Coaching Mindset for Product Leaders
Cohort-based Course
Connect with your team through coaching techniques to increase trust, drive outcomes and tackle product challenges with confidence.
Coaching Mindset for Product Leaders
Cohort-based Course
Connect with your team through coaching techniques to increase trust, drive outcomes and tackle product challenges with confidence.
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Course overview
Apply coaching skills to guide teams, unlock potential, and navigate challenges
In this course, you will gain essential coaching skills to build trust, navigate challenges, and drive meaningful team outcomes. Learn how to actively listen to understand underlying motivations, ask powerful questions to uncover root issues, and create an environment where team members feel heard and valued.
Through the integration of emotional intelligence practices, develop the ability to manage your own responses, read team dynamics, and respond to challenging situations with empathy and clarity. Practice delivering constructive feedback that drives growth and fosters accountability to inspire improved team performance.
This course emphasizes real-world application, blending coaching frameworks, reflective exercises, and interactive discussions to reinforce key techniques. Explore strategies to guide teams through ambiguity, align diverse perspectives, and create psychological safety for open and honest communication.
By the end, be equipped to confidently lead with a coaching mindset—leveraging active listening, emotional intelligence, and coaching tools to build resilient teams, cultivate new ways of thinking, and be the leader you aspire to be (and wish you had).
Who is this course for
01
Ambitious Senior PMs, Group PMs, and VP level product managers and leaders at startups and major tech firms with direct reports.
02
Founders, executives, and managers who are responsible for product success with core expertise or experience outside of product
03
Aspiring Product Leaders looking to understand how to apply coaching techniques when working with stakeholders.
What you’ll get out of this course
Develop and implement an authentic, personalized coaching style that amplifies your product leadership impact and drives team success.
Blend proven coaching frameworks with your unique strengths to create a personalized leadership approach. Apply practical techniques to immediately elevate team interactions and stakeholder relationships for maximum impact.
Master the art of micro-coaching to provide real-time guidance, accelerate decision-making, and enhance product development processes.
Build a micro-coaching playbook for stand-ups, design reviews, and product discussions. Learn to identify and seize everyday coaching moments, providing focused guidance that propels your team forward and improves product outcomes.
Foster a culture of psychological safety, calculated risk-taking, and continuous innovation by blending coaching and leadership strategies.
Foster a culture where team members feel safe to share bold ideas, take risks, and challenge assumptions. Use proven coaching practices to build trust and encourage rapid innovation.
Navigate complex team dynamics and unlock hidden potential using emotionally intelligent strategies and targeted coaching interventions.
Develop and apply emotional intelligence techniques to forge deeper team connections. Master the arts of empathy, self-awareness, and active listening to enhance team dynamics, resolve conflicts, and create a high-performance environment.
Craft powerful, thought-provoking questions that uncover underlying motivations, challenge assumptions, and accelerate team alignment.
Build a repertoire of strategic, open-ended questions for impactful team interactions. Learn to inspire creative problem-solving, reveal hidden motivations, clarify goals, and drive effective alignment in diverse product scenarios.
Transform challenges into valuable learning opportunities by designing and implementing custom feedback frameworks and coaching strategies.
Design feedback templates and conversation scripts tailored to your team's needs. Build clarity, accountability, and resilience in addressing product challenges, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and adaptability.
This course includes
3 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
17 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
6 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.
Coaching Mindset for Product Leaders
Course syllabus
Week 1
Feb
4
Session 1 - Introduction to Coaching in Product Leadership (You)
Coaching Mindset for Product Leadership
Emotional Intelligence
Practice with real product scenarios
Feb
6
Session 2 - Transform Your Team Through Powerful Questions
Day One - Reflections
Psychological Safety
Appreciative Inquiry
Powerful Questions
Common product leader coaching scenarios
Practice product leader coaching scenarios
Session 3 - Stronger Leaders and Teams Through Coaching
Post-course
Feb
11
Session 3 - Coaching Through Product Challenges
What people are saying
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Elizabeth (Liz) Belanger
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Meet your instructor
Diana Stepner
Diana is a Silicon Valley native who believes in the power of putting people first. For over 20 years, Diana built and led global product teams, discovering launching people is even more rewarding than launching products. This awareness led her to focus on coaching, combining extensive product leadership experience with a human-centered approach to help ambitious product leaders unlock their full potential.
By partnering with Diana, you develop a deeper self-awareness, aligning your actions with your vision, and embracing your authentic leadership style. Diana believes every person holds untapped potential, and she's here to help you discover yours.
Diana's background includes leading teams in startups (E.piphany, Cheapflights - bought by Kayak, and SimplePractice), enterprise organizations (Salesforce, Monster, Pearson), digital agencies (Razorfish, part of Publicis) and software consulting (Epsilon, E.piphany). She also has a MIMS from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Boston University.
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Coaching Mindset for Product Leaders
Course schedule
Three 1.5 hour over sessions
Tue, Feb 4 | Thu, Feb 6 | Tue, Feb 11
8.00 AM to 9:30 AM PT
We will use a mix of live presentation and interactive discussions with group activities.
Self-paced lessons
1 hour
Articles and resources to help you become a people-first product leader.
Bonus: Wed, Feb 5 | Wed, Feb 12
1:1 Coaching
Reach out and schedule a 30min spot outside the course to discuss any additional product leadership coaching topics that are top of mind
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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
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