Small Group Training and Coaching

Coaching-based training for product teams in highly regulated fields.

Take your team's collective skills to the next level by moving from reactive delivery toward strong product judgment and well-researched plans.

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Why training

When teams are buried in delivery work, they rarely have time to step back and align on prioritization, product discovery, and other core product management practices. Strong product leaders rarely have weekly capacity to train teams consistently.

Coaching-based training provides dedicated time and structure, so teams can move beyond just executing requests and start consistently building products that delight customers and deliver business results.

Training overview

I deliver highly tailored training for product teams, along with targeted coaching and office hours to strengthen learning and alignment.

Each package is shaped to the group's needs. I partner with the Group Lead to understand the team's current challenges and goals, develop cross-team standards, and then design the training accordingly.

  • Monthly small group training
  • Weekly office hours for real-time coaching
  • Attendees present how they applied what they learned
  • Curriculum tailored to your team's goals and challenges
  • Skills and a starting framework to build your own product practices (not a rigid system)

What's included

Services

  • Four 90-minute training sessions (~1 per month)
  • Weekly office hours between training sessions (12 sessions)
  • 1-on-1 meetings with the Group Lead to align on training details and group needs (4 sessions)

Artifacts

  • Reference document for each training session
  • Worksheet for each training session, reviewed upon return
  • Executive summary report on findings and future recommendations

Example program structure

Every team's needs are different. This is just an example of a potential training course.

Each session builds on the last to develop shared product judgment.

  1. What is Product Management: Align on what good product management looks like, and present practical first steps.
  2. Product discovery: Introduces a framework (not a prescriptive system) with 15 structured questions, with weak and strong examples. This trains PMs to assess opportunities, recommend go/no-go, and return recommendations to their team with clear context.
  3. Prioritization: Introduces a framework (not a prescriptive system) with 9 scoring categories for consistent value/effort analysis, and deciding where to draw the line. This helps PMs apply the strategy and supports clearer internal and external conversations.
  4. Recap and application presentation: PMs share knowledge with each other, and demonstrate how they have applied what they learned.

Example training outcomes

  • Success goals were defined up front with cohort leaders and all were met.
  • Clients pointed to stronger, well-researched product plans and consistent product thinking across roles.
  • Survey results showed an average rating of 4.5 out of 5 for “How valuable was this training series for your work?”
  • Office hours were well-attended, with follow-up sessions focused on applying the approach to real work.

Feedback from Wells Fargo

Training Participant

“Vicky's training series directly applied to the work I was doing to develop a product approach for my product area. It really helped guide me in understanding the problems we are solving and properly evaluate the value driven by our work. Because of this training, I was able to develop a framework for our product to execute against in the upcoming year.”
Amrita Guha, Business Execution Consultant of Digital Product Management

Group Leader

“Because of Vicky, my team now knows what good looks like, and has the vocabulary to discuss it effectively. When we are making decisions, we can point to the best practices Vicky provided us with as well as excellent work already done by team members who have adopted Vicky's recommendations.”
Chris Popple, Executive Director of Digital Product Management

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