Technical Program Manager
Meeting Facilitation
Training
Your TPM/PGM team will build confidence, emotional intelligence, and assertiveness in their communication with stakeholders and executive leadership for more effective program management.
Want to learn more?
Are you a manager, director, or team lead of technical program management at your company?
Do your TPM/PGMs struggle with effective executive leadership communication, confident stakeholder management, and assertive meeting facilitation?
If yes, then you’ve found the right workshop for your team!
Topics:
Efficiently communicating with executive leadership
Effortlessly exhibiting executive presence and confidence
Effectively facilitating meetings with executive leadership and stakeholders
Elegantly handling challenging meeting behaviors, including:
Stakeholder and leadership conflict
Domineering attendees
Silent stakeholders
Off-topic discussions
Confidently dealing with questions (even tough ones)
Assertively moving from ambiguity to clear decisions and closure in meetings
A technical program manager has a tough job.
TPMs must manage many chiefs, often headed in different directions.
TPMs must communicate with a wide variety of stakeholders, often with vastly different communication styles.
TPMs must exert influence, often without authority.
TPMs must essentially guide the building of a plane as it’s flying through the air!
This workshop helps your TPM team build confidence, emotional intelligence, and assertiveness in their communication with stakeholders and executive leadership. TPMs will move from being seen as a task manager to being seen as a strategic thinker.
The workshop begins with interactive lecture and lively discussion of your specific TPM environment. Then, participants will be put to the test with fun and challenging TPM-specific meeting role-play scenarios, followed by in-depth debriefs.
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“These role-play sessions have been an absolute masterclass in preparing for high-pressure stakeholders and complex project dynamics. They provided a practical toolkit that is immediately applicable to real-world meetings. I walked away with much more confidence in my ability to manage chaos and keep projects on track under a tight clock."
Sandeep Chakraborty, Technical Program Manager, Google
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"Don helped our TPM team shift from being task-oriented to strategic thinkers through really creative, hands-on role-playing and communication frameworks. His sessions on building stakeholder influence and emotional intelligence were both effective and genuinely transformative."
Deep Kakkar, Lead TPM Manager, Enterprise AI, Google
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"Don's engaging sessions provided immediate practical insights into executive communication, equipping our team with actionable strategies. This hands-on approach was invaluable for refining our leadership skills. And it was also creatively fun! Highly recommended."
Nir Erez, Technical Program Manager, Google Cloud
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"Don's classes are different than normal communication classes due to their unique and flexible curriculum, which truly molds to your individual needs. The classes are incredibly engaging and foster a supportive environment for genuine growth."
Mayank Chaturvedi, Google DeepMind