Get to know your interim manager pretty well

If you’re counting on hiring someone else to help manage your company, the question of where to turn is very crucial. You have only two options.

Interim agency or interim provider?

One option is to approach an agency that will recommend a suitable intern from their database. Or you can start your search and find a suitable person for the position of interim manager yourself. Each option has its advantages and disadvantages. Let’s try to highlight 3 advantages of each of them.

Interim Agency

1. Interim agencies validate the experience and skills of the interims they pay and send out to clients. Agencies evaluate the company’s specialization as well as the interims’ personality traits for the position. The risk of selecting the wrong intern is greatly reduced.
2. The agencies can deploy a suitable candidate to a new position and specific task very quickly. Their network of contacts is extensive.
3. The agency takes care of the administration, contracts and payments directly, which removes an important burden for the client.

Interim provider directly (without agency)

1. Choosing an interim without provider can save the client´s money. The client avoids paying a commission to an agency.
2. The client has a greater influence on the communication, selection and operation of the intern and deals directly with him.
3. The client has more flexibility when negotiating the terms of cooperation with the interim afterwards. Everything is just an agreement between two parties.

Interim diagnostics as a practical guide to use

We live our whole life in our body and with our head. Let’s leave out the science fiction and horror movie notions of reincarnation. We know ourselves. Our strengths we try to exploit, our weaknesses we usually prefer to keep quiet about. But there is a higher level of working with ourselves.

Such an insight into the head is called diagnostics. There are special diagnostics to help each participant make the most of his or her distinctive style and polarity. Because each of us is personality. Some are afraid of diagnostics, some reject them and some undergo them out of pure curiosity. If diagnostics are grasped and used correctly, everyday teamwork will be more beneficial and enjoyable for everyone.

The quality diagnostics can benefit the interim itself and even the customer.

Benefits for the interims

Interim is also only human. He has his own personal life, hobbies and various sorrows. Just like everyone else. With everything that comes into his life, he must be able to work with it, so as not to disrupt the cooperation with the client. Diagnostics is used to:

• Assessment of personal contribution and operational effectiveness.
• Confirmation of your strengths and weaknesses and how to work with them.
• Focusing on ways to maximise your own effectiveness.
• Learning about contributing to the team, what you irritate the team with, what the team irritates you with and how to work with it.

Diagnostics is a great and accessible tool for getting to know yourself

“What would I be if I were not interim? I would be a police negotiator,” Martin Kratochvíl, sales manager of interim management from AJKA – SOLUTION, adds with a smile to his experience with personality diagnostics.

Benefits for the customer

Why should the customer care if the interim has passed diagnostics? A good personality diagnosis also has an impact on the client and the mutual cooperation.

• It helps ensure that the interim manager has the right skills and approach to the client’s specific challenges.
• A better understanding of the interim manager’s personality and working style allows for faster integration into the team and more effective collaboration.
• Helps maximize efficiency. By understanding strengths and areas for development, an interim manager can be deployed more effectively on projects where their contribution will be greatest.
• Diagnostics offer interim managers valuable feedback for personal and professional development, which benefits not only the current project but also their future career.

At AJKA – SOLUTION we provide just such diagnostics for interim managers. Basically, the idea is for interims to learn more about their personality. They receive objective feedback that can move them forward professionally and show them their own limits. We are thus better able to determine which positions and situations we can put them in. It’s never about skinning an intern, but also grooming them. Because a lot of times they’re put in very stressful situations.

AJKA – SOLUTION prides itself on a quality database of interim managers. We keep track of references and feedback from clients. Quite simply, we don’t care who we send on a project. We see not only money behind our work, but a personal responsible approach towards the client.