National Incubation Center Peshawar has hosted a session on human resources excellence and team building for its Cohort 16 startups, led by Zaydan Khan as part of the center’s incubation curriculum. The session was built around questions that every founder will face sooner or later: who owns each decision, and how will a team stay aligned when priorities shift? By raising them early in the program, the center aims to prepare founders for the stage at which a small group of friends or colleagues turns into a company with roles, responsibilities and expectations.
Zaydan Khan gave the founders space to reflect on how they will define roles, communicate expectations and share responsibility as their businesses grow. These are areas where early-stage teams often run into difficulty, because roles in a young startup tend to overlap and decisions are made informally. As the number of customers, tasks and employees increases, unclear ownership can slow decisions and cause disagreements, and a team that has agreed in advance on who decides what is better placed to keep moving when plans change. The session encouraged founders to think through these questions for their own ventures rather than offering a single fixed model.
The session is part of the program for Cohort 16, the latest group of startups to join National Incubation Center Peshawar. The incubation curriculum covers the business topics that early-stage companies need, from product and sales to finance and people management, and a session on human resources and teams gives founders a base for the hiring and management decisions that lie ahead. Founders also benefit from hearing how others handle team issues, since the cohort brings together companies facing similar choices at the same stage.
The center closed its announcement by inviting its community to share the one team habit that has helped their startup work better, which reflects the practical spirit of the session. The program carries the names of Ignite National Technology Fund, the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication, LMKR and LMKT among its supporters, and it continues the center’s work of preparing Peshawar’s founders to build companies that can grow.
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