Product Collaboration.
Accelerate your product organisation’s collaboration techniques across the full product development lifecycle
Who is this best for?
Product teams that are looking to learn new facilitation techniques and accelerate their collaborative working practices
What is the commitment?
This is a full day workshop, so you can expect 6-8 hours in-person onsite at your office or location that suits you and your teams
What is the format?
A collaborative workshop for up to 30 people, groups will work together through all the activities. More details below!
Anything else?
Free Consultation to make sure it’s right for you! Discounts on other product workshops when bought together as a package
Overview.
This workshop enables product teams to supercharge their collaborative practices and equips them with the tools to scale and replicate effective facilitation techniques
Outcomes.
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Gain a comprehensive understanding of collaboration principles, methodologies, and the importance of cross-functional teamwork
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Develop the skills to guide teams through collaborative processes with practical tools and techniques to implement with your teams
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Learn strategies to actively engage teams in collaborative activities and nurture a culture of diversity and creativity
Activities.
This workshop is focused on a core set of activities that have been specifically designed for hands-on group collaboration, discussion and ideation that is engaging and thought-provoking
Creative Catalyst Techniques
Breaking the ice can often be awkward, these techniques will help you keep the energy high and enable creative thinking
One Hour Collaboration Technique
Learn how to use convergent and divergent thinking practices to quick-start a team’s collaborative and creative mindset
Collaborative Product Innovation
Learn how to use experimental hypotheses to frame product ideation and foster a culture of cross-functional collaboration
Facilitating Effective Feature Critiques
Learn how to effectively facilitate feature critiques ensuring cross-functional objective feedback on new features, experiments or product launches
Facilitating Effective Retros
Learn how to effectively facilitate retrospectives in a safe environment, whether the team is in a positive or challenging place
Your Facilitator.
Chris Compston
Product Enablement & Ops Consultant
Maximising the performance and impact of product organisations. Chris is a Product Enablement & Ops Consultant who works with product leadership to establish foundational product operations, introduce experimental discovery practices and empower continuous improvement for faster and higher quality decision making at scale. With over a decade working in technology organisations, working with product teams to build better products for their customers and the business you can read more about Chris and his values here.
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More Details.
Ensuring product teams are able to achieve the level of customer value and business impact expected of them by the organisation, strong facilitation and collaboration techniques and skills need to be practiced and replicated often
Effective collaboration is a leading indicator of product success and the potential impact of a high-performing product team. This hands-on collaborative workshop incentivises teams to maximise their performance and impact, enabling strong product thinking using effective collaboration techniques.
Teams that collaborate effectively are more likely to understand not only how to work together in the most efficient and effective ways, but can more creative in solving customer problems that have real business impact.
To bring clarity in the complex world of modern product development requires strong cross-functional capabilities in communication, ideation and collaboration. And yet, how often are these techniques practiced, reflected on and optimised?
While new frameworks themselves will not solve any problems, the value that is driven from the time carved out to have strong discourse about how the team is working together and practice new techniques, is where they excel.
What you can expect.
Attendees.
Attendees will work together through all the workshop activities in groups of four to six people. Your current cross-functional product teams will be ideal, however given the nature of the workshops anyone will find them valuable.
Approach.
All product workshops are expertly facilitated remotely or in person at a location of your choice. We’ll begin with a short introductory presentation before getting started on the activities which will form the majority of the workshop.
Activities.
Each workshop is focused on a core set of activities that have been specifically designed for hands-on group collaboration, discussion and ideation that is engaging and thought-provoking.
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"Chris has a diplomatic and caring approach that creates a feeling of comfort and safety amongst all those involved to have honest and actionable dialogue."
Zak Jallaly
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"Chris is an amazing listener and an invaluable sounding board, he establishes immediate rapport through his empathy and understanding."
Nour Saab
Director of Product Design -
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"Chris always creates a great atmosphere for debate, being assertive and asking pertinent questions, everyone feels safe and comfortable to speak up."
Patrícia Neto
Group Product Manager -
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"By helping us to feel comfortable with ambiguity you've really accelerated our work. That mindset has been incredibly powerful as we redefine our practices."
Aditi Luquet-Arora
Head of Strategy & Innovation
