Inside the program

Courses for Engineering Managers

Every lesson you need, in the order you need them.

Self-paced video courses with the worksheets that turn each lesson into something you actually do with your team this week. The EM Playbook is available in full today, and the next course lands in December.

The courses

One available now, one on the way. Both are included, and you never pay again for what gets added.

Available now

The EM Playbook

The full path from your first day in the chair to running a steady, high-trust team. Nine modules mapped to the twelve weeks of the program.

9 modules48 lessons4+ hours of videoWorksheets & templatesMarked capstoneCertificate
December 2026

The AI Manager Operating System

How to run your team, and your own week, with AI actually in the loop.

Included, no extra costSelf-paced

Inside the EM Playbook

Each module is mapped to the week of the 90 days where it lands, so you are never watching something you cannot use yet.

01

The role you have really taken on

Why this is a career change and not a promotion, and what the job actually consists of now.

Weeks 1-2 6 lessons
02

What your team and org expect

The two sets of expectations nobody writes down, put side by side so you can see the gap.

Week 3 4 lessons
03

Start with the people

The listening tour. Sit down with everyone, find out what is really going on, turn it into two or three things you will do.

Week 4 5 lessons
04

Mastering 1-1s

What they are for, how to structure them, the questions that get real answers, and what to do when it goes badly.

Weeks 5-6 7 lessons
05

Prioritise and focus

Your time is now the constraint on everyone else's work. How to choose when all of it is urgent.

Week 7 5 lessons
06

Delegate and hold a line

Getting work off your plate properly, and saying no upwards without burning the relationship.

Week 8 5 lessons
07

Communicate like a leader

Updates people read, team meetings worth attending, and saying it once instead of three different ways.

Week 9 6 lessons
08

Avoiding common EM mistakes

Staying too close to the detail, being everyone's friend, putting off the conversation, and never giving positive feedback.

Weeks 10-11 6 lessons
09

Your personal operating system

Reading your team's health, and the rituals that keep you steady when everything is on fire.

Week 12 4 lessons

Nothing is locked and nothing expires. The week mapping is a suggested pace, not a gate: you can watch the whole thing in a weekend or take six months over it.

Not just videos

A lesson you watch and forget is worth nothing. Every module ends in something you do.

01

Worksheets and templates

The listening tour, the 1-1 agenda, the delegation handover, the difficult conversation prep. Filled in about your real team, not a case study.

02

A marked capstone

A written 90 day plan for your actual team, read and marked by our experts and returned with notes.

03

A certificate

Finish all nine modules and it is yours, for your manager, your promotion case or your LinkedIn.

How it is taught

Short lessons, no filler

Built for people managing a team full time. Most lessons run a few minutes, because a forty minute video on 1-1s is the reason nobody finishes courses.

By someone still doing the job

Taught by Ryan Murphy, who led teams at Yelp for half a decade and is rated the number one career course creator on Dometrain.

Yours permanently

One payment. No subscription, nothing to cancel, and everything added later is included.

Both courses come with the program.

Along with the expert interviews, the simulations, the quizzes, the Q&A library, the community and your two 1-1s.