Interim Advice & Articles

Tips for interim managers. Understand what your service offering is and play to your strengths. Don’t oversell your skills and experience as you will be found out which will damage your reputation. You need to be 100% certain that you can provide a service that delivers the objectives. Ensure you are an expert in your service offering and portray yourself as a consummate professional. By virtue of the confidence and understanding you demonstrate, your potential customer will have confidence in you to deliver also.

Interim Manager rights if a client cancels your contract

As an interim manager, setting your day rate is an important consideration. Set it too high and you will struggle to land assignments; Set it too low and you could be earning significantly less than your worth.

Over 90% of the Interim Managers we work engage with operate through their own Limited companies. Electronic company formation has made registering a Limited company extremely quick and straight forward.

Personal branding is about defining who you are. Your voice, your opinions and insights, can be a deal breaker in cutting through the noise and saying I’m the one that can do this.

Making a successful career as an interim manager can provide a well-paid, varied and more flexible way of working.

If you decide to go down the Portfolio route in your interim career, you will need to effectively manage the needs of different clients simultaneously. However, whilst portfolio working can mean more billing days, greater experience and an expanding portfolio, if you can’t manage your time effectively and juggle your commitments – then both you and your clients will suffer. If you fail to keep on top of everything, milestones will be missed and clients may become ex-clients.

I am not an expert in Marketing, but I have picked up enough along the way to put the basics into practice. My view is that whether we are bum on seat contractors or not we still need to take marketing seriously for the reason’s that will become apparent below. Marketing is not difficult to get to grips with, just like selling or acquiring negotiating skills, it is something that can be learned with a little application of effort and some practice.

Interim Managers are unique individuals on the employment landscape as often they may find themselves seeking work (assignments) 3 or 4 times a year. As such, they need to become ‘job search’ experts in order to maximise earning potential and minimise the frustration of ‘gap weeks’ between assignments. When utilised to its potential, LinkedIn can be a fantastic resource for Interim Managers to find assignments.

For the professional interim manager, one of the biggest frustrations is the gaps that are endured between assignments. Many interim managers can attest to the feeling of frustration when you finish a challenging assignment, go away on holiday, come back all revved up and ready to go again, but find the phone has stopped ringing.

I am not an expert in Marketing, but I have picked up enough along the way to put the basics into practice. My view is that whether we are bum on seat contractors or not we still need to take marketing seriously for the reason’s that will become apparent below. Marketing is not difficult to get to grips with, just like selling or acquiring negotiating skills, it is something that can be learned with a little application of effort and some practice.

As the use of Interim Managers continues to grow, (Figures published from the Interim Management Association show a 93% increase in the use of Interim managers since 2006), opportunities for new Interim Managers to enter the market increase. We are often asked, “How do I become an Interim Manager?”