Interim Management
It is often difficult to differentiate between services offered by a Management Consultant and an Interim Manager:
- Both have proven skills and experience for the required assignment.
- They have the ability to satisfy a short term requirement, whether it be for skills/experience not currently found within the existing management team, or to bridge a gap while a permanent recruitment is being sourced.
- They have the ability to perform a function or satisfy a requirement and then leave while remaining both contactable and accountable.
- They see themselves as highly competent and confident in a leadership position, more so than the average manager. Their experience of short term assignments provides them with greater powers of influence and control over other people.
- Both understand what it takes to deliver a successful assignment.
If there is a percieved difference then it is perhaps in the eyes of the client, where they see an Interim Manager providing a more day to day line management function embracing a "hands on" approach rather than an "advisory" approach.
From our point of view there is little or no difference in the skills, attitude and aptitude required to take on an Interim Management assignment as opposed to a Consulting assignment. We ensure that a clear understanding of requirements and deliverables are first agreed, and an acceptable rate negotiated before a project is started. We remain contactable and accountable as numerous satisfied clients would testify to (see John Corfield's Curriculum Vitae).
