HOME — The jobs of CEO and/or senior mandarin in a government department is never easy. It’s lonely and short on feedback. And then there’s the problem of getting people to do the things that you know the organisation needs to do.
It can all be a bit stressful.
So here are a few of the things that Able and How are increasingly finding we do for CEOs:
1. Make the strategy clearer
It is undoubtedly a brilliant idea. The strategy. It has come from great research, great learning and great thinking. However, not everyone know what to do with it. And that might even be the case for the most senior person.
Strategies need to be interpreted and explained and made into achievable activities. It’s not all that hard to do. But it requires planned, concerted communication efforts.
2. Renew employees’ engagement
There are undoubtedly a long list of things that you can point to the should be helping employees to understand and succeed at their jobs. But which ones are really effective? Which are value for money? And are you really pressing the right buttons? Do employees think that they can make a difference and do they know how?
You can assess and deliver these things effectively. You can clear the way for people to be successful. And it starts with a better understanding of what engagement means and how you get it.
3. Change the culture
Culture is often more easily understood as “the way we do things around here.” And “the way we do things around here” is often a reason for avoiding change. It can be a block to innovation and it can take perfectly good outsiders and turn them into corporate toad-stools in a number of days.
You can change the way you do things around here. In fact, it is probably part of your job.
4. Predict the future
Part of what we expect from any prominent business leaders is that they will be able to see the future. It’s an unreasonable expectation. But then again we have put all our faith in you.
It is possible however to better understand the future if you can better understand what is planned to happen in your organisation in the weeks and months to come. However, few companies have a solid future plan. The Able and How Radar is a simple process for doing just that. Do you know what will happen when? Can you adjust different parts of your plans to ensure that they don’t clash? Can you see how much you are helping the business to change versus how much it is just talking to itself?
We can help you do all of that.
5. Managers as communicators
Carrying the message forward is something that you have to rely on other people to do. Those people are usually quite good at their day jobs (accountant, sales, technician, research) but usually don’t have any training or support in communications.
There are two key aspects to communications: what you do and how you do it. Good communications training covers both of these areas, and we’ve been doing it around the world for many years. When you have solid communicators in your business, it just runs more smoothly.
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Obviously we can’t help with everything in your organisation. There are many decisions that you alone can take. But there are also many things that you are probably worrying about that you can delegate, or expect the organisation to be better at doing.
We’re here to help with that.
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