Executive Coaching
Trusted by 350+ clients
Chief Executive Skills is Paul Robinson’s executive coaching and leadership development program designed to prepare emerging managers, future leaders, entrepreneurs, and business owners for the real demands of senior leadership.
Delivered either one-on-one as executive coaching or one-to-many as immersive workshops, this program focuses on building the core capabilities required to think, decide, and act at a chief executive level.
Moving far beyond conventional leadership training, the program develops ten essential skills that define effective leadership in complex, high-stakes environments.
Rooted in real-world leadership challenges and practical application, Chief Executive Skills helps participants transition from managing tasks to leading outcomes, enabling them to build high-performing teams, resilient organisations, and sustainable long-term success.
Below is a list of Chief Executive–level skills, curated specifically for corporate employees stepping into managerial and leadership roles. Also these skills are ideal for business owners , start-up founders, and SME owners who want to build organisations. These go beyond generic soft skills and focus on high-impact, polished capabilities required to perform effectively in leadership and decision-making roles.
The ability to make timely, high-quality decisions under uncertainty, balancing data, intuition, and risk.
Influencing people, setting direction, inspiring trust, and aligning teams toward shared outcomes. Lead with questions. And becoming the leader people want to follow.
Seeing the big picture, anticipating hard trends and soft trends, developing a curious mind, scenario planning, crisis management, and making choices that create long-term advantage—not just short-term wins.
Turning strategy into action, time management, delegation, driving follow-through, and ensuring results—not just plans.
Analysing complexity, questioning assumptions, and solving problems logically and creatively. Learning conceptual skills like innovation and creative thinking. Tools for thinking on paper.
Communicating with clarity, confidence, and authority across levels—especially in high-stakes situations. Structuring ideas, storytelling with data, and influencing decisions in boardrooms and leadership forums. Public speaking skills for effective presentations with executive presence.
Creating win–win outcomes with stakeholders, partners, customers, and internal teams while protecting value. Learn the fundamentals of interpersonal effectiveness, persuasion, negotiation and salesmanship.
Self-awareness and social awareness. Managing emotions, reading people accurately, staying composed under pressure, mindfulness, and leading with empathy.
Seeing interdependencies, diagnosing root causes, and solving problems holistically rather than symptomatically.
Developing people, giving feedback, building capability, and creating future leaders—not just managing tasks.
