Chief of Staff
Not just an assistant. It's someone who guides the company as the CEO looks ahead ➡️
Not just an assistant. It's someone who guides the company as the CEO looks ahead ➡️
📘 Online recording course by Mike Pritula
⏰ Classes are posted once a week with homework, 24 classes in total
🗂 Homework check
📄 Diploma after the course
⏰ Classes are posted once a week with homework, 24 classes in total
🗂 Homework check
📄 Diploma after the course
It all started with an overloaded CEO calendar, dozens of urgent tasks and team-level chaos. He was a strategic genius - but every day was drowning in operations. That's when the Chief of Staff stepped in.
This inconspicuous but key figure is not an assistant, not a COO, and not a project manager. This is the person who turns chaos into structure, ideas into action, and the CEO into a real leader, free to think 3 steps ahead.
⚠️ Are you already in a company where the CEO is overwhelmed and everything hinges on him?
⚠️ Do you think being a CoS is about "helping"? It's actually about managing.
⚠️ And most importantly, there are already Chief of Staff jobs popping up all over the world. There aren't that many of them. But those who are in are already in.
Don't miss your chance - while others are just googling what the role is all about.
This inconspicuous but key figure is not an assistant, not a COO, and not a project manager. This is the person who turns chaos into structure, ideas into action, and the CEO into a real leader, free to think 3 steps ahead.
⚠️ Are you already in a company where the CEO is overwhelmed and everything hinges on him?
⚠️ Do you think being a CoS is about "helping"? It's actually about managing.
⚠️ And most importantly, there are already Chief of Staff jobs popping up all over the world. There aren't that many of them. But those who are in are already in.
Don't miss your chance - while others are just googling what the role is all about.
Why take a course about the head of the CEO's office
Don't miss your chance!
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Who this course is for👔 Future or current Chief of Staff, C-suite level Executive Assistants
🏢 Executives who want to become strategic partners of the CEO
📊 Operational leaders coordinating cross-functional projects
🧠 Those who want to scale the CEO and be an extension of him - without formal authority
🚀 Anyone seeking a CoS role or a transition to COO, GM, CPO and above -
What you'll learn to do🧭 Manage the CEO's focus and time, freeing him/her from operations
📌 Prioritize, filter and synthesize information for decision making
🗣 Be the voice of the CEO: manage communications, prepare speeches and meetings
⚙️ Coordinate projects and build alliances within the team
📈 Work with influence, culture and politics within the company -
Benefit⚡ Free the CEO from routine and become his operational "memory and hands"
📊 Accelerate strategy execution - through control over task realization
🔐 Gain access to management decisions and areas of influence
🧩 Become the link between strategy, team and culture
🌱 Build a career track from CoS to C-level roles -
Differentiation from other courses⛔ No theory - only practical CoS work inside the business
🧰 Checklists, templates, briefs, executive summaries - ready-made tools
🧠 Emphasis on soft power: influence without power, culture, working with CEOs
📚 Bonus: a selection of webinars on management, analytics, OKR and communications
🎯 First course that reveals CoS as a profession with growth potential
Woking with CEO course program ⏬
Don't miss your chance!
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class 1. Chief of Staff position: Architect of Influence
- Role of CoS in different types of companies (startup, growth, corporation)
- The CEO-CoS-team triangle: models of interaction
- How to build trust, be indispensable but invisible
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class 2: Personal Effectiveness and Managing CEO Focus
- Managing the CEO calendar and strategy of the week
- Prioritization: Eisenhower, ICE, Impact Mapping models
- "Shielding CEO": filtering unnecessary things, protecting time
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class 3: Information mediation: synthesizing, not collecting
- Gathering and digesting information from various sources
- Preparing briefs, summaries and solutions for CEOs
- Secrets of writing executive summaries and speeches
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class 4: Politics and Power: Managing Expectations and Alliances
- Dealing with influence and hidden power structure in the company
- Managing the interests of different stakeholders
- How to provide C-level buy-in without formal power
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class 5: Anti-crisis support for the CEO
- Dealing with abrupt change: layoffs, mergers, wars
- Decision-making protocols in the face of uncertainty
- Internal and external communications in a crisis
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class 6. Growing and scaling the CoS role
- How not to get stuck in support - development track: CoS → COO / GM
- Building a support team (analysts, assistants)
- CoS as a cultural carrier and inheritor of CEO values
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class 7. Company strategy
- Defining good and bad company strategy
- The essence of blue ocean strategy
- Defining competitive differentiation
- The 3 types of typical company strategies
- Components of an effective strategy
- At least 3 tools to diagnose a company before developing a strategy
- Rules for conducting a company strategy session
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class 8: HR audit and audit checklist
- HR Audit Tool
- HR Audit Checklist
- Filling in SWOT analysis
- Filling in PESTEL-analysis
- Audit report format
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class 9. HR strategy and a template for its development
- HR strategy template
- Formulating HR goals
- Metrics for HR strategy
- Linking HR strategy to business strategy
- Creating a strategy based on HR audit results
- Justification of HR costs for the strategy
- Development of HR Roadmap based on the strategy
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class 10. Project Management
- 4 main project phases and 5 processes
- Project plan template
- Project Business Case Template
- Project Communication Plan Template
- Project Network Diagram Creation
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class 11. Change management
- A model of people's resistance to change
- The rider, elephant and path model of change management
- The importance of emotional factors of change
- John Kotter's model for change management
- The unfreeze-change-freeze model for change management
- Gallup questionnaire for assessing team readiness for change
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class 12. OKR system
- The essence of the OKR method and requirements for its use
- 5 differences between OKR and MBO
- Systems for OKR accounting
- Painless start-up of OKR in a company for the first time
- OKR summarization
- Linking OKR to Performance Review
- All Key Results requirements
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class 13. Performance Review
- Performance Review Questionnaire Template
- Linking Goal Setting, Feedback and Performance Review
- Performance Review automation tools
- Performance Review Questionnaire for Employees on the Quality of a Meeting with a Manager
- Template of ideal manager-employee meeting for Performance Review
- Manager's self-questionnaire following the review meeting
- Linking performance review and completion of employee development plan
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class 14. Internal communications
- The concept of Employee Voice and its role in the company
- Employee relations and their formation
- Model of effective communication
- Questionnaire for assessing communication in the company
- At least 10 channels of communication with employees
- Organization and implementation of All hands
- Implementation of an open door policy
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class 15. Corporate events
- The role of corporate events in a company and their impact on business
- Developing a corporate events calendar with ChatGPT
- Popular event formats, e.g. Thirsty Thursday
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class 16. Corporate culture
- 3 main elements of corporate culture
- The process of describing company culture and the tools to do so
- At least 10 ways to integrate culture into company operations
- Description of desirable and undesirable employee behavior
- Description of the culture in the employee's book and the requirements for this
- Rules for changing the culture in the company
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class 17. HR analytics and popular HR metrics
- The difference between analytics and just metrics
- 50 most popular HR metrics, their calculation and application
- 5 data collection tools for analytics
- The difference between data validity and reliability
- Calculating medians and percentiles
- Digitizing HR decisions for analytics
- Constructing different graphs
- Calculating correlation between data sets
- Different ways of making predictions of data
- Segmenting data in different areas
- Calculating the monetary benefit of an employee to the company
- Calculating the benefit to the company from increased employee engagement
- Implementation of Exit Interview for turnover analysis
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class18. Recruiting analytics
- Recruiting audit checklist tool
- 20+ most common recruiting metrics and their calculation
- Job funnel analysis and analysis tool
- Calculation of the number of recruiters needed for a yearly closing plan
- Calculating the cost of closing vacancies with all costs
- Developing recruiting SLAs
- Reporting in recruiting
- Handling complaints in recruiting
- Strategies for dealing with problem vacancies
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class 19. Evaluation of results
- Assessing results based on responsibilities
- MBO-based results assessment
- KPI-based results assessment
- Outcome assessment based on compliance with standards
- Outcome assessment based on critical incidents
- Evaluation of employee results based on job analysis
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class 20. Training for managers
- Executive development concept based on leadership levels
- Training of managers in People Management tools
- At least 5 executive development formats
- Assessment of executive development needs
- At least 3 popular leadership books for executives
- At least 3 world renowned leadership development trainings
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class 21. Employee talents
- The role of talent in employee development
- Utilizing a talent assessment tool from Gallup, VIA or High5test
- Conducting talent coaching
- Research showing the effects of talent at work
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class 22. Organizational development
- Model and stages of organizational development
- 5 main tools of organizational diagnostics
- 5 levels of interventions in the company
- Proposal of at least 5 intervention options for each of the 5 intervention levels
- Evaluation of the results of interventions
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class 23. Organizational structure
- Several types of organizational structures in a company
- Creating a matrix structure
- Minimum of 5 drivers of organizational structure
- Organizational structure diagnostic tool
- Creating Spotify-like network structures to strengthen horizontal ties
☕ Recorded class with a feedback on the homework
Class 24. HR automation
- Minimum of 10 HR automation systems, including PeopleForce
- Demo and test at least one system
- Recruitment automation systems
- Training automation systems
- Scorecard evaluation systems
- Platforms for creating a simple chatbot
- Opportunities and limitations of using AI in HR automation
- Active use of ChatGPT for routine daily tasks
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How the training on CoS works
1
Webinar recording
You watch the recorded sessions at your own pace and study the material. We open 1 lesson per week
2
Homework with verification by the course author
Each webinar has a practical task that you must do to get a diploma
3
Case studies of participants
We communicate in Telegram chat and discuss participants' cases
4
Getting a diploma
Students who successfully complete the course assignments will receive a diploma at the end of the course
Diploma of HR Professional after completing the course
So coveted and valuable
So coveted and valuable
- Integrates into Linkedin and HH profiles
- Each diploma has a unique code
- QR code on the diploma leads to the online version
- Impossible to forge
- Issued on a certified Accredible platform (the same place where Rosetta Stone, Google, Udacity, Kaplan University and others issue certificates), look at an example
The course is led by Mike Pritula - the #1 expert in the online HR field
- Founder of Mike Pritula Academy and PapaHR AI software
- #1 Opinion Leader in HR since 2019
- Author of the largest Youtube HR channel
- 20 years in HR Wargaming, Preply, iDeals, Starlightmedia, Alfa-Bank, PeopleForce
- Realized more than 50 HR projects
- Formed 4 HR teams in different businesses.
- Top 10 best HR CIS
- Since 2010 he has been engaged in online training
- HRCI representative in CIS, prepares for SHRM certification.
- Holder of PHRi, SHRM-CP, HCI sHRBP certifications.
- Launched HRCI certification preparation courses in 10+ countries.
- More than 60'000 trained HR
- Author of HR competency model
- Author of the most comprehensive HR audit checklist
- HR Person of the Year of Ukraine (2018) and Belarus (2017)
- Over 100 published articles and presentations
- More than 5 million views of articles
- Author of a column on the Lifehacker.ru website
- Author of the books "Resume for a Million" and "AI in HR"
👨🎓60'000 HR
That's exactly how many participants have taken our courses since 2012
🌍 185 countries
USA, India, Spain, France, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and others
📚 135+ courses
For HR, recruiters, executives and business people
🗣️ 5 languages
We train in different languages and make HR more accessible
What you'll get from the Chief of Staff course
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Intensive course workOn the course you are not a passive listener, but actively participate in online chat during the class, in Telegram chat between classes, as well as practicing all the knowledge gained and get feedback from the author of the course -
ToolsYou will get a large variety of proven tools that the author has tested in a wide variety of companies, many of which were developed personally, as well as examples from top companies -
Ready-made solutionsYou will not need to develop all the solutions yourself. You will immediately receive ready-made solutions based on the "Take and Do" principle. Your task will only be to adapt all the tools you receive to your company -
ExamplesWe'll have plenty of examples and case studies from companies in a wide variety of industries on how they solved business challenges with HR tools. You will surely find many ideas for yourself -
HomeworkIn your homework assignments, you will customize all the tools and solutions for your business, and the course author will personally check how you did. -
Private chatAll students are added to a closed Telegram chat where they can ask questions and get help, share experiences, find like-minded people and friends.
CONVENIENT STUDENT ACCOUNT
Training on the course: recorded classes, practice and support
All resources: webinar recordings, presentations, supplementary materials, are stored in your personal account.
For communication and support, all participants communicate in a dedicated Telegram chat room.
For communication and support, all participants communicate in a dedicated Telegram chat room.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions (Q&A)
The Chief of Staff is the CEO's right hand, a strategic coordinator who manages projects, filters information, helps the CEO focus on what's important and ensures that priorities are met. This is not an assistant, but a person who enhances the efficiency of the entire company.
Yes, if you are already working with top executives, this course will help you move to the next level - from support to strategic partnership. Especially relevant for Executive Assistants, Project Managers, Chief Admin Officers.
The COO manages the operations of the company and has formal authority. The Chief of Staff coordinates priorities and the CEO's interaction with the team, not necessarily managing people directly, but influencing decision-making and organizing processes.
Analytical thinking, strategic planning, information management, trust building, project management and communication skills. The course helps to develop all these skills through practice.
You will learn how to act as Chief of Staff: manage CEO time, prepare decisions, moderate projects, and work with influence. Get a diploma, a set of templates, and checklists to implement the role in your company.
Yes. The course uses storytelling, real-life scenarios, executive summaries, communication examples and tools from CoS life. You will also receive a bonus - a selection of webinars on related topics: OKR, project management, culture.
Defined. Whether you want to delegate more, scale yourself, or prepare a CoS within your team - the course will help you understand how to effectively align this role and not lose control.
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