What is Interim Management?

Interim managers are typically hired for three to nine months and help organisations undergoing major change, trying to implement a critical strategy or looking to plug a critical management gap.

An organisation may choose to pursue the interim management route because the role in question is not a permanent position or a permanent executive/manager cannot be found fast enough.

Whatever the reason, interim managers offer major benefits:

• Speed – they are available to start in days – with the minimum of recruitment or termination formalities
• Experience – interim managers are overqualified for the work
• Results – they are only as good as their last placement – so track record and performance really count. They are used to being judged by results so they know how to deliver
• Knowledge transfer – they will transfer a huge amount of skill, contacts and experience to your team which will remain long after they have left
• Objectivity – while sensitive to the company's ethos, they will not be constrained by company politics, personalities or protocols
• Focused – they can be assigned a critical task and their performance measured against it
• Delivery – yes they can act as counsel to the Board – but then they will roll up their sleeves and deliver the strategy too