Growing Pains
The team feels bad because of the painful challenges the business goes through.
PORTZ LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
PEOPLE SKILLS FOR LEADERSHIP SUCCESS.
CHIEF OF ANYTHING is a practical, company-internal leadership development programme that gives managers a common language, a proven toolkit and the confidence to lead people well.
Designed for ambitious growth companies that need leadership capability to grow with the business.
THE LEADERSHIP PROBLEM
Growth creates opportunity. It also creates people pains.
The specialist who was brilliant at the job becomes a manager. New leaders arrive with different methods and habits. Teams get busier, but not always more effective. Leadership starts to depend on individual style instead of a shared standard.
Why a shared standard matters
Mediocre Managers
A lack of leadership skills makes good people quit or underperform.
Unproductive Hyperactivity
Everyone is frantically busy, but the frenzy does not pay off, and frustration grows.
Ivory Tower Syndrome
Only the top team believes the strategy. Everyone else lacks direction and performs poorly.
Top Team Troubles
Members are not aligned, conflicts simmer and roles are unclear.
Growth No-More
When growth stops, people and culture turn sour.
TRUSTED BY GROWTH COMPANIES
All these companies and more have been on the Chief of Anything leadership development programme
CHIEF OF ANYTHING
From good specialists to capable people leaders.
A modular curriculum of 10 leadership courses across four elements. The goal is not simply to attend training. It is to build shared leadership behaviour that transfers into the real work of running teams and growing the company.
See the curriculumLeading Myself
Build clarity, self-awareness and emotional intelligence.
Leading Others
Understand people, communicate powerfully, use feedback well and coach with confidence.
Leading Teams
Put the right people in the right roles, lift performance and get important work done.
Leading Organisations
Create the purpose, vision, values and strategic foundation that supports sustainable success.
LEARNING THAT GETS USED
Not seminar attendance. Behavioural transfer.
Independent preparation is combined with live practice, coaching, application and experience sharing. Depending on the programme design, the architecture can also include personal goal setting, mentoring, buddy learning, alumni mentors, Insights Discovery profiles, books and podcast content.
Explore the programmeBUILT FOR GROWING ORGANISATIONS
Leadership development that grows with the business.
CHIEF OF ANYTHING can fit successful scale-ups from around 20 employees, is commonly relevant from 50+, and becomes especially valuable at 200+ when leadership development starts to become recurring infrastructure.
Primary buyers are typically Chief People Officers, Heads of People and HR/L&D leaders, with CEOs, Executive Teams and Founders often closely involved.
Is it right for your organisation?
MICHAEL PORTZ
Practical leadership development, curated through real experience.
Michael has worked with leadership development in global organisations since 1999. Over 27 years he has collected, tested, taught and curated leadership methods through his work as an executive, entrepreneur, investor, coach, mentor and trainer.
Meet MichaelKNOWLEDGE ECOSYSTEM
Built to be used.
The books Chief of Anything and The Six Situations of Feedback, plus more than 240 podcast episodes and transcripts, extend the learning beyond the programme.
Explore the knowledge library
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