Surviving and thriving at the top: current challenges for CEOs
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current challenges for CEOs
Martin Farrell, ACEVO
Richard Chapman, Consultant, ACEVO
Surviving and thriving
• … staying sane and thriving … common leadership issues … good leadership matters… board that understands its role … practical workshop … chief executive, chair and board relationships …
Surviving and thriving
• … staying sane and thriving … common leadership issues … good leadership matters… board that understands its role … practical workshop … chief executive, chair and board relationships …
• … prevent a breakdown in relationships … lead when a crisis occurs ... leadership qualities …don’t waste a good crisis
Surviving and thriving
• … staying sane and thriving … common leadership issues … good leadership matters… board that understands its role … practical workshop … chief executive, chair and board relationships …
• … prevent a breakdown in relationships … lead when a crisis occurs ... leadership qualities …don’t waste a good crisis
• … your mission not only survives but thrives.
By the end of this session …
• What you could and will do to prevent a breakdown in your chief executive, chair, board and other significant relationships
• How you can lead to prevent a crisis and lead if you’re in one
By the end of this session …
• What you could and will do to prevent a breakdown in your chief executive, chair, board and other significant relationships
• How you can lead to prevent a crisis and lead if you’re in one
Surviving and thriving Arriving
1 Some assumptions
2 My significant professional relationships
3 What have CEOs in crisis said?
4 What could I do to prevent a breakdown in my significant professional relationships?
5 Before and during crisis leadership qualities
6 What will I do
Leaving
The times …
they are a changin’
The times …
they are a changin’
So get used to it
Suffering and struggle …
• … is part of the human condition
• … comes from what has happened before
• … can be changed …
• … by how we respond to it
A few words … • .. to describe your relationship with your
(professional) significant others
• Pairs with your real significant others if they’re here
and you both feel safe and OK to do so
Or someone who you do not know but think you would be happy to work with
What your fellow CEOs have said
Support of understanding close friends/partner
Meditation, practicing Yogic principles
Have diverse interests and other things to focus on.
Pets …
What your fellow CEOs have said
Know your truth, know what actually happened, what you did and didn't do
Invite honest comment from others about what happened and your part in it
See what's happening now in context of what has gone before.
Recover in the way you want for as long as you need
When you've recovered enough, do something. Take action.
What your fellow CEOs have said
Give to other people for free
Know it can happen to you
Drink less caffeine
Go for a run and take exercise you can enjoy at least bit (fresh air’s good for you)
What your fellow CEOs have said Locate and use factual information and get practical
support - is critical to surviving
So getting some 'on tap' emotional support - vital
Find opportunities to support others - a healing activity do some good, personal growth could come out of an awful experience.
Working out what nourishes you and giving some time to that
Be kind to yourself (so easy to blame yourself but remember that the roots of relationship breakdown are rarely one-sided
Thing what you would do and say to help a good friend in that situation, and apply it to yourself
What your fellow CEOs have said
Think about how committed you are to the cause (have you put your heart and soul into it as founder
or is it a job you feel good about but know you could feel
good about other jobs too)
Know that one day you will look back … and see it as a time in your life
Think about words and actions such as
If it difficult- choose talking not email
Don’t ‘reply all’ to painful mail .. start new
Honour the past
Hold and state the vision
Have integrity – be consistent
Say only what you know to be true and believe will be helpful
Be consistently respectful
Intention … words .. actionsThey’re all yours … you choose
Intention … words .. actionsThey’re all yours … you choose
• What habitual way of responding could you change …
• To (further?) improve your relationship with your significant professional others
Intention … words .. actionsThey’re all yours … you choose
• What habitual way of responding could you change …
• To (further?) improve your relationship with your significant professional others
What could you do …
to prevent a breakdown in your significant professional relationships and getting into an internally generated preventable crisis?
Some leadership qualities and practices
that may help to avoid a crisis and be of help during a crisis
Which are the ones
which take you into
your learning zone?
What will you do …
to prevent a breakdown in your significant professional relationships and getting into an internally generated preventable crisis?
to prepare yourself to lead out of in a externally generated crisis
Building National Resilience to Global Risks
World Economic Forum report 2013
• Systemic shocks … catastrophic events … increasingly interdependent and hyperconnected world … ripple effect on others.
• Ability to withstand, adapt and recover from shocks is becoming more critical.
• Global risks ... no country alone can prevent their occurrence.
Risks
• Preventable risks, such as breakdowns in processes and human error
• Strategic risks, which are undertaken voluntarily after weighing them against the potential rewards
• External risks, which are beyond one’s capacity to influence or control
Resilience - World Economic Forum
Robustness, Redundancy and Resourcefulness
design into the system … build inherent resilience capabilities
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Response and Recovery
http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2013
… special report on national resilience
www.get2thepoint.org/g2p/services-coaching-through-crisis.php
Is there a next action?
(Tell someone …)
Evolve 2014