Why take the Chief of Staff Certification?
A quick LinkedIn search tells us that there are tens of thousands of Chief of Staff jobs, and even more when you include the similar role – often a stepping stone role – of Business Operations. But until the Chief of Staff Certification, there has been no formal course out there for the role. And it’s definitely not taught in undergraduate or graduate business school either.
The Chief of Staff course is the first of it’s kind, designed to give you the foundations of Business Operations and Chief of Staff work that you would get ON THE JOB. It’s a self-paced online course designed to be completed over 6 weeks. The course includes multiple instructor touchpoints, feedback, assignments, presentations, and interviews with CoSs and the executives they they support. Students leave the course with dozens of templates and tools and a completed porfolio of work to take with them to their CoS role.
What is a Chief of Staff?
A Chief of Staff is a CEO or Founders right hand, their proxy, and an executive level leader responsible for driving business forward and bringing the CEOs vision to life. An excellent executor, highly organized, and planful, a Chief of Staff keeps business moving in the right direction, and quickly.
How do you know if you’d be a great Chief of Staff?
Are you a driven achiever, who sees yourself as a business executive some day? Do you enjoy the big picture, and working with senior leaders responsible for business outcomes? Are you highly organized in your own unique ways… maybe you plan all the trips in your friend group, or have the most color-coded sticky noted class notes out of everyone you know? Are you excellent at completing tasks or projects, often creatively and resourcefully? Are you a natural leader, polished, and professional? If several of these things sound like you, then you are in the right place.
How will being a Chief of Staff help me?
The skillset and experience you will gain as a CoS will serve you throughout your career: business planning, strategic decision making and prioritization, the politics of a big executive team, storytelling, and presentation skills…and so much more. For these reasons, the CoS role is a very common final step before a Senior Leadership position.
How will this Chief of Staff course help me?
After this course, You will have the learnings and foundational understanding that you would get from an actual Chief of Staff or Business Operations job at a large company. Included in the course are countless tools, templates, resources, and hands-on practice that are yours to take with you, and you’ll leave with a completed portfolio of work that will help in both landing and succeeding in your Chief of Staff job. Additionally, you will receive marketing materials for future employers summarizing what you learned in this course and why this certification is valuable to any company looking to hire a CoS – materials you can use while applying and interviewing for roles. You will walk away with the knowledge, competence, and endorsement through this formal certification that your competition applying for the same roles will simply not have.