You're ready to lead others/build your business
You've built something good. Now let's make it work without you being directly involved in everything.
You're taking responsibility for the quality and direction of learning solutions, but there's often more work than you can personally manage. You may be managing a portfolio of learning programmes, considering working through associates or bringing in partners to deliver solutions. You've likely built programmes and approaches that deliver real value. The challenge now is making them work beyond your own direct involvement and delivery. You can't scale if everything relies on you.
Your strengths
• Proven experience in learning design and facilitation
•Strong understanding of how learning works in organisations
•Credibility with senior stakeholders
•Ability to shape learning strategy and solutions
• Loyal client base and respect
The common challenge
The main challenge for you is time and energy. You're working at maximum capacity and are reaching the point where you have too many programmes to manage/deliver alone. How can you ensure quality and impact without everything depending on you personally? You have a difficult choice to make - turn work down or start to outsource? To keep growing you need trusted people to deliver work on your behalf, maintain consistency across facilitators, consider alternative ways to deliver your solution, and manage growing operational complexity.
Typical questions you might have at this stage
•How do I hand over programmes without them losing what makes them work?
•How do I build a team or associate network I can trust?
•How do I systemise what I do so it scales?
Quick Tips
•Document your programme structure and design logic so others can follow it
•Develop clear facilitator guides so others can deliver confidently
•Look for opportunities to systemise admin and processes
•Consider creating learning solutions that don't require you to personally deliver
What might help you?
Professionals at this stage often benefit from having a clear but simple business plan. It's about systematising their learning solutions and building trusted delivery support, as well as looking at ways to diversify their offer so they can be adding value without having to physically be there. Designing programmes in detail so associates can deliver them (e.g. via my designed in a day service), putting courses online and building your network to outsource work makes a huge difference if you're self-employed. If employed, ensuring consistency of approach and finding trusted suppliers and associates really makes the difference
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