Capabilities directory
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- Function: Executive and office support
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12 capabilities
Board meeting pack
Before each board meeting, the CEO gets a pre-read built on the one decision the board is asked to make, with every figure from the company's own reports, an agenda kept mostly for discussion and the questions directors are likely to ask. Afterwards, a record of what was decided. The CEO sends it all.
Channel partner fit review
When a referral, reseller or alliance partner approaches, the founder or head of partnerships gets one review: evidence the partner brings customers of its own, the type that evidence supports, a ninety-day plan with signs to go on or stop, and the commission range that still beats selling direct. A person decides.
Cold outreach sequence drafting
Your outreach reads like you wrote it on your best day: a first note and its follow-ups, drafted in your own voice, where every line about the prospect traces to a dated fact and every line about your company traces to facts you supplied. You read it, edit it and send it yourself.
Customer case study
With a customer who has agreed to help, prepare the interview, then turn their words and the figures they supply into a case study in a short and a long version. Every quotation and number is listed for the customer to approve in writing, and nothing is published or named before they do.
Deal close plan
Your account executive holds one late-stage deal on two pages: the buyer's case for buying now, counted from the buyer's own figures, and a dated plan of every step to signature with its owner on each side. The seller decides what the buyer sees; nothing reaches the sales system without approval.
Delegation brief and follow-up
Every task a manager hands over goes with a clear brief: what to deliver, in what form, by what date and time, why it matters, who will use it, what the person may decide alone and when the manager will check in. Each week, one list shows what is open, what is late and the next note to send.
Event plan
Whoever owns one event, a talk, a dinner, a webinar or a stand, gets one plan: the goal and target, who should be in the room, every step before, on and after the day with a date and an owner, and how each conversation is followed up. Nothing is booked, paid or sent by the assistant.
Executive situation brief
Before a conversation that matters, with a key partner, a major customer or a co-founder, the executive gets one brief from the records they approve: the short version in a sentence, what is already decided and promised, what each side has said, the question to settle and the choices open. The executive decides.
Interview scheduling and candidate confirmation
For candidates your team has already chosen to interview, the recruiting coordinator gets one scheduling sheet that lines up each candidate's offered times, in their own time zone, with the interviewers' free time, plus a ready confirmation or availability request for each. A person sends every message and invitation.
Presentation outline and talk track
Anyone presenting to a board, a client or a conference gets a storyboard built on one message, then a spoken script for every slide, timed to the slot and true to their own speaker notes. Every fact comes from what the presenter supplied, and the presenter approves the message and the words.
Product pricing options
A product owner weighing how to price or package a product gets one options brief: what each customer group uses, the willingness-to-pay evidence held with stated kept apart from observed, what each option would bill every account, the uncertainties and the tests. It recommends no price.
Prospect list by role and firm type
Before anyone writes a first note, you know which kinds of firm and which roles in them deserve your next conversations. Every firm is tested against your own criteria first and carries a sourced reason, a grade and the questions only a conversation can answer. Nobody is contacted.