Scaling Product Teams for New Product Leaders
Learn the techniques, tools, and processes to create a high functioning product team that can drive business impact in 2 weeks
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Course overview
Develop an actionable strategy to become an effective product leader.
Elevate your leadership skills to new heights with this comprehensive course on scaling product teams. As you transition from being an individual contributor to a team leader or are just looking to upskill as an already existing product manager, you'll learn and develop the soft skills along with the strategic and tactical tools that enable you to build a performant product team that ultimately drives value for the business.
From mastering the art of communication to fostering career development for your team, you'll learn to create a high-performing, cohesive unit that not only meets but also exceeds organizational goals.
You'll be taught how to give constructive feedback, resolve conflicts, and align your team's efforts with broader organizational objectives. Through interactive case studies and real-world examples, you'll gain invaluable insights into what makes a great product leader. Whether you're stepping into a leadership role for the first time or looking to optimize your growing team, this course provides a 360-degree view of what it takes to manage a product team successfully.
Course Content
- How to balance being an individual contributor vs. a leader of individual contributors to create the greatest leverage of the collective team output
- How to run a good meeting (e.g., stand up, retro, demos, design review, customer feedback sessions, and more) to maximize "bang for the buck" of meeting time
- How to prioritize a product roadmap while simultaneously balancing the requests from various stakeholders
- How to provide growth opportunities and career development for your team to build a rewarding culture
- How to deliver feedback to create a radically candid environment
- How to incorporate vulnerability as a leader to increase trust amongst your team
Who is this course for
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Product Manager that wants to improve communication and working dynamic with engineers and non-product stakeholders
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Recently minted product leaders or product leaders that have growing teams
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Product leaders that feel like they are not getting the maximum output out of their team or that the culture is lacking
What you’ll get out of this course
Navigate Tactical and Strategic Meetings
Learn how to minimize time spent in meetings and maximize output from meetings. We will focus on how to become adept at conducting various types of team meetings - from stand-ups to retrospectives - and learn when each format is most appropriate.
Project Management and Prioritize
Discover how to use popular project management tools (e.g., JIRA) more effectively, and implement frameworks like RICE for robust project prioritization to ensure your team is continually working on the right thing at the right time.
Manage Stakeholders
As a Product leader, your team’s effectiveness is also dictated by how you manage stakeholders around the org. We will learn tips and tricks I honed (while growing revenue 100% MoM and launching new product lines) to minimize roadmap pivots and influence without authority.
Develop Careers To Ensure a Rewarding Workplace for Your Team
Understand how to foster the career growth of your direct reports. Getting your team members motivated about their growth trajectory will make it a more rewarding place to work and ultimately result in more productivity and contributions.
Deliver Feedback and Resolve Conflicts
Gain the skills to deliver constructive feedback effectively and resolve conflicts within your team. We will talk through frameworks I've used and role play so you’ll be better equipped to deal with your direct reports, no matter the situation.
Course syllabus
4 live sessions • 15 lessons • 5 projects
Week 1
Become adept at conducting various types of team meetings, from stand-ups to retrospectives, and learn when each format is most appropriate.
Understand how to apply yourself as an individual contributor vs. leader
Assess your current rituals and how to add / improve upon them
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⚙️ Module overview
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Creating Leverage
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Sprint Ritual Matrix
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Retrospectives
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Optimizing your Schedule
Submit by Jan 31 - 📄
What Do Stakeholders Care About?
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Communicating With Non-Product Stakeholders
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Crafting the Perfect Sprint Recap Email
Submit by Jan 4 - 📄
Managing Stakeholder Requests
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Creating a Product Painpoint Repository
Submit by Feb 3 - 🎁
JIRA Board Management
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RICE for Prioritization
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Let's Make Some RICE
Submit by Jan 5
Jan
31
Session 1
Feb
2
Session 2
Navigate Tactical and Strategic Meetings
Minimize the amount of time you spend in meetings while maximizing the output of that time you do spend in meetings
Managing Stakeholders
One of the most essential skills of product management is leading without authority. In this module, we will go through some tips and tricks that I have learned while scaling and growing at breakneck speed to ensure operations and business are in lockstep with product.
Prioritization Frameworks and Project Management
Essential to the success of a product management team is the ability to prioritize working on the most important things at a specific moment in time.
Week 2
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Make Feedback A Powerful Tool
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Scripts for Tough Conversations
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Feedback Reflection
Submit by Feb 6 - 📄
Navigating Career Conversations
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Am I Getting Promoted?
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Finding Your North Star
Feb
7
Session 3
Feb
9
Session 4
Delivering Feedback in a Growth Minded Way
Feedback is a tool that should be used to raise the productivity of your team members and thereby the team. We will walk through some frameworks on delivering feedback and role play / examine real feedback to sharpen this skill.
Career Development for Team Members
As a product leader, part of our responsibilities is to ensure that we are providing opportunities for the growth of our team members. Without this, our team members can feel unmotivated and even worse, want to leave the team / company. Therefore, conscious time and effort needs to be spent to grow our team members. And you'd be surprised, this may turn into one of the most rewarding aspects of your job.
Bonus
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Practicing Vulnerability as a Leader
Building a Psychologically Safe Work Environment
Meet your instructor
Jason Liao
Jason Liao
Product Leader from Zero to 1 then Scale
Jason specializes in building products from ideation to MVP and then to scale. He has had experiences building and managing teams at various stages of a start up's life cycle.
- Wonder - early employee building products to support a re-imagined tech-enabled food hall that has already raised $800+ million to date
- WeWork - built, launched, and grew various Marketplace products (On Demand, All Access) to become a $100+ million revenue business line internationally
- MealPal - helped grow the Series A marketplace business from 2 countries and 5 cities to 5 countries and 16 cities and thereby successfully raising its Series B and C funding
Course schedule
4-5 hours per week
Tuesdays & Thursdays
7:45pm - 9:15pm EST
Weekly projects
1-2 hours per week
We will apply frameworks that we learn in class to projects to reinforce learnings.
Learning is better with cohorts
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