Do You Need a Business Mentor?

A mentor in life is defined as a wise and trusted guide and advisor. This can mean your parents, teacher, coach, spouse, neighbor, or even a bus driver. The idea of having a teacher has been around for years. People always need someone they can trust, and, moreover, someone who knows more than they do about a certain subject.

Anyone can be a mentor and anyone can seek a mentor; but when dealing with particulars, some mentors are better than others. For example, a business mentor wouldn't necessarily be your high-school English teacher. If you wanted or needed a business mentor, one of the prerequisites is their personal experience with business, thus someone who knows the finer points of business is a must. A business mentor can easily mean the difference between success and failure.

No matter what type of business you're planning on running, it's always better to defer to the experts. Unfortunately, many only seek out the use of a business mentor after their previous business attempts have failed.

Instead of working "with" the mentor, they end up using the business mentor's experience as a launching pad for their own success. If the use of this person was employed the first time around, a business relationship could have been formed and the need for more budget could have been avoided. It's not suggested to seek the help of a business mentor to do the work for you.

They're not in a position to be outsourced while you reap the success. A mentor is there to keep you on the right track, offer advice about situations, and share their personal experiences with you. The help they offer can prove to be invaluable for many different reasons, none the least of which is your inexperience as a business owner. As someone who is self employed, you have no-one to answer to.

More importantly, you have no one to turn to for advice. There is no-one with a higher title; there are no co-workers to consult about a situation; there is no-one to guide or train you. Even if you have a knack for business, learning something new can be a tedious process. This is the ideal situation to seek the help of a business mentor. The mentor has been where you're at and has seen what you're seeing. The mentor is strong-willed and poised and willing to lend his or her expertise to the situation.

A good mentor is able to see past the everyday operations of your business and advise you on matters that are still several months or years away from happening. A business mentor is going to be there to guide you, as a coach would do, and strictly giving advice and working to inspire your best performance. If an idea is offered by a mentor as to something they might do differently, you should never dismiss it or argue. It's important to remember that this mentor used to be you: a new business owner with big dreams and zero experience.

Together, you and your mentor will be able to devise goals and strategies in your business, thus overcoming problems as they arise and before they do any permanent damage. Taking on a mentor is a great way to succeed in business, especially if you're a new owner with a startup venture.

An article by Dougles Chan - The Recruitment Guru. A Business Coach that specialized on coaching recruitment agencies & Staffing Agencies. Author of 8 books. 25 years in business coaching in recruitment and staffing agencies. Training recruitment business owners in Singapore, USA, UK, and Australia. He specialized business, sales, marketing, digital marketing, 360 recruitment process, SEO, SEM, and social media recruiting. For 121 recruitment coaching, kindly check here.

Choosing A Business Mentor

Finding the right business mentor is critical and can be made easy. The success of your business can rest on the coaching that you get, and your finances can rise and fall with food and bad advice. A combination of preparation and simple approaches to selecting the most suitable mentor for you will help ensure that your business mentor provides long term benefits for you and your business.

Before you embark upon the search for your business mentor, you need to sit down with your managerial colleagues, or alone, and ask yourself some questions. Assessing where your faults and weaknesses lie is vital to identifying what you need and from where.

Start by asking yourself these three questions.

1. What outcomes do I seek from business mentoring?
2. What additional skills and experience do I seek from a business mentor?
3. What mentoring personality and style would help me the most?

Armed with the answers to these questions, your search will be much easier. You can identify potential mentors through many different routes including personal recommendations from people you know, on-line through Google, and through various web directories.

Be careful with personal recommendations; your friend with the hair salon will need drastically different advice to your accountancy firm. A good business mentor for hair and beauty might see instant results in a salon, but you need to have the advice catered to your specific sector.

When concerning Google and web based searches, you have to be on the lookout for fraudulent or lower quality service. The internet is a very ease platform with little barrier to entry, so you have to maintain a vigilance when looking for paid services online.

Once you have identified potential mentors, you can use their websites to learn more about them. Websites will often highlight the personality, style and approach of the mentor and already at this point some may stand out to you as a person you could work with. Having a look at testimonials and references is another angle that can help identify the most suitable mentor. Testimonials give you information about the type of clients and the type of work the mentor covers. Use all these sources of information together with your criteria for the ideal mentor to short-list a handful of potential candidates.

At this point, make contact and have a chat on the phone with the mentors on your short-list. After each conversation ask yourself how you would working with this mentor? It will be easy to identify the ones that you really aren't fond of, negative feelings will manifest themselves strongly when you don't develop an initial trust.
Based on your feelings, select a few potential suitors and arrange to meet with them.

All good business mentors will be happy to meet with you to talk through your business and mentoring needs. The meeting helps both parties find out if you can work together and create a mutually beneficial outcome. After the meetings go back to your criteria and ask yourself which of the people you have met would help you the most. Ultimately you need to assess this before you look at their costs and timeframes, mentors who charge less likely do so for a reason.

Picking a business mentor is a long term decision, so taking these steps is a good investment for you and your business. Importantly your investment is one of time rather than money. Once you have identified someone who you feel can really help you, ask them how they propose to work with you and at that point be clear to them about your budget. Having followed this process it is likely that you and your preferred mentor will find a way to work together that suits both parties as well as your budget. The art of haggling lives on in these kind of personal negotiations, try your luck on.

An article by Dougles Chan - The Recruitment Guru. A Business Coach that specialized on coaching recruitment agencies & Staffing Agencies. Author of 8 books. 25 years in business coaching in recruitment and staffing agencies. Training recruitment business owners in Singapore, USA, UK, and Australia. He specialized business, sales, marketing, digital marketing, 360 recruitment process, SEO, SEM, and social media recruiting. For 121 recruitment coaching, kindly check here.

Paediatric Physiotherapy - Infant - Failure to Thrive (Orange)

Context of assessment: The student has been requested to perform a ward based, developmental assessment for a patient admitted to the ward for investigation of poor feeding and weight loss. It is expected that the patient will undergo a further developmental assessment at a later date, therefore, the student has been instructed to adequately assess the patient to acknowledge and reassure mother on possible developmental delay. Background information for infant clinical scenario: Setting: Acute inpatient paediatric ward Gender: Female Patient age: 6 months Main Presentation: Failure to thrive, developmental delay Student Name: Sally Educator Name: Jenny Patient/ Parent Name: Taylor and Cassie (mother) Clinical History: Reason for referral to physiotherapy: Paediatricians have identified developmental delay History of presenting condition: Patient admitted to hospital via ED 4 days ago for investigation of failure to thrive (poor feeding, weight loss, dehydration and general irritability) and coffee ground vomiting. She is currently an inpatient on the paediatric ward of a hospital, receiving nasogastric feeds and awaiting endoscopy tomorrow for confirmation of suspected cow’s milk protein allergy and related oesinophilic oesophagitis. Investigations: Blood tests – elevated platelets Stool sample – faecal leukocytes and positive for blood Urine sample – (shows dehydration) Growth chart – CW 4995g (less than 3rd centile) Consulting teams Paediatricians Gastroenterology Dietician Social Worker Past medical history: Mum reports losing breast milk at 3 months and starting infant formula. Baby took formula initially and then started to become irritable, cry, looked in pain, periods of diarrhoea, intermittent cough and runny nose. Trialled different formulas with similar results. Took up to an hour for baby to take a bottle. Sometimes baby would refuse bottle. Had 2 GP visits. Sleeps poorly during day and wakes regularly through night. Recent onset of eczema on legs and arms. Has trialled Omeprazole (prescribed by GP) with no benefit. Birth history K39+0, BW 2954g (25th centile), SVD, APGARS 7,9,9 Normal pregnancy and scans Passed healthy hearing newborn screen Past surgical history: Nil Parental concerns/goals: Anxiety around baby’s health and the cause of this, current hospital admission and Doctor’s suggestion of developmental delay. Having chronic neck pain and looking for a solution? Why not get a Singapore physio to assist you at BalanceCore.

Physiotherapist Income/Salary?

The facts and figures mentioned in the video are based on an in-depth survey of the market and personal experiences. Further, it covers the overall earning bracket and may have a slight deviation depending on the place and person. Being a physiotherapy is working directly with the patient and together, to achieve the success. Once that is achieved, rest you don’t have to bother..!! Having chronic neck pain and looking for a solution? Try a physiotherapy Singapore to assist you at balancecore.sg.

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Microsoft, Innovation and Detractors

Many software critics like to lambaste Microsoft and they sound off at any chance. As an entrepreneur and Founder of a Franchise, I remember before my retirement who often our company was attacked. The competition hated us, but I never cared, because the customers used us not them and they loved us. We won.

So why is it that all these small software companies complain about Microsoft these days? Hmm? Oh, they claim there is no new innovation at a Microsoft? What? What do you mean there is no new innovations. My MS Word 2007 works "GREAT!" and I love it. So, are you telling me the consumer I am wrong? Dear software competitor, I would like to warn you that my company had 380 competing companies exit the market place through direct competition.

Thus it would be wise for detractors of Microsoft to be quite and get to work creating better software and stop telling me the consumer that I am stupid, because I am not stupid and I love Microsoft, so does my mom, my sister, my brother and my aunts and uncles too. They use it. If you don't like it, then don't buy it, but please be quite, it sounds like sour grapes.

Microsoft is number one because the customers voted for them. They win, if you want to play then work with them and stop running around angry and broke and become a Microsoft Partner and design software that people want and will use because it works with their favorite operating system. I hope you can understand this simple reality?

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Microsoft Great Plains 10.0 and 9.0 Upgrade - Technical Notes

At this time (fall of 2007) Microsoft Dynamics GP customers are actively upgrading to GP version 9.0 and initial upgrades are performed to Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0. Version 10.0 will be in more active upgrade mode, when Microsoft will release GP 10.0 Service Pack 1, as current GP 10.0 upgrade path is limited to 8.0 SP5 and 9.0 SP2. Having reasonable number of GP version updates performed, we would like to share experience. Lets' start with the most popular upgrade to 9.0.

1. As versions 8.0, 7.5, 6.0, and earlier are discontinued for Microsoft Dynamics technical support, you should consider this bell as strong signal to walk away from these older versions. Versions 7.5 and older were available on MS SQL Server as well as on Pervasive SQL 2000 (former Btrieve) and Ctree. In the case when you are on non-MS SQL Server DB - you will have to undergo migration step to SQL Server based version. Assuming that your case is straight forward, let's move on and review known version upgrade issues

2. Purchase Order Processing tables problems. If you are using POP module, then you must check you Purchase Orders and Receipts work and historical tables on the subject of so-called orphan lines. These tables should be verified: POP10110, POP10310, POP30110 and POP30310 - they store purchase orders and receipts lines. Microsoft recommends doing checklinks, prior to upgrade process, however we saw situations, where potentially check links don't do all the orphans cleaning job. If check links doesn't help, please construct the script which will give you orphans in lines table, similar to the following: select a.* from POP10110 a left join POP10100 b on a.PONUMBER=b.PONUMBER where b.PONUMBER is null. And again, prior to rescuing to scripting, you should try check links approach.

3. If after check links, upgrade failed on POP tables, you will have to restore DYNAMICS and all Companies DB to initial version and try data repair with scripting. Then design delete scripts with your DBA person. Microsoft partner should be able to apply failed company rolling back script, so you do not have to start from initial version for all the databases, however this script is confidential.

4. Other potentially problem tables. We've also seen the problem with IV10200 table. In version 9.0 inventory valuation formula was revised and it now relies on IV10200 to higher extent. In some cases this table conversion script fails and upgrading application freezes. The remedy is roll back to initial version, be sure that you did check links.

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Latest Software Development Trends

Software companies with tight-knit agile and strong release management practices have a significant competitive advantage. To realize this advantage, an organization must first optimize its release management process and identify the most appropriate platform and release management tools.

In 2016, we heard the slow and steady drumbeat of smart tools, including chatbots and other AI-infused solutions, predictive analytics and cloud offerings. In 2017, they will be fully well-established in companies across a wide range of industries and different latest trends will be introduced this year. This year it introduces more advanced techniques compared to last year. These solutions all are geared toward helping companies better connect with their users at a personal level and improve the customer experience, whether that customer is in the office, the store or the doctor's office. These smart solutions, which will become standard tools everywhere, will bridge the gap between humans and computers; more closely mimic the role of humans, and in some cases replacing them. Here, we will discuss some software development latest trends which help you to know more about the latest trends-

Mobile apps-
Most the consumers prefer native mobile apps to mobile websites and they want their knowledge to move with them through their devices. Thus, having a receptive website will not be enough and companies will continue to transfer their business activities to native mobile apps.

Agile practices-
Agile has come of age and now takes even stronger positions than before. Entrepreneurs like it due to the fact that agile methodology allows them to get working apps faster, start generating revenue sooner, and make further improvements when needed. Many software developers also like it as agile facilitates communication between development camp and management and helps to increase an efficiency of the development process.

Increased demand for security-
Due to the growing amount of personal data and open APIs, users' sensitive information becomes prone to such cyber crimes as the breach of mobile consumer payments systems, hacktivism, cracking of cloud storage, Iot takeover, and ransomware (corporate extortion). This will require security measures to expand both in scope and superiority.

Cloud technology is gaining popularity. Users use more and more devices, they want to access their data from multiple gadgets, and this is where cloud technology comes in versatile. Besides, electronics manufacturers around the globe are investing heavily in cloud computing and cloud security. Gartner predicts that by 2018 30% of service-centric companies will move the majority of their ERP applications to the cloud.

Technologies, such as virtual personal assistants, security solutions, and marketing solutions, will deliver this new level of business user functionality by incorporating cognitive learning and robotic process automation. Most of the world's largest software companies will use intelligent solutions to improve the experience of the business user in the coming year. Hence, these are the some latest software development trends which help you to know more about the software development trends and also to choosing the best software development company as career planned.

Virtual Santa Clause - What Are Kids Telling Santa Online?

You may stand in line at the mall to see the real Santa, but more and more kids spend sometimes up to one hour chatting with a Virtual Santa Claus online. There are now plenty of online chat-bots talking to literally hundreds of thousands of children during the Christmas season.
It's known that children feel comfortable talking to Santa, but that's also true for an automated Santa software on the Internet. So, who are these artificial Santa Clauses? Where do you find them? And, what are the children saying to them?

Who are these Santa Clauses?
Various types of Santa bots exist online - from purely text based to fully-animated talking avatars of Santa Claus.

The famous santabot.com is a text-based chatbot using an Instant Message (IM) interface like MSN messenger or ICQ that kids a comfortable with.
The Santa bot developed by the A.L.I.C.E. foundation has a talking Santa head with a deep robot voice, text-to-speech, so you can actually hear Santa talk back to you.
Santa lives also in virtual worlds, such as one flash animated Santa Clause that sits behind the counter of a 'milk and cookies bar' ready to take your order.
What do kids say to a Virtual Santa Clause?
Kids will say about anything to Santa, and a unique insight into how kids interact with the Santa Claus bots online can be found in the statistics and trends collected from them.

The average time spend chatting with Santa is 18 minutes
Some conversations have lasted over 60 minutes
The popular questions year after year: "Are you real", "Sing me a song", "Do you know any jokes", "Can you take off your beard?", "Where is Mrs Claus"
New questions asked this season, most probably due to the economic downturn - "a job for my daddy", "can you send us money"
One chat in ten includes some form of insult. But kids will also usually be quick to apologize and ask Santa not to get angry
Almost gone are the bicycles and roller blades. The toys children ask for this season are "iPod", "Wii", "Xbox 360", and "PSP"

Virtual Chat Agents - Economical Solution for Great Customer Satisfaction

There is no doubt that customer satisfaction is the chief requirement for the growth of any business. This is the reason that service of customer is the top priority of all businesses. You simply cannot imagine the growth of your business without a satisfied customer base. For the customers to be happy you need to make sure that not only do they get best products and service from your company, but also the best service experience. Virtual customer service agent is a customer service solution that will not only ensure that you customers are satisfied; it will also help you save a significant amount of money.

A Virtual chat agent is a software program that is designed to fulfill all the basic requirements of a live service agent. These programs are chatbots that are programmed to be able to answer all common queries of the customers. A Virtual chat agent is capable of performing basic tasks like locating information, making appointments and reservations, collating feedback, describing the features of a product, answering FAQs, and more. Opting for Virtual customer service to represent your company will guarantee a more satisfied customer base. Primarily, because the customers won't need to wait for a live customer agent to be available to address their issues, furthermore, in any scenario where in the virtual agent in unable to resolve the issues, it will escalate the issue to a live agent, ensuring that none of your customers leave disappointed.

Adding to the several benefits virtual agents have to offer, their low setup and maintenance cost is sure to cut down a lot from what you must be spending with live agents. Unlike live agents, virtual agents don't ask for salary, don't fall sick, don't go on holidays, they work round the clock without any complaints just to achieve one thing, and that is customer satisfaction.

Virtual AI chat agent can serve as a search engine as they can help locate information; they are designed to be customer service agents, and they work as a research analyst as well as they constantly collate customer feedback and the nature of queries customers are usually coming up with. All this in-turn help you know your market better and think accordingly.