Management consulting

Hire a chief of staff in Greece and Cyprus

The right hand a chief executive needs for a period: decisions followed through, the board prepared, and the one project nobody else can carry.

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Some chief executives in Greece and Cyprus carry everything personally, and the company's rhythm is their diary. For a period or a few days a week, a chief of staff takes the weight that is not a function off them. It usually starts with:

A founder with no second line, running a scale-up alone
An owner-run family group where the agenda changes with every phone call
A new chief executive with a hundred-day plan and no bandwidth
A special project of the year: a fundraise, a market entry or an integration

The chiefs of staff on Hellenic Talent are elite professionals who were strategy consultants or corporate finance advisers before becoming a chief executive's right hand. They know a founder here rarely decides in the meeting, and they hold senior people to dates on borrowed authority.

What does a chief of staff actually do?

Run the management rhythm: agenda, preparation, decisions recorded and followed up
Follow decisions through across functions, and report what moved and what did not
Prepare board, investor and bank material the chief executive can defend
Drive the priorities nobody owns, from the hundred-day plan to the reorganisation
Filter what reaches the chief executive, so decisions arrive ready to be taken
Build the structure that replaces them, and leave once it works

How to choose the right chief of staff

What to test in the first conversation, whoever you end up hiring.

Writes the board paper themselves
Drafts the board pack, the investor update or the plan personally, to the standard its readers expect.
Authority on loan
Has kept executives senior to them on schedule without a title of their own, and can describe how.
Keeps a decision log
Records every decision with an owner and a date, and chases the ones that slip without being asked.