The Directors Office
You don’t need a crystal ball. You need a clearer view of the road ahead.
When business, money and life begin affecting one another, important decisions become harder to see in isolation.
The Directors Office exists to help you step above the immediate problem, establish the whole position, understand the choices and consequences, and decide what happens next.
Sean Kiani · 26 years of consequential decisions.
Welcome to the Directors Office
An aerial view of your circumstances.
- Where are you now?
- How did you get here?
- What choices are available?
- What could those choices affect?
- Where are you trying to get to?
- What needs to happen next?
Pressure should not be allowed to make the decision for you.
The whole position
The problem in front of you may not be the whole problem.
A director may already have an accountant, solicitor, financial professional, estate planner or insolvency practitioner. Each may be entirely appropriate.
But the director is still the person who has to live with the combined consequences of the decisions being made.
- Business can affect personal finances.
- Personal circumstances can affect business decisions.
- Financial decisions can affect family and future plans.
- A decision made under pressure can have consequences long after the immediate problem has passed.
You can delegate specialist work. You cannot delegate understanding your own position.
The method
Think of it as a navigation control room.
The objective is not to predict the future. It is to understand your current position well enough to have a greater say in the direction you travel.
- 01ProblemWhat is actually happening?
- 02PositionWhere do you actually stand?
- 03ChoicesWhat choices genuinely remain?
- 04DecisionWhat needs deciding?
- 05ActionWhat happens next?
- 06OutcomeWhat are you trying to move towards?
Start here
The Three-Day Director Reset.
Before you decide what to do, establish the position.
The Three-Day Director Reset is a practical working document created by Sean Kiani to help directors move from pressure and uncertainty towards a clearer position, better questions and deliberate action.
Day one
Establish the position
- See the position clearly enough to describe it.
- Separate facts from assumptions.
- Look beyond the immediate problem.
- Consider who else could be affected.
Day two
Understand the choices and consequences
- Identify what is known.
- Identify what remains unknown.
- Establish what information is required.
- Understand which professional input may be needed.
- Consider the consequences of each realistic route.
Day three
Decide and act
- Identify the outcome.
- Identify the actual decision.
- Determine what needs to happen now.
- Determine what can wait.
- Sequence action.
The final output
The Director’s Position Map.
Three days. One clearer position.
You do not need to solve everything in three days. But you can understand your position better than you do today.
What happens next
Sometimes the exercise is enough.
You may complete the Three-Day Director Reset and know exactly what needs to happen next.
You may establish that you need a particular solicitor, accountant, licensed insolvency practitioner, appropriately authorised financial professional or another specialist.
Or you may discover that the position is sufficiently interconnected that you want Sean personally involved in helping you keep sight of the whole position.
If I do not believe you need further involvement from me, I will tell you.
Work privately with Sean Kiani
When the whole position needs to be understood.
Private, confidential work with Sean focused on establishing the whole position, identifying decisions and dependencies, improving the questions being asked and helping determine what happens next.
Sean does not replace accountants, solicitors, insolvency practitioners, financial professionals or other specialists. Where specialist professional input is required, the appropriate professional should be involved.
Or read how the private three-day engagement works on Work with Sean.