Essential Product Management Skills

2+ Hours of Video Instruction

Learn the essential skills you need to be a highly productive Product Manager

Overview

The exact roles, responsibilities and requirements of the product manager tend to be very broad and vary depending on the organization. However, the overarching role of the product manager is to drive teams to achieve outcomes and act as the central point of communication for anything product related. Ultimately, a product manager is a ‘mini-CEO’ of a product.

Due to the huge diversity of the role, a product manager must have a combination of various skills in order to be successful. Although the list is long (almost never-ending), the key is the ability to balance these skills. That is, to have a broad range of skills and abilities that will help you to ‘walk the tight rope’ that is the product management world.

In the Essential Product Management Skills video course, Senior product manager and instructor, Megan Andrew, uses a mix of instruction, examples, and real-life case studies to not only take you through these key skills (both foundational and professional), but also guide you in acquiring these skills, and applying them in a practical way.

Topics covered include: 

• Overview of Product Management
• Understanding the Landscape
• Creating Products and Solutions
• Getting Things Done
• Introduction and Launch
• Ongoing Management
• Optimizing and Tracking

About the Instructor:

Megan Andrew is a highly skilled Senior Product Manager and Business Strategist, holding two degrees in science and a postgraduate degree in Business Administration. She is experienced in project management, relationship and stakeholder management, strategy creation and implementation, platform and sales optimization, and profit maximization. Megan has quickly excelled in roles across a diverse range of environments, ranging from large corporates to small start-ups to non-profits, and from banking, fintech, insurtech, and edtech to wellness and environmental sustainability.

She is currently based in London but has spent the last four years in the vibrant city of Shanghai, to extend her global reach, as well as to learn from the rapidly changing Chinese market. Her exceptional career is only matched by her deep love for animals and the environment, which she serves through her role with an NGO in Africa. Her spare time is spent traveling and exploring new parts of the world.

Skill Level:

• Beginner

Learn How To:

• leverage the essential skills for managing any product end-to-end
• Successfully generate buy-in, lead multidisciplinary teams, and inspire those around you
• Effectively conduct research, and develop the technical know-how to implement and manage any product
• Practically implement the core skills for effectively managing any product
• Lead and inspire the multidisciplinary teams around you to create, develop, and implement any product
• Practically develop professional & technical skills for effective product management

Who Should Take This Course:

• Product managers who would like to enhance their skills
• Anyone currently managing a product in some form, and would like to optimize how they operate
• Those looking to move into the product management space who would like to upskill (if so, this is a great place to start in order to get an understanding of what you can expect of the role)

About Pearson Video Training:

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