To help my own professional growth I have now shadowed 5 CEOs for 1 day each and have found it the highest ROI growth/training exercise I've done.
I have a doc that provides lots of advice, templates etc feel free to use and share: https://goo.gl/BJ8GTT
My general pieces of advice
- every CEO is different, so do this 1-2 times a year to gain a breadth of insights
- take advantage of lunch time and the few mins between meetings so that you can ask follow up questions from your observations
- to add value back to the CEO you're shadowing, summarise your observations of them and their business
- talk to 3-5 employees (all levels) to understand from them what makes their CEO great and what they could improve on
- you'll gain lots of insights into how to run a startup, culture learnings etc so don't limit your learning to just CEO insights
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Timbo