Business Consultancy

Mentoring – Restructuring – Advice - Failing Companies

Mentoring:

Mentoring is a tool that organizations can use to nurture and grow their people. It can be an informal practice or a formal program. Protégés observe, question, and explore. Mentors demonstrate, explain and model. The following assumptions form the foundation for a solid mentoring program.
* Deliberate learning is the cornerstone. The mentor's job is to promote intentional learning, which includes capacity building through methods such as instructing, coaching, providing experiences, modelling and advising.
* Both failure and success are powerful teachers. Mentors, as leaders of a learning experience, certainly need to share their "how to do it so it comes out right" stories. They also need to share their experiences of failure, ie., "how I did it wrong". Both types of stories are powerful lessons that provide valuable opportunities for analyzing individual and organizational realities.
* Leader need to tell their stories. Personal scenarios, anedcotes and case examples, because they offer valuable, often unforgettable insight, must be shared. Mentors who can talk about themselves and their experiences establish a rapport that makes them "learning leaders."
* Development matures over time. Mentoring -- when it works -- taps into continuous learning that is not an event, or even a string of discrete events. Rather, it is the synthesis of ongoing event, experiences, observation, studies, and thoughtful analyses.
* Mentoring is a joint venture. Successful mentoring means sharing responsibility for learning. Regardless of the facilities, the subject matter, the timing, and all other variables. Successful mentoring begins with setting a contract for learning around which the mentor, the protégé, and their respective line managers are aligned.

Norm is experienced to Mentor at ALL management levels of Business regardless of the size of the Business. Norm’s way is to work WITH people and business’ to ascertain their needs and then provide the procedures to meet those needs.

Restructuring:

Restructuring is the corporate management term for the act of reorganizing the legal, ownership, operational, or other structures of a company for the purpose of making it more profitable, or better organized for its present needs.
Alternative reasons for restructuring include a change of ownership or ownership structure, demerger, or a response to a crisis or major change in the business such as bankruptcy, repositioning, or buyout.
Restructuring may also be described as corporate restructuring, debt restructuring and financial restructuring.

Norm has strong skills in this area of Management Consultancy. As his CV demonstrates most of his management career has been spent in this area.
Restructuring as an option is best investigated EARLY rather than as a “no option” process. It may well be that a another option or choice of options is available at the earlier stage.

Failing Companies:

Norm has experience with Companies that are on the brink of failing.
Norm’s strong skill set allows for him to advise on the options available and then to carry out the steps to achieve the agreed objective(s).
Norm has the skills to work with Lawyers, Accountants, Unions and other specialists to minimise the cost and trauma to ALL staff involved.

Good, independent, unbiased and unemotional advice given and worked through EARLY results in a considerably better result for all involved, (owners, investors staff debtors, creditors and others), rather than as a “no option” process.

Advice:

Norm is willing and able to provide general advice to all Management Levels on a wide variety of management issues.
Norm will not give you quotes from a manual or use a time worn management theory.
Instead Norm will listen to you carefully, discuss the options and processes and work with staff to allow them to make their own good decisions.

Norm Ely offers his experience, skills and dedication to provide for the particular needs of the organisation he is contracted to.