Interim explained

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 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."

Interim managers are now firmly established as valuable elements of a flexible resourcing approach. They are motivated, results-driven and manage assignments within budgets, often to tight timescales. The most common use of an interim professional is for short-term projects that require specialist skills. Interim can provide a valuable injection of top quality talent to support and develop your business without the overhead and ongoing cost of a permanent appointment.

Organisations quickly realise many benefits from using interim managers:

Start in days, with minimum recruitment and termination formalities
Are usually overqualified, bringing tremendous experience to address your business issues
They can kick start a challenging project, tackle the difficult issues, ask the challenging questions and overcome blockers to change
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

Interim managers differ from consultants because they serve in a more hands-on capacity.

Unlike consultants, interim managers are:

Implementers as well as being strategists, analysts and planners
Loyal to your business objectives – not their consultancy's objectives
Flexible to do what you need – not restricted to doing things the way their consultancy prescribes
Focused on your profitability – not their consultancy's profitability. They are not incentivised to sell in additional services you don't need
They are strategists as well as hands-on – they are on your team to deliver your strategy

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