The Product Engagement Sprint
With
Nir Eyal
Available on demand with membership
1-week sprint plus unlimited classes $83 per month (billed annually)
Turn products into habits
Quick: Where’s your phone? If you said, “Right next to me,” you understand the power of building habits around products. Nir Eyal developed the Hooked model to show how the most engaging products keep customers returning. He’ll teach you to drive deep, sustained product engagement by tapping into the psychology of habits.
Who it’s perfect for
Product managers
who want to build products that form habits by successfully anticipating and meeting customer needs
Designers
looking to apply behavioral design to strengthen the customer experience
Marketers
who want to identify and leverage engaging product moments to build brand loyalty and retain customers
What you'll learn
Get customers to respond to triggers by using your product
Triggers form the first phase of the Hooked model. You’ll learn different ways triggers can ignite product engagement.
Reward customers when they use your product
Nir will show you why rewards are essential to habit-forming products, and teach you how to incorporate rewards into your own product design.
Improve and refine engagement through testing
Nir will teach you how to test your product’s impact, so you can determine whether it’s successfully forming habits. Plus, you’ll learn how to do it ethically so you improve customers’ lives.
Sample course case study
Meet your professor
Nir Eyal
Nir Eyal is the bestselling author of Hooked and Indistractable and a former marketing lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. Bloomberg Businessweek wrote about him: “Want to understand how to get app users to come back again and again? Then Nir Eyal is your man.”
Meet your professor
The sprint experience
Sprints are condensed, immediately applicable 1-2 week online courses taught by business leaders and business school professors.
Learn the strategies driving successful businesses
Get behind-the-scenes insights from a top business leader
Workshop, discuss, and debate with your peers
Complete a project to apply your learnings to your work
The workshop experience
Workshops are 1-3 hour courses that go deep on a specific skill without a significant time commitment.
Master a strategic skill in just a few hours
Learn live from a top business leader or professor
Practice and apply your skill in a group
Sprint calendar
Section courses are built around the tight schedules of busy, full-time professionals.
Sun
Mon
Tues
Weds
Thurs - Pre Sprint
Meet your TA and cohort
Fri - Pre Sprint
Watch a welcome video from your professor
Sat - Pre Sprint
Sun - Sprint week
Mon - Sprint week
Watch your day 1 lesson content
Tues - Sprint week
Watch your day 2 lesson content
Weds - Sprint week
Thurs - Sprint week
Attend a project workshop hosted by your TA
Fri - Sprint week
Sat - Sprint week
Sun - Post Sprint
Mon - Post Sprint
Submit your project
*sample 1-week sprint calendar
Sprint calendar
Section courses are built around the tight schedules of busy, full-time professionals.
Sun
Mon
Tues
Weds
Thurs - Pre Sprint
Meet your TA and cohort
Fri - Pre Sprint
Watch a welcome video from your professor
Sat - Pre Sprint
Sun - Week 1
Mon - Week 1
Watch your day 1 lesson content
Tues - Week 1
Weds - Week 1
Watch your day 2 lesson content
Thurs - Week 1
Fri - Week 1
Watch your day 3 lesson content
Sat - Week 1
Sun - Week 2
Mon - Week 2
Watch your day 4 lesson content
Tues - Week 2
Weds - Week 2
Livestream
Thurs - Week 2
Attend the guided project workshop
Fri - Week 2
Sat - Week 2
Sun - Post Sprint
Mon - Post Sprint
Submit your project
*sample 2-week sprint calendar
What you'll leave with
Badge to share with your network (and future boss)
A project or framework you can apply to your work
Progress toward a Section certificate
What you'll leave with
Badge to share with your network (and future boss)
A project or framework you can apply to your work
Network of diverse professionals to support you
The Product Engagement Sprint
What students say
“Nir Eyal offered practical advice for designing journeys that drive repeat engagement, measuring impact, and understanding ethical and strategic implications of design choices. Great learning opportunity if you are developing a new product or service or looking to maximize the ones you already have.”
- Mike Diaz, Founder and Principal, Growth Canvas Consulting
“Really enjoyed my first Section sprint. My biggest takeaway was "Establish one keystone habit and build on top of that - Don't try to do it all at once!". Sounds so simple but can be hard to execute at times.”
- Natalie Adams Barnes, Zumba
Unboring business education you can use immediately
No bad PowerPoints, cheesy ukulele music, mandatory quizzes to prove you were watching, smart-but-super-boring professors, or un-diverse panels. Ever.
Still have questions?
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Not in the traditional sense. We provide exercises and facilitate community interaction, and you don’t have to participate — but we hope you will, as it really brings the materials to life. You’re also not obligated to complete the final project unless you’d like to qualify for a certificate.
Yes, live learning with group works for some, but if you’d like to learn on your own schedule, you have the option to watch all course videos on-demand and submit your project when you’re ready.
We design our courses for the busy, full-time professional, but we also get that it can be tough to add yet another thing! One of our core features is flexibility: for sprints, some students like to keep up day-to-day (expect to spend about 1-2 hours per module), others like to binge over a weekend. Whatever group you belong in, we’ve found that our alumni have been able to sustain this over the 1-2 week period. Our half-day workshops are a great deep dive into content, in a shorter window.
You don’t! We record every live session with our professors and make it available for you to replay, at your convenience.
Yes, you can cancel your membership at any time and you will continue to have access to your account until the end of your subscription period. Have more questions? Visit our help center to get in touch.
Every student who completes their course receives a certificate of completion. Completing the course means watching all course content and completing the final project. You can print out the certificate or add it to your LinkedIn profile — and feel free to tag @Section on LinkedIn or @section_school on Twitter when you share it.
At Section, we believe in continuous learning, so with every course you get complimentary access to live lectures with business thought leaders and a professional network to help you accelerate your growth. Not for you? You can cancel the membership at any time.
Yep – you’ll walk away from each program with a badge for each course and a certificate for the program as a whole.
When you complete your Section program, you earn a branded certificate to share on LinkedIn and an optional, designed portfolio of work to show future employers.
We recommend taking one program at a time so you can focus your thinking – but if you’re an overachiever, yes, you can take them simultaneously!
