Overview
Empower yourself to navigate the challenges of product management, when dealing with a massive responsibility but often little authority. Our Communication & Alignment programme guides you on how to begin adding a layer of strategy to your tactical activities to align your organisation around your process and vision, ensuring that you develop the maximum impact.
Key Takeaways
At the end of this programme, you will be able to:
- Understand how to add a layer of strategic thinking to your day-to-day grounded, tactical activities – because product management is inherently a strategic role
- Understand the variety of frameworks and tools that are at your disposal, how to decide which one to choose and that there is no ‘one size fits all’ product solution
- Learn how to engage your team and stakeholders at the beginning phase of the product development process - so that they can be supporters of the vision that they have helped co-create, ensuring that your product gets produced successfully
Who Should Attend
Please refer to the job roles section.
Programme Structure
This programme will cover the following topics:
- Strategic Impact
- Your role as a product manager within your organisation
- The role of ‘process’ in your product practice
- The importance of influence
- Stakeholder Management
- How to build valuable relationships that benefit your product
- Identifying and mapping your stakeholders
- Extracting valuable insights from your stakeholders
- Uncovering your stakeholders’ motivations and using them to drive alignment
- Team Communication
- Build an effective communication strategy
- Break down the characteristics of your report
- Structure and format a report that serves your audience
- Identify situations where bias can influence your report
- Alignment
- Highlight the importance of alignment when presented with new opportunities
- Build a methodical, defensible framework for evaluating opportunities as a team
- Identify what information you might need to evaluate
- Prioritisation
- Different prioritisation methods and frameworks
- Prioritisation as a collaborative process
- Placing evidence-driven decision-making at the heart of your priority conversations
- Facilitating Discussions
- Techniques to drive conversations toward decisions and action
- Identifying facilitation best practices
- Crafting a successful workshop/collaboration session of best practices
NOTE
Payment for this programme is to Mind the Product, based on respective currency and subjected to exchange rate.
This virtual instructor-led programme (2 consecutive half-day sessions) is open for registration to all Public Service Officers via
this link.
For GovTechies, please apply through self-source mode and register directly with the Learning Partner – Mind the Product.
For other WOG Officers, please contact your respective training coordinator to register directly with the Learning Partner – Mind the Product.
