Talent Strategy & Organizational Design
Build a team structure that still works after the next round of hiring.
Track
HR and Workforce
Format
In person, 889 Harbourside Drive
Length
Five modules
Taught by
Aragon's HR lead
About the course
The org chart a company draws at eight people is usually the one that breaks at twenty five. Roles that made sense when everyone sat in one room stop making sense once there are two teams, and the fixes get harder the longer they wait. Most founders know the next round of hiring is coming. Fewer have designed for what the company looks like once it lands.
This program works through that design before the hiring starts. You will build a hiring roadmap sequenced against runway and against the work that is actually blocked, define roles around the work rather than around titles, and set the reporting lines, levels and compensation bands that hold together when headcount doubles. You will also cover the interviewing and selection decisions that determine whether the structure you designed is the one you end up with.
Taught by the person who runs our HR and workforce programs. It is built for founders and team leads who can see the next round of hiring coming and want a structure that survives it.
What Participants Will Learn
- Workforce planning and hiring sequence
- Role design and organizational structure
- Selection and interviewing
- Retention through a growth period
Course Outline
Module 1: Workforce Planning
- Which roles are actually blocking work, and which are wishful
- A hiring roadmap sequenced against runway
Module 2: Role Design
- Defining responsibilities around the work, not the title
- Generalists early, specialists later, and when that switch happens
Module 3: Interviews and Selection
- Structured interviews and scorecards that make candidates comparable
- Assessing a skill you do not have yourself
Module 4: Organizational Structure
- Reporting lines and spans of control that survive the team doubling
- Levels, titles and compensation bands, set before a negotiation forces it
Module 5: Retention
- Incentives, progression and what actually keeps people through growth
- Restructuring a team that has outgrown its shape without restarting it
Who it is for
Founders and team leads who can see the next round of hiring coming and want a structure that survives it.
Founders in the Aragon portfolio take these courses as part of the work we already do with them. Courses are also open to founders and professionals outside the portfolio.
Bring your own org chart. The sessions work through real structures, and the more of yours you bring, the more useful the five modules are.