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Track 6

Leadership & Scale

This track helps you move from “solo hustle” to building a small organisation that can grow without breaking. You will learn personal leadership, team building, operations, culture and how to design systems that support long-term scale.

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What you’ll learn

Lesson 1 – The Founder’s Role as the Business Grows

At the beginning you do everything. As the startup grows, your role must shift from “doer” to “designer of the system.” Understanding this shift early prevents burnout and chaos.

Mission: Write two lists: tasks only you can do, and tasks someone else could do with clear instructions. This is the start of your delegation map.

Lesson 2 – Building a Small, Strong Team

Learn how to define roles, expectations and ways of working. A strong, small team with clarity beats a large, confused team.

Mission: Describe the next two roles you would add to your startup. For each, write: mission of the role, key tasks, and success indicators.

Lesson 3 – Culture, Values & Everyday Behaviour

Culture is not a poster on the wall. It is how decisions are made when no one is watching. Clear values guide behaviour and protect the quality of your company as it grows.

Mission: Write 3–5 values you want your startup to live by (for example: honesty, speed, learning, ownership) and one behaviour for each that shows it in action.

Lesson 4 – Systems, Processes & Documentation

Scaling requires systems: clear processes, checklists and simple documentation that make work predictable and easier to hand over.

Mission: Choose one repeated activity in your startup (onboarding clients, posting content, delivering a service) and write a simple 5–7 step checklist for it.

Lesson 5 – Decision-Making & Managing Risk

As the stakes grow, decisions matter more. Learn to use simple decision frameworks, scenario thinking and risk mapping to avoid paralysis or gambling.

Mission: Take one important decision you are currently delaying. Write three options, a few pros and cons for each, and what evidence would make you choose one.

Lesson 6 – Designing for Sustainable Scale

Scaling is not just “more of everything.” It is about growing in a way that is healthy for you, your team, your customers and your finances.

Mission: Write a one-page “Scale Vision” describing what your startup looks like in 3 years: team size, customer type, geography, main product and how work feels for you.