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Build Your Personal PM Productivity System

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Cohort-based Course

Earn a reputation as a product manager who gets s*** done—without feeling overwhelmed, treading water, or working nights and weekends.

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12 people enrolled last week.

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Amazon
Meta
Microsoft
TikTok
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Course overview

Does this sound familiar?

Your days are jam-packed with meetings and urgent slacks. You're always busy, but never accomplished—feels like treading water. Deep work feels like a distant dream: Instead of proactively driving strategy, you're stuck putting out fires left and right.


It's going to get tougher.


Boom times are over, and tech orgs are flattening. More experienced people are competing for scarcer product roles. Companies are increasingly expecting product managers to own a broader swath of the product, lead multiple teams, and set strategy—while staying hands-on. 


Every PM in this situation will inevitably hit a wall. What worked in the past won't work anymore. (This is where many senior PMs burn out.)

 

Now imagine if you could:


✅ End your day with a sense of accomplishment, knowing you've moved the needle on strategic initiatives.


✅ Spend a good chunk of every day in deep focused work (guilt-free!)


✅ Lead multiple teams with successful outcomes


✅ Cultivate self-reliant teams that operate smoothly, even when you're not in the room


✅ Communicate confidently with leadership about your capacity and priorities.


After working with & interviewing dozens of successful product leads, they all consciously rebuilt these three career-critical areas:


1. Redesigned their personal operating system

2. Implemented the key habits of self-reliant teams

3. Recognize overhead and influence product org structure


This live, hands-on, cohort-based program is radically tactical. Together, we'll implement the best practices by tailoring templates, tactics, frameworks, screenshots, and scripts you can apply instantly to your individual situation.



🏆 Why this course will help you win 🏆


Lead Multiple Teams Successfully: Manage teams across domains without feeling spread thin.


Become More Strategic While Staying Hands-on: Carve out ample breathing room for creative deep work and reflection.


Prevent Burnout: Feel a clear sense of progress, handle strong emotions of overwhelm, and make room for self-care.


Future-Proof Your Career: Stand out in a competitive market with a track record of broad capacity & getting shit done.


Accelerate Career Advancement: Position yourself for promotions and leadership roles by demonstating strategic influence while remaining hands-on.


Getting started is easy:


1️⃣ Start with my 6-day email course to get free content from behind the paywall (scroll down to sign up)


2️⃣ Enroll in the 2-week live cohort for accountability, live interactions, and small group learning (plus 2x 90-minute AMA office hour sessions)


3️⃣ Continue your journey with bonus content and a private community of experienced PMs who are ready to level up.


Join professionals from Microsoft, Amazon, TikTok, and Meta who have already enrolled.


PS Lenny has selected this course as "Top Course in Product" 🔥 this means when you enroll in this course, you’ll receive $1,395 in free credits to level up your workflow with Superhuman, Linear, Sprig, Dovetail & Gamma (see FAQ for details)

Who is this course for

01

Senior PMs who want to expand their scope and lead multiple large, strategic initiatives while remaining hands-on.

02

Product managers who feel overwhelmed and treading water and want to be in the driver's seat of their time and well-being.

03

Product leaders who want to coach their reports for outsized impact, and set up their product teams to ship faster.

What you’ll get out of this course

Craft Your Custom Tools

🏗️ Build a system to manage multiple large initiatives across multiple teams.

📝 Design your personal to-do queue to reduce anxiety and feel progress.

☑️ Make time for self-care without feeling guilty.

Eliminate Tasks

📜 Learn product scrapbooking to cut time required for large, strategic tasks.

⚔️ Pre-empt busywork from ever reaching your to-do list (or anyone else's).

🌅 Turn Slack into a tool that brings peace of mind, not chaos.

Design Your Days

🔒 Deep work for PMs: key habits that make focus time a reality

🏆 Lead recurring meetings that get more valuable with time.

🍉 Actively manage your brain’s freshness and creativity.

Motivate Engineers

🔥 Bring out your teammates' full superpowers.

🎖️ Earn engineers' trust—without being technical.

🙃 Assess when an engineer isn’t a fit for working on an innovative product team.

Ship Sooner

🚨 Drive urgency without burnout

🏎️ Write updates & schedule meetings that create velocity

💬 Foster slack habits of fast-moving teams

Handle Feeling Flooded

🌊 Practical steps for managing overwhelm when things feel impossible.

🪩 Learn how to embrace, not fear, our desire for distraction.

📦 Asks from Leadership: How to respond when you’re at capacity.

Cultivate Self-Reliant Teams

💎 Be valuable, not needed: focus where you can uniquely support your team.

🎙️ Launch three habits that promote team autonomy and elevate your role to a strategic level.

Assess How Your Product Org Affects PM Productivity

🏋️ Identify the four types of overhead your product org creates for PMs.

🏛️ Frameworks for organizing roles and teams

📜 Construct a script to reflect observations to leadership.

This course includes

6 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

In-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

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.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Oct 28—Nov 3

    Prep: One quote, three super short essays, and a big, hairy truth

    6 items

    Design Your Days

    8 items

    Customize Your Tools

    6 items

    Oct

    28

    Live Workshop: Design Your Days & Craft Your Tools

    Mon 10/286:00 PM—7:30 PM (UTC)

    Eliminate Tasks & Meetings Before They Happen

    7 items

    Handling Hard Moments of Overwhelm and Distraction

    6 items

    Oct

    30

    Live Workshop: Eliminate Tasks & Handling Hard Moments

    Wed 10/306:00 PM—7:30 PM (UTC)

    Nov

    3

    Office Hours: AMA with Tal Raviv (Optional)

    Sun 11/36:00 PM—7:30 PM (UTC)
    Optional

Week 2

Nov 4—Nov 10

    Cultivate Self-Reliant Teams

    6 items

    Motivate Engineers

    5 items

    Nov

    4

    Live Workshop: Cultivate Self-Reliant Teams & Motivate Engineers

    Mon 11/46:00 PM—7:30 PM (UTC)

    Ship Sooner

    8 items

    How Your Product Org Affects PM Productivity

    6 items

    Nov

    6

    Live Workshop: Ship Sooner & Product Org Overhead

    Wed 11/66:00 PM—7:30 PM (UTC)

    Nov

    10

    Office Hours: AMA with Tal Raviv (Optional)

    Sun 11/106:00 PM—7:30 PM (UTC)
    Optional

Lenny's Podcast: "Becoming a Super IC"

Here's what people are saying:

        Tal is hands down one of the best PMs I’ve ever worked with and a master of getting s*** done. He’s a first principles thinker who is able to cut through noise and get to the core of end utility. And btw, working with him is just straight up fun.
Jack Conte

Jack Conte

CEO & Co-founder of Patreon
        It's hard not to run into Tal in the product world. His essays get frequently shared in my community, he often shares some of the most unique and frank insights about the PM role, and I'm excited that Tal's available in an area that few experienced PMs talk about: how to expand your productivity as an IC product manager (w/o sacrificing well-being)
Lenny Rachitsky

Lenny Rachitsky

Author of Lenny’s Newsletter and Lenny’s Podcast, Investor, fmr. product leader at Airbnb
        Tal has worked in a variety of PM settings with a whole host of humans. He knows productivity as a PM, is a master of time management, and knows how to focus on the right stuff. Highly endorse this course!
Adam Fishman

Adam Fishman

Advisor for Product & Growth, Reforge Partner, Investor, and author of FishmanAF Newsletter
        Watching Tal juggle multiple product teams (while clearly having a ton of fun) is his special sauce—he has a unique blend of competence, craft, and enthusiasm. Tal brings this to everything he does, including this course: deeply insightful, yet incredibly fun.
Tyler Palmer

Tyler Palmer

Investor, fmr. SVP of Operations & 1st employee at Patreon
Free resource

🎞️ How Experienced Product Managers Use ChatGPT

⚡️ Write docs 5X faster while keeping your competitive edge


⚡️ Learn what kind of context you need to provide ChatGPT when creating Jiras & docs —and surprisingly what you don't.


⚡️ Leave almost nothing to fix by recognizing and sidestepping the weak points of LLMs


🔥 Includes live demo of example I did on Lenny's Podcast


Tech orgs are flattening, and expectations of individual PMs are rising. PMs need to harness AI as much as possible—without watering down our hard-earned advantages, putting out average work, or being slowed down by LLMs' weaknesses

Free prompts + recording

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Most participants have their company pay for the course (even without a formal training budget)


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Build Your Personal PM Productivity System

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$799

Dates

Oct 28—Nov 10, 2024

Payment Deadline

Oct 27, 2024

Meet your instructor

Tal Raviv

Tal Raviv

Early PM @ Patreon, Riverside, Wix, AppsFlyer. 1700+ students, millions of views

Hey 👋 I'm Tal. I've been a hands-on product manager & founder for 15+ years at hypergrowth companies, always among the first PMs.


I've led teams that


By staying hands-on, I've been trusted to lead big, hairy initiatives including several pricing overhauls and redesigns. I was also the founding PM of the Patreon API Platform, which powers products at Spotify, Reddit & Discord.


Most recently, I joined as first PM at Riverside.fm, leading an AI product used by Mark Zuckerberg, Michelle Obama, and Bill Gates. My journey also includes co-founding a profitable SaaS company.


Joining early at five venture-backed companies allowed me to see what product org structures - and PM habits - succeeded in each context and why.


Here's what I left off my resume:


I constantly struggle with feeling overwhelmed and distracted.


For much of this time I was leading 2-3 product teams simultaneously, there's no way I could have thrived without a deliberate productivity system and investing thoughtfully in each team's culture.


Why I'm passionate about this course:


I believe that with the right systems and habits, every product manager can achieve outsized impact without sacrificing their well-being. After tweaking my system for a decade, I want to help others break through their productivity walls and level up their career.


Popular essays:




Outside of work, I volunteer as a surf instructor for people with disabilities 🏄‍♀️

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Join an upcoming cohort

Build Your Personal PM Productivity System

Cohort 1

$799

Dates

Oct 28—Nov 10, 2024

Payment Deadline

Oct 27, 2024

Frequently Asked Questions

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Course schedule

9 hours of live guidance

  • Four Live Sessions on Mondays & Wednesdays

    1:00pm - 2:30pm US Eastern Time

    10:00am - 11:30am US Pacific Time

    10:30pm - 12 midnight India time


    All sessions will be recorded — recordings will be available in your Maven account within 48 hrs

  • Two AMAs on Sundays (Optional)

    1:00pm - 2:30pm US Eastern Time

    10:00 am - 11:30 am US Pacific Time

    10:30 pm - midnight India time

  • Bite-sized weekly projects

    < 1 hour per week

    This course is optimized for very busy schedules of senior product managers. Each project is quick, concrete, and immediately accelerates your productivity.

Get free content from behind the paywall

Get tailored scripts, templates, frameworks & tactics—and be the first to know about new cohorts before they fill up

$799

2 Weeks