How to Select the Right Interim Manager
Interim managers are fast emerging as the popular choice for restructuring businesses, filling unexpected gaps, managing projects, implementing systems, launching new projects or managing mergers and acquisitions. The right interim manager needs to be selected with care, as he or she will have a significant impact on the organisation.
While choosing a manager who is right for your organisational requirements, keep the following aspects in mind:
Objectives for the Interim Manager
While you may have a broad idea of your organisational requirements, it is always better to focus on what exactly you require from an interim manager. It is always important to design a detailed brief covering the objectives of assignment, responsibilities, deliverables and budgets.
Developing a Short-List to Find Your Interim Manager
Interim managers details can be provided by interim management agencies, and should be short-listed based on their match to the assignment and the value that they have historically delivered for previous clients. Choices can be based on a proper balance of the what the individual has delivered for previous clients and face-to-face chemistry with you and your team. Often overlooked in the rush to appoint is the benefit of taking references.
The right manager should finally be a person who is successful and highly experienced in his or her specialism. Typically an interim manager should implement with a 'hands-on' approach, be enthusiastic, impartial, objective and apolitical, an excellent communicator and motivator, confident, professional, self-motivated, capable of implementing change and managing transition at senior levels.
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This article discusses the attributes required in ideal interim manager. |
