Why use fractional C-suite and leadership support?

There are a couple of major reasons why using fractional support for your team might make more sense than hiring full time talent.

#1 is efficiency. As one of my clients told me, I’d rather spend 30 minutes learning from Michael Jordan than 5 weeks learning from the guy at the YMCA.

When you want to grow, you don’t have a lot of time to find and onboard new talent. You need to build the proverbial plane while flying it, which means you need access to expert guidance and skills immediately.

Yes, you will ultimately need full-time players to keep a business growing at a sustainable rate, but fractional support can help you lay the foundation for what later will become a high performing team. A few more advantages are:

Budget flexibility. You can turn on and off this support as required, without having to pay all the additional fringe benefits and costs associated with full time employees.

Risk mitigation. Fractional support can be a stopgap in situations where you’ve lost key talent or have discovered that you onboarded the wrong talent.

Smooth integration. Fractional leaders are not attached to the company, so they can remain an unbiased third party, experts at providing a birds eye view of the game, so they can coach founders and CEOs in how to set the right direction to meet the company’s goals. Fractional leaders are also skilled in change management, and know how to integrate successfully with an existing team, without disrupting or destabilizing the organization.

A big part of fractional leadership support is upskilling the current workforce with the leadership development competencies that are table stakes for running a high growth organization. This includes mentoring, coaching, and working with teams that need to learn how to operate at the highest level of efficiency and productivity.

At The Hatch Company, we use a framework that allows us to integrate and add value to any existing team in the first 30 days. We can work with your team, or we can come in and do it all for you. Book a call with us to see how we can get your company moving forward in the direction you want to go.