Who Has Your Back?: A Leader’s Guide to Getting the Support You Need from the Chief of Staff You Deserve

Amplify Your Impact with an Effective Chief of Staff

As a senior leader, are you constantly dealing with competing demands and escalations that prevent you from focusing on your top priorities? Are you putting out fires more often than making a lasting impact? Do most days seem like you barely have time to think? If this sounds familiar, a Chief of Staff should be your next hire. But do you know how to find the perfect match?

Inside these pages, author and leadership coach Laurie Arron shares her insider expertise to help you design a game plan to acquire and cultivate an effective Chief of Staff. With her powerful guidance and straightforward tools, you’ll be able to find the right support in a trusted advisor to help you navigate your way to success, driving the highest levels of impact toward your leadership and company mission.

With an effective Chief of Staff in your corner, you will be empowered to:

• Take command of your time and energy
• Navigate complex board relationships and internal politics with efficiency
• Rely on a strategic thought partner for big decisions and a broader perspective
• Trust in a proxy who will think with you and for you and manage your blind spots
• Create a healthy and productive culture of engaged employees

Dive in. This book will help you hire and optimize your relationship with your Chief of Staff and set you both up for success!