Maintain Your Mentoring Relationship

Securing the right mentor is a major hurdle, but maintaining the relationship can be just as challenging. To keep the mentoring relationship going, try these three things:

Provide structure.
Set up regular meetings with agendas so your conversations don’t degenerate into aimless chitchat. Make sure each meeting moves you toward your goals.

Expect rigor.
If your mentor doesn’t provide regular assignments, ask for them, and work them into your agendas.

Know when to move on.
Once you’ve achieved your goals, move on before the law of diminishing returns kicks in. But stay in touch. Your mentor may become a sponsor who advocates for you even once your formal relationship ends.

 

Flexible working is a vital recruitment tool for UK firms

Flexible working has a bigger impact on job satisfaction for UK workers than benefits such as a financial stake in the business, bonus schemes and pensions, according to research released by Vodafone UK. The research shows that more than 75 percent of workers believe that flexible working boosts their job satisfaction and improves work-life balance, and that 1 in 5 employees would seriously consider moving employer over the next 12 months. As employers compete for the best talent, flexible working has become an expectation for employees, not a perk. Half of all managers surveyed feel that offering flexible working options makes them a more attractive prospect as a potential employer. Eighty-five per cent of managers believe that employees now expect greater flexibility from the companies they work for. Three fifths of organisations surveyed now equip the majority of employees with the technology to work from wherever they need to. This figure is slightly lower for SMEs (46%) and slightly higher for larger organisations (63%).

 

Management Services

Management Grant & Graham is a premier consulting firm that specializes in helping people, teams, and organizations achieve maximum effectiveness. Considered one of the most comprehensive consulting, coaching and training firms in the country, we provide services to organizations of all sizes, from small businesses to international conglomerates. Our goal is to provide our clients with a long-term strategic partner and solutions to business challenges of all types at every level of an organization.

In essence our management consulting service concentrates on analyzing current internal company efforts in order to be able to recommend steps to improve overall performance.

It may include steps such as:

•Strategy and Change
•Business Transformation Outsourcing
•Executive Coaching
•Customer Relationship Management

Many times several of those steps are required in order to enhance the overall company performance. It is important to point out that it is neither easy nor effective to describe each process in details due to complexity and uniqueness of each client and project. However, detailed and up to date information, methodology and trends will be regularly posted to our web blog. Yet a general description of each service will help in understanding the basics:

Strategy and Change

Make strategic decisions that enhance your competitive advantages, create new sources of value and improve your revenue growth. Our strategy and change services help clients transform their businesses by identifying strategic options and developing the change programs necessary to pursue them.

Business transformation outsourcing

Create value by outsourcing your non-core activities and focusing on what you do best. Our business transformation outsourcing (BTO) services help clients make outsourcing a strategic element in their business transformation

Executive Coaching

Our Executive Coaching services enable mid management and executive management personal to take advantage of continuous education in combination with personalized coaching and training in order to enhance their ability to be more effective and efficient in their daily job requirements as well as improve upon their overall leadership skills.

Customer relationship management

Maximize every interaction with your customers to make positive impressions, increase loyalty and improve the bottom line. Our customer relationship management services help clients integrate their sales, marketing and customer service functions and improve sales performance across all channels.

Human Resource Management

Our Human Resource Management or HR refers to a wide variety set of services that include, Strategic HR: Maximizing staffing methods to enhance the company’s capabilities and profitability, EEO: Establishing and maintaining equal employment opportunity, Staffing: Recruiting and hiring the right employees at the right time, HR development: Optimizing staffing, orientation, training and retention, Compensation and benefits: Monetary and non-monetary employee reimbursement, Health and safety: Maintaining a safe workplace to avoid employee endangerment, Labor relations: Multi-directional efforts to maintain legal and viable policies regarding employee rights and obligations