Small Business Ops
Welcome

Small Business Operations Rescue

Learn to walk into a messy small business situation and walk out with a clear plan, aligned stakeholders, and leadership buy-in.

What This Course Teaches

Most small businesses hit a wall at some point — things that used to work stop working, processes break down, and nobody can agree on what the real problem is. This course teaches you the ops rescue playbook: how to assess chaos without panicking, map the people involved, find the actual root cause, and build a plan that gets everyone moving in the same direction.

You will work through a realistic scenario where you inherit an operational mess, and by the end you will have a complete toolkit you can apply to your own situation.

Course Structure

One focused module with seven lessons:

LessonTopicWhat You'll Learn
1.1IntroductionThe situation, what you're walking into, and sharing your context
1.2The Chaos AuditAssess a messy situation without panicking and build a situation overview
1.3Stakeholder MappingMap contradictory stakeholder interests and build alignment
1.4Root Cause AnalysisDistinguish symptoms from causes and find the core problem
1.5Action PlanningPrioritize actions with timelines, owners, and resource constraints
1.6The Leadership UpdateCreate a professional leadership update that gets buy-in
1.7Wrap-upThe ops rescue toolkit and applying this to your real situation

Who This Is For

  • Operations managers stepping into a new role or inheriting a mess
  • Small business owners who know something is broken but can't pinpoint what
  • Consultants who need a repeatable framework for diagnosing client problems
  • Team leads tasked with "fixing things" without clear direction
  • Anyone who has ever walked into a situation and thought "where do I even start?"

How It Works

  1. Download the course materials
  2. Open Claude Desktop and select the course folder
  3. Say "start lesson 1.1" to begin
  4. Claude teaches you interactively — you learn by doing, not by watching

Time Commitment

  • Total time: 1.5–2 hours
  • Per lesson: 10–20 minutes
  • Flexible: Stop and resume anytime

Get Started

Head to the Getting Started page for setup instructions, then jump into Module 1.


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