Posts tagged interim
Hiring an Interim Executive: What to Look For and How to Ensure a Successful Placement
Hiring an Interim Executive: What to Look For and How to Ensure a Successful Placement

Learn how to find the right interim executive for your business. Evaluate skills, experience, and cultural fit to ensure a successful placement.

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Interim and Fractional, Leadership, Change, TeamRon CrabtreeVendux LLCinterim, executive, talent
Avoid Expensive Trial-and-Error
Avoid Expensive Trial-and-Error

Building and running sales processes and teams without experience is an expensive trial-and-error scenario! Can it be done? Sure, it has been done this way many times. Should it be done? In my opinion, no. Because…

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Best Practice, Sales, Start-up, Interim and FractionalHenning SchwinumVendux LLCtrial and error, trial, error, booksmart, streetsmart, experience, interim, fractional, executive
The Perspective of the Scale-up CEO
The Perspective of the Scale-up CEO

Beyond their qualities, skills, and character traits, here are a few demographics: they tend to be younger (most sources place the average between the late thirties and early forties), they have a technology background, and they were not in business during the last recession in 2007/2008.

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Interim and Fractional, Leadership, Skills, Start-upHenning SchwinumVendux LLCscaleup, scale-up, funder, recession, downturn, fractional, interim, executive
How To Get Out When Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place
How To Get Out When Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Capital investments are postponed. Operating costs are constrained. And, perhaps most importantly, headcount is reduced. It’s a tried-and-true response to an economic downturn.

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Skills, Sales, Organization, Interim and FractionalHenning SchwinumVendux LLChiring, firing, triedandtrue, talent, recruitments, fractional, interim, executive, alternative
Consultant vs. Employee vs. Contractor
Consultant vs. Employee vs. Contractor

Each option comes with its obvious pros and cons. I believe the decision of which route to pursue starts with what the person is asked to accomplish and what the environment looks like they will operate in.

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Best Practice, Start-up, Sales, Interim and FractionalHenning SchwinumVendux LLCconsulting, contractor, employee, decision, fractional, interim
Learnings From Across the Pond
Learnings From Across the Pond

Historically, in Europe, interims work full-time until the assignment ends. But fractionalization – an increasing factor in talent staffing and management – is creating new opportunities in the interim field. By market, 51% of Spanish interims and 40% of Italian interims were on part-time rather than full-time assignments. Interims in most other markets reported an average of 20-30%, and 25% was the overall European average of fractional assignments.

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Organization, International, Interim and FractionalHenning SchwinumVendux LLCEurope, interim, fractional, executives, market, growth
Social Selling for Fractional Executives: Get Started with Your Pipeline of New Customers
Social Selling for Fractional Executives: Get Started with Your Pipeline of New Customers

We'll discuss the basics of social selling and how you can get started right away. We'll also talk about some of the benefits of social selling and how it can help you grow your business.

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Best Practice, Interim and Fractional, SalesAnna-Lisa NatchevVendux LLCsocial selling, pipeline, customers, fractional, interim
Do Not Hire
Do Not Hire

Especially in the startup world, pivots on everything from product to GTM strategy are very common. Most of those directly impact employees. And even without major pivots, startups go through phases or stages in their growth process.

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Start-up, Skills, Sales, Interim and FractionalHenning SchwinumVendux LLCtenure, skilles, recruiting, fractional, interim, pivot