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 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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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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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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From time to time, we’ll post Bea Wolper’s “A-Z Keys to Family Business Success” followed by a question from one of our members on the topic – here’s C: C- Communication. This is the single most important factor for success—without which the family business will fail. All family members, whether working in the business or not, and non-family managers,
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By Alex Freytag, Partner at ProfitWorks LLC and Conway Center for Family Business Service Provider. Alex will be presenting at our December 18th Educational Program on Strategic Planning. Don’t miss it! Cascading and Communication There’s a great visual metaphor for business related to the concept of cascading. The idea is that you can conceive of
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