£25 including VAT
The Executive Partnership Review
Strengthen trust, decision making and the way you work together without waiting for a crisis.
Even a longstanding executive partnership can become less effective when expectations are assumed rather than discussed. This guide helps you examine trust, communication, boundaries and decision making, then agree practical improvements without turning the discussion into a personal criticism.
In short: a coaching guide and workbook for an EA or PA who wants a stronger working relationship with their executive, covering looking at the partnership rather than the personality, agreeing what good looks like for both people, decision rights and escalation, introducing one improvement at a time and reviewing it. Five coaching stages, 14 guided prompts and 38 fill-in spaces, as an online workbook and a 29-page PDF, for £25 including VAT.
What this guide will help you achieve
An executive partnership can look perfectly functional from the outside while both people are quietly frustrated. The diary gets managed, the meetings happen and the work gets done, yet neither person is getting the best from the relationship. I want you to look beyond personality and ask what the partnership is actually designed to achieve.
How the guide works
Five coaching stages, each with practical next moves, 14 guided coaching prompts and 38 fill-in spaces you can complete online or in print. Every stage ends with what to do next, and the guide closes with a conversation you can practise, a note on what to do when it does not go to plan and your own 30, 60 and 90 day route.
- Stage 1: Look at the partnership rather than the personality
- Stage 2: Clarify what good looks like for both people
- Stage 3: Agree decision rights and escalation
- Stage 4: Introduce one improvement at a time
- Stage 5: Review impact and reset expectations
Who it is for
- An EA or PA whose working relationship with their executive is fine on the surface and frustrating underneath.
- Anyone starting with a new principal who wants to set the partnership up properly rather than inherit assumptions.
- An assistant who has taken our free five-minute health check and wants to work through what it showed.
What you get
The interactive online workbook, which saves your answers on your own device, and the same guide as a 29-page PDF to print and write in. Both are yours straight after payment and are emailed to you as well. £25 including VAT.
This is guide 05 of 12 in The eavolve Coaching Guides, and it is also included in the The Executive Partnership bundle with The Confidence to Challenge Playbook and The Executive Time and Capacity Audit for £49.
Questions before you buy
Look at the partnership rather than the personality: what it is meant to achieve, what good looks like for both of you, which decisions you can take and when to escalate. Then introduce one improvement at a time and review it, rather than attempting a reset conversation. The Executive Partnership Review gives you the structure, and it pairs with our free five-minute Partnership Health Check that you and your executive can each complete.
Priorities, how you communicate and when, what you can decide alone, where the boundaries sit and how feedback will work in both directions. Most partnerships run on assumptions in those areas, and the guide’s second and third stages are about making them explicit without turning the conversation into criticism.
Each guide comes two ways. The interactive online workbook opens in your browser, saves your answers on your own device as you go and can be printed or saved as a PDF at any point. The same guide is also supplied as a 28-page PDF if you would rather print it and write by hand. Both are yours straight after payment, and the links are emailed to you as well.
Payment is taken by Stripe. As soon as it goes through you are taken to your download page, where every guide you have bought is listed, and the same links are emailed to the address you used at checkout. If anything goes wrong, email emily@eavolve.co.uk and we will send the guide directly.
No. It is a coaching guide and workbook built around one challenge, written so it feels as though your eavolve coach is sitting alongside you. You work through five stages at your own pace, with practical next moves at the end of each one, and you can come back to it as the conversation comes round again.
Yes. Stripe sends a receipt that includes VAT, which most organisations accept for expenses. If you need a formal invoice, email emily@eavolve.co.uk before you buy. The Business Case for EA Development guide walks through how to ask for development funding if that is the conversation you are facing.
Every guide points to the next step if you want one. One-to-one coaching with Emily or Lily goes deeper on your own situation, and a free 30-minute discovery call is the place to work out whether that would help. Prices for coaching are on the EA & PA Coaching page.
