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5 reasons to consider interim leaders in your talent strategy.
To thrive in an executive role, the best leaders will possess a breadth of experience across digital, innovation, risk, and strategy. Organisations sometimes need some skills and knowledge more than others, and creating opportunities for interim leaders enables company boards to focus on hitting specific milestones or achieving timely goals.?
That’s not to say that interim executive candidates are limited to certain skills. In fact, you’ll find exploring interim leadership will provide access to an exclusive, diverse, and highly experienced talent pool.?
No matter what the organisation’s long-term goals are, there are short term milestones that need to be met, and interim leaders can help get there sooner.?
Here are five reasons an interim executive leader might be right for you.?
While the ideal leader will have expert knowledge across a variety of areas, some situations call for specific expertise in certain areas. Exposing your organisation to a range of leaders brings a variety of benefits and enables the team to gain experience with different leadership styles, so they can develop their own skills too. It might be challenging for teams to shift styles to work with different managers, but encouraging them to keep open minded about colleagues and working styles will likely translate other areas of their work too.?
2. Time to plan and deliberate?
No matter their size, organisations will have short-term and long-term goals, and different leaders might be required to achieve them. Taking advantage of an interim leader means day-to-day management continues, while boards can take the time to refine the long-term needs, and assess candidates to ensure the perfect fit.?
3. Team and leadership development?
Interim executives can help wider leadership teams to develop their skills, be they strategic, people, problem solving or project management. An external interim leader can act as a valuable mentor, exposing teams to different skills and experience. In internal interim leader can give current developing leaders a chance to shine, and the opportunity to develop their skills and experience in a role they’re aiming for.?
4. Deliver short-term goals?
A short sprint to deliver a meaningful project or achieve a specific goal can be an appealing challenge for seasoned executives who may not be keen for a long-term commitment. New energy, motivation and fresh perspective, combined with specialised experience to deliver on a specific project might be just what an organisation needs to keep up momentum.?
5. Smoother transition to permanency?
Keeping the wheels turning day-to-day with a seasoned, experienced interim leader at the helm can encourage an easier transition between incumbent and incoming executives. Whether your interim leader takes on the permanent role, or a new leader is introduced, having the role covered, or ideally, having an overlap, is invaluable for providing consistency of operations.?
No matter an organisation’s size, scope or direction, an interim leader can provide a range of benefits, both for the company and its employees.??
Get in touch with the experienced team at Ccentric to learn more about ready-to-work interim leadership candidates around Australia, and see if exploring interim executive leadership solutions might be right for you.??