The Opportunity
There is a certain recipe that has senior stakeholders pass the baton to those they have confidence in and can trust to help shape the direction of the business you're both employed by. In this 1-day workshop, we'll equip you with tools and mental models to allow you to step forward and ideate, model and drive the product strategy, while managing stakeholder expectations as your traverse that terrain.
The Why
What most of us would recognise, whether we are conscious of it or not, is there is always someone acting the part of the "product person" in a digital setting long before the first Product Manager, by position title, is hired in. How much autonomy any new PM is afforded is heavily influenced by how readily decision-making rights are handed to them by the person/people that have those rights. Knowing that Product Managers are hired in for the superpower they possess - to be able to be that connective tissue that brings products to life - we at Everest feel it incumbent on us to provide you as much assistance as possible so that you can raise your own profile internally, and do the work you were employed to do.
The Everest Offering
We're on a mission to help product professionals deliver great products, succeed through collaboration, take a learning approach to navigate complexity, and hopefully have fun along the way. After all, this is the Everest way! This 1-day course will see you learn collaboratively alongside your industry counterparts, together with a seasoned Everest expert, who will impart their war stories as we walk through an array of techniques that can be employed the next day!
What You Will Learn
This learning module covers off on the following material -
The soft skills -
* Establishing, building rapport, and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders and decision-makers in your organisation.
* Enhancing your communication skills and learning how to present ideas and make compelling arguments that resonate with your team at ground-level, together with those in leadership roles.
The tools you'll use to build a defensible case -
* Frameworks that can be leveraged when exploring markets (more broadly), together with mapping the unmet needs of customers
* A lightweight model you can use to align your product strategy with your company's broader business objectives and financial goals in a human-centered way, so everyone across the organisation can get on board
How you know you're onto a good thing -
* Measuring and analysing product success metrics, and using these insights to continuously improve your product and drive business growth.
Your Facilitator
Simon Bristow - Simon is a Principal Consultant at Everest Engineering.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-bristow/
