Lasting the course
Sustaining yourself, and your first 100 days.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- Becoming a Chief Executive
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
This module explores how chief executives sustain their judgement, integrity and health over years at the top, and how to leave well. It draws on Ronald Heifetz's adaptive leadership and productive zone of disequilibrium, Shawn Achor and Michelle Gielan on recovery rather than endurance, and the 2026 Solace survey Leading in a Political Environment, then sets out a support system and a personal sustainability plan. This capstone brings the threads of the top job together into a plan you can use from day one. It draws on Michael Watkins' The First 90 Days, a timeline from before day one to day 100, and two illustrative composite cases, Cyngor Sir Glanmor and Cartrefi Bro Taf, viewed through the frameworks of the job, then closes with a self-assessment against the four faces and a one-page 100-day plan.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Explain why recovery rather than endurance sustains performance, and how Heifetz's productive zone of disequilibrium applies to leading change.
- Plan a personal support system and sustainability plan, including your early warning signs and when to seek proper support.
- Judge where to bend and where to stand firm under pressure, and how to leave a chief executive role well.
- Apply Watkins' disciplines to diagnose whether you face a turnaround, a realignment or an organisation that mainly needs sustaining.
- Compare the risks facing an external and an internal chief executive, using the Glanmor and Cartrefi Bro Taf cases.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 08Sustaining Yourself in the Top JobThis module explores how chief executives sustain their judgement, integrity and health over years at the top, and how to leave well. It draws on Ronald Heifetz's adaptive leadership and productive zone of disequilibrium, Shawn Achor and Michelle Gielan on recovery rather than endurance, and the 2026 Solace survey Leading in a Political Environment, then sets out a support system and a personal sustainability plan.37 min
- 09Capstone: Your First 100 Days as Chief ExecutiveThis capstone brings the threads of the top job together into a plan you can use from day one. It draws on Michael Watkins' The First 90 Days, a timeline from before day one to day 100, and two illustrative composite cases, Cyngor Sir Glanmor and Cartrefi Bro Taf, viewed through the frameworks of the job, then closes with a self-assessment against the four faces and a one-page 100-day plan.42 min
Keep going.
Part of the Becoming a Chief Executive topic, also sold whole as The top job.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, Leading beyond the building, 2 hours 30 minutes, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- The whole topicExplore, The top job, 6 hours, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Leading the whole, The view from the top
