Shelley Perry Unique Superpowers.
Strengthening the C-Suite as you scale is crucial to driving sustainable growth during the ScaleUp stage. While hiring or promoting full-time executives is often the best approach, there are specific situations when an interim or fractional leader is a valuable tool in your C-Suite development strategy.
This series is part of the broader topic of building and optimizing your ScaleUp C-Suite, focusing on when to consider fractional talent to provide specialized expertise, or support your team through pivotal transitions.
Fractional or Interim executives should be considered a tool to be used as part of your strategy to strengthen your C-Suite as you scale.
While hiring a full-time executive in the role is often the best option, there are specific situations when a Fractional executive is the best option for a period of time.
Just as each situation is unique, every Fractional Executive, no matter the functional area of expertise, should have a unique set of superpowers that align with the incredibly specific situation you need.
Think – “Wonder Twin Powers Activate”
Hopefully this visual helps you either remember or get the idea:
Think of your ScaleUp C-Suite Team as one of the twins and the Fractional executive as the other twin.
The unique set of superpowers will allow you to get through the situation, and after they fly off in Wonder Woman’s invisible jet, to work on the next scaleup hurdle.
The fractional executive should leave behind a better situation for the full time executive you will have hired to grow to the next level.
⭐ This is true for every executive hire, fractional or full time in the ScaleUp Stage, Fractional executives should be held to a higher standard.
It’s the unique experience and superpowers that will ensure that you are able to benefit from this fractional exec strategy as part of your scaleup journey.
Every Fractional executive, across every discipline, should have the following superpower:
For the scaleup stage you are currently in, they should have at least 2 roles working through what you have been through, and where you want to get to in the next milestone.
While it may be difficult to find a full time executive hire, it’s a requirement for Fractional executives to be successful.
You don’t have time for the Fractional Executive to learn this unique stage of growth.
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