CEO Evaluation

Within the four key areas of responsibility of the Senior Business Leader Accountability Framework there are a total of sixteen Sub-Accountabilities, four per area which based on context would vary in terms of weighting

1. Strategic Vision and Leadership

Refers to achieving the desired outcomes or objectives with precision and success. It emphasizes achieving goals and delivering results that meet expectations.

• Leading Strategic Direction:

  Leading strategic direction involves visionary thinking, effective planning, decisive action, clear communication, resource management, risk mitigation, and a commitment to organizational growth and sustainability. By providing strong leadership in setting and executing strategic direction, leaders can guide their organizations to achieve long-term success and competitive advantage in a dynamic and competitive business environment.

• Leading Strategic Growth:

  Strategic growth leadership requires visionary thinking, decisive action, innovation, collaboration, and a commitment to excellence. By providing strategic direction and guiding the execution of growth initiatives, leaders can position their organizations for long-term success, sustainability, and competitive advantage in dynamic and evolving markets

• Leading Strategic Organisational Development:

  Strategic organizational development involves guiding and overseeing the systematic and planned efforts within an organization to enhance its overall effectiveness, performance, and adaptability. It focuses on aligning organizational structure, culture, processes, and capabilities with strategic goals and objectives. It involves driving change, fostering growth, and building organizational capabilities to achieve long-term success and sustainability.

• Leading Strategic Execution:

  Strategic execution requires vision, planning, agility, effective communication, and strong leadership to drive successful implementation of strategic plans and initiatives. By focusing on alignment, accountability, flexibility, and continuous improvement, leaders can enhance organizational performance, achieve strategic objectives, and position the organization for long-term growth and success.

2. People, Efficiency and Operational Management

Focuses on achieving outcomes with minimal waste of resources such as time, money, or effort. Efficiency aims to maximize productivity and optimize processes.

• Leading Operations Management:

  Operations management refers to the role of ensuring that the day-to-day operations of an organization run smoothly and effectively, delivering high-quality products or services on time and within budget. This involves overseeing processes, managing resources, and leading teams to achieve operational excellence.

• Leading Talent Management:

  Refers to the role of guiding and overseeing the processes involved in attracting, developing, retaining, and optimizing an organization's workforce to ensure that it has the talent needed to achieve its strategic objectives. It involves strategic thinking, effective implementation, and a focus on creating a positive and productive work environment.

• Team Leadership:

  Team Leadership is a leadership approach that focuses on setting a clear direction and goals for a team, aligning team members with a common vision, and guiding them towards achieving that vision. This involves strategic planning, effective communication, and motivational techniques to ensure that all team members are working towards the same objectives.

• Leading Communication Management:

  The strategic planning, execution, and oversight of communication within an organization to ensure clear, effective, and consistent messaging with an ability to define and align key messages. Strong communication leaders play a proactive role in shaping how information is disseminated, received, and understood by various stakeholders. It requires strong leadership skills, strategic thinking, effective stakeholder engagement, and a commitment to promoting clear, transparent, and impactful communication within and outside the organization.

3. Financial Performance & Sustainability

Involves utilising resources in a prudent and cost-effective manner. It emphasises managing costs and expenses efficiently while maintaining quality and achieving objectives.

• Leading Financial Management:

  Financial Management Leadership involves overseeing the strategic financial operations of an organization to ensure fiscal health, stability, and growth. It requires an understanding of all the factors that impact Balance Sheet, P+L and Cashflow.

• Financial Stewardship:

  A financial stewardship leader plays a critical role in safeguarding financial resources, promoting transparency, and driving financial performance in alignment with the organization's mission and values.It involves ensuring that financial resources are used wisely, ethically, and in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and organizational policies.

• Leading Resource Management:

  Resource management leadership refers to the role of guiding and overseeing the strategic planning, allocation, and optimization of resources within an organization to achieve its objectives effectively and efficiently. Resource management leadership involves strategic planning, effective decision-making, optimization of resources, risk management, team leadership, and continuous improvement to achieve organizational objectives and enhance operational efficiency. Resources can include financial capital, human capital, physical assets, and time.

• Leading Organisational Capability:

  Organization Capability Management Leadership refers to the leadership role responsible for guiding and overseeing the strategic development, optimization, and utilization of organizational capabilities, resources, skills and competencies to achieve strategic objectives and enhance organizational effectiveness and gain competitive advantage in a changing environment.

4. Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)

Involves utilising resources in a prudent and cost-effective manner. It emphasises managing costs and expenses efficiently while maintaining quality and achieving objectives.

• Governance Leadership:

  Refers to the processes, practices, and structures put in place to ensure effective oversight, accountability, transparency, and decision-making within an organization. It encompasses a set of principles, policies, and procedures designed to guide and regulate the activities of individuals, teams, and departments to align with organizational goals and values. Governance management is essential for organizations to establish effective leadership, maintain compliance with regulations, manage risks, make informed decisions, uphold ethical standards, engage stakeholders, monitor performance, ensure transparency, and drive continuous improvement.

• Risk Management:

  Risk management refers to the systematic process of identifying, assessing, prioritizing, and mitigating risks within an organization. It involves analyzing potential events or circumstances that may have adverse effects on the organization's objectives, projects, operations, or stakeholders. The primary goals of risk management are to reduce uncertainty, minimize potential losses, and maximize opportunities for achieving organizational goals.

• Legal Compliance Leadership:

  Legal compliance leadership involves the strategic oversight and direction of strategies, policies and procedures within an organization to ensure adherence to legal requirements, regulations, and ethical standards and mitigate risks.

• Stakeholder Relations:

  Stakeholder relations management leadership involves the strategic oversight and direction of activities aimed at effectively managing relationships with stakeholders who have a vested interest in an organization in order to build trust, foster collaboration, manage conflicts, advocate for stakeholder interests, and promote transparency within an organization.