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Could your business be even more successful?

Running a business is full of challenges, and mentoring is an effective way of helping you to overcome barriers to growth and maximize your potential.

At Educationally Speaking, we can help!

Mentors are trusted business guides who share their in-depth experience to help you develop your business. Mentoring is about listening to you, helping you plan and being a motivator. Mentoring works surprisingly well because the client takes an active part throughout the process rather than just being handed a file of someone else’s recommendations at the end. Being told what to do with your business isn’t a happy outcome particularly if you haven’t been involved in the thought process.

Listening

Having a Mentor to listen to your hopes and problems helps lessen the burden and can provide a sounding board for future development. Your Mentor is skilled at looking at issues from a range of perspectives, providing practical insight and suggesting alternative view points.

Motivating

It can be hard to get motivated when you lack a clear plan, or need skills you don’t have, or are overwhelmed by the tasks that lie ahead. This is when a Mentor can help. As they are not involved directly with your business they are able to cut through the day to day problems and help you look at the wider picture and work towards achieving set goals.

Planning

Most businesses concentrate on today and not tomorrow. Yet the tomorrow is critical if the business i

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Phenix Management Int’l, Inc.

Al Doran is President of Phenix Management Int’l, a Toronto-based management consulting firm specializing in the effective use of technology in the management of human resource information.

Until April 1996, Al Doran was Director, Human Resources Management Information and Payroll at York University, Toronto Ontario. Al has 30 years of experience in the design, development and application of computer-based information systems with particular emphasis in personnel, payroll and human resource planning functions.

In June of 1996, Al was awarded the prestigious Summit Award, the highest award of recognition by the International Association for Human Resource Information Management. Al is the first and only Canadian to receive this special award.

Al is the co-author of the 1997 HRMS book, published by Nelson Canada as part of their HRM Series. This book has sold out and has was reprinted by Carswell and sold out again. Al teamed up with his fellow authors to write a new book, “HRMS: A Practical Approach”, which was published in January 2000. Check the new web site at http://www.hrmsbook.com. This book is becoming the “HRMS bible” of students and practitioners alike, and has been found by many non-technical HR practitioners to be the missing link in bringing together functional requirements and automated solutions.
The 3rd edition of this popular book was published in early 2007.

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