Main Events
Chief of Staff workshops and training reduces your learning curve in the role and extends your influence and leadership brand.CoS Mixers
New for 2021: Monthly, virtual CoS mixers!
Want to network with other chiefs of staff AND learn something in the process? At our mixers, we bookend a timely, relevant, and interactive professional development discussion with networking activities. Tyler is constantly gathering feedback on what are the most important issues you are facing right now. You can expect to share experiences with and learn from corporate chiefs of staff from startups to Fortune 100 companies, universities, nonprofits, and governmental agencies.
Like our mastermind cohorts, we use mixed modes and media for maximum engagement, from guest speakers and panel discussions to small group breakouts of true peers (similar size and stage organizations, industry) simulations, and peer reviews of your current challenges, and larger groups debriefs that enable you to learn from the diversity of experiences in “the room.”
We’ve hosted scores of in-person CoS mixers across the US in the past, and with Covid as the forcing function, we’re so excited to be able to offer this blend of networking and professional development to a much broader audience – welcome to our EMEA counterparts!
Representative attendees include:
15Five, 500 Startups, Achievement First, AdaQuest, Amazon, Ariba/SAP, Auth0, Bank Leumi USA, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Boeing, Brand Networks, Brooks Running, Concur/SAP, F5 Networks, Kaiser Permanente, Microsoft, Nordstrom, September 11 Memorial and Museum, Slalom Consulting, Port of Seattle, T-Mobile, Universities (multiple), Visit San Antonio, Wyze, and World Vision.
Workshop events/training
Companies like Aflac, SAP Concur, and others have invited Tyler Parris to speak as part of kicking off internal CoS communities, or to host specialized workshops on topics of interest to their chiefs of staff.
Between globalization, the increasing pace of technological advances, and increased regulation, a lot is being asked of board members, C-suite execs, and chiefs of staff. The rules are constantly changing, so what does it take to keep up? It takes capacities that you might or might not have picked up en route to the role. You have to not only understand the executive’s world to sit in that space, but practice the application of that knowledge. You’ve got to understand your own leadership and influence, you’ve got to think strategically and systematically, and you’ve got to have effective relationships. Today’s cutting edge leaders make time for development. This is about prioritizing your own development, having a safe space to wrestle through what you need to, practice what you need to, ask and be asked the incisive, powerful questions that stretch you. It’s about having an intention and identifying options for achieving that outcome. These workshops are helping people at the so-called right hand of power in many business, academic, nonprofit, and gov’t organizations be the leaders they were hired into this role to be, and to launch from the chief of staff role into bigger, more visible leadership roles where they can make even more impact.
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- defining and structuring the CoS role to add maximum value for the principal exec and leadership team and to support your next career move
- systems & strategic thinking for CoS
- evolving the rhythm of business to keep paces with environmental changes
- facilitative and situational leadership
- chief of staff as coach
- decision support for CoS
- conflict management and other team dynamics
- influence, collaboration, power, and politics
- personal and team boundary awareness and management
- performance management & accountability