If you’re an aspiring or first-time COO, we’re here to support you on this hard, but rewarding, journey.
From our collective 10 years of running operations communities, we see far too many people:
- Wanting to become COOs, but lacking confidence to pursue these roles
- Questioning what they don’t know they don’t know
- Falling into or getting promoted into COO roles without being fully prepared for the challenges they will face managing upwards, laterally, downwards, and diagonally.
Having spent a collective 30 years as operations leaders ourselves, we’re passionate about equipping the next generation of startup COOs with the tools they need not only to survive but thrive in their roles.
Do It With Us: Participate in our course for aspiring / first-time COOs
We’ve designed a course to help operations leaders build up their skills and confidence to land the difficult-to-define role of a startup COO role and succeed in it.
We are so excited to be underway running Cohorts 4 and 5! 🥳
The next Cohort is expected to be Early 2025! We welcome you to apply for a future cohort! 🔥
We will be reviewing and confirming the applications from September 2024.
What will it contribute to your career and your organisation?
What is included in the course?
📚 11-Week course covering Operation Nation’s “Core Competencies for a Strong COO” (see below for the breakdown of topics)
We are excited to build out the course into a more modular experience; which will include 3 core elements
- 🎞️ Pre-recorded videos focusing on the principles & guidelines of the related competency.
- 🎤 Guest speaker sessions featuring experienced COO guest speakers from the ON Community and beyond sharing their wisdom and war stories (see FAQs for previous speakers), and to enable deeper Q&A.
- This is followed by an additional optional 30 minute discussion session.
- 💬 Cohort discussion/war-rooming sessions. This will be participant only - with a facilitator from Operations Nation.
You’ll also get
- 💡 Optional 1:1 Office Hours with the Course Facilitators at any time during the Course.
- 📝 Course workbook for deeper learning.
- 🤫 A private group where you and your cohort can keep in touch in between sessions and after the course.
- 👏🏻 An accountability buddy
- 🏆 The chance to put your Operations Nation COO Course certificate on your CV and LinkedIn profile (so long as you attend 80% of the course).
Topics covered in this course
FAQs
Feedback from our previous cohorts
"I think it helped me to gain a solid foundation of what to expect as a COO. It also really helped me gain a sense of validation in my skillset and my approach to Operations. This has been invaluable as I've had a lot of doubt on both of these, but I better understand that that comes as part of the role and how it's viewed in organisations."
"I now have more clarity over: (a) definition of COO role, (b) next steps required to be COO, (c) frameworks/peer support to actions that I had already considered but didn't have the confidence to push through.”
"I feel a lot more confident in my role - sometimes you don't know what you don't know and running through so many different elements was incredibly validating. For areas where I need more support, this gave a good foundation of what to focus on and for areas where I'm stronger, it was great to get the sense of confidence that maybe I do actually know what I'm doing!"
"I think most of all it has boosted my confidence and helped with my imposter syndrome, it has validated some of the experiences I have had already and given me the confidence to know I can handle what is to come. It has been useful to hear from others and have peer-to-peer learning. Love the strong framework."
"I feel more confident about my ability to become a great COO, and that I would enjoy the role!"
"It's given me some very useful tools, confidence and a better self awareness of my strengths and weaknesses!"
"It's been great to validate existing behaviours / practices and work I've already been doing. It's given me energy to continue to see the role of COO as a learning opportunity."
Contact us!
If you have any questions about the COO Course, or would like to contribute to it, please get in touch and let’s chat. You’ll find us at coo-course@operationsnation.com