How can HR help a new CEO?
‘Don’t make it about you’ is some of the guidance to a new CEO in a recent article from McKinsey & Company. The careful rephrasing of questions below seeks to rebalance the strong ego that any CEO is likely to have.
Imagine how helpful you could be to a new CEO as they seek to answer these questions.
If you’re a CHRO or at any level of HR leadership, the arrival of a new CEO gives you a new lens. Imagine how they’re looking at your organisation – and at you and what HR delivers.
If you can succeed in doing that – letting old scales fall from your eyes – then it can provide an amazing opportunity for you to grasp with both hands the opportunity provided by a new leader.
You can:
- reimagine what your organisation needs from its people
- reimagine how to deliver that
- make a fresh mark as a leader
- achieve the success you’ve always wanted to, but thought ‘old’ leadership was getting in the way.
In fact, why wait for a new CEO? If you could switch your mindset so positively with a new leader at the top of the organisation, what’s stopping you doing it now?
Contact us for a chat about this, we’d love to hear from you.
Our Strategic Alignment Roadmap can help you with this.
It surveys key stakeholders on priorities and then we help you to build shared understanding, collaboration and visibly aligned leadership – whether you’ve got a new CEO or not. And it’s perfect if you’re a new CHRO.
