The training concept developed with a qualified psychologist includes specifically selected methods that you can easily integrate into your everyday PM management routine.
MASTERING TRAINING | 2.0 days | presence
Lateral Leadership for Product Managers
In order to successfully place products on the market as a product manager, you need the ability to lead people in the company towards a common goal without having line power. Just as a lead dog has the key role of a successful dog sled team, the product manager also needs the ability to activate teams and resources from different areas and to transfer their motivation to the entire ‘team’.
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Lateral leadership for product managers
Activate your own organisation for product market success as a product manager
- Developing the ability to achieve strategic product goals without hierarchical line power
- For product management newcomers and experienced PMs who want to increase their effectiveness
- Outcome-based training approach for direct work results and maximum practical transfer
- Open classroom training, 2.0 days at a time, plus preparatory e-learning prior to training
- Comprehensive course material as a printed ring binder with all slides in colour
- Extensive exercise and worksheets, also as digital templates
- PM1 certificate of participation for ‘Lateral Leadership for Product Managers’
- Module for certificate level ‘PM1-Master’
- Daily lunch, snacks and drinks during breaks
Core topics: Importance of lateral leadership in the PM role model, management vs. leadership, self-leadership, transaction analysis, motivators and needs in the business context, neuro-leadership, sensitisation for conflict recognition and constructive conflict management, bringing about management decisions, knowing and expanding authority and power inventory, active communication design, stakeholder analysis, commitment matrix
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At one glance
In this training we will discover together how the power of lateral leadership can support you in this. We will dive into the strategies, tools and best practices that enable you to effectively navigate across organisational boundaries, resolve conflicts, gain influence and ensure productive collaboration between different teams.
- Training content and procedure
- The goal: Activate your own organisation for your product goals and strategies
- The target group: For newcomers and experienced product managers from all industries
- Your benefit: Effective teamwork through excellent leadership skills
- Our training locations
- What we say – participants’ opinions
Training curriculum
This 2-day practical training course offers a balanced mix of methodological input, background information and direct application to your own management situations as a product manager.
On-Boarding
On-Boarding
In our e-learning courses, you will get to know the PM1 Essentials as a basis for the topic of lateral leadership and will familiarise yourself with the topics of transactional analysis and your personal egogram in advance.
You can complete the e-learnings conveniently according to your own schedule from anywhere you have an internet connection.
- 4 e-learning modules for the poster of the same name Product Management Essentials
- Questionnaire on transaction analysis and creation of egogram
- Duration approx. 2 hours, online and self-paced
Day 1 Leadership, authority and self-leadership
Day 1 Leadership, authority and self-leadership
Understanding leadership
In the first step, we shed light on what is behind the term ‘leadership’. We will talk about the following aspects:
- History of leadership
- PM role model
- Management vs. leadership
- I-we system model
- Intro to neuro-leadership
Expanding authority and power inventory
Leadership is based to a certain extent on authority and power, whereby power is initially nothing more than energy. The true art of leadership is revealed in using this power wisely and sensitively to bring about inspiring and positive change. Core topics of this block:
- Forms of authority and power
- Personal power footprint
- Personal development plan
Knowing and leading yourself
In order to lead others successfully, it is essential to master yourself as a leader, because true leadership begins with mastering your own strengths and weaknesses. The following topics are part of this thematic block:
- Self-confidence
- Self-image in the egogram
- Understanding inner roles
- Transactional analysis
- Conscious use of PM roles
Day 2 Communication and conflict management
Day 2 Communication and conflict management
Shaping communication
Actively shaping communication creates a clear, respectful and inspiring connection between people. In this training course, you will learn about essential tools that you can use to actively manage your communication:
- Recognising the needs of others
- Active stakeholder management with the
- commitment matrix
- Gaining commitment
- Creating communication plans
Mastering conflict dialogues
Every conflict harbours valuable lessons and opportunities for your goals and plans. We show you how to handle conflicts with confidence in order to find constructive solutions:
- Types of conflict
- Escalation and exit signals
- Preparing and conducting conflict discussions
- Feedback (3W method)
- Conversation simulations
Bringing about decisions
In order to bring about decisions from others, it is crucial to provide relevant background information, formulate the issue clearly and build trust in your person. The training provides you with the following tools:
- Creating clarity for yourself and others
- Forms of decision-making
- Checklist for decision preparation
At the end of the training, you will work out your personal development plan.
The goal: Activate your own organisation for your product goals and strategies
The ability to activate one’s own organisation for one’s own product goals and strategies is particularly important and often determines the success of the product in the end. However, the lack of hierarchical line power often poses a major challenge for the product manager. On the one hand, they are competing for resources with other product managers and, on the other, the specialist departments are pursuing their own functional objectives.
Lateral leadership skills enable you to activate your own organisation for your product goals and strategies through effective leadership ‘from the side’.
And this is how we proceed: Moderated exchange of experiences and reflection rounds combine your existing knowledge with new and complementary approaches. During the interactive group work and simulations, you can immediately test and integrate your personal insights and new behaviours. This builds a bridge to your own person and leadership situation, on the basis of which you can derive specific measures for yourself and record them in your development plan.
The target group: Product managers from all sectors
The training was designed for product managers from all industries who need more internal support for their product in order to be successful externally. It is aimed at all product managers, regardless of how much experience you already have as a product manager and regardless of whether you are a business economist, engineer or have any other training.
Your benefit: Effective teamwork through excellent leadership skills
Purposefully selected set of methods
Manage stakeholders effectively
You will learn and immediately apply important skills, methods and tools that will significantly increase your effectiveness as a product manager.
Practical simulations directly during training
During the interactive group work and simulations, you can immediately test and integrate your personal insights and new behaviours using typical PM situations.
Work out your own development plan directly
Based on our outcome-based training approach, you will not only familiarise yourself with the application of the methods. During the training, you will work out a concrete development plan for your leadership skills.
Expert access and exchange
All trainers have themselves been product managers and heads of product management, and draw on in-depth experience and ongoing projects to establish and expand product management across various industries in the B2B environment.
PM1 Master certification module
Secure a demonstrable qualification with the PM1 certification programme. With this training programme, you will complete a module for the ‘PM1 Master’ certificate level.
Our training locations
Our face-to-face training courses take place in attractive surroundings in a central location in southern and central Germany. No matter whether you come from the Stuttgart, Munich, Nuremberg, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Hanover, Hamburg, Leipzig or Berlin area: Our selected conference hotels can be reached from all corporate conurbations within 1-3 hours by car and/or train. When selecting our hotels, we pay particular attention to a balanced price-performance ratio and an optimal learning environment with a feel-good factor. You will find the exact conference venue in the date selection. You will receive further information with your registration confirmation.
Hotel Klingenstein, Ulm
Meiser Design Hotel, Dinkelsbühl
Panoramahotel, Waldenburg
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