What is the best way to approach a new interim assignment?
Everyone has their own approach to a new role but here are a few tips how to ensure you get off to a flying start.
10 Useful Tips and Suggestions
- Ensure you receive clear, concise, tangible objectives
- Ensure you fully understand the scope of the role and your responsibilities
- Take time out to chat with your peers and subordinates alike to get an understanding of the main issues and who the movers and shapers are within the organisation
- Use the Management by Wandering Round principle espoused by US business guru Tom Peters - go and see for yourself 'where the action is', don't just rely and what you have been told, make your own judgements
- Ensure you work the hours appropriate to the task in hand. Interim Management is rarely a 9-5 occupation
- Formalise some useful KPIs and decide how they will be measured, keep them simple
- Generate a plan of the activities that need to be carried out, formalise this and make it visible to the stakeholders
- Ensure you write a one page weekly report summarising your activities, performance against KPIs and future tasks and actions. Your client needs to know they are getting value for money and you are making a difference
- Ensure you get regular and critical feedback from the Stakeholders on their 'perceptions' of how the assignment is going
- Finally, do not stretch out the assignment beyond the scope of the project boundaries unless requested to do so by the stakeholders
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