Find your Zone of Genius as a CEO

Become a better leader by discovering your Zone of Genius.

Afterwards, your Chief of Staff can encourage you to do 2x more of the things you love and 5x less of the things that drain your energy.

What's the result? Optimized CEO performance which leads to maximum value to your leadership team and company. Bonus outcome is that your job actually becomes more enjoyable :)

Follow these 5 steps to find your own Zone of Genius.

  1. Draw a Skill Will matrix

  2. Create stickies for common CEO roles & responsibilities

  3. Drag them into each of the different quadrants

  4. Add stickies that you haven't thought of

  5. Draw a box around the upper right quadrant (high skill, high will)

 

Voilà, you've found your Zone of Genius! Next step is to conduct a time & energy audit to find out how often you're staying in "the zone."

Delegate tasks that take you out of "the zone." Double down on activities that put you in "the zone."

Watch your happiness and performance increase steadily over time! PS At Cedar, we use Figma, DM me if you want the template, screenshot on the next page.

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