Various assessments can also be helpful to determine how difficult or likely it will be for you to develop in those areas. Some useful assessments are the DISC profile, the Innermetrics Values profile, Patrick Lencioni’s Ideal Team Player assessment, and the Visionary-Integrator framework outlined by Gino Wickman, CEO of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS).
Third, the CEO needs to plan for their development. This involves identifying the most important areas for them to develop in, and what methods will work best for them to learn in those areas and successfully turn that learning into sustained skills. An individual development planning tool can be helpful for considering and evaluating the various types of learning and skill development options available for a CEO. It can help a great deal to engage a business growth coach to support you in developing your CEO job scorecard, assessing yourself against it and with other assessment tools, and with putting an individual development plan together. One of the most valuable things a coach can do is share observations of things you may not notice about yourself and challenge you to grow in areas that might be uncomfortable for you. So, where do you get started? By clarifying your role as a CEO. We'll cover that in more detail in our next 5 Minute Growth Tip article.
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We’ll discuss the CEOs role in our next 5 Minute Growth Video.
If you are a prairie CEO who wants to grow a thriving company more quickly, more easily and with less stress and headache, please contact me here.
Processes, systems and structures create that order in companies. And the systems needed to create order in the complexity of a 200 person organization are different than that of a 100, 50, 25 or 10 person organization.
For example:
Hitting the ceiling, valleys of death Any company within one stage will usually hit a ceiling if they keep doing things the same ways they have been. Companies that don’t make the right changes, or aren’t successful in making those changes, will fall into what we call a “valley of death”. Valleys of death are where the leadership makes investments, but they don’t work out. So the company doesn’t move beyond that stage. The company can also fall backward in terms of revenue and often profitability because of the failed investments. Worst case, it can lead to company failure. Growing unprofitably Some companies grow despite not making the changes needed for the next stage. With sheer grit or dramatic demand growth, they’ll grow. However, these companies often become increasingly inefficient with the increasing complexity and resulting chaos. And so the company’s profitability will decrease, sometimes significantly. Unless exceptionally well funded, with investors willing to accept short to mid term losses for a longer term windfall, the decreasing profitability and resulting cash flow challenges will eventually prevent the company from investing in the capacity to grow and the systems to grow profitability. And so growth will stall. One can also count on drama, stress and headaches being the overarching theme for the CEO. So what stops a company from making the right changes and improvements to grow successfully and profitably? Leadership is the linchpin We can see early in a company’s life - by about 25 employees - that a CEO has to learn to get results from people THROUGH other managers or leaders, rather than managing everything themselves. Very often, the leaders, like the CEO, are stuck in the weeds, too focused on the day-to-day. So the projects to move the company forward often don’t get done or aren’t done right. Leaders in mid-size companies are often not on the same page about where the company is headed and how to get there. So they, and their people, are often working in silos and at cross purposes. These leaders are also often not meeting the CEO’s expectations and aren’t being the kind of leaders they need to be to get and keep their people fully engaged, productive and effective. And while the CEO may have a vision for the company, they often don’t have a clear strategy for how to attract and keep the best customers. Even if they do, that strategy is often not understood or supported by the leaders who need to make it happen. The result is the company doesn’t identify or successfully implement the right processes, systems and structures to support growth, in ways that delight customers, retain great employees and do so profitably and sustainably. As a result, customers come and go, as does talent, and the company’s growth is rocky and/or unprofitable.
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