Communication & Alignment for Product Managers
Remote Trainer-Led Course
Why choose Communication & Alignment?
Product management comes with massive responsibility but often little authority. Our remote Communication & Alignment course teaches you how to begin adding a layer of strategy to your tactical activities in order to align your organisation around your process and vision – ensuring you have maximum impact!
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Get Strategic
Gain a firm understanding of how to add a layer of strategic thinking to your day-to-day grounded, tactical activities – because product management is inherently a strategic role.
Know Which Tools to Pick
Understand the variety of frameworks and tools that are at your disposal, how to decide which one to choose, and that there is no ‘one size fits all’ product solution.
Take Everyone With You on the Journey
Learn how to engage your team and stakeholders early on in the product process so that they can be a supporter of the vision that they’ve helped co-create, ensuring that your product gets out the door!
At a glance
- Duration: 2 consecutive half-day sessions
- Format: Remote, interactive training – online lectures interspersed with regular discussion, Q&As and group activities to encourage hands-on learning, using Zoom and other digital collaboration tools
- Who is this for: Working product managers who have been in the role for 1.5 years+ who are looking to begin adding a layer of strategic thinking to their product process
- Key skills learned: Strategic thinking, evaluating opportunity, stakeholder management, reporting out
- Frameworks covered: Prioritisation, canvases, organisational communication strategies
- 365 Days of learning: Purchase our special Course+Membership bundle ticket to continue the learning for a full year after your course ends
Upcoming Communication & Alignment sessions
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These sessions take place over two half-days from 9am AEST (7am SGT) to 1pm AEST (11am SGT).
- August 11-12: Communication & Alignment
Please note: workshops in the categories below will also be relevant to some APAC time zones.
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- June 16-17: Communication & Alignment
- July 14-15: Communication & Alignment
- September 15-16: Communication & Alignment
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- June 16-17: Communication & Alignment
- July 14-15: Communication & Alignment
- September 15-16: Communication & Alignment
What we’ll cover
Communication & Alignment is a remote training course that takes place over two half-days. Each module includes a lecture component on theory and practice, interspersed with hands-on activities where you’ll work through your own product challenges. This means that you will have the opportunity to apply and work with concepts in a setting that will answer questions and facilitate critical thinking.
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
How does remote work?
In order to continue offering product management training in a safe environment for our attendees and trainers, we have devised this new interactive, remote course format, run as two consecutive half-day sessions.
You can focus all of your time and energy into two concentrated half-days of product learning, and as with our in-person sessions, you’ll get full access to our tried-and-tested Communication and Alignment curriculum, expert trainers, and a community of product peers.
Each half-day will include live online lectures interspersed with regular discussion, Q&As, and group activities to encourage hands-on learning. We’ll use Zoom and other digital collaboration tools.
To keep you energised and engaged, we’ll also run warm-ups and icebreakers, and take regular breaks.
Please note: This course is run as two half-day sessions and you must attend both parts
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Each workshop module contains an interactive component. This ensures that you have an opportunity to apply and work with each concept you learn about in a setting that will answer questions and facilitate critical thinking. We don’t think you can be “taught” product management, you have to do it – there will be virtual Post-it’s, our group collaboration tool (Mural), and group discussions – which really help you to internalise the concepts you are being taught and return to your role to put into practice straight away.
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Every Mind the Product trainer is a working product manager. Your trainer’s product management experience enriches the curriculum by delivering diverse perspectives on best practice in different scenarios. Our trainers’ main goal is not to provide participants with all of the answers, but help facilitate them in asking the right questions.
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Up-to-the-Minute Curriculum keyboard_arrow_right
The Mind the Product workshop curriculum is treated as a product in itself. We keep all of our content up-to-date with the latest thinking and research, and iterate regularly, meaning that what we are teaching is always current.
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Every workshop is a chance to (virtually!) meet your peers and share knowledge. As well as learning from your trainers, you’ll also learn from your fellow participants, hearing examples of product practice and challenges from a wealth of perspectives, industries, and levels of experience.
And of course, once your workshop has come to a close it doesn’t stop there – there is still learning to be done via our blog, at our global ProductTank meetups, our conferences, and in our Slack community. In short, you’ll feel fully supported through your learning experience with us because you’ll have this wonderful product community at your fingertips.
And with our Workshop+Membership ticket bundle, you’ll become an official Mind the Product member, giving you access to premium editorial, product experts, and connecting you with peers tackling similar challenges.
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Mind the Product started with the first ProductTank meet up in London in 2010 with the simple aim of bringing together product managers to connect, share, and learn from each other. We are now the biggest product management community in the world and our aim has not changed. We are product managers at heart with the sole aim of making product people more successful and building products people love!
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This is Just the Beginning keyboard_arrow_right
We offer training for all levels of experience for product people at all stages of their career. If this is the start of your Mind the Product Training journey then together we have a great adventure ahead of us – we’ll nurture you along the way and give you the confidence you need to become an amazing product manager. And it all starts here…
Membership Ticket Bundle
We now offer a special ‘Communication and Alignment Workshop + 1 Year Membership’ bundle ticket so that you can continue the learning for a full year after your workshop ends.
By becoming a Mind the Product member, you’ll get access to our online, self-paced Training Library, enjoy premium product content, regular access to product experts, and join a community of engaged product professionals, ready to learn with you and share their experiences, helping you to tackle your problems together.
Our ‘Communication and Alignment Workshop + Membership’ ticket bundle offers membership at the best available price and is the perfect addition to your learning and development journey.
With your membership you will have invaluable insight, connection, and resources at your fingertips whenever you need them, helping you to stay on top of your game and build great products with the support of our incredible community.