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This Week Coaching — Make a Plan Everyday

November 24, 2016 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

GET the DATA: data measurement and analysis are essential to attaining superior performance in every facet of business This was a busy week. Our Family Business practice took us to small business, a women owned business and a 40 million dollar Family owned business with operations in 5 states. We worked with sales, operations, artists [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Data Analysis Tagged With: Data Measurement, family business, family owned business, Superior Performance, The Fog Of War

Open Doors and Unintended Consequences

August 26, 2015 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

Family Owned Business Open doors create opportunity. Open doors may generate anxiety. Open doors should make us think.

  Family owned businesses need to be cautious of unintended consequences.  Often a shoot from the hip great idea has many, many ramifications. In the social sciences, unintended consequences are outcomes that are not the ones foreseen and intended by a purposeful action. The term was popularized in the twentieth century by American sociologist Robert K. Merton Unintended consequences can [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business Tagged With: family business, family owned business, planning, Small Businesses, Unintended Consequences

Character, Competence and Chemistry in Family Owned Business

April 27, 2015 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

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  Recently the NCAA basketball season ended, both the Men’s and the Women’s champions have legendary coaches. Listening to the stories and the coaches; one had to ask. How do you win so often?  What does it take to make a leader? Are there lessons a family business could learn from these two coaches? It takes [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Business Leaders Tagged With: Business Leadership, family business, family business consulting, Family Business Leadership, family owned business, small business

Standards Become Culture in Family Business

March 31, 2015 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

Standards, Core Values - In many organizations, employees must meet standards of professional behavior as a condition of employment. These standards help an organization create a respectful working environment for everyone. If you learn the standards that govern your workplace, you can ensure that your behavior is acceptable and prepare to succeed in your job. Acceptable behavior is also required for acceptance the Team.

Standards are how we perform, where we are and what we hold ourselves and others accountable. In many organizations, employees must meet standards of professional behavior as a condition of employment. These standards help an organization create a respectful working environment for everyone. If you learn the standards that govern your workplace, you can ensure that [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business Tagged With: culture, family business, family owned business, human resource management, organizational culture, Risk, Stress

5 ways to focus on Corrective Action or Innovation

December 6, 2014 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them - a quote from Albert Einstein - white chalk text on a vintage slate blackboard

Internal issues versus External issues, often when an automotive OEM called the Family Owned business it was not good news, a quality issue. Most times they required an 8D. Eight Disciplines of Problem Solving (8D) is a method used to approach and to resolve problems, typically employed by quality engineers or other professionals. Its purpose [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Change Management Tagged With: 8d, Corrective Action, Educational Psychology, family owned business, Flow, Problem, Problem Solving, Process Improvement

Does your Family Owned Business have a Code, an Ethos, a culture?

September 6, 2014 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

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What is your Family Owned BusinessCode, Ethos or culture? Ethos is a Greek word meaning “character” that is used to describe the guiding beliefs or ideals that characterize a community, nation, or ideology. Culture is comprised of many different elements that have been passed down for generations, including knowledge, belief systems, experiences, values, attitudes, religion, [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business Tagged With: Business Cultures, Culture Need, family business, family owned business, Hrb Family Business

THE PLANT — Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing

August 20, 2014 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

Psychologist Bruce Tuckman first came up with the memorable phrase "forming, storming, norming, and performing" in his 1965 article, "Developmental Sequence in Small Groups." He used it to describe the path that most teams follow on their way to high performance. Henry Ford is credited with the quote, "Coming together is a beginning Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

  Do you recognize this phrase – Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing? Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” The Team arrived on Monday. This family owned business was really challenged. We joined the production meeting. First clue, it did not start on time. Our suspicions were confirmed when the [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Business Coaching Tagged With: Bruce Tuckman, family owned business, Performing, Psychologist, team, Tuckman's Stages Of Group Development

Entrepreneur or Business Owner?

May 14, 2014 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

The entrepreneur starts out of love, passion, inspiration, maybe some spark of genius and many, many times frustration.

Filed Under: Entrepreneur, Small Business Consulting Tagged With: business, business consulting, Consulting Small Business, Entrepreneur, family owned business, Greater Fool Theory, small business

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