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Chief Learning Officer - Solutions For Enterprise Productivity. Management Journals. CEOExpress: Business portal for executives. CEO COO CIO CFO CTO. CEO Development - The CEO Institute. Without leadership, all business resources are ineffective.

CEO Development - The CEO Institute

Leadership is the major factor that makes everything work together seamlessly, towards a unified goal. Most leadership training programs don’t even come close to accomplishing what they were designed to accomplish, which is to develop better leaders. Poor training is the cause of many fails in leadership development. Although the traditional idea is that a simple training course will solve leadership issues, it rarely does. Training and development are actually two very separate concepts. Read More: Leadership Training vs Leadership Development Development should be the answer. Ongoing leadership development programs Running an organisation is hard work - but leaders still need find time to develop their leadership skills. The Most Important Leadership Quality for CEOs? Creativity. For CEOs, creativity is now the most important leadership quality for success in business, outweighing even integrity and global thinking, according to a new study by IBM.

The Most Important Leadership Quality for CEOs? Creativity

The study is the largest known sample of one-on-one CEO interviews, with over 1,500 corporate heads and public sector leaders across 60 nations and 33 industries polled on what drives them in managing their companies in today's world. Fast Company's annual list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business just took on a whole new depth. And this year's list will be revealed later this month. Keep Learning Once You Hit the C Suite. Making It to the Top: Nine Attributes That Differentiate CEOs. Becoming a CEO is the greatest leap that an executive can make in his or her career.

Making It to the Top: Nine Attributes That Differentiate CEOs

What makes it such an extraordinary transition, of course, is the complexity of the role and the skill that is required to manage that complexity successfully. So, what exactly do CEOs have that other leaders don’t? To answer that question—and, by doing so, help aspiring CEOs optimize their trajectories and assist current CEOs and boards in making better CEO succession planning decisions—we analyzed our database of nearly 4,000 executive assessments, including over 130 CEOs. These tests measure a number of competencies, such as relationship skills, communication skills and decision-making approaches. What Senior Leaders Do: The Nine Roles.

Executive Job Responsibilities. The Seven Skills You Need to Thrive in the C Suite. How to Think Like a CEO 22 Traits You Need to Be the Person At the Top. Leadership Competencies Most Important for Leading the Function. From the white paper, “Leading with Impact: How Functional Leaders Face Challenges, Focus Development, and Boost Performance.”

Leadership Competencies Most Important for Leading the Function

CCL works closely with many leaders who are running functions or divisions in large organizations. They carry titles such as vice president or senior director and have responsibilities for one or multiple functions such as Sales, Marketing, Finance, Operations, Engineering, Technology, Legal, and Human Resources. Leading Your Organization So Others Can Manage It. Senior management. Senior management, executive management, or management team is generally a team of individuals at the highest level of organizational management who have the day-to-day responsibilities of managing a company or corporation.

Senior management

Essential Elements of an Effective CEO-Board Relationship. Essential Elements of an Effective CEO-Board Relationship builds on the ongoing work of our global CEO and Board Services practice in assessing critical board composition, governance and performance issues.

Essential Elements of an Effective CEO-Board Relationship

This discussion is meant to help boards led by non-executive chairmen understand the defining activities and attributes of the best CEO-board relationships— relationships that consistently contribute to organizational performance and superior results. Our goal is twofold: To provide boards and CEOs with a clear understanding of the essential elements of an effective CEO-board relationship and to enable boards and CEOs to both assess and improve their current performance in delivering against each of these relationship attributes. We have identified 25 essential elements of an effective CEO-board relationship, each with an actionable defining standard. We hope these prove useful in assessing the health and quality of the relationship dynamics in your firm.

Sharpening Your Business Acumen. Top Executives' Team Spirit Affects Whole Organization. Effective teamwork among an organization's top management makes employees happier and more productive, with positive benefits to the organization.

Top Executives' Team Spirit Affects Whole Organization

Despite an abundance of research on teamwork in the workplace, studies of how teamwork right at the top impacts employees lower down the food chain is surprisingly thin on the ground. Now researchers have surveyed business theory and put it to the test empirically, showing that top management's behaviour does trickle down. This new research is published by SAGE in the journal Human Relations. Does effective teamwork in an organization's top management team (TMT) matter to employees? Even though much of this top level interaction takes place behind closed doors, Anneloes ML Raes, Heike Bruch and Simon B De Jong all from the Institute for Leadership and Human Resource Management, University of Galen, decided to find out, and to uncover empirical evidence into how such a relationship might work.

The organizational shadow impact. Teams at the Top. Teamwork at the Top McKinsey. Top Management Team Effectiveness. Six Conditions to Create an Effective Top Team. Breaking Down Silos - Building Collaboration. How Do I Develop an Effective Top Team. Three steps to building a better top team. Few teams function as well as they could.

Three steps to building a better top team

But the stakes get higher with senior-executive teams: dysfunctional ones can slow down, derail, or even paralyze a whole company. In our work with top teams at more than 100 leading multinational companies, including surveys with 600 senior executives at 30 of them, we’ve identified three crucial priorities for constructing and managing effective top teams. Getting these priorities right can help drive better business outcomes in areas ranging from customer satisfaction to worker productivity and many more as well.

Putting Management Team Building to Work. How to Build Teamwork. Managing the Team at the Top. More often than not, today’s C.E.O.’s are not only leaders of their companies, they direct a small team of ambitious top executives - their fellow members of the Office of the Chief Executive.

Managing the Team at the Top

For many of them, schooled perhaps in the traditional authoritarian mold, eyeballing with their near-peers is by far the tougher assignment. David Nadler, a consultant who has worked closely with nearly 50 C.E.O.’s who lead executive teams, elaborates upon the classic problem: the C.E.O. who confuses participation with a lack of leadership. How do you rate your team management skills? Developing Diversity Lessons from Top Teams. How to Measure Managerial Performance - Richard S. Sloma. The CEO’s role in leading transformation. Blueprint for Strategic Leadership. Strategy under uncertainty. Steps for understanding your company strategy.

Balanced Scorecard

The 51 Fatal Business Errors. Book The Self Destructive Habits of Good Companies. How to Scale Up Excellence in an Organization. Strategy in the World of Exponential Change - BeachFleischman. Just a few years ago, business strategy was founded on the belief that if you "Build it, they will come.

Strategy in the World of Exponential Change - BeachFleischman

" For decades, considerable effort was expended to have the management team annually prepare a brilliant strategy, share it with the "team," hang the perfectly scripted mission statement in the lobby and expect everyone in the organization to be compelled to execute the strategy. In today’s world, that process takes too long, doesn’t include the "right stuff" and in most cases, will not achieve the desired results.

Today, organizations need more than a strategy. They must build a culture that will embrace a rapidly changing world. Competing Through Organizational Agility. Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution. Strategy Execution Leadership Checklist.