May 2024

Get expert-led, intensive PM practice & feedback on framing, communicating, and landing successful product reviews.

Tom Leung

Mastering Product Reviews for IC Product Managers

Google

YouTube

Harvard University

Microsoft

Charles River Associates

Our goal is to get a lot of hands-on practice with pre-work for each session. We will do lots of in-class examples and workshopping together. This is the approach I've used for the last 20 years leveling up my own PM teams and as a 5-star Google PM coach, a large percentage of whom were able to be promoted and some whom are now VP's, directors and GPM's. You will be working and leaning in and getting cold called a lot during class :-) Class 1: Nail the exec summary. Class 2: Nail the money slide. Class 3: Own the room. *Every class will end with a 20 minute AMA with Tom to dig into specific nuances you need more guidance on or to share specific challenges you're facing for a review coming up or that just happened at work. **In between classes, you will also have access to unlimited Q&amp;A in the student portal.

Learn by doing

You're an APM up to L6 PM and are expecting to do more product reviews. You want to be ready for the challenge.

You've gotten perf feedback that your product reviews are not landing despite a lot of preparation.

Your organization has new leadership and they're telling the org they want to uplevel their product management excellence.

You love product reviews and want to become a master at them.

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

Review why execs want product reviews, the different types, and common traits of successful vs unsuccessful ones. Students will play the role of product reviewer and Tom will present to you so you can assess, discuss, and see the review from the pov of the Directors and VP's.

Frame your review so you win early

Using a case study you'll have read in advance of class, you'll work on a one slide exec summary and then we'll share, critique, and discuss as a small group. The goal here is to strengthen your ability to distill key information and themes in a logical, crisp, and persuasive way

Nail the exec summary so your storyline is crisp and lands

Hone the art and science of going the next level deeper in detail, ensuring a deck flows, and we're framing the problem, providing relevant info, mapping out the option space, making a reco, making an ask, etc.

Build the deck to lock in the key discussions and secure the input you need

Develop your voice, handle objections, and manage pacing. We'll have lots of exercises where we practice presenting as well as taking questions, getting interrupted, stumped, and overruled.

Present like a pro so you come across as a Sr IC with GPM potential

Our goal will be for you to have a 10-20% better review after taking this course. We want your manager and skip level to notice that you're more buttoned up, clear headed, and manage the review for improved impact to the business.

Set a new high-water mark for your next review

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Course syllabus

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Meet your instructor

Share your course priorities

Make that first class feel like a rolling start.

Get to know each other

All students get an additional free 1:1 20 minute coaching checkin after the course is completed.

Post-Course Coaching Call

Early Registrants (registered by 3/17/24) Get a Free Pre-Course Coaching Call

Three weekly sessions for 90 minutes

Pre-work should be submitted on the Thursday night in advance of each week's Sunday class.

Weekly projects

Course schedule

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Active hands-on learning

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Interactive and project-based

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This is a key opportunity to demonstrate the transformation that students will achieve if they choose to enroll in your course. Why is it worth it to them?

Once you register for the course, you'll get access to our private course cohort community page where you can post any questions you have about product reviews or PM in general and I will answer all of them before and even before the first class and during the entire course period.

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