Senior Product Leadership Group (SPLSG)
Product Manager training in Malta – Welcome!
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We are getting close to the deadline for applications to our product leader workshops in Munich (May 14th, 15th & 16th):
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Welcome to our crash course in general management and leadership over the weekend in Malta. In a small group of two to six attendees, you will spend time with our Trainer Jörg Malang who has 20+ years of professional experience. Jörg holds an Executive MBA from one of the leading business schools worldwide (HEC Paris).
If you want to understand general management challenges better and more specifically need to improve your contribution to the organization, this is the right training for you. Therefore, you should spend some time to understand the fundamentals of general management. Above all, you wish to get a wider perspective on how a CEO would see the world.
Please read more. Or book your tickets here! In case you wish to have a chat, please send us an Email.
PS: Early Bird Tickets cost 499 € plus VAT for the entire weekend. After May 14th, the price will go up to 999 € plus VAT. So please be fast!
By ignoring the complexity of organizations around Product the gaps between Product/IT and the rest of the organization are getting wider, not smaller. Our training on April 30th in Malta is all about this topic. Please read more here.
Finding a way to “manage upwards” in a tricky situation where your manager has no background in product management. Our training on May 2nd in Malta is all about this topic. Please read more here.
Interested in having a chat with us? Please reach out.
Welcome to our crash course in general management and leadership over the weekend in Malta. In a small group of two to six attendees, you will spend time with our Trainer Jörg Malang who has 20+ years of professional experience. Jörg holds an Executive MBA from one of the leading business schools worldwide (HEC Paris).
If you want to understand general management challenges better and more specifically need to improve your contribution to the organization, this is the right training for you. Therefore, you should spend some time to understand the fundamentals of general management. Above all, you wish to get a wider perspective on how a CEO would see the world.
Please read more. Or book your tickets here! In case you wish to have a chat, please send us an Email.
PS: Early Bird Tickets cost 499 € plus VAT for the entire weekend. After March 31st, the price will go up to 999 € plus VAT. So please be fast!
General management training for product leaders – I am sure many product managers don’t automatically get excited when thinking about it. However, please think twice about it!
Typically making a product company successful requires influence on what is being built and how it is being built. The SPLSG vision “every company defines, builds, launches and operates products successfully” needs to come to live. The starting point will be to get alignment with the CEO and the C-Level Executives regarding company strategy and its implementation. Therefore, it is massively helpful to understand how a company operates and “ticks” from a CEO point of view. And a CEO is by definition a general manager.
Understanding his/her view, but also putting yourself into the shoes of other C-Level Executives is only partly achieved with empathy. In contrast, there are also additional hurdles that are grounded in functional expertise. At the end of the day, the biggest question is how to gain authority outside the area of own functional expertise. This is exactly the same challenge a general manager would face. He/she needs to be able to influence his/her organization without being an expert.
Typically you would need specific experience and/or education to become more knowledgeable. However, no one will need to become an expert. Just enough to be able to challenge a CFO or a CMO. MBAs try to close this gap. They offer different formats to learn enough about strategy, strategy implementation,
I would argue, this might be an overkill for a product leader. What if there were
The SPLSG initiator and founding partner Jörg Malang is running this three-day training on the sunny island of Malta. From Friday to Sunday product leaders will get trained with the essence of general management that is 100% relevant to fulfill their roles as product leaders.
Jörg has more than 20 years of professional experiences incl C-Suite and CEO and he holds an MBA from one of the leading business schools globally (HEC Paris). The unique combination of practical and theoretical expertise makes him the perfect trainer for this course.
General Management training for product leaders – please read more here. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to Jörg also directly anytime in case you need
Career planning for product managers is a bit tricky. On the one hand, there are many opportunities. On the other hand, there is so much confusion about job titles, role descriptions, career paths, etc.
The trainer is the SPLSG initiator and founding partner Jörg Malang.
Jörg has gone through the product management “trenches” himself. Here come his major relevant roles:
In addition to that, Jörg was the line manager of larger product organizations:
This is why Jörg can give all attendees of this training valuable insight for their own career. Training packages are currently offered in Barcelona, Berlin, London, Munich,
In conclusion, career planning for product managers matters also to you! Please send us an Email if you wish to know more.
Product and IT – a love-hate relationship? Well, the answer to this question really depends on who you ask. I would argue that there are many product managers out there who’s comfort zone is technology. And outside product management, you will find a lot of senior executives for whom it doesn’t really matter if “product” or “IT” as long as their desired features get delivered in scope, on budget and on time.
In my long career as a senior product leader, it mattered to me a lot. This is not always a very healthy tension. I am talking about the tension between the overarching ambition to have an influence on “business” and the overall direction of the company and the obligation to be head down and simply deliver.
To be frank: A great product leader needs to be capable of doing both. Nitty-gritty detail work and then being able to challenge the Board regarding the company strategy. If the product leader isn’t up for this – who else? If there is someone else doing this, then this person might be the factual product leader and not you. Even worse, if there is a person doing this without knowing what it means to be a “product company” you as a product leader should be sued to not speak up because this is causing damage to the company.
The SPLSG training “Getting out of the IT Box” is for those product people out there who need to expose themselves to a broader audience and influence their outside perception. I am running this training myself. It is a topic very close to my heart.
We will talk about what getting out of the IT box really means and why it is so important to learn to speak the right language and to not let go. The attendees will get a deeper understanding of how organizations work. But we will also do some role play and dive deeper into concrete practical examples. Finally, it is supposed to be a starting point for the regular exchange of the attendees.
Please get in touch if you wish to hear more Email. Or have a chat with the trainer Jörg Malang.
PS: Please always look out for early bird tickets. Typically there are some available if you are early enough!
Product manager training in Berlin and others! SPLSG is focusing a lot on offering training to its members. Also, Non-SPLSG members are welcome on request in specific cases. You will find more about the overarching SPLSG event concept here.
We are offering training for product leaders throughout Europe. During the months to come, there have been training packages organized in the following cities:
Barcelona, Berlin, London, Malta, and Munich
What makes our training program stand out, is the focus on “horizontal” skills and abilities. The following picture illustrates this very well:
We are also happy to provide you with some individual coaching to find out what type of training might be the best for you. We are looking forward to welcoming you to one of our training events very soon!
To give you some orientation, we have created to following pages for you:
PS: Beware that the early bird ticket sale for the training packages offered in Barcelona have more or less already closed. But if you are able to come to Berlin? We still offer early bird tickets for the training packages. Please note that you will need to hurry as early bird sales end very soon!
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