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Communication Mastery: The Importance of How You Speak - Leadership Development

Communication Mastery: The Importance of How You Speak – Leadership Development

The statistics are a wake-up call for any family legacy. According to the Family Firm Institute, only 30% of family businesses successfully transition to the second generation, and a mere 12% survive to the third. While many assume these failures are due to poor financial planning or market shifts, the reality is far more personal. […]

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Communication Styles - Women in Family Business Peer Group

Communication Styles – Women in Family Business Peer Group

At the October meeting of the Women in Family Business Peer Group, we discussed Communication Styles. So often, women are pressured to act and communicate in a specific way. The pressure to be ‘ladylike’ is forced upon us from a young age. This pressure women experience reflects in later life when so many of us

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5 Essential Questions in Life and How They Relate to Family Business

5 Essential Questions in Life and How They Relate to Family Business by Bea Wolper, Emens & Wolper Law Firm The Women in Family Business Peer Group at the Conway Center for Family Business discussed the ‘5 Essential Questions in Life’ delivered by Dean James Ryan as part of his commencement speech given at the

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Employee Engagement

By Conway Center Service Provider Jennifer Griffith, Ohio Regional President of First Merchants Bank. Recently, First Merchants introduced a new approach to defining employee engagement that has launched several great follow–up conversations and planning opportunities. The “old approach” was to measure employee loyalty + employee contribution to solve for the company’s ability to drive employee engagement. The

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Meaningful Conversation in the Family Business

Here’s a preview of what’s to come at our November 19th Educational Program. Dr. Thaddeus O’Brien, an organizational consultant and member of the Conway Center for Family Business Advisory Board, will explore communication challenges and enlist our audience to participate in sharing best practices. He writes, Today we have at our disposal more vehicles for communicating

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