For operations managers

You learned the job on the floor. Here's the method behind it.

Nobody trained you to run a team or a budget. Our experts wrote the courses on both. One subscription, from $10 a month.

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Kouzes
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Holtzman
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Anderson
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Gygi
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Frick
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Sound familiar?

Three misses on the board by Wednesday

You can already read the board. Our experts wrote the chapters on what to do about each miss.

I have not had a single training class since being promoted to leadership.

A manager on r/managers, October 2026
Line 2 · Week 423 missed this week
MeasureMonTueWed
  1. SSafetyLost-time incidents · 0
    000
  2. QQualityScrap rate · Under 2%
    1.6%1.9%3.1%1
  3. DDeliveryOrders on time · 95%
    97%96%88%2
  4. CCostOvertime hours · Under 12
    811193

Who's teaching?

Learn from people with their names on the course

Between them, they've done 25 years of CFO-level work and 40 years of research on leaders. Every one has a profile you can check.

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    James M. Kouzes, author of The Leadership Challenge

    James M. Kouzes

    He and Barry Posner built this course on 40 years of research into what leaders do.

    3 titlesProfile
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    Neal Frick, author of The E Suite

    Neal Frick

    A CEO whose twenty years span operations and HR. His course covers the hard conversations.

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    Tage C. Tracy, author of Accounting For Dummies

    Tage C. Tracy

    Twenty-five years of CFO-level work for private companies. His course has a chapter just for managers.

    2 titlesProfile
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    Florian Detzel, author of Process Mining for Data-Driven Process Improvement

    Florian Detzel

    A PhD who works in industry. He shows you how to read the event logs your systems already keep.

    8 titlesProfile

What about the people?

The hard part of the handover is the people

Most entries in the log are about a person. Our experts wrote the chapters on the conversations that follow.

Handover · Line 2

  1. 05:40Line 2 ran the old changeover sheet again. Third time this month.

  2. 05:45Two of the old hands asked why we're changing anything at all.

    How do I bring the old hands with me?

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  3. 05:50Dev was late again. That's every Monday this month.

  4. 05:55Kim's crew cleared the backlog an hour early. Nobody said a word.

Signed: Andy, nights supervisor

What do I learn first?

Keep The Goal on your desk. Here's the rest.

Set Operations Manager as your target. ExpertEdge lines up the skills the job asks for, from reading a budget to leading a shift.

  1. Your years on the floor

    Where you are

  2. Finance & Accounting for Managers

  3. Lean, Six Sigma & Process Improvement

  4. Operations Management & Process Design

  5. Procurement & Vendor Management

  6. Risk Management & Business Continuity

  7. Team Management & People Leadership

  8. Operations Manager

    Your target

And my leads?

Your leads learned the job the way you did

Give each of them a seat and assign the course for their part of the line. You'll see who has started and who is behind.

Assignments · Line 2 leads1 Overdue2 In progress1 Not started1 Done
  1. KOKim OseiNights lead
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    Front-Line LeadershipFor the new changeover standard
    In progress24 Oct
  2. MKMarta KowalskiDays lead
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    The Leadership ChallengeBefore she takes on the second crew
    Not started31 Oct
  3. PNPriya NairQuality lead
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    Six Sigma For DummiesFor the scrap problem on Line 2
    Overdue10 Oct
  4. TRTom ReillyStores lead
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    Supply Chain Management For DummiesBefore the supplier review
    Done3 Oct
  5. SOSam OkaforPlanning lead
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    Operations Management For DummiesFor next quarter's capacity plan
    In progress7 Nov

By design

What we left out on purpose

  • Between shifts

    Pick up a chapter between shifts. No day off the line for a class.

  • The method from its source

    Learn lean from the experts who wrote it down. Then run it on your own line.

  • The work behind the exam

    The exam body covers CSCP and ASQ. We teach the work on the floor.

Take the course home tonight. Try it on the line before Friday.

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