Think bigger.
Interested in Chief of Staff services, but not ready to hire full-time?
Nova’s Fractional Chief of Staff services bring the expertise of a seasoned CoS to the table, allowing executives to maximize their time and remain focused on their bigger vision.
How a Chief of Staff can support your business:
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Business Planning
Operating mechanisms to drive organizational efficiency.
Organizing the Rhythm of Business: staff meetings, strategic reviews, off-sites, and all-hands meetings.
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Strategy & Prioritization
Generating transparency to the leadership team.
Strategic planning, prioritization, and tactical tracking of CEO/Founder objectives and action items.
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Business Process
Bringing organizational clarity to act on key items.
Eliminating friction/bottlenecks, removing roadblocks, identifying resource needs, and enabling speed and clarity to action.
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Comms & Engagement
Producing comms in support of business activities like event talk-tracks or email correspondence.
Preparing leadership for meetings and engagements and supporting networking.
Think of a Chief of Staff as your strategic thought partner, who is focused on the execution of your most important initiatives.
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FAQ
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A Chief of Staff is a CEO or Founder’s right hand, their strategic thought partner, who is focused on the leader’s priorities. A CoS can manage large scale projects, create and implement strategic plans, and facilitate high-level meetings and engagements. Chiefs of Staff are masters of follow through and are highly organized, and depending on the size and needs of the business, they may also oversee functions like employee culture, operations, or HR.
A Chief of Staff allows a CEO or Founder to stay focused on their vision— the “what,” while the CoS steps in to focus on the execution—the “how.” Chiefs of Staff drive organizational clarity by helping lead an effective Rhythm of Business, removing friction & roadblocks, driving process & efficiency, strategic planning, resourcing, and many other capabilities, all dependent on what the business needs.
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CEOs or Founders often turn to hiring a CoS when they realize that they are spending too much time on tactical, executionary items like planning, tracking, and follow up tasks, and not enough time on the strategic, visionary items necessary to guide their business. Additionally, CEOs or Founders often feel they are missing the organizational rigor in their operating rhythm, business planning, and preparedness.
A CoS can step in and take executional and operational items off your plate, drive priorities and transparency, ensure your leadership team is focused in the same direction, and create and lead operating cadence/rhythm of business, all leading to greater organizational clarity and focus.
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Executive Assistants and CoS both support CEOs or Founders, and at first glance it may be hard to understand the difference: both drive organization and focus, and keeping the CEO / Founder prepared is of utmost importance. However, an EA is focused on highly detailed tasks including expenses, travel, meeting and scheduling logistics, and often personal errands and support for their leader. The CoS is a senior level leader, who is a strategic thought partner to the business leader, and may act as their proxy in certain situations. A CoS can manage complex company wide initiatives, lead large teams, oversee operational aspects of the business, and drive strategic planning at a high level.
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COOs and CoS are both strategic, senior leadership roles focused on major company initiatives, but the key difference between the two is that the COO is focused on the overall health of the total business, where the CoS is a role truly designed to support the CEO or Founder and their specific priorities. This includes CEO communications support, priorities alignment and driving, and more. The CoS role is more behind the scenes than the COO, which is more of an outward facing role.