Key Takeaways: Evolving Talent to Power Scale

What are the key talent-related topics and questions that management teams need to add to the agenda as they work to achieve impact at scale?
Hint: they are not the same ones the organization tackled during startup and validation.

Scaling Pathways draws on the experience of successful social enterprises to pull out those topics unique to the scaling stage. The topics and questions in this brief summary can help inform senior management meeting agenda; the accompanying articles in the People section of this site can provide tactics and advice for addressing them. Major topics include:

• Building the team: defining and filling key roles for scale
• Creating the infrastructure: evolving systems and structures to empower talent
• Powering the journey: cultivating, motivating, and retaining your talent

Click here for the summary, to help put talent on YOUR agenda!

Read next: Shift from a Lean Team of Doers to Differentiated Roles, Right-Size Your HR Infrastructure, or see all of the articles on the main People page.

Access the full PDF of People Matter: Evolving Talent to Drive Impact at Scale here.

This article was written by Erin Worsham, Kimberly Langsam, and Ellen Martin, and released in July 2019.