executive summary

A- Organization

Alternative Managers is a temporary agency dedicated to managers and executives. Alternative Managers answers specific and urgent Transition Management needs providing both timely, targeted, and experienced executives and managers. It was founded in September 2007 by eight co-founders.

The management style is participative as we’re just two persons in the company. My manager, Sir Bertrand Gaucher Piola, involves me in the screening of candidates. He asks my opinion after each interview I participate in.

To adapt and react quickly to constantly changing environments, companies often need to strengthen their management teams especially during a transitional period. The development of transition management in France has allowed the company to develop itself. The headquarters is based in Lyon, but that does not prevent us from working with foreign country based companies.

A.1 - Types

Alternative Managers helps companies especially in the following situations:

Project Management: Setting up new organizations, deploying management tools, innovating new activities, changing.

Crisis Management: Restructuring, recovering, return to equilibrium, site closure.

Management relay: Filling a vacancy, long absence, replacement at short notice and pending recruitment or internal promotion solutions.

B- Business

B.1- Our commitment:

Alternative Managers uses an approach combining temporary agencies’ reactivity, recruitment agencies’ rigor and consulting firms ‘results orientation.

Any Alternative Managers’ intervention follows six steps, each corresponding to specific commitments:

Carrying out confidential interviews with companies’ decision makers to understand the context and objectives of the mission. It gives us the ability ...

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The few companies, which use Transition Management, often do not have the essential basics to conduct a successful mission. It is therefore crucial to explain the success factors of Transition Management.

Transition Management is a concept based on trust. Its keys success factors are:

A clearly formalization of the mission among the various actors.

Competent and confirmed transition managers.

A monitoring methodology, establishing a permanent triangular relationship between the company, the transition manager and the Transition Management agency, helping to ensure the success of the mission.

The interim manager has long been the “gravedigger”, who did the "dirty work" as the closure of the company, dismisses staff ... Yet today, She/he is called to develop activities such as straighten department, enforce laws barely passed, create a structure abroad ...