⚙️ Ops Playbook #70

How to Turn Around a Struggling Department

Rameel Sheikh
January 09, 2025

tldr; Everyday for the next 10 days, I’m going to send you a playbook on how you can 10x your business (and career)… for free.

These playbooks were originally created for the Bottleneck Breakers course. I wanted to give you a sneak peek of what you get once you purchase.

The course has 40+ ops playbooks with more added every week. Below is an example of one of our guides.

If you buy now, you’ll get access to all of our guides + private coaching session with me.

→ Day 1: How to turn around a struggling department (Todays Lesson)

→ Day 2: Creating an internal knowledge base

→ Day 3: Track team progress with a Google Sheets to Slack update automation

→ Day 4: Maximizing project management with task batching and time blocking

→ Day 5: How to handle terminations after a failed PIP

→ Day 6: Receive an automated email after a task has been completed

→ Day 7: Convert job applications submissions into a calendar invite

→ Day 8: Setting up your Slack channels for team comms

→ Day 9: Employee performance reviews with ChatGPT

→ Day 10: Create effective candidate experience surveys

Create a 90-day blueprint to turn around a struggling department with actionable steps and measurable goals.

This tutorial will teach you how to turn around a struggling team in your company using a customized 90-day plan.

Most department turnaround plans fail for three reasons:

They focus on vague goals instead of specific, measurable metrics
They ignore skill gaps and misalignment between team capabilities and objectives
They lack real accountability systems to track and enforce progress

This tutorial presents a different approach: a metrics-first framework that has helped turn around departments in companies in just 90 days.

You'll learn how to:

Build data-driven performance baselines that reveal exactly where your department is falling short
Create skills matrices that expose hidden talent and critical capability gaps
Design accountability systems that make progress automatic and measurable
Implement organizational structures that align with your metrics, not just hierarchies
Set up automated tracking dashboards that catch problems before they derail progress

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