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Quick Video Tip: For the first-time CEO, you can play a role in helping your exec explore, establish, and maintain her leadership brand
Managing Your Exec’s Toxic Behavior
A lot of articles cover toxic behavior at work – but what about when the toxic behavior is that of the exec you support as chief of staff?
What if you could watch the video of your leadership team meetings to study the interpersonal dynamics?
As chief of staff, do you need to have a courageous conversation with your executive?
It takes the average chief of staff 9 months to get role clarity
Quick Video Tip: Want to change the meeting culture in your organization?
Quick Video Tip: Your leadership team is in conflict – here’s step # 1 in fixing it
Avoiding Pitfalls in Executing Strategy, Carol Bubar and Bruno LeCoq. (57:06)
At our June 8, 2017 Seattle chief of staff peer group meeting on Avoiding Pitfalls in Executing Strategy. Carol Bubar and Bruno LeCoq of Adaquest shared some of the common barriers that organizations face in executing their strategy, along with some solutions based on their Think-Act-Deliver (TAD) methodology and tool.
Systems & Strategic Thinking for Chiefs of Staff
For those who couldn’t make it to our February 23, 2017 Systems and Strategic Thinking for Chiefs of Staff workshop, we’re making available 7 video segments from the morning session and a condensed, PDF version of our actual workshop workbook that contains materials and activities referenced in the videos.
Watch Video 1. Introduction: Why Systems & Strategic Thinking for Chiefs of Staff?
Video 2: Systems Thinking
Video 2 of 7 series. Objectives: Create a conceptual map of the systems that compose your work environment so that you can make business decisions grounded in your organization’s broader context and strategy.
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Video 3: Systems Thinking
Video 3 of 7 series. Objectives: Create a conceptual map of the trends and dynamics affecting your organization – from the outside and inside – so that you can make business decisions grounded in your organization’s broader context and strategy.
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Video 4: Shifting Between Strategy and Tactics
Video 4 of 7 series. Objectives: Consider the pros and cons of your current approach – both strategic and tactical — in light of your intended impact.
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Video 5: Strategic Management, The Marriage of Strategic Thinking and Planning
Video 5 of 7 series. Objectives: Articulate how you more effectively align tactical work to your organization’s strategy through a planning process and oversight of execution.
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Video 6: Chief of Staff Competencies: Self-Assessment
Video 6 of 7 series. Objectives: Identify strengths and areas for improvement in the universal competencies of chiefs of staff as well as the competencies that most apply in your context. Use these as the basis for your personal and professional development plans.
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Video 7: Levels of System
Video 7 of 7 series. Objectives: Create options for actions you might take at different “levels of system” to enhance your effectiveness.
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Quick Video Tip: Hiring a CoS because your peers are doing it is a recipe for disaster
For more specific tips on identifying areas your CoS can add value, see post for Chiefs of Staff, on role clarity.
Chief of Staff Trends and Resources: Nov 26, 2018
Chief of staff trends and resources. Chief of staff reading list.
Manage Conflict Before It Manages Your Leadership Team
“Conflict is inevitable. Combat is not.” Brigadier General (Ret.) and CEO of Leader Six, Nolen Bivens. Find out how you, your exec, and your leadership team can do conflict better, and why you can’t afford NOT to.
The False Dilemma of High Standards or High Morale
Does your exec really have to choose between high standards or high morale?
Influence without managing
A core component of our Chief of Staff as Leader workshop – and more importantly your leadership from behind the scenes – is influencing strategies. VChief’s Maddy Niebauer digs into this topic.
Quick Video Tip: For the first-time CEO, you can play a role in helping your exec explore, establish, and maintain her leadership brand
Managing Your Exec’s Toxic Behavior
A lot of articles cover toxic behavior at work – but what about when the toxic behavior is that of the exec you support as chief of staff?