Growing with Focus

In the dynamic landscape of scaleups, leaders must continuously adapt and innovate. Achieving growth requires evolving organisational culture and developing people. Success depends on fostering a cohesive team aligned with company values and goals. Leaders must create a positive culture that attracts and retains talent, ensuring employees feel valued and motivated. Effective leadership involves strategic talent management, focusing on recruiting the right people and equipping them with essential skills. Balancing team cohesion, positive culture, talent acquisition, and high performance is crucial. For scaleup leaders, evolving culture and growing people are foundational for future resilience and success.

Growing with Focus

In the dynamic landscape of scaleups, leaders must continuously adapt and innovate. Achieving growth requires evolving organisational culture and developing people. Success hinges on fostering a cohesive team aligned with company values. Leaders must create a positive culture that attracts and retains talent, ensuring employees feel valued and motivated. Effective leadership involves strategic talent management, focusing on recruiting the right people and equipping them with essential skills. Balancing team cohesion, positive culture, talent acquisition, and high performance is crucial. For scaleup leaders, evolving culture and growing people are foundational for future resilience and success.

Program Overview

This immersive, five-month development program is essential for leaders who understand that evolving their organisational culture and growing their people are critical to achieving sustained success. The "Growing with Focus" program equips leaders with the skills and clarity needed to support team cohesion, influence a positive culture, recruit the right talent, and inspire high performance—all while staying aligned with their strategic vision for business growth.

Through a blend of workshops, peer connections, and dynamic digital knowledge-building activities, participants engage in reflection, strategic decision-making, and actionable insights. This program not only addresses the immediate challenges of scaling but also prepares leaders to build a resilient and thriving organisation for the future.

Take on this journey to sharpen your organisation’s strategic focus, enhance collective leadership capabilities, and drive sustainable growth together.

Program Outcomes

Leaders of healthy organisations attract and retain brilliant people when they build clear direction and establish a positive culture. Participants in this program have the opportunity to take a critical step back from their scaleup to develop a strategic approach to people and culture practices that will support successful growth.

As a result of this program, participants will be able to:

articulate the strategy for success.
build team cohesion by demonstrating vulnerability, engaging in constructive conflict and encouraging commitment.
engage in valuable conversations that change behaviour and inspire action.
build individual and team accountability to improve performance.
provide effective development and performance feedback that will encourage staff retention and engagement.
deliver compelling change communications.
listen deeply and with empathy to efficiently understand issues and promote greater clarity.
analyse existing HR processes and understand where they need to develop robust systems and practices to make great hiring decisions that will help drive sustainable growth and a thriving workforce.

- Six self-paced digital courses with rich, immersive content such as videos, assessments and e-learning.
- Four face-to-face workshops that offer the opportunity to share knowledge, practice and consolidate learning.
- Pre-workshop ‘Start Your Thinking’ digital learning to focus thinking and post-workshop ’Learning into Action’ digital activities directly after the workshop to embed and practice learning back on-the-job.
- One fully digital course (Hiring Foundations) to build foundational understanding of critical HR responsibilities and best practice methodology.
This program is ideal for the leadership team in your organisation that is responsible for strategic growth in the scaleup. It equips them with the skills and clarity needed to support team cohesion, influence a positive culture, recruit the right people, and inspire high performance.
This program runs for approximately five months.
Delivery is tailored to your leadership team and can take place at the location of your choice.
Please contact us directly to find out more information.

Hear what other scaleup leaders have had to say about their experience.

Lysander partnered with LaunchVic to design and deliver the Growing with Focus Pilot Program, tailored for Victorian leaders aiming to build an inclusive and engaged workforce. This five-month journey empowers leaders to attract and retain the right talent, foster team cohesion, and create a culture that inspires performance and drives sustainable growth.

Hear firsthand how this transformative program helps bring organisational strategy to life.

The Wider Benefits

Leaders who have completed this program have found that it not only helps them excel in their roles, but it has also positively impacted their entire organisation.

Their business is better equipped for growth and change, because they can communicate more effectively and support their people to adapt and thrive.
More successful recruitment decisions, with stronger alignment between recruits and organisational values.
Improved staff wellbeing and retention based on positive organisational culture.
Improved team cohesion and richer professional relationships.
A more creative and innovative workplace that is set up to thrive, even in times of change.
Supporting teams to have robust conversations that leads to more effective decision-making.