Flexibility is no longer just a necessity for Human Resources Departments, it has become a compelling need and an integral part of HR strategies. How can it be implemented to ensure that talent is constantly matched to needs? Which functions are concerned? What profiles does it require? How can it be applied without sacrificing performance? How can costs be kept under control? All these questions are of particular concern to HR managers. To answer them, interim management offers an alternative that combines efficiency, relevance and performance.
IMfinity Services, Europe's leading provider of interim management services, offers customized solutions to the most demanding requirements, thanks to highly specialized teams and a proven approach guaranteeing time savings and maximum performance. Whether you're a company or a manager, when you turn to IMfinity's experts you can be sure of a complete understanding of your situation. Through a multi-dimensional approach, the nature of the need and the response to it are assessed with precision, speed and efficiency.
The first quality of an interim manager is, of course, his or her field of expertise, which you need to know well. It is just as essential to understand the content of the assignment entrusted by the company and the professional skills it requires.
IMfinity's Associate Directors are experts in the various professions required by our customers, and have an in-depth, up-to-date understanding of them. Even in the case of hyperspecialized requests, the dialogue with both the company and the manager is simple: they speak the same language!
They also have a broad, insider's knowledge of organizations, having worked in a variety of companies over the course of their careers. As a result, they are able not only to understand the need and the mission in a very short space of time, but also to quickly assess which profile best meets it in terms of training, experience, sector of activity, size of organization, projects carried out...
IMfinity's scope of intervention is very broad.
All the management functions in all business sectors in all business sectors:
At more operational levels, IMfinity also covers many functions. In addition, the group has an international presence (Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Switzerland).
Flexibility is no longer a simple necessity for management
A manager is expected to manage! The interim manager, more than any other, must demonstrate solid managerial qualities, as well as interpersonal skills perfectly suited to the assignment, the company he or she will be joining, and his or her sector of activity... so as to..:
These qualities are part of the classic management of any BU or organization, but with one specificity: a highly accelerated relationship with time. They also concern the ability of the interim manager to acculturate and adapt to new situations:
Last but not least, interim management, by its very nature, calls for the specific skills needed for any assignment: commitment, reliability, resilience, responsiveness, open-mindedness, listening, decision-making skills, leadership, pragmatism, adaptability and neutrality. (To find out more, see our article onThe qualities and skills of an interim manager)
IMfinity's Associate Directors carry out an in-depth analysis of soft skills, because a strong match between a manager and his or her mission is a guarantee of success for both the organization and the manager. Their objective is to bring together a speaker, a mission and a company.
It has become an imperative need and an integral part of HR strategies. How can it be implemented to ensure that talent is constantly matched to needs? Which functions are concerned? What profiles does it require? How can it be applied without sacrificing performance? How can costs be kept under control? All these questions are of particular concern to HR managers. Interim management offers an alternative that combines efficiency, relevance and performance.
IMfinity Services, Europe's leading provider of interim management services, offers customized solutions to the most demanding requirements, thanks to highly specialized teams and a proven approach guaranteeing time savings and maximum performance. Whether you're a company or a manager, when you turn to IMfinity's experts you can be sure of a complete understanding of your situation. Through a multi-dimensional approach, the nature of the need and the response to it are assessed with precision, speed and efficiency.
A third aspect to which IMfinity's Associate Directors pay particular attention concerns the interim management assignment itself. There are many possible scenarios:
Our Associate Directors have all been interim managers, and are fully conversant with the different needs of organizations. They are in a position to appreciate the nature of each assignment and to provide even in emergency situations (which is very often the case) a high-level response to the most delicate or complex situations.
The manager is now on the move with his company and must, like it, become more flexible, agile and responsive.
In order to continue to adapt, IMfinity has chosen to add a new dimension to its activity by completing it with high quality offers, thought and designed for interim managers: a coaching service and a foreign language reinforcement.
Performance improvement coaching, talent identification coaching, relational excellence training, IMfinity's certified coaches work to enrich emotional and relational skills.
Also open to companies, it proposes to explore new perspectives:
- Increase performance and confidence in collaborative dynamics
- Encourage creativity in a problem-solving perspective
- Strengthen leadership skills
- Develop situational intelligence
- Know how to create a federative and convivial climate...
Finally, it is obvious that multilingual professional profiles, and in particular English speakers, are essential in a globalized environment. IMfinity provides its interim managers with high quality foreign language training solutions, focused on their field of activity. In order to offer a service that meets the most demanding criteria, IMfinity has established a close partnership with a leading language school in the foreign language training market, particularly in business English. Both interim managers and clients can benefit from this specialized training, which focuses on specific professions and vocabulary for optimal efficiency.
IMfinity has thus developed a dynamic, multi-dimensional approach to interim management, which benefits both participants and client companies. IMfinity mobilizes all its resources with a single goal in mind: the success of a project, thanks to the right expertise, provided at the right time, with complete flexibility.
Author: Francis Fernandez-Mouron
Executive Director
