As an Interim Leader, not only quick entry counts, but structured impact from day one. Based on proven practical and leadership experience, my approach is oriented to a clear model:
These five interlocking leadership dimensions create the foundation for trust, focus, and sustainable results, individually adapted to each mandate.
1. CONNECT – Build trustful relationships
Successful Interim Management begins with building resilient relationships:
- Quick, targeted getting to know key people: clients, team, peers, stakeholders.
- Clarity about expectations, communication channels, and leadership style.
- Listen, observe, reflect, with attention to the essential.
- Building a sustainable internal network, formal and informal.
- Goal: Trust base and credibility — from the beginning.
2. SHAPE – Assess the starting situation and set impulses
To be able to shape, you must understand, in depth and in context:
- Analysis of the current situation: strengths, gaps, opportunities, risks.
- Review and evaluation of strategies, structures, processes, and competencies.
- Understanding the portfolio, such as products, services, customer promises.
- Reading the corporate culture, recognizing formal and informal rules.
- Goal: Prioritize fields of action, targeted and effective.
3. LEAD – Take responsibility and provide orientation
Leadership means create security and give direction, especially in transition phases:
- Focus on quick wins and foundational work in balance.
- Introduction of effective communication and work routines.
- Analysis and optimization of team structure: roles, strengths, development potentials.
- Situational leadership behaviour, adapted to maturity level and need for change.
- Goal: Unfold effectiveness, visible and connectable.
4. DELIVER – Enable early results
Interim Leadership must not only shape, but also deliver:
- Identification and realization of early successes.
- Clear target systems with qualitative and quantitative KPIs.
- Close coordination with the mandate giver, make progress transparent.
- Full responsibility for impact and result ownership.
- Goal: Strengthen trust, through concrete contributions to business success.
5. LIVE CORPORATE VALUES – Live and strengthen culture
Sustainable impact doesn’t emerge solely through strategy — but through attitude:
- Leadership behaviour in accordance with values and compliance standards.
- Being a role model: integrity, fairness, feedback culture, clarity.
- Conscious communication, transparent, effective, respectful.
- Promote cultural connectivity, through behaviour, not just words.
- Goal: Integration instead of isolation — and a positive footprint that remains.
CCC Interim Leadership – Impact with foresight
This model forms the backbone of my mandate work. Situationally adaptable, but always targeted: For quick orientation, effective leadership, and sustainable results.
