Coaching Insights - Department Attention

Departments are like children, you know you have your favorites. I’m kidding people!  In all seriousness, there are bound to be certain departments that demand more time and attention from you as a CEO than others. On a recent coaching call with a client (a County Administrator) she was reporting that their county had a series of signature projects that were sort of quarterbacked by a single department, and department head, and thus that individual got a lot of notoriety (deserved) and that department a lot of attention (warranted).  That being said, I noted that you must be careful not to concentrate your efforts, attention, meeting time, and face to face opportunities and so forth, with the “needy” (in good and bad ways) departments, at the expense of the others.