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.
- What is Product Management: Align on what good product management looks like, and present practical first steps.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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Contact
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- +1 (617) 475-0566
- vickylihorst@gmail.com
- Vicky Li Horst