Product & Innovation Gym
Train the core muscles of modern product leadership. Work on direction, value creation, discovery and stakeholder alignment through practical workouts based on your own product and real challenges. Available as an in-house programme.
Content
Many Product Owners and Product Managers work hard but see little real progress. The backlog grows faster than value is delivered, stakeholders pull in different directions, and there is rarely time to deliberately develop product skills. You end up reacting rather than leading.
The Product & Innovation Gym helps you step out of that reactive mode and work again from a place of direction, focus and impact. You train concrete product skills in an active, practice-based environment — directly applied to your own work.
The sessions are highly interactive and practice-based. You work alongside colleagues, reflect on your own way of working and build a rhythm of learning and applying. That way you develop not just knowledge, but stronger product leadership, sharper focus and better product decisions.
Who is this programme for?
This programme is designed for professionals who develop products, set direction or are responsible for value creation and product decisions. You will get the most from it if you:
- are a Product Owner or Product Manager
- Work in product teams or innovation environments
- Want more grip on direction, focus and prioritisation
- Want to bring stakeholders along more effectively in product decisions
- Want to strengthen your discovery and validation practice
- Want to create more calm and rhythm in your product work
- Want to grow in product maturity alongside colleagues
Or simply put: you want to become a stronger product professional, not just a busier one.
What do you do during the programme?
In the Product & Innovation Gym you actively train the most important skills of modern product leadership. Each session works like a practical workout in which you immediately get to work with your own product, challenges and context.
You work on topics such as product vision, alignment, stakeholder management, metrics, discovery, validation, prioritisation and storytelling. You learn how to make better decisions, create more focus and connect product development more closely to customer value and strategy.
Topics covered include Product Vision, Product Goals, experimentation, value creation, metrics, stakeholder dynamics and storytelling techniques. You practise with real situations from your day-to-day work and receive feedback from the trainer and fellow participants.
The Product & Innovation Gym is not about dense theory or frameworks — it is about practising, reflecting and applying. That is what creates lasting growth in behaviour, rhythm and product impact.
After this programme
After completing the programme you have more grip on direction, focus and value creation within your product work. You better understand how to translate a product vision into concrete decisions, how to bring stakeholders along and how to use discovery and validation consistently.
You can prioritise more effectively, hold better product conversations and make more deliberate decisions based on impact and customer value. You have also developed more rhythm and structure in how you organise your product work.
You leave not only with new insights, but above all with practical experience, concrete techniques and greater confidence in your role as a product professional.
You also remain connected to the Connected Movement community, where professionals come together around Product Management, Agile, AI and digital transformation. So you keep learning from practical experience, events and fellow professionals in the field, even after the programme ends.
About certification
The Product & Innovation Gym is a practice-based development programme and does not include a formal certification exam. The focus is on strengthening product skills through practising, applying and reflecting within your own professional context.
During the programme you actively work on topics such as product vision, stakeholder alignment, discovery, validation, prioritisation and storytelling. You develop concrete skills and techniques that you can apply directly in your day-to-day product work.
On completion you receive a certificate of participation from Connected Movement.
Certification
The Product & Innovation Gym is a practice-based development programme and does not include a formal certification exam. The focus is on strengthening product skills through practising, applying and reflecting within your own professional context. On completion you receive a certificate of participation from Connected Movement.
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Frequently asked questions
The Product & Innovation Gym is a practice-based development programme with short, intensive workouts. The emphasis is on practising, applying and reflecting rather than theory alone.
Yes. Je werkt zoveel mogelijk met je eigen product, context en actuele uitdagingen zodat het geleerde direct toepasbaar is.
No. The programme is suitable for Product Owners, Product Managers, business analysts and other professionals working in product development and value creation.
Yes. De Product & Innovation Gym wordt verzorgd als in-house programma voor teams en organisaties die samen willen groeien in productvolwassenheid. Bijvoorbeeld voor een groep productowners en productmanagers die veel samenwerken.
The emphasis is firmly on practice, interaction and application. Theory is only used to support exercises and insights.
Both. The exercises and discussions are tailored to the experience and context of the participants.
The programme can be delivered in Dutch or English.
The Product & Innovation Gym was developed and is delivered by Gino Shahidi, product expert and experienced trainer in Product Management, Agile and innovation.
Trainers with real-world experience
Participants particularly value the combination of practical experience, in-depth expertise and immediate applicability. Connected Movement training programmes are delivered by experienced practitioners who work daily within complex organisational environments.
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