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Director
Leading multiple teams and setting strategic direction.
Strategic PlanningInfluence
About This Role
You lead leaders and shape strategy. Your focus shifts from team-level execution to organisational direction, influence, and building leadership capacity.
Key Skills to Develop
- → Translate organisational strategy into team-level priorities
- → Build and develop a leadership team that scales
- → Communicate with executive presence in boardrooms and town halls
- → Manage cross-functional initiatives that span the organisation
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AI for This Role
Practical ways to use AI in your day-to-day work.
- ▸ Use AI as a strategic sounding board — describe a complex organisational challenge and ask for structured analysis and options
- ▸ Ask AI to draft executive presentations and board memos from rough notes
- ▸ Generate a leadership team development plan by describing your team's current capabilities and desired future state
- ▸ Use AI to prepare for town halls by drafting talking points and anticipating tough questions
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Next Steps
- 1 Develop your external presence — speaking, writing, thought leadership
- 2 Build a diverse network across your industry
- 3 Find an executive coach to accelerate your growth
- 4 Consider an executive MBA or advanced leadership programme
