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Business challenges, changes in role and responsibility,
financial predicaments, and unmet expectations can cause stress for executives
and employees in any business. Those stresses are aggravated when the
individuals share family histories, emotional expectations and inaccurate
conclusions about each other. As a consequence, family members in businesses
together tend to lose sight of their mutual goals and shared interests.
When they do, conflicts between family members hinder and block effective
decision-making in the business. In those circumstances, DIALOGUE SOLUTIONS
will:
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Provide an objective
facilitator to interview individual family members in order to clarify
and appreciate respective assumptions and expectations. |
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Facilitate family meetings
within a safe environment for open and frank exploration of: |
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underlying issues |
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potential solutions and
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clarification of any
barriers to group support of those solutions |
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Help identify shared
values and a shared vision. |
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Identify issues that
might otherwise undermine the familys efforts to position their business
for future success. |
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Work closely with individual
family members exploring assumptions and expectations that might create
barriers to family harmony and business success. |
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Collaborate as needed
with non-family executives, lawyers, accountants, directors or other
trusted advisors of the family |
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