating Discussions

Techniques to drive conversations toward decisions and action
Identifying facilitation best practices
Crafting a successful workshop/collaboration session

About tickets for this event

There are two types of ticket for this event:

Remote Workshop Only: This ticket gives you access to your remote workshop only

Remote Workshop + 1 Year Membership: This ticket gives you access to your remote workshop plus a full year of Mind the Product Prioritised membership (at the best available price) so you can continue the learning for a full year after your workshop ends

Communication & Alignment Remote Workshop - Australian EST