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October 2020
FBN Canada – The 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer: Insights into Global Family Businesses
Implications for Family Business report shows a moment of reckoning for family businesses. Although family business remains more trusted than non-family business around the world (82% vs 79%), family business employees still view their employer as falling short on expectations. More than half (51%) of family business employees agree that their employers are not meeting the challenges of the pandemic with expected levels of competence. For example: compared to non-family businesses, family business employees are more concerned about job loss…
Find out more »FEC Family – Meet-Up & Conversation on Consistency During Unexpected Leave of Absence
With family members and employees being sent home to isolate for minor symptoms how do you support your family and business? During our discussion we will discuss how to maintain professionalism/work structure and still be a supportive employer during this time. (How to keep your “Family” culture and manage these unusual times). Join us online for a casual chat with other family business members about what’s happening with your family and family enterprise during this unprecedented time. Your FEC Community is…
Find out more »November 2020
FEA – Case Clinic: For Money or Love? (CE)
Financial and Emotional Considerations in the Continuity of a Family Firm This case clinic will add to the knowledge and skills gained in the FEA Program “Continuity Planning” module. The session will delve into the complex interplay between family emotions, financial considerations, and the needs of the business, as the owning family wrestles with the transition process. This will be an interactive workshop where participants will address family strategy and family dynamics that are impacting the succession process. In small…
Find out more »FEA – Community Call: COVID-19 through the Lens of the Three-Circle Model
In this community call, join host Susan Brown as we discuss how the pandemic is impacting and shifting the interests of family members and key non-family executives in each of the three circles. As strategic advisors we know that what impacts one part of the system will have a ripple effect throughout the enterprise. How do we help, support and prepare our clients to address these complicated challenges that need technical, relational and emotional responses across the system. https://johndavis.com/three-circle-model-family-business-system/ Thoughts…
Find out more »December 2020
FEC Family – Meet-Up & Conversation on Building Strategies to Overcome Challenges
Join us online for a casual chat with other family business members about what’s happening with your family and family enterprise during this unprecedented time. Building Strategies to Overcome Challenges: Tips and Tools to Identify Opportunities, Communicate Effectively and Relieve Stress will focus on building resiliency and adapting in the face of adversity & stress by identifying business opportunities (rooted in unique family advantages / values / strengths and communicating effectively) with family members during a time of crisis. Your…
Find out more »Webinar – Stress, Health & Well-Being: Weathering the Tsunami and Aftershocks of a Global Pandemic
The unrelenting COVID-19 global pandemic is wreaking havoc in a myriad of ways and has touched nearly every segment of society. Add to this dynamic the fact that, unlike other types of crises family businesses may experience, the all-encompassing nature of the pandemic is disrupting the lives of your family members, employees, clients, customers and their families, as well, elevating their levels of stress and anxiety. This session will explore strategies for mitigating the adverse impacts of these unusual times…
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