Interim Management

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Why Interim Management?

At our Recruitment & Corporate Success Forum business leaders Ewan McConnell and Gordon Steele outlined why they use interim managers.

Organisations typically choose interim managers either to fill roles that are temporary or to fill critical staffing gaps when a permanent employee cannot be found fast enough. Although they are frequently called 'consultants', interim managers differ from consultants because they serve in a more hands-on capacity.

These organisations quickly realise many benefits from using interim managers:

• Start in days, with minimum recruitment and termination formalities
• Welcome results-linked remuneration
• Are usually overqualified, bringing tremendous experience to address your business issues
• Deliver consistently and quickly
• Will transfer skills, contacts and experience to your team, which will remain long after they have left
• Have sensitivity to your company’s ethos but not constrained by its politics, personalities, or protocols
• Can be given a critical task on which to focus
• Help keep down permanent head count
• Highly cost-effective

What is Interim Management?

Interim management may be described as "the rapid hands-on resolution of business problems by highly experienced senior executives hired on a short-term basis of typically three to nine months." An interim manager on the other hand may be described as "an all-in-one project manager, consultant, and senior executive working at or near board level." More about interim management.

An interim manager will occupy a position that would typically command a salary of £50K plus.

Here's what some typical clients have said:

• "Not a low-cost option but excellent results and better value than a management consultant."
• "This was our first experience of an interim manager. He was worth his weight in gold."
• "We will certainly use interim management again."

And here are some typical interim manager comments:

• "I enjoy the challenge of each new project and the variety of work."
• "Achieving results quickly in difficult situations gives great satisfaction."
• "I continue to learn from each new project."
• "Freedom from corporate politics is great."
• "I know I have to deliver results. I'm only as good as my last project."

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