Workshop 05 of 5 · The people layer · ₹4,001
Building an A Team
The team you have is the team you built, whether or not you meant to build it.
A live half day session that turns a founder's hiring decisions into a team that performs without being supervised.
Ask for a seat Take the free guide first
The People as a System guide goes home with every participant. It runs to 10 stages over 18 pages and it is free. You can have it before the workshop, or instead of it.
- 3.5 hoursone session
- 15 to 20founders in the room
- ChennaiEnglish and Tamil
- ₹4,001per seat
01 Take this before you book a seat
There is a free guide for this workshop.
The guide has 10 stages, 10 practical exercises and 18 pages. It is free, and it stands on its own. If the guide is enough, keep it, act on it, and we are done. The room adds the working session, your own draft, and the other founders at the table.
15 pages
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People as a System
10 stages that turn a founder's hiring into a team that improves itself.
02 Why this one exists
The team you have is the team you built, whether or not you meant to build it.
Most founders treat the team as something that happened to them. People joined, performed, left and were replaced, and the pattern repeated. Performance varies according to who turned up on a given day, and the founder is exhausted from managing personalities instead of running the business.
That is what happens when a team is treated as a series of hiring decisions rather than as something designed. The team you have is the consequence of decisions you made about who to hire, what to train them in, how to measure them and what culture you built around them. Every part of that can be changed, and none of it changes by accident.
This session is for the founder who is ready to stop reacting to the team and start designing it.
03 What you leave with
What you will leave with.
- 01The distinction between hiring people and building a team, and an honest reading of which one you have been doing.
- 02The 10 stages that turn hiring into a team that improves itself.
- 03A first draft accountability chart for your business, with the leadership style, the culture and the behaviours your team actually needs, defined in the room and pressure tested by other founders.
- 04A 3 phase plan you can take back on Monday, covering define, build and operate, with 90 days to start fixing the people layer.
04 The 10 stage loop
The People System Loop has 10 stages, and we teach them one at a time.
It turns a founder's hiring decisions into a team that improves itself, and it runs in 10 stages, from defining leadership in your business to the retention rhythm that keeps an A Team an A Team over years.
The stage names, and the exercise that goes with each one, are in the free guide at the top of this page and are worked through in the room. A loop you have only read about changes nothing, which is why the room exists.
05 How the session moves
This is how the session moves.
- 01DefineWe work on what leadership, culture and behaviour actually mean inside your specific business.
- 02BuildYou draft the hiring, training and measurement architecture for the team you actually need.
- 03OperateYou design the team dynamics, the way conflict gets handled, and the rhythm that keeps an A team an A team over years.
You will not leave with theory about people. You will leave with the written architecture of the team you are choosing to build, and a plan to start.
06 Who should sit in the room
Who this is for.
- 01Founders whose team is busy while the output stays inconsistent.
- 02Founders who have hired, watched people underperform, let them go, hired again, and now suspect the problem might not be the people.
- 03Founders who want to stop personally managing every team member and start building a team that manages itself.
If you have not yet hired your first employee, this is too early. If you have a team, a sense that something is structurally off, and the willingness to look at your own part in how the team was built, this is exactly what it was built for.