Running Your Business

  • Business Continuity – Protect your assignment

    Protect  your assignment When you’re in a permanent role and you are absent, the work either piles up for your return or is done by someone covering for you.  When you’re an Interim it’s a different story. If you are sick, or called to jury service, or need to come off an assignment for pressing personal [...]
  • Business Continuity – Protect your data

    Protect  your data When you’re in a permanent role there are safeguards which just happen every day without you even being aware of them. Let’s consider the data backup of all the systems and applications in a large company.  Every item of information, every transaction, every communication is saved and stored off-site – either digitally or physically [...]
  • Business Continuity – Protect yourself

    Protect yourself as an Interim Manager Coming from a corporate background into a self-employed role is a daunting move as there are lots of things to consider- including protecting your health, something that may have been taken for granted as part of your benefits package. But have you thought how you would cope without private [...]
  • PI – Home and Away – What are your limits?

    One of the important things that an Interim should consider when buying professional indemnity insurance is the territorial and jurisdiction limits that apply to the policy. This may seem to be an obvious statement, however many policy holders are confused by what underwriters mean by these terms. The default position that many policyholders adopt is often [...]
  • What shape are your books in?

    Around 1,200 SMEs are being initially targeted in a programme aimed at checking the records of 200,000 of them over the next four years and raising an extra £600m for the Exchequer. Tax officials are being armed with powers to impose fines of up to £3,000 on the worst record keepers.
  • Exit planning

      Before you head off to make a fresh start you need to make a smart finish  Most people when searching and securing their next role spend all their time planning their entrance strategy but for the interim, an equal amount of time must be spent designing and implementing the exit strategy. Departing at the [...]
  • Skills Development Matrix – model

    This model is a widely used one in many training, development and competence related areas. It can be customised for each audience or client, on an organisation wide or department wide scale. There is clear identification of the learning path to move through the organisation, with warnings regarding ...