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Leading Scale Up and Rapid Growth Teams

Fast growing African businesses often outgrow the informal leadership that carried them through their early days, and founders and managers struggle to lead teams that are doubling in size. This course helps leaders build the structures, delegation and communication needed to scale without losing culture or control. Participants learn to lead through hypergrowth while keeping quality, cohesion and momentum intact.

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What you will be able to do

  • Recognise the leadership shifts required as a small team scales rapidly.
  • Redesign roles, structures and reporting lines to support growth.
  • Delegate and build layers of leadership rather than remaining the bottleneck.
  • Preserve culture and shared values as new people join at speed.
  • Maintain communication and alignment across an expanding organisation.
  • Anticipate and manage the strain that rapid growth places on teams.

Course outline

  1. 01How Leadership Must Change as You Scale
  2. 02Redesigning Structure and Roles for Growth
  3. 03Building Layers of Leadership
  4. 04Delegating Beyond the Founder Bottleneck
  5. 05Protecting Culture During Rapid Hiring
  6. 06Keeping Everyone Aligned as You Expand
  7. 07Managing Growing Pains and Team Strain
  8. 08A Roadmap for Leading Your Next Growth Phase

Who should attend

This course suits founders, general managers and department heads in start ups, scale ups and fast expanding enterprises who must lead teams through rapid growth.

Dates, venues and fees

DatesVenueDaysFeeCalendarRegister
30 Sep to 2 Oct 2026Johannesburg3R13,000Register
5 to 7 Oct 2026Cape Town3R13,000Register
6 to 8 Oct 2026Durban3R13,000Register
7 to 9 Oct 2026Pretoria3R13,000Register
12 to 14 Oct 2026Windhoek3US$1,500Register
13 to 15 Oct 2026Gaborone3US$1,500Register
14 to 16 Oct 2026Maseru3US$1,500Register
19 to 21 Oct 2026Mbabane3US$1,500Register
20 to 22 Oct 2026Lusaka3US$1,500Register
21 to 23 Oct 2026Harare3US$1,500Register
26 to 28 Oct 2026Lilongwe3US$1,500Register
27 to 29 Oct 2026Blantyre3US$1,500Register
28 to 30 Oct 2026Mozambique3US$1,500Register
2 to 4 Nov 2026Nairobi3US$1,500Register
3 to 5 Nov 2026Dar es Salaam3US$1,500Register
4 to 6 Nov 2026Kigali3US$1,500Register
9 to 11 Nov 2026Kampala3US$1,500Register
10 to 12 Nov 2026Accra3US$1,500Register
11 to 13 Nov 2026Lagos3US$1,500Register
16 to 18 Nov 2026Cairo3US$1,500Register
17 to 19 Nov 2026Mauritius3US$1,500Register
18 to 20 Nov 2026Dubai3US$1,500Register
23 to 25 Nov 2026Online3US$900Register

Fees are per delegate. South African venues are priced in rand; other locations and online in US dollars. Fees exclude 15% VAT where applicable. Group bookings of three or more delegates from the same organisation qualify for a reduced rate; contact us for a quotation.

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