What is Fractional Management?
Most are familiar with fractional leadership, part-time or project-based leaders with specialized expertise used by companies as a flexible, cost-effective hiring approach.
What about Fractional Management?
Think about all the things a great manager does: co-creates with you, sets direction, helps you navigate complexity, sets you up for success with perspective, feedback, and opportunities.
75% of the American workforce describe their manager as the most stressful part of their day. If your manager is the most stressful part of your day, to say that you are not getting the support you need to do your best work is an understatement.
It’s not going to get better on its own. If Companies, Organizations, and the Government have let this go on during stable economic times then as our economy is more dynamic, the state of Management is not going to improve holistically. This trend underpins why so many people have taken the risk, the big leap to go independent. People don’t quit their Company, they quit their manager.
Would you pay for good management that helped you stay in a job?
A fractional manager can give you the support you need to do your best work. Be your best self. Find creative solutions. Get promoted sooner. Learn lessons the less hard way.
A fractional manager is agency. What you always have control over is yourself. You can choose to get help in the form of someone who is in your corner, whose responsibility towards you is your empowerment.
A fractional manager is a force multiplier. Imagine someone working behind the scenes with feedback on your work OR actually doing the work for you.
WHO IS IT FOR?
People in office jobs and solopreneurs.
People who could use supportive leadership.
Anyone in the workforce who could use a perspective partner.
WHY IS THIS A THING?
Good management has always been hard to come by. As our economy is evolving, it’s getting tougher. Tech has regressed and largely eliminated management. In the Public Sector management is often more about expertise than experience effectively managing people. The workplace is increasingly transactional. The social contract of investment in people is diminishing.
Millennials and Gen Z comprise 48-55% of the workforce and are growing. They have high expectations of the workplace and correctly won’t tolerate what previous generations have. They, and their managers, are often hamstrung by unsupportive work environments.
Solopreneurs now constitute ~6% of the US GDP. Beyond the economic contributions of this group, it allows people to have more freedom in their work. But it can be lonely, decision-fatigue is real.
THIS FEELS MADE-UP.
It is. I made it up based on my lived experience.
A couple years ago I was in a job I loved with terrible management. Per the Queen of People Management, Julie Zhuo I should have left. Instead I hired help in the form of a women’s leadership coach with extensive real-world experience. She was my ally. Someone who understood the scope of my value-add. Who understood where I was struggling as a professional and supported me through it. With her help I changed the nature of my toxic management. I found peace in the workplace. Now I am here to help you do the same.