Sometimes an organisation faces significant change or major challenges, and although the senior team is competent and experienced, they would benefit from additional support. This could be in any functional area within the organisation, and that includes the CEO/MD role.
So if your organisation does need support at the CEO/MD level, what kind of support might that be?
Coaching/Mentoring
No one is born with all the skills and experience they will ever need already in place – we all learn as we go along. This is true in every functional area such as sales, marketing, procurement, finance or operations, and it is also true for general management.
Coaching and mentoring is an excellent way to gain and enhance the skills required for general management. The coaching process helps by:
- Improving and developing communication skills
- Building team development skills
- Creating great strategy processes and abilities
- Developing innovation
- Providing an objective sounding board for ideas
- Developing leadership styles and confidence
- Defining business vision, goals and core values
Some great leaders are born, but most great leaders are made; coaching and mentoring provides the quickest shortcut to achieving that greatness.
Interim Management
An Interim Manager is typically a highly skilled and experienced senior executive who has worked at the highest levels in multiple organisations. They differ from consultants in that they take functional responsibility; they are not advising, they are doing.
This is probably the key benefit of using an Interim Manager in a CEO, General Manager or MD role. If there is a gap in the organisation which must be filled, either while recruitment for a full time executive takes place or to solve a major short term or turnaround issue, the IM joins the senior team of the organisation and takes full responsibility for the role.
Other key benefits are:
- Expert knowledge, particularly if a rare skill is required
- Complete focus on implementation and then exit
- Very little learning curve
- No National Insurance, PAYE, pension, sickness, holiday pay or notice pay
- Totally motivated to deliver
- Leaves a skill legacy within the company
- Provides an unbiased view of issues, unencumbered by company politics
There are many scenarios where an Interim Manager CEO/MD will provide a benefit, such as:
- Strategy development
- Business turnaround
- Crisis management
- Major change project
- Business sale, acquisition or merger
- Culture change
- Coaching/mentoring internal succession candidates
If you would like to talk to us about the ways we can work with you to then please visit our contact us page and get in touch. We will be delighted to help.
