Chief Of Staff
WITH HUMILITY, MATURITY, AND SITUATIONAL SENSITIVITY
Chief Of Staff
As the Chief of Staff to the CEO and C-Suite Executive, we consider the needs of the whole enterprise, whereas direct reports typically emphasize their areas and agendas. Our principal focus is on making time, information, and decision processes more effective. We function with the implicit imprimatur of the CEO—with humility, maturity, and situational sensitivity. We serve as:
Confidantes
Assist in the thinking through in setting and enacting strategy, policy, and decisions.
Strategy, policy, and situational decisions sounding board
When the leadership needs a points-of-view without turf considerations.
Initiative faciliators
Initiate and facilitate the identification of and management of enterprise priorities.
Tellers of truth, coaches, and advisors
Anticipate problems and are especially sensitive to issues that require diplomacy. We function as extra eyes and ears by pointing out political potholes their bosses may not recognize.
Diplomats
Classifier, and fixer, we assist in assigning degrees of urgency to emergent issues to be prioritized and getting them to timely resolution.
Crisis managers
Develop and connect work streams and dependencies that would otherwise remain siloed
Integrators
Develop and connect work streams and dependencies that would otherwise remain siloed.
Communicators
We link and align the leadership team and the broader organization.