Interim Management Documents

  • SJD Accountancy & IIM Limited Company Guide

    SJD Accountancy, in association with the IIM  shares this guide to operating a Limited Company. Download: SJD_Accountancy_IIM_Limited_Company_Guide
  • Interim Managers and the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR)

    The Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) which were implemented in the UK on the 1st October, were designed to protect law-paid agency workers from exploitation, not to tie up professional interim managers and their clients in ‘red tape’. Professional Interim Managers and Executives who are genuinely in business on their own account fall ‘out of scope’ [...]
  • Step by step guide to setting up

    So you have looked at several options and decided you will thrive on life as an interim manager. Congratulations. Interim Management is a profession with a wide range of core disciplines and unending opportunities for developing your own supporting skills. This guide takes you through, step by step, what you need to do. Download: Step by [...]
  • Guide to Interim CVs

    Best Interim CV competition (December 2011) Allied to the preparation of the 2nd edition of the ‘Guide to Interim CVs’, the IIM is running an interim CV competition. It is not a competition judging the best content, because that’s very individual, but it is judging the way it is assembled, the clarity and power of its [...]
  • Interim guide to LinkedIn

    With the growth of social networking and business networking sites like LinkedIn, recruiters, Service Providers and clients are increasingly turning to seeking and finding candidates online. This can be accomplished more quickly, and with the process more under the control of those seeking candidates, than posting adverts and waiting for people who are off assignment [...]
  • Pay Is Pro-rata Perm Myth

    It is flawed logic to set an interim manager’s fee based on the pro-rata of a permanent employee’s base salary When businesses look for an interim manager, they sometimes mistakenly value the ‘interim day-rate’ based on the pro-rata cost of an ‘equivalent’ permanent. An interim manager is not an ‘agency temp’. Download: Pay Is Pro [...]
  • Fees and day rates

    In a tough market, it may seem surreal to dwell on your own fee value when so many interim managers and executives are clasping at assignments at massively discounted rates. Yet to give yourself the best chance at maintaining a profitable micro-business, understanding your value, understanding the market and understanding the field of negotiation, gives [...]
  • Getting the best from an interim manager

    Once you have engaged a professional interim manager, you have a powerful resource in your corner. To get the best results, you should give them the access to resources and the responsibility to add value.  Expect a rapid start. Interim managers typically add value very quickly. Long induction processes are not needed. Give them the [...]
  • How interim managers are paid

    Interim managers typically charge by a ‘day-rate’ based on their track record, function and seniority. Depending on how sourced, clients are invoiced by the interim manager or the service provider. If you are buying direct, the interim manager will negotiate a day-rate directly with you. Sometimes they may consider a fixed fee, part-payment by results [...]
  • Discussing the assignment with an interim manager

    Professional interim managers will want to focus the client business discussion upon the assignment, project, issue, or requirement highlighted. They will be delighted to discuss their expertise, prior successes and approaches to the situation. However, businesses who attempt to ‘interview’ the interim manager as if they were a permanent employee run the risk of having [...]