Mastering Strategic Influence in Product Management

This case study will walk you through a situation where an influential stakeholder is dominating the prioritisation process, preventing the product manager from focusing on a more promising segment. We'll learn how to use previous experiences & leverage data in crafting a narrative that has the highest chance to persuade decision makers.

This case study will walk you through a situation when developers want to add last minute changes to the design with proven customer value. We'll learn how to negotiate conflicting engineering & design priorities, deliver the maximum value while achieving consensus and design better collaboration between different functions.

This case study will guide you through a tense situation when you and your manager face a misunderstanding due to recently changed company priorities. It will equip you with tools to regulate your emotions, analyse potential reasons of misalignment and ways to salvage and even improve the relationship while focusing on your career progression and wellbeing.

This case study will give you ideas on product decision making in a data-constrained environment. It will explain the value of organisational alliances as well as gradual case building, necessary to convince decision makers to employ more data to achieve better business results.

This case study will guide you through a situation when an important stakeholder wasn't convinced by your arguments. It will help you find gaps in your persuasion strategy, adapt your presentation style and prepare better to come up with more convincing materials and have a much higher chance to win tough stakeholders over.

This case study will walk you through the steps one can take when an undefined target audience prevents taking high-quality product decisions. It suggests practical analysis methods in the presence of insufficient data as well as highlights the importance of the right timing to present findings in a shaky situation of the ownership transition.

This case study will walk you through a situation where your roles or responsibilities change drastically to something you consider a step down. It will show you how to reflect properly, analyse your position in the company environment and take cautious steps to reach a place of greater work fulfilment.