Collaboration, Trust and EQ in Product Teams

​After three editions of the "Product - Engineering Collaboration " mentoring track, I decided to extract the most powerful tools, exercises and concepts in one 3h workshop. Working with difficult people and having difficult conversations was also a common thread in my mentoring sessions in Leaders in Tech, or in the recent "Managing Change With Product Teams" track. So I do hope this workshop will be useful for anyone who still works with real people, not just agents.

​We'll see how trust and collaboration directly influence performance and impact. We'll learn to embrace conflict and differences so we might challenge the status quo, move fast and adapt to disruptions.

​What we'll cover:

• ​Overview and general awareness of key concepts like

  • ​Westrum’s Cultural Typologies, and what the Challanger disaster can teach modern product teams

  • ​Lencioni's team disfunctions, and why conflict is necessary for collaboration and accountability

  • ​Psychological safety, and why the courage to dissent without the fear of being judged leads to organisational performance

  • ​Non-violent communication, find out how amtssprache (bureaucratic language) allowed nazi officials to perpetuate evil

• ​We'll understand what emotional intelligence is and how it relates to collaboration and communication. We'll practice emotional literacy and regulation, active listening, empathy, and communication.

• ​We'll learn how to collaborate with the "enemy" and how to disolve the "enemy image".

​The workshop is online, in Romanian.

​About the trainer

​Bogdan Lucaciu has been an engineer, entrepreneur, startup founder and executive. He grew the engineering team of Adore Me from a tiny crew to 70 engineers, and went through a successful exit. He's passionate about growing people, teams, organisations and communities, and loves building impactful products and solving problems.