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Your Chief of Staff Needs a Coach
The Chief of Staff can be a lonely role. A pressure cooker of expectations, cross-functional leadership without any authority. The person that picks up all those ‘special projects’ which don’t have a natural home. Oh, and your line manager is the busiest person in the business, the CEO. If your COS doesn’t have a coach, it’s time to get them one.
Your CEO Feedback shouldn’t be the same as your normal 360 process
CEO’s and Founders often receive very little real feedback. Their position in the company makes the task of collecting (and giving) feedback a minefield to navigate. If you’re serious about getting honest, actionable feedback: Get a coach to run the process for you.
Improve Buy-In To Your Decision-Making With The POWER Model
The POWER Model is a framework developed by Liz Whitney that supports better decision and stronger buy-in from stakeholders. In this article, originally published on Forbes.com, Liz talks through the stages of the model and how to put it into practice.
Culture Beyond the Leader: What Happens When Key Leaders Move On
Leadership transitions are inevitable in growing organisations. Yet when a key leader departs, one question tends to echo through the organisation: What will happen to our culture?
I was honoured to be featured in a Forbes Coaches Council article exploring strategies for maintaining company culture during leadership transitions. Read the my summary.
Creative energy is a precious resource, spend it wisely
Covid Special: Creative energy is a precious resource, now more than ever. You need to be careful where you spend it. Not everyone is respecting your energy as much as you’d like, so boundaries and stronger pitching criteria are necessary for Creative Leaders.
Remote-first is here to stay. It’s time for the agency culture to adapt.
Humans are social creatures, especially us creative agency-types. We thrive in buzzing studios, working alongside like-minded creatives. It feeds our souls. So what happens when the physical reality of that is no more? And the expensive inner-city studio is no longer the hub of agency life?