Who is MiMentor?
MiMentor is the trading name and brand of Paul Wood, MA. Paul has over 35 years management experience in mainly the legal sector and public service.
Paul’s experience is recognised by his MA attained in Practice Management at the University of Wolverhampton. The process of academic learning required to attain the MA enabled Paul to underpin his experience with knowledge and academic rigour.
It is Paul’s firm belief that the best managers understand the wider picture of the issue to be addressed, can see through the emotion of the situation and realise a coherent and well thought out strategy to advance a business, often taking the opportunity borne from a seemingly difficult position.
From a sound consistent career base in the legal sector Paul has wide ranging knowledge and experience in how to grow and develop a business based on the key requirements of continuous improvement, quality of delivery and customer relationship.
Key skills that Paul brings to an Mentee’s business are:
- Practice: Experience in the Legal Profession as a long-
term career since 1978, having progressed from a junior to senior management and departmental head specialising in conveyancing. - Management: 19 years’ experience as practice manager at Director / CEO level including leadership of administration and operations.
- Financial Management: Budget projection and analysis, including billing, time recording and accounting.
- Management / Business Development / Marketing: Extensive general experience, including business development, relationship marketing, compliance, risk and quality management. Management at board level of the business systems, process and deployment, business improvement and development at every level of operation.
- Financial Services: Experience of accounting procedures together with compliance and regulatory matters, including current Profession rules relating to Anti-
Money Laundering Legislation and Bribery Act. - Human Resources: Managerial role with all levels of employees. HR experience, training and employee development both internally and externally within such role.
- Risk Management and Quality Systems: Considerable knowledge and experience:
- risk management and quality systems within businesses.
- quality standards and their framework.
- requirements for Health and Safety and Disaster Recovery planning within business.
- Information Technology: Strategic role of IT management. Implementation of systems (hardware and software). Evaluation of systems performance. Risk management and disaster recovery planning for systems. Contract vetting, negotiation and dispute resolution.
In Paul’s experience it is more often the internal workings and processes of the business that are the main and often critical weakness which challenge the owner.
Therefore time needs to be spent realising and facing up to the internal supply chain and how it can be improved for efficiency, performance, quality of delivery and process. This approach will deliver a sound shock resistant business supported by employees and managers who work together for the benefit of the stakeholders in the business.