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 Business+HR Strategic 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.
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