How to Run High-Impact Product Workshops
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2 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Transform key product moments into energizing collaboration where teams align, and decisions stick.
How to Run High-Impact Product Workshops
4.4 (4)
2 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Transform key product moments into energizing collaboration where teams align, and decisions stick.
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Course overview
Tired of meetings that drive no results?
You've been there, discussing product requirements for the third time, but still no clarity. The same stakeholders dominate the conversation while crucial voices remain silent. Despite multiple discussions, decisions keep slipping through your fingers, and your roadmap remains fuzzy. These collaboration challenges cost teams time, momentum, and ultimately, product success.
Standard meetings have their place, but some product moments demand more structured collaboration that delivers clear outcomes, drives alignment, and energizes your team.
Product workshops are the missing piece in your collaboration toolkit. Not to replace all your meetings but to transform those critical moments when you need deeper thinking, broader input, and concrete decisions.
Recent studies reveal that product teams spend 31 hours monthly in unproductive collaboration (Harvard Business School), while 64% of product leaders believe their teams lack effective frameworks for making complex decisions (Product Management Insights Report).
How this course will help you:
In this live, hands-on course, you'll learn when and how to design and facilitate high-impact product workshops. Together, we'll master practical tools that transform critical product moments, discovery sessions, planning meetings, and stakeholder alignment discussions into productive collaboration.
🔹 Session 1: Workshop Fundamentals
• Identifying when a workshop is needed (and when a meeting will do)
• The Workshop Anatomy: Essential components of every successful workshop
• Hands-on: Transform a critical product moment into an effective workshop structure
🔹 Session 2: Workshop Design Mastery
• Workshop structure and exercises to drive outcomes
• Energy management and timing techniques
• Hands-on: Design a workshop for your specific product challenge
🔹 Session 3: Facilitation Skills
• Essential facilitation techniques for managing group dynamics
• Balancing voices and handling difficult personalities
• Hands-on: Practice facilitating challenging scenarios
🔹 Session 4: Putting It All Together
• The Opportunity Solution Tree workshop deep-dive
• Applying workshop principles to improve everyday meetings
• Creating your personal facilitation style
Course Format: Learn & Apply Immediately
🔹 Live Learning
• 4 Interactive Live Sessions - Master facilitation skills through hands-on practice in a supportive environment. Each session combines theory with immediate application so you can confidently lead your next workshop.
🔹 Ongoing Support
• Open Office Hours - Bring your challenges for direct coaching from me
• Personal WhatsApp/Email Access - Reach me directly whenever you need help
• 2-Week Check-In - Share your wins and tackle any roadblocks together
🔹 Real-World Application
• Workshop Templates & Frameworks - Ready-to-use templates that you can customise for your specific product challenges.
• Practical Assignments - Apply techniques to your actual work between sessions and receive feedback to refine your approach.
Who is this course for
01
Product Managers tired of messy meetings, who want better outcomes and stakeholder alignment.
02
Designers willing to drive better alignment through workshop.
03
Product Ops tired of pointless meetings and looking for better ways to work.
What you’ll get out of this course
Run workshops that drive outcomes
Make the meetings valuable, as they are not cheap. We will review tactics to align everyone on a shared goal, keep them focused, and end the session with decisions and clear next steps.
"Never leave a meeting without deciding how to act." - P. Drucker
Help participants start prepared and invested
Start the conversations early to make the workshop more efficient and get the participants excited before it starts.
"Engagement begins long before the first hello." - Anonymous
Create engagement during workshops
Lead by example and show your excitement and passion for the workshop topic. Your energy and enthusiasm will be contagious, creating a positive collaboration environment.
“Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm.” - Gordon Parks
Run workshops with confidence
Discover your superpowers to galvanise people and ideas by being positive and flexible. Learn how to handle difficult personalities and navigate unexpected challenges with confidence.
"Confidence comes not from always being right, but from not fearing to be wrong." - P. McIntyre
Create cross-functional alignment
Earn a reputation as the people and ideas galvanizer, by turning conflicting views into alignment opportunities.
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." - H. Ford
Direct access to an experienced PM and facilitator
During the cohort, you have direct access to me via WhatsApp, email and weekly office hours. In this way, I make sure that I can help you quickly resolve any challenges that might arise implementing what you're learning.
This course includes
7 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
27 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
3 projects to apply learnings
Guided feedback & reflection
Private community of peers
Course certificate upon completion
Maven Satisfaction Guarantee
This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.
How to Run High-Impact Product Workshops
Course syllabus
Week 1
Apr
28
Session 1: Workshop Fundamentals
Apr
30
Session 2: Workshop Design Mastery
May
2
Optional: Office Hours with Ady
Take Home Project - Meeting Diagnosis
Workshop Principles
Workshop Anatomy
Workshop Objectives
Workshop Participants
Week 2
May
5
Session 3: Facilitation Skills
May
7
Session 4: Opportunity Solution Tree Workshop deep-dive
May
9
Optional: Office Hours with Ady
Facilitation: Mindset, Role and Techniques
Core Workshop Exercises Library
Workshop Templates
Take Home Project - Design your Workshop
Post-course
May
16
Optional: Check-in and Q&A with Ady
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Meet your instructor
Ady Rugina
For 20 years, I've transformed product challenges into success stories across fintech, VR, and telecom. My superpower? Not having all the answers but knowing how to extract them from the brilliant minds around me.
Being comfortable with the uncomfortable, I've driven major initiatives from zero-to-ones to replatforming and redesigns and learned the true meaning of "leader without authority" and how effective facilitation drives real impact.
Today, I share these battle-tested techniques with product leaders wanting to unlock their team's potential. Through my "How to Run High-Impact Discovery Workshops" course, I'll help you transform good ideas into exceptional products by mastering collaborative discovery.
Personal Story: The day I stopped being the “ideas person” was when the magic started happening
As a Jr Product Manager, I thought my job was to come up with all the ideas. I worked in isolation, afraid to show vulnerability or admit I didn't have all the answers.
But as I grew and learned to truly collaborate with my team, something shifted. I realised that the best ideas come from the team, not me. My real role? Create an environment that nurtures amazing ideas: make the why and what clear, add helpful constraints, and then step back to guide rather than control.
I remember the exact moment when this clicked. I was working on a new app with this brilliant product designer. We had built trust, understood each other's strengths and weaknesses, and how we complemented each other.
One day, before a meeting to define the app's end-to-end flow, I had what I thought was a solid solution to a challenging problem. But I told myself: "Ady, keep your mouth shut. Let him speak first, give him space." And I did just that, I listened. And guess what? His approach was 10x better.
Since then, I've learned to be one of the last to speak in meetings. I observe and guide more. I make sure everyone has a voice, not just the loudest ones. Sometimes, I'll even gently push the quiet ones to speak up; there are often hidden gems in their thoughts.
Now, I wear the “source of ideas” hat less and the “ideas and people galvaniser” hat more often. The benefit? The team feels empowered and more driven to work on their ideas. Better solutions and a happier team? I'm in, what's not to like?
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Course schedule
4-6 hours per week
Mondays & Wednesdays
5:00pm - 7:00pm GMT
Four Interactive Live Sessions - Master facilitation through hands-on practice. Each session blends theory with immediate application to build your confidence.
Weekly projects
2 hours per week
Practical Assignments - Apply techniques to your actual work between sessions and receive feedback to refine your approach.
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Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you
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