3-Hour Intro to Management Leadership and Organisational Design Workshop

Workshop Description

Every growing venture reaches a point where the structure that got it here stops working. This 3-hour session introduces the core ideas behind organisational design why it matters, what it involves, and how founders and leaders can begin thinking about it strategically.

Participants will get a clear, high-level view of how structure shapes performance, what common failure modes look like, and what a structured redesign approach involves. This session is designed to spark thinking, not to cover everything and it is the right starting point for anyone who senses their organisation needs to change but isn’t sure where to begin.

Why Attend This Workshop?

Get a practical introduction to one of the most overlooked levers of business growth, how your organisation is structured.

✔ Understand why structure becomes a constraint as ventures scale — and what to do about it
✔ Get introduced to the main organisational models and what each one costs under growth
✔ Learn how the components of design — roles, decision rights, information flow — work together
✔ Understand how structural change affects your people, stakeholders, and legal obligations
✔ Preview the frameworks used in the full course to plan and lead redesign initiatives

Workshop Outline

• Explore why organisational structure becomes a growth constraint and how to recognise the signs
• Survey the main structural models and the failure modes each produces under scaling pressure
• Introduce a diagnostic lens for identifying structural gaps versus execution problems
• Preview how redesign planning, governance, and change communication work in practice
• Examine how to think about measuring whether a redesign is actually working

Workshop Highlights

This session previews the three phases covered in depth in the full course.

Phase 1 — Structural diagnosis

✔ Organisational models and their growth failure modes
✔ How design components interact as a system
✔ Spotting structural dysfunction early

Phase 2 — Redesign planning

✔ How evidence-based redesign plans are structured
✔ Governance, sequencing, and legal considerations
✔ What a good redesign plan actually looks like

Phase 3 — Change leadership

✔ How leaders bring teams through structural transitions
✔ Communicating change in a way that maintains trust
✔ How to know whether the redesign is working

Who Should Attend

This workshop is for founders and leaders who suspect their structure is limiting growth and want a clear starting point. No HR or organisational design background required.

• Entrepreneurs scaling from a small founding team to a structured organisation
• Startup founders who know something isn’t working but aren’t sure what to change
• Business owners whose teams have outgrown informal, founder-led coordination
• HR and operations leaders involved in organisational effectiveness work
• Managers responsible for implementing structural changes designed above them

Pre-requisites

• A venture with team members or early growth ambitions
• Some experience managing or working within a team
• No HR or organisational design background required

What You’ll Walk Away With

• A clearer understanding of how structure shapes a venture’s ability to grow and execute
• Familiarity with the main organisational models and their tradeoffs
• An introduction to how structural problems are diagnosed and redesign plans are built
• Awareness of the stakeholder, governance, and legal dimensions of structural change
• A strong foundation for getting more from the full 2-day course