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2 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Transform key product moments into energizing collaboration where teams align, and decisions stick.
4.5 (6)
2 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Transform key product moments into energizing collaboration where teams align, and decisions stick.
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Course overview
You've been there, trapped in your third meeting about the same feature, watching the clock tick while the loudest voices dominate and quiet experts stay silent. Another hour gone, no decisions made, and your product timeline slipping further away.
These collaboration failures aren't just frustrating, they're costing your team real money. A typical 30-minute meeting with six people costs your company $700-1,600 in salary alone. Multiply that by your weekly meeting load, and you're burning thousands on conversations that go nowhere.
Workshops aren't just better meetings, they're purposeful collaboration engines that drive results.
Unlike standard meetings, workshops are carefully designed experiences that transform how your team solves problems, makes decisions, and builds alignment. They're the secret weapon of elite product leaders who consistently ship impactful products on time.
A recent Harvard Business School study found that product teams waste 31 hours a month in unproductive collaboration, while 64% of product leaders lack effective frameworks for making complex decisions.
After this course, you'll never run an ineffective product meeting again.
In just 4 interactive sessions, you'll master the workshop facilitation skills that top product leaders use to:
• Cut meeting time by 40% while making better decisions
• Turn conflicting opinions into aligned action plans
• Build genuine psychological safety where every voice contributes
• Generate solutions that people actually implement
Course Structure
🔹 Session 1: Workshop Fundamentals
• Diagnose why your current meetings fail and how workshops solve these failures
• Master the Workshop Anatomy, the blueprint behind every successful workshop
• Learn the core Workshop Principles that transform group dynamics and drive engagement
🔹 Session 2: Workshop Preparation Mastery
• Craft crystal-clear objectives that drive participation and results
• Select and prepare exactly the right participants for maximum impact
• Harness proven creative thinking techniques that work even with "non-creative" teams
🔹 Session 3: Problem Space Facilitation
• Guide groups to identify the real problems hiding beneath surface issues
• Facilitate productive disagreement without letting conversations derail
• Transform vague challenges into concrete opportunity statements
🔹 Session 4: Solution Space Facilitation
• Break through "we can't do that" thinking to generate breakthrough ideas
• Run prioritisation exercises that create genuine buy-in, not just nodding heads
• Convert workshop outputs into action plans that people follow through on
Format & Support - Learn Today, Apply Tomorrow
This isn't theoretical training, it's practical mastery you'll implement immediately:
🔹 4 Live Interactive Sessions: Hands-on practice in a supportive environment with direct feedback on your facilitation
🔹 Ready-to-Use Templates: Copy-and-paste workshop designs for your next product challenge
🔹 Personal Support Channel: Direct WhatsApp/email access to me whenever you get stuck
🔹 Post-Course Implementation Review: Share your wins and troubleshoot any challenges in our follow-up session
🔹 Small Cohorts: Workshops thrive on personal attention and group dynamics, which is why I'm running small cohorts to ensure you get the hands-on practice and personalized feedback needed to master facilitation skills.
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Product Managers tired of messy meetings, who want better outcomes and stakeholder alignment.
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Designers willing to drive better alignment through workshop.
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Product Ops tired of pointless meetings and looking for better ways to work.
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.
7 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
35 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
7 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.
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Joel Stephens
Catherine Spitzer
Nikita Worthington
Anonymous Engineer
Anonymous Designer
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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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.
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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