Advanced Product Management: Leadership & Communication (Udemy.com)

Accelerate your Product Management career. Master communication, people management, & leadership

( 105 Reviews )

Created by: Cole Mercer

Produced in 2019

What you will learn

How to Become a Leader
How to communicate effectively and persuasively like a leader
How to design and deliver effective presentations (including a real time case study)
How to tell a story and present like Steve Jobs
How to master public speaking
How to use body language to your advantage
Gain an understanding of personality types and how to use them in the workplace
How to influence people in the right direction
How to increase your visibility within your company
What to do when first taking on a product management job
How the product management hierarchy and career path works
How to get a promotion
How to maximize your personal brand
Understand how to manage product managers and other people
Tips for managing your own boss and even executives above you
Tips from a full length interview with Ron Feldman, VP of Product at Managed by Q, one of New York's hott

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Overall Score : 90 / 100

Course Description

To quickly move up the product management career ladder, you'll need to master two skills: communication and leadership. This advanced course will give you step-by-step advice on how to do just that. In fact, the guidelines covered in each section are applicable to any professional role and may even boost your personal life too.
Split into four parts, the course offers both expert guidance and real world examples. The first section focuses on communication strategies. Excel at Steve Jobs-esque storytelling, get help with public speaking and learn how to deal with colleagues in one-on-one scenarios. The second group of lectures aims to help you become a better leader, whether that's getting to grips with influencing people or figuring out how to elevate your profile within a company.
Next up is career acceleration. This is where you'll hear about all the job opportunities that come from product management and how to climb that ladder as swiftly as possible. Last but not least is people management. You may not be someone's boss right now, but understanding how to manage a team of people is a vital skill for the future. By the end, you should have a clear idea of what it takes to become a top-rated product manager. And you'll know how to put every tip and trick into action. So whether you want to remain at your current level or move up to a role with more responsibility, you'll have the knowledge and confidence to do so. Your instructorsCole Mercerhas been a Senior Product Manager at Soundcloud, Bonobos, Mass Relevance, and has taught the Product Management course at General Assembly in Manhattan, NYC. He is now a full-time Product Management and Strategy consultant.
Evan Kimbrellis a top rated Udemy instructor with numerous courses focused on Entrepreneurship. His courses have over 300,000 enrolled students and more than 16,000 five star reviews. For the past few years, he has also been running a digital agency that has produced over 100 web and mobile products.
Who this course is for:
Product Managers looking to further their careerProfessionals wanting to gain communication and leadership skillsProspective Product Managers looking to increase their chances of getting a jobEntrepreneurs developing a product or business

Time: 4.5h

Instructor Details

Cole Mercer

4.5 Rating
105 Reviews

Hey there! I'm a Senior Product Manager at SoundCloud where I work on listener experience for over 170 million monthly users across web, iOS, and Android platforms.
I'm also a former General Assembly Product Management instructor where I taught courses in person to students in Manhattan. I'm on Udemy now because I loved my experience at GA and really enjoy teaching others about things I've learned.
I have consulted for various tech companies, and while in NYC was also a Product Manager at Bonobos - a web-focused retail clothing brand where I oversaw web and mobile properties that generated tens of millions in annual revenue through tens of thousands of customers.
Included in my knowledge is a lot of enterprise and a SaaS product management experience - I was an early product manager at Mass Relevance, a social API and data-focused enterprise marketing platformwhich was acquiredin 2014.

Much earlier in my career I spent over a year as a PM with an investor funded startup in Austin, TX focusing on driving traction for early stage companies where we had over 35,000 users. I moved to that position from an initial role as a web engineer.
My career in Product Management started after graduating from Babson College and becoming a technology consultant to several companies across the US for over 2 years. As a result, I am fortunate enough to have experience in product management that spans several industries and development models.

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By Ian Hennessy on 11/22/2020

The content didn't seem "advanced". Other than some novel (but unnecessary) "pro tips" this content is fundamental, found everywhere, and not unique. I'd hoped the class would teach me how to drive a race car, instead it seems to be the manual to obtain a drivers license when you turn 16.

By Awotundun Adesoji James on 10/22/2020

Interesting

By Tim Alvord on 10/12/2020

Great advice and tips. Great real-world examples. PPT building sections was very helpful.

By Patrick Guyette on 10/7/2020

Excellent course! The Leadership and Communication lectures are full of actionable tips as well as broader insights. Great value for PMs in particular, but these are broadly applicable topics that most anyone can value from knowing more about.

By JENNY WANG on 9/23/2020

Hit all the key points on creating a successful and compelling PowerPoint presentation!

By Osas Adediran on 9/21/2020

This course opened me up to understand how to manage up and how I expect my manager to manage me.

By Oren Tayar on 9/17/2020

Not so much.
- A lot of trivial - known material
- The presentation of the material is not engaging enough

By Tuomas Ahola on 9/15/2020

Entertaining and informative content. The lecture focusing on how to create effective presentations is a great bonus. Looking forward to see more PM courses in the future! :)

By Nino Bendeliani on 9/11/2020