Want to scale your social impact, but don't know where to start?
Getting Scale Ready is an online practical training programme designed to help you overcome the most common barriers to scale and kick-start your organisation’s journey to achieving greater impact.
Over the course of 5 weeks, you’ll join a cohort of ambitious social leaders, and learn how to build the foundation you need to prepare for long-term scale, invest in the right success factors, and take the first steps towards getting scale ready.
During the course, you’ll explore which scaling pathway would work best for your organisation, how to test and assess your scaling potential in the real world, and how to build the strategy and plan you need to do it all sustainably.
Feedback from Past Participants
“An excellent guide to assessing if your organization is ready to scale, with strong facilitators and a very valuable toolkit to guide an organizational strategy process.”
- Susan Bornstein, Global Director, World Bicycle Relief
‘The course was insightful, giving opportunity to reflect, through excellent facilitation and practical tools, on scale and apply scale models to our strategy for growth. A structured programme enhanced by the opportunity to share ideas and receive feedback from peers.”
- Denis Byrne, CEO, Sussex Prisoners' Families
“The course was an eye opener for my knowledge enhancement and understanding of best practices in scalability especially as we are at a stage where we are thinking scale and sustainability at Mzuzu E-Hub."
- Wangiwe Joanna Kambuzi, Managing Director, Mzuzu E-Hub
Course Schedule
Week 0: 12th Feb - Welcome to Getting Scale Ready
- Introduction to the Programme
- Live Sessions Schedule
- Baseline Survey
- Extra Resources
Week 1: 19th Feb - Assess Scale Readiness
- Introduction to week 1 - Assess your starting point
- The difference between growth and scale - Reaching further with your resources
- Tackling societal problems at scale - Implications for what sustainable impact looks like for you
- Finding the sweet spot for scale - Ensuring solutions are both impactful, valuable and sustainable
- ASSIGNMENT: Scale Readiness Diagnostic Quiz
- REFLECTION: Preparation for live session
Week 2: 26th - Develop Scale Strategy
- Live Session 1: 27th Feb, 3.00 - 5.00 PM (UK Time)
- Introduction to week 2 - The scale strategy that will guide your journey
- Components of a scale strategy - Key questions to answer when building your strategy
- Importance of a Scale Strategy- A noble mission is not enough to have impact at scale
- TOOL: Problem Definition - Define the societal problem you want to address at scale
- TOOL: Intended Impact - Clarify the change you want to achieve
- TOOL: Doer and Payer at Scale - Establish who will deliver and pay your solution at scale
- ASSIGNMENT: Start Strategy Formula
- Extra resources- Going deeper
Week 3: 4th March - Explore Pathways to Scale
- Introduction to Week 3: Explore Pathways to Scale
- Scale Pathways- Key considerations and trade-offs for choosing your pathway to scale
- TOOL: Choosing a Scale Pathway
- TOOL: Design Your Core
- ASSIGNMENT: Complete Strategy Formula
- REFLECTION: Preparation for Live Session
- Extra resources- Going deeper
Week 4: 11th March - Test to Validate
- Live session 2: 12th March, 3.00 - 5.00 PM (UK Time)
- Introduction to Week 4 - Redefining risk
- Components of a Good Test - Key considerations to build effective tests and feedback loops
- TOOL: Identify Risky Assumptions
- ASSIGNMENT: Test risky assumptions
Week 5: 18th March - Plan and Pitch
- Introduction to Week 5 - Create a compelling pitch and effective action plan
- TOOL: Create an action plan
- TOOL: Develop your pitch
- ASSIGNMENT: Develop your pitch
- A final word - Key Scaling Mindsets
- Extra resources - Going deeper
- Live session 3: 26th March, 3.00 - 5.00 PM (UK Time)