An organisation may choose to obtain interim management because the role in question is not a permanent position or a permanent executive/manager cannot be found quickly enough. Whatever the reason, interim managers offer major benefits:

 

• Speed – they are available to start in days – with a minimum of recruitment and termination formalities

• Experience – interim managers are overqualified for the work

• Results – interim managers 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 – interim managers 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, interim managers will not be constrained by company politics, personalities or protocols 

• Delivery – interim managers can not only act as counsel to the Board – they will roll up their sleeves and deliver the strategy, too 

• Focused – interim managers can be assigned a critical task and their performance measured against it