The Chief of Staff Operating Model
Source-grounded pack with Chief of Staff Charter, Chief of Staff Operating Audit, and Cross-Functional Handback, plus 2 more.
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Choose this pack when the work touches The Chief of Staff Operating Model and you need a bounded workflow with explicit inputs, a defined output, and human review gates.
Included workflows
Choose the job in front of you.
5 source-grounded skills. Load one workflow at a time.
Chief of Staff Charter
Use this workflow when defining why a Chief of Staff role exists, what it owns, where its authority stops, and how temporary ambiguity returns to durable owners.
Output Return a chiefofstaffcharter with operatingneed, theoryofvalue, owns, drivestemporarily, supports, doesnotown, decisionrights, communicationmodes, trustrules, handoffrules, successmeasures, and reviewdate.
Chief of Staff Operating Audit
Use this workflow when testing whether a Chief of Staff increases executive-system capability and durable ownership rather than merely becoming busier and more necessary.
Output Return a chiefofstaffoperatingaudit with executivecapacity, contextanddecisions, cadence, boundaryandhandback, aileverage, trustevidence, stoppedowning, ceodependencies, prioritychanges, revisedcharter, and reviewdate.
Cross-Functional Handback
Use this workflow when a Chief of Staff must temporarily clarify and move cross-functional work without becoming its permanent owner or bypassing functional leaders.
Output Return a crossfunctionalhandback with workobject, cosmode, authorityboundary, ownermap, dependencymap, boundedbrief, escalationpath, permanenthome, transferpackage, transferdate, and systemicpattern.
Executive Attention Architecture
Use this workflow when aligning an executive calendar, meeting portfolio, escalation threshold, and briefing system with work only that executive can do.
Output Return an executiveattentionarchitecture with attentionbaseline, strategymisalignment, executiveonlywork, delegationandredirects, meetingchanges, escalationthreshold, prereadcontract, attentionbudget, and reviewmetrics.
Executive Context and Decision System
Use this workflow when building governed operating memory that compresses context, prepares decisions, records ownership, and detects drift without making the Chief of Staff the only memory layer.
Output Return an executivecontextdecisionsystem with contextflow, briefcontract, decisionrecord, commitmentlinkage, driftsignals, operatingmemory, aireviewboundary, privacyaccessrules, and systemmetrics.
Human review
Keep consequential decisions explicit.
These workflows structure analysis and artifacts; they do not authorize autonomous external, personnel, financial, legal, security, or other high-impact action.
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